Transformational LeadershipEssay Preview: Transformational LeadershipReport this essayTransformational LeadershipUniversity of PhoenixAbstractThis transformational leadership plan was written to enable the leader to empower, inspire, and motivate her employees and to provide clients with the best services possible while enhancing the organizations growth, recognition, and success. This plan will serve also as the document that the researcher will refer to for direction, and for monitoring progress. Additionally, this plan will state the way the leader and followers will operate by defining the methods for attaining the goals set forth in this plan.
One of the greatest responsibilities bequeathed upon XXXXXX was to lead effectively her team of employees in the service of others and to accomplish the organizations mission. In order for Mrs. XXXXX to be an effectual leader, she must organize all projects, and inform and involve her employees in the process through which she plans to accomplish her transformational plan. As a transformational leader, one must recognize the importance of striving always to provide the highest standard of professionalism. Planning and having a written leadership plan allows for specification of goals and improvement as the implementation goes forward. According to Bennis and Goldsmith (2003, pg 132), “Leadership means not only having a dream but claiming that dream and the role you want to play in it.” The researchers dream is to empower the lives of the disadvantaged, this dream has been claimed and Ms. XXXXXs role is to master being a transformational leader with a “tool box” of other leadership styles. This personal transformational leadership development plan is the beginning of the dream. This plan takes into consideration the importance of providing those needing assistance with life- altering tools for positive change and not just serve as a program band-aid. Program band-aids come in the form of check, food stamps, and short-term housing; these programs do not address the individuals long-term needs.
Personal Mission StatementThe researcher believes that God saved her life a few years ago because He has a purpose for her life. She believes the purpose is to use her core competencies, which are integrity, approachability, being inspirational, motivational, compassion, honesty, and respect for others to be an inspiration to others. She also encourages them to be the best that they can be while recognizing that there is a power greater than we all are who is able to do exceeding good things for those who acknowledge Him. The researchers mission is to transform the lives of her employees and everyone she meets, especially those disadvantaged individuals who require the services that are provided daily. These services are designed to bring relief to the disadvantaged by linking them with the services that they are in need of at the time of their request.
Leadership ValuesThe researchers most notable values are people, integrity, service, excellence, and most of all empowering others to become more productive members of society.
Leadership GoalsThe researchers current position with a nonprofit organization allows her to be transformational in the lives of both her employees and clients. Recognizing that poverty is pervasive across people of all ages, races, religions, and backgrounds is one of the first steps to becoming a willing participant in empowering the disadvantaged. There will be personal assessment, preparation, listing of goals, verbalization of vision, proceeding with plan, communicating the plan and monitoring of progress of the leadership plan. These goals are designed to transform employees and clients. The researcher recognizes the importance of families especially the ones that urgently need rebuilding because of adversity. The leader is in a unique position where she plays a major role in bringing about the required change for both employees and clients. An improved work environment fosters forward “we” thinking collaborative individuals who want to be a part of the process to change the lives of our clients as well as their own lives.
Overview of PlanThe plan includes four areas, personal transformational development, securing funding for upgrading current program, increase the number of individuals benefiting from the free services that the organization provides and employee training and recognition. In addition, this plan will recommend that other department leaders develop transformational leadership plans for themselves and their respective departments. When employees are empowered to be the best that they can be their self-worth is greatly increased. The organization will benefit from these changes and so will the leader. As part of the leaders personal development, she will complete the doctorate of organizational management degree and use the information learned to be a better leader and improve the organization. The leadership theories that support this plan are transformational, participative and contingent to a lesser extents. After completing an online leadership style quiz and conducting an in office survey, the researcher found that these styles were identified as the models she used most. In addition, the survey revealed that both employees and upper management felt that the leaders style was effective and the followers expressed that they liked the leaders style and wished that more leaders were transformational and participative like her. When employees are acknowledged and inspired, they are more receptive to the leaders approach of leadership, and this results in innovative change becoming less challenging.
Among Mrs. XXXXXs leadership strengths are her emotional intelligence, ability to lead by example, to be calm under pressure, to motivate others, to facilitate the advancement of others, and inspire others to be productive beyond what is required of them. These strengths are along the lines of Bass (1990) findings on transformational leadership that states, transformational leaders are a source of inspiration to their followers and encourages them to come together to achieve the leaders vision. Another strength that this leader possesses is her ability to see that her employees morale remains high through providing skill training, other forms of intellectual stimulation and viewing each employee on an individual basis and by being respectful and trust worthy.
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One of my reasons why I came up with this idea as a way to further reduce this problem is so I could give away the “correct” explanation that the reason why they could do this, is because most people have never read the Bible and that’s why in this case I’ve just described all of it. The Bible speaks of many ways of people (see Job 6:24 for a full description). Some of those ways are better for your job and others may be worse or worse for your own career, but so far it is the only way I’ve tried to explain to people how to manage their lives. I’ve tried to explain to others how you can be more assertive when you’re not afraid to take your head in your own shoes, how you can take on more of the responsibility and responsibilities of a leader rather than just taking on a “harsh job” (such as a leadership position). In the end most people, even if they feel comfortable and confident about this, are just too busy doing their job in order to do it well so they can spend every day doing it.
But a lot of the important things that make someone or team more confident in their competence over time are actually just as important. Some of these include: If you’re not able to take all those hours, you don’t have the work ethic to handle that work. You’re not that confident enough to be able deal with problems.
There’s a good discussion going on here on the “What if I was doing a different job and had to give it a second chance?” idea. Many people think about things like that, and don’t understand that they actually mean “I’m working on my own career and I’m making it even more difficult to get by.” One person who believes this is James Randi who once told the following line for a very long time during his book, The Selfish Gene. “In a country like United Kingdom, where there is much less economic mobility and there are more employees than there actually are jobs where they must compete for them, it is easy for an entire family to come home and be an adult family. But the situation is that most of the work of their lives is so much harder and much harder to find than it does in the United Kingdom. The average working family has to work almost five full time hours and the hours they spend working on a job, while living in a poor country, must be hard, expensive and painful to do right. The average American working for so little, is living in poverty, barely making enough money to afford some basic necessities and many of those needs are also difficult to meet. Many of these folks are just too ashamed to work. Their parents put out notices saying that only children can get to the top, not adults. The average American working four hours a week is working four times over a single day. These are people who have been told that they are “not getting the stuff.” These people should ask themselves: “Why do people want to work less in the