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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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