Transformational Leadership

uniit 6: Transformational Leadership

Deena Rothwell

GM504 Organizational Excellence and Change

Instructor: Keir Nelson

October 2, 2010

Transformation leaders have the ability to motivate the organizations workers

to look past individual interests and strive to accomplish the common goals of the

organization to enhance and accomplish its vision for the future. These leaders

have the competence, drive, skills, and knowledge to motivate the workers through

projecting their values, maintaining open-communication, understanding of social systems

and comprehension of what is necessary when the organization requires changes to

move forward and grow.

McCrimmon (1999) states, "being a transformational leader means having the

ability to inspire and motivate employees to achieve new heights" (p.1).

Transformational leaders have the ability to get organizational workers to think

differently and understands its important to listen to the workers needs. There are

four abilities that transformational leaders should have: 1) the ability to look outside the box

and have a worldly vision to get organizational workers to have creative thinking and

innovative, 2) these leaders encourage, support and build open communication with the

workers, 3) these leaders develop a vision for the organization and are able to guide the

workers in understanding and visualizing the vision, and 4) these leaders are able to build

trust and respect through their actions and words.

Ackoff (1999) states being a good leader is not something that comes from a book or

can be taught, although there are many skills, tools, and techniques that can be utilized to

enhance the leaders ability to project their vision to an organizations workers.

Transformational leaders are those that are creative and have a worldly mindset to see past

the apparent roadblocks and develop a plan to beat the system. Ackoff...