Transformational Leadership
Your Key To Success In The 21st Century

Transformational leadership is a leadership perspective that changes organizations and its people for the better. It is based on the premise of higher values, qualities, and core beliefs, and is just the opposite of transactional leadership, which is based on mutual exchange between parties.

Transformational leaders begin with a dream or a grand vision of what can be, which is always better than what is.  It is vision-driven leadership that is effectively communicated through sermons, speeches, slogans, and symbols. The effectiveness of the communication is what motivates people because it always envisions elevated standards. The value of these lofty standards provides the incentive for people to endure whatever pain is associated with the grand vision.

The leader not only communicates the vision, but he models it for others.  In other words, he walks the talk.  The closer he lives to the standards and values of the vision, the greater is his credibility.  His credibility then becomes the source of commitment from others.  True buy-in is generated as he persistently demonstrates honesty and integrity, and allows others to help shape and participate in the overall vision (McShane, Von Glinow, 2005).

Jesus Christ, was no doubt the Greatest Transformational Leader of all times.  He came and announced his vision, which was the arrival and coming of a new kingdom that was unlike the old one. In the new Kingdom values were as different as they were better.  Leaders were servants and not lords, the poor were blessed and not cursed, and it operated from a platform of love and obedience to the Father and to your fellow man.

Jesus communicated his Vision through sermons,  parables, symbols, and artifacts that were familiar to the people of that day.  He taught lofty principles and values of the new kingdom through parables.

He did not just talk the talk, like the Pharisees and the Scribes; he actually walked the talk and modeled his vision. He was so effective that people believed him and bought into his vision.  The rest, of course, is history.  He demonstrates a perfect example of Transformational Leadership.

McShane, S.L., Von Glinow, M.A. (2005). Organizational behavior 3d ed.  McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.  New York, NY.

 

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