A Guide To Transformational Leadership

Transformational Leadership is the key to leadership and organizational development.

Business leaders offer financial rewards for productivity or deny rewards for lack of productivity. Transformational leaders on the other hand, are those who stimulate and inspire followers to both have extraordinary outcomes and in the process develop their own leadership capacity.

You can become a transformational leader. This post is designed to help you accomplish that!



Understanding Transformational Leadership


In other to understand Transformational leadership, we must first understand the words transformation and leadership.


Transformation is a marked change in form, nature or appearance. It is a process by which one figure, expression or function is converted into another form.

It is simply the profound, fundamental change, altering the very nature of something.


Let us understand leadership? Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration, generated by a passion, motivated by a vision, birth by a conviction, produced by a purpose.


With our definition on leadership, you discover that leadership on its own is the transformation of people from being followers to becoming leaders. This is because leader’s move followers from their original state to a better state.

For instance Nelson Mandela moved his people, the South African's from their oppressed state to freedom. This is leadership.


What is transformational leadership?

Transformational Leadership is therefore a leader’s ability to transform the state of his followers, environment, community, school, organization or society. It is the positive development of humanity, society or organization.

It is the movement of people, organization or community from a state of mediocrity to success.

Therefore in other to transform your society, you have got to become a leader in an area of gifting, passion, business or organization.

 

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Principles of Transformational leaders

Transformational leaders helps followers grow and develop into leaders by responding to individual followers need and empowering them, aligning the objectives, the goals of each individual follower, the group and the larger organization.


Transformational leaders can move followers to exceed performance, as well as lead to high levels of follower’s satisfaction and commitment to the group and organization.


It involves inspiring followers to commit to a shared vision and goals for the organization, challenging them to be innovative, solve problems and develop follower’s capacity via coaching, mentoring and provision of both challenge and support.


Transformational Leaders help followers to understand the vision and gain meaning for life.


The Bottom Line

Transformational leaders;

1) Discover Purpose

2) Have a clear Vision

3) Have a deep sense of believe in themselves

4) Are Passionate about their vision

5) Have the ability to influence people

6) Good communication

7) Challenge the status quo

8) Commit to principles and values

9) Genuine Love for people

10) Empower others by raising leaders

11) Coordinate resources

12) Manage priority by staying focused on your goal

 

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