Transformational Leadership: Inspiring Change and Creating a Vision for Success

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Identify where you have witnessed leadership that inspires with a win-win vision, initiates a
process that brings out the best in the people involved (including yourself), and produces
results that are genuinely transformational in impact.
Leadership is one of the key aspects for success as it brings out the potential of another
person. This creates a vision for the followers or the organization for which the leader works for
he develops strategies that undertake initiatives that would benefit the organization overall. A
leader plays an incentive part in motivating with economic and non-economic based rewards that
would influence the people to work and therefore increase the workflow effectively and
efficiently.
Describe where, in any part of your life, you have been involved in such a successful
transformation effort. What did you take away from that experience?
From my personal experience, I used to work at a customer service based company where
the employees were given a target of achieving clearing customer complaints by the end of the
month. Few months before there was a financial breakdown and they customer who were
associated with the company were unhappy. The complaints department did not have any idea
how they would tackle the problem. However it was out team leader who sat with us and
explained how to handle an agitated customer and tell that person exactly what is needed to to
told to address his issues. We followed out team leader according to his instructions and at the
end of the month, not only all the complaints were cleared, but also the company was able to
gain new customers on top the existing ones. If I were to take something from that experience it
would definitely be the financial breakdown because despite the fact we got to learn a lot of
things from our leader but no customer should have to go through such inconvenience.

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Imagine what a transformational process might look like in situations you face, working on
this until you have some sense of confidence that it just might succeed.
Transformational leadership is when the leader works with the team to understand what
needs to be changed to create a vision that would create inspiration and execute changes in
tandem that is in between the members of a group. This type of leadership enhances the morale
and motivation of the workers. In a situation where I did not know what to do, the leader helped
me to gain a sense of confidence so that I was able to counter my issues.
Now flesh out your vision of a win-win, positive outcome to this situation, one that can be
shared with others. Work on describing this vision in a compelling way as a big dream that
can release energy for change.
The most efficient part of transformational leadership is that it can be it can be flexible in
any way. When there is a problem, if one looks at it closely then the person will definitely find a
solution to it. When a person can understand the others issue, first of all to find a solution the one
must put himself or herself in that person’s place and think what they would have done. It is only
when the leader looks at the issues to be addressed from the others perspective, that would be the
best solution to a problem.
Determine who needs to be involved with you in creating a transformational outcome.
Consider how you might inspire enthusiasm in a transformational team or network, enlist
outside supporters, defuse resistance, and use transactional means to buy off adversaries if
you cannot engage their cooperation in a transformational way.

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To create the best transformational outcome, it should be understood that the leader and
the team members should all equally contribute to create the best possible outcome for the
business. To create enthusiasm within the team members it is essential to know what actually
intrigues them to work. To some it can be the paycheck and to some it can be the profession. The
leader should know what the employee wants so that he can use that method to inspire him.
Clarify how the process of working together will elevate you and all those involved by
connecting your efforts with shared values and dreams.
When a team full of employees are working together, it is only natural that they would
develop an understanding with one another with time. Workers can learn a lot from one another
when there are two or more people from different culture or religion or background and talk
about themselves. Not only they can discuss about their work, but also their goals in life which
would inspire them to achieve more.
Moving away from hierarchical networks, analyze the social networks within your group
and/or organization. Explore how these social networks interconnect with people in other
groups, organizations, communities of practice, movements, and so on.
Social network within the organization is important in a long term. Whenever an
employee is having issues within the organization then at that point in time the person wants
someone to share his or her thoughts to. Some of them have issues approaching the leader or the
management at first so they look for someone they can trust. Once they find their companions,
they are usually the first one they approach. This creates a bond within the team and reduces the
chance of employee dissatisfaction.