Qualities of Charismatic or Transformational Leadership Style

RUNNING HEAD: LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS
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Leadership
Characteristics
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3-29-2020

LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS 1
Qualities of Charismatic or Transformational Leadership
Style
Charismatic leadership style is based on the facilitation of motivation by the leaders
through the appropriate communication and persuasion skills and utilizes the force of attractive
personality. Besides, transformational leadership style is based on the leader’s capacity to bring
up a positive change through the use of creativity and innovation (Afsar & Umrani, 2019).
Here, the paper will discuss the similarities and differences in charismatic and transformational
leadership style. Also, the unique characteristics of the individual who is identified as the
transformational or charismatic.
By focusing upon the two leadership styles, it can be determined that the main similarity
between charismatic and transformational leadership style is that both of the leaders encourage
followers to work together altogether serve for the benefit of the organization. In both leadership
styles, leaders have communication and persuasive skills to make the certain group of people to
act in a certain way and lead the organization towards success (Barnes, Guarana, Nauman, &
Kong, 2016). Apart from these key similarities, it is often be observed that both serve different
purposes. One of the key differences in both of the leadership styles is that charismatic leaders
have a charm and inspire others through their attractive personality. Moreover, transformational
leadership style can bring a change into the individual and show commitments to the collective
vision (Hechanova & Cementina-Olpoc, 2013). Also, charismatic leaders have the ability to
make the realization of personal vision which can influence the people to be motivated and
inspired by the charming personality of leaders. On the contrary, Transformational leaders have
focus on creating transformations into the organization through the creative thinking and often
involve the followers to make engagement for the building up of new opportunities which can
bring change.
One example of the individual as a transformational leader is Steve Jobs who was CEO
of Apple and made certain transformations in digital age. He is observed to have the qualities of
both charismatic and transformational leaders. This leader has used his creativity and innovative
skills to make the new product designs and has the ability to motivate the employees to work
together for the fulfillment of the visions (Deopker, 2017). This transformational thinking of