The transformational leadership approach encourages, inspires, and motivates employees to innovate and create the change necessary to shape the future success of the team.
Here's what I have learnt...
Transformational leadership focuses largely on the leader’s vision rather than on follower attributions. Transformational leaders are known for moving and changing things “in a big way,” by communicating to followers a special vision of the future, tapping into followers’ higher ideals and motives. They seek to alter the existing structure and influence people to buy into a new vision and new possibilities.
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Charismatic VS Transformational Leadership
Charismatic Leadership : not wanting to change anything and only focused on themselves than anyone else.
Transformational Leadership: has basic focus of transforming the organisation and their followers.
All transformational leaders are charismatic but not all charismatic leaders are transformational.
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To make transformation in a team, a leader often take actions in 4 behaviour dimensions, according to Bass and Avilio. These for dimensions include 4 I's, which are idealised influence, inspirational motivation, individual consideration and intellectual stimulation.
The process of transformation process often starts from 1making a compelling case for change, follows by 2inspiring a shared vision, 3leading the transition and lastly, 4implanting the change.
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Transformational VS Transactional Leadership
Transformational leadership creates an enduring long-term future of organisation with vision-oriented leaders who wants to change the status quo.
On the other hand, transactional leaders are task and reward oriented and they love creating stability in organisation thus the nature of their leadership style is transitory.
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Stewardship VS Servant Leadership
This is an extremely informative topic that gives me a lot of insights about leadership style.
What I thought...
This is an extremely informative topic that gives me a lot of insights about leadership style.
Transformational and charismatic leadership are like making choices between working own self towards the goal or influencing followers to rally towards a shared goal.
Comparing transformational and transactional leadership, transformational seemed to work with visions and future while transactional ends when leader-follower relationship ends.
Stewardship and servant leadership is even more interesting. It involves level of equality and reward between leaders and followers in a group. I am not a big fan of stewardship as I think all should be equal, and reward should be given according to effort, not rankings.
Talking about transformational leadership, I was reminded of a famous movie character and his characteristics. He is the famous boy who lived -- HARRY POTTER.
In his long journey battling Voldemort, he never stops believing that good will triumph over evil. He was humble and most of the time, selfless. He organised secretive magic classes to teach and develop leaders to lead the Dumbledore army in one of the episodes. His sincerity towards his goal were shared by many and his influence towards the others were long-lasting and vision-oriented. Team Harry Potter, have common goal to defeat the evil. Harry Potter is undeniably a transformational leader.
When thinking of my own experiences with these leadership style, I think I enjoyed working under a transformational leader like my previous guru besar. She was a fierce and charismatic lady. Working with her was always like the 'fast and furious🔥🔥'. However, She shared her visions with us and convience us about what we are doing so that we are always working towards the same goal. Although she did not have the best temper in the world, I thought working with her was quite a pleasure because I have learnt a lot under her leadership. To me, being in the 'understand' is very important because everything we do, we do it for a reason. With the reason being crystal clear, only then we will be motivated to pull out full force to it.
Be like Harry Potter, embrace transformational leadership. :)
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