Leadership

What is a leader
• a person who gives direction, influences and
helps an individual or a group of individuals in
achieving their goals.
• a person who goes first and leads by example,
so that others are motivated to follow him.
 3 P’s as a Leader
• a person who influences a group of people
towards the achievement of a goal.
P- PERSON
P- PURPOSE
P-PEOPLE
 How to become a Good Leader?
1. Learn more about your leadership style
- know your strengths and weaknesses
2. Encourage Creativity
-effective leaders should offer new
challenges with ample support to achieve
goals, making sure that the goals are
within the grasp of their abilities.
3. Serve as a Role Model
- work on modeling the qualities that you
would like to see in your team members.
4. Be Passionate
- great leaders are not just focused on
getting group members to finish tasks
instead they have a genuine passion and
enthusiasm for the projects they work on
5. Listen and Communicates Effectively
- good leaders should express sincere care
and concern for the members of their
group both verbally and nonverbally. By
keeping the lines of communication open,
these leaders can ensure that group
members feel able to make contributions
and receive recognition for their
achievements.
6. Have a Positive Attitude
- maintaining a sense of optimism and
hope in the face of challenges.
7. Encourage People to make Contributions
- using democratic leadership style like
encouraging group members to be active
in giving ideas and plans leads to greater
commitment, more creative problem-
solving and improved productivity.
8. Motivate your Followers
- being genuinely passionate about ideas
or goals, helping followers feel included in
the process and offering recognition,
praise and rewards for people’s
accomplishment
9. Offer Rewards and Recognition
- offering effective recognition and rewards
is one of the best ways to help followers
feel appreciated and happy. Happy and
motivated people perform better at work.
10. Keep Trying New Things
- pay attention to the things that have
been effective in the past and always be on
the lookout for new ways to inspire,
motivate and reward group members.
 Transformational Leadership
- Type of leadership style that leads to positive changes
in those who follow.
- Energetic
- Enthusiastic
- Passionate
- Focused on helping every member of group succeed as
well.
- Leaders who inspire followers to transcend their own
self-interests for the good of the organization by
clarifying role and task requirements.
- Leaders who also are capable of having a profound and
extraordinary effect on their followers.
James MacGregor Burns
“Transformational Leadership can be seen when
leaders and followers make each other to
advance to a higher level of moral and
motivation.”

Bernard M. Bass
“ Transformational leadership can be defined
based on the impact that it has on followers.
Transformational leader should garner trust,
respect, and admiration from their followers.”
Why is transformational leadership important
for organizational functioning?
Numerous studies have shown that transformational leadership:

- Significantly increases organizational performance

- Is positively linked with long term market share and customer
satisfaction
- Generates higher commitment to the organization from their
employees
- Increases employees’ trust in management and organizational
citizenship behaviors (i.e. Extra–role work–related behaviors such as
conscientiousness, altruism and sportsmanship that are discretionary,
not related to the formal reward system of the organization)
- Enhances employees’ satisfaction with both their job and their leader
Reduces employees’ stress and increases well-bein
How do Transformational Leaders behave?
Transformational leaders:
• Articulate a compelling vision of the future
• Use stories and symbols to communicate their vision and message
• Specify the importance of having a strong sense of purpose and a
collective mission
• Talk optimistically and enthusiastically and express confidence that goals
will be achieved
• Engender the trust and respect of their followers by doing the right thing
rather than doing things right
• Instill pride in employees for being associated with them
• Talk about their most important values and beliefs
• Consider the moral and ethical consequences of decisions
• Seek different perspectives when solving problems
• Get employees to challenge old assumptions and to think about problems
in new ways
• Spend time teaching and coaching
• Consider each individual employee’s different needs, abilities and
aspirations
• Are compassionate, appreciative and responsive to each employee and
recognize and celebrate each employee ‘s achievements
The Components of Transformational
Leadership
1. Intellectual Stimulation- Transformational
leaders not only challenge the status quo: They
also encourage creativity among followers. The
leader encourages followers to explore new
ways of doing things and new opportunities to
learn.
2. Individualized Consideration – involves
offering support and encouragement to
individual followers. Keep lines of
communication open so that followers feel free
to share ideas and so that leaders can offer
direct recognition of each follower’s unique
contributions.
3. Inspirational Motivation – Transformational
leaders have a clear vision that they are able to
show or express to the followers. These leaders
are also able to help followers experience the
same passion and motivation to fulfill these
goals.
4. Idealized Influence-the transformational
leader serves as a role model for followers.
Because followers trust and respect the leader,
they emulate this individual and internalize his
or her ideals.