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Embracing Change:The Journey Toward
Transformational Leadership
Dr. Robert WrightCEO, Wright
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The Case for Transformational
Leadership
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Transformational Leadership defined
• Charismatic, visionary leaders who transform organizations through empowering followers.
• Leaders who bring out the best in followers and develop them into leaders.
• Leaders who motivate and challenge teams to perform at levels beyond expectations.
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Does Transformational Leadership Matter?
• Transformational leaders clearly have more satisfied followers (r = .3-.6)
• Transformational leaders lead more effective work groups (r = .6, rated performance; r = .25, objective performance measures)
• Followers of transformational leaders experience less stress and burnout (r = -.4-5)
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Transformational Leadership Criteria
Idealized Influence
InspirationalMotivation
IntellectualStimulation
IndividualizedConsideration
Walking the Talk
Vision &Meaning
EngagedThought
Care for Individuals’Concerns &
Development
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Transformational Leadership
Idealized Influence
InspirationalMotivation
IntellectualStimulation
IndividualizedConsideration
Walking the Talk
Vision &Meaning
EngagedThought
Care for Individuals’Concerns &
Development
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Inspirational MotivationMotivate and inspire followers by providing meaning and challenge.• How inspirational are your …
– Meetings?– Interactions with staff?– Your direct reports with their staff?– Interactions with clients/customers?
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Intellectual Stimulation
Stimulate followers to be creative/ innovative by:• questioning assumptions• reframing problems• devising new solutions.
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Intellectual Stimulation• How stimulating are your …
• Assignments? • Interactions with staff?• Meetings?
• How often do you ask questions? How much creativity and innovation do you expect from your staff?
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Individualized ConsiderationPaying special attention to followers’ needs and concerns; developing followers via mentoring/coaching
• How well do you recognize your individual staff strengths and weaknesses? To what extent do you identify individual staff support needs?
• Are all staff clear on the skills they are developing, and are you providing what you need to provide for them to do it?
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Transformational Leadership with all Three
How do all three interact?• Individualized Concern• Inspirational Motivation• Intellectual Stimulation
Discuss and report:• Break into threes• Pick spokesperson to report• Discuss the interaction of all three
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Transformational Leadership &
Change
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Emotional intelligence is carried through an organization like electricity through wires…the leader’s mood is quite literally contagious, spreading quickly and inexorably throughout the business…
Research: Leadership & Emotions
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…Managing for financial results, then, begins with the leader managing his inner life so that the right emotional and behavioral chain reaction occurs. - Goleman
Research: Leadership & Emotions
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Evolating
Yearning
Engaging
Revelating
Liberating
Rematrixing
Dedicating
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Transformational Engagement
TRANSACTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONALConsciousness,Tied to Yearning
& Emotions
DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
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DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
TRANSACTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONALConsciousness,Tied to Yearning
& Emotions
Transformational Engagement
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DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
TRANSACTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONALConsciousness,Tied to Yearning
& Emotions
Transformational Engagement
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DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
TRANSACTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONALConsciousness,Tied to Yearning
& Emotions
Transformational Engagement
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DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
TRANSACTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONALConsciousness,Tied to Yearning
& Emotions
Transformational Engagement
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DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
TRANSACTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONALConsciousness,Tied to Yearning
& Emotions
Transformational Engagement
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DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
TRANSACTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONALConsciousness,Tied to Yearning
& Emotions
Transformational Engagement
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DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
TRANSACTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONALConsciousness,Tied to Yearning
& Emotions
Transformational Engagement
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Are you an answering machine?
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Grounded Leadership:
The LIVE model of Transformational
Conversations
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Grounded Leadership:A Four-Step Process
Listen
Identify
Vision
Execute
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Conversation Movers• Listen
– Opener—Tell me about that– Tell me more– What do you think?
• Identify– Do you mean?– Are you saying?
• Vision– So it sounds like
• Execute– What will you do?– Will you…..?
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Embracing Change with Transformational
Leadership: Practice & Takeaways
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Practice
A. LeaderB. StaffC. Observer
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Assignment
Practice once a day over the next seven days. • Who did I engage with that I might not
have otherwise engaged with?• How did I do it?• How could I be better with open-ended
questions?
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Review
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