2019 - 09 - 20 - Transformational And Situational Leadership

There are many leadership styles worth looking deeper at and trying to emulate. Two of them are the Transformational Leadership style and the Situational Leadership style. Transformational leadership is when a leader identifies a need for change and brings that change about through inspiration. And there are four components that we can work on if we want to be transformational leaders. 1. Intellectual stimulation: transformational leaders challenge their team to challenge the status quo through creativity and innovation. 2. Individualized consideration: transformational leaders demonstrate that they care about their team members. 3. Inspirational motivation: transformational leaders clearly establish and communicate an inspirational vision. 4. Idealized influence: transformational leaders "walk the walk" which builds trust and credibility by demonstrating both belief in the vision but the behaviors that will lead to the vision. Situational Leadership acknowledges that like so much in life our particular leadership styles will depend on the situation and who we're trying to lead. The formal leadership theory described four maturity levels and how to address them but essentially the concept is that a leader will approach a novice differently then they will an expert and the specific style of leadership should adjust from explicitly telling a novice what to do and how to do a task to simply delegating a task to an expert.