Leadership Effectiveness #12: Transformational Leadership

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Transformational Leadership

Style, Structure and Alienation
Leadership Style

• transformational leadership was associated with lower work alienation, whereas
• transactional leadership was associated with higher work alienation

Organizational structure

• was negatively associated with transformational leadership and
• positively associated with transactional leadership

Transactional Leaders

• A leader who guides or motivates their followers in the direction of established goals by clarifying role and task requirements and helps the followers attain what they want.

Transformational Leadership

• "When a leader engages with followers in such a way that they raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality" - J. McGregor Burns

Transformational leaders possess charisma and an ability to stimulate intellectual understanding of the new endeavour. They allow the follower(s) to adapt the vision in a way that suits the follower's situation.

Leaders who provide

• Charisma
• Intellectual Stimulation
• Individualised Consideration

Leaders who generate

• Inspiration for an idealised future

Discussion of leaders we view as these types and what qualities they possess.

Vision! Voice! Charisma! Communication! ...not as good at everything, in fact you might find parts of them quite irritating.

How do they do this?

• Create and articulate a vision
• Role model
• Foster a 'buy-in' of team goals
• Expect the best
• Trust, respect and have confidence in individuals
• Empowers others to be creative and to challenge assumptions

Characteristics of Charismatic Leaders

• Vision
• Superb Communication Skills
• Self-Confidence and Moral Conviction
• Ability to Inspire Trust
• High Risk Orientation
• High Energy and Action Orientation
• Relational Power Base
• Minimum Internal Conflict
• Ability to Empower Others
• Self-Promoting Personality

Level Five Leadership - link to article if possible. Discussion of fundamental attribution error - wiki link available.

Speech by Martin Luther King: "Free At Last" in Memphis

Presentation competition we all put in $5 and put in pitches for what the total should be used for. Then we did some rapid elimination to narrow down to the top four.

• Donate to Cancer Foundation, personal story relating to family.
• Story about homeless person in the city, gave him food, wants to donate for food for homeless people.
• Story about friend who recently killed themselves, wants to donate money to combat depression.
• Story about a friend, a single mother with four sons and two jobs who was affected by the Kalamunda fires, wants to donate money for sporting gear for the boys

Then we kicked them out and discussed the presentations, voted and invited them back in for feedback. Depression donation won.

Debrief: telling stories is powerful.