Become a Transformational Leader to lead a transformation
Excerpts taken from Transformational Leadership: A Quick Start Guide: Growing, Supporting, and Empowering People to Amplify Change in Organizations by IT Revolution.
What is transformational leadership and how it is different from some other forms of leaderships?
Transformational leadership is an approach in which leaders “motivate followers to achieve performance beyond expectations by transforming followers’ attitudes, beliefs, and values.
In contrast, transactional leadership, rewards employees for “complying with a leader’s wishes. Transactional leadership encompasses contingent reward and management-by-exception. Transactional leadership is better suited to cultures that prize maintaining the status quo, depending on preset processes and measurement to drive behavior.
In contrast, Servant leaders focus on their followers’ development and performance, while transformational leaders focus on achieving, mission goals while also encouraging and supporting followers’ development and performance.
What are few of the advantages of having a transformation leader?
Better business results, predictive factor in software delivery, create good working climate and culture for their teams
In their article “Dimensions of Transformational Leadership: Conceptual and Empirical Extensions,” Rafferty and Griffin provide a great fifteen-item measurement survey for transformational leadership that is predictive of organizational outcomes. The 2017 State of DevOps Report, conducted by DORA and Puppet, validated that this model of transformational leadership drove key capabilities in the context of technology work, which in turn contributed to software delivery and organizational performance.
What are different dimensions of Transformational Leadership?
Vision
Understands organization direction
Understands team direction
Understands 5-year horizon for team
Intellectual Stimulation
Challenges team status-quo
Challenges team to continuous ask new questions
Challenges team on basic assumptions about the work
Inspirational Communication
Inspires pride in being part of team
Say positive things about team
Inspires passion and motivation; encourages people to see that change brings opportunities
Supportive Leadership
Considers others' personal feeling before acting
Is thoughtful of others' personal needs
Cares about individuals' interests
Personal Recognition
Commends team for better than average work
Acknowledges improvement in quality of work
Personally complements individuals' outstanding work
Reference:Transformational Leadership: A Quick Start Guide: Growing, Supporting, and Empowering People to Amplify Change in Organizations by IT Revolution