Transformative Leadership

Leadership is about influencing and has evolved over the years. Leadership can be transformative, transactional, and situational. Transformative leadership (TL) is good leadership and is very much linked to issues of fair practice, democracy, and addresses itself to both individual and public good. There are four sides to it—idealistic influence, where a leader behaves in an exemplary manner that followers want to respect and emulate. Followers attribute to him/her some extra ordinary capabilities and feel he/she is worthy of leadership. TL is equally associated with inspirational motivation in which the character or behavior of a leader enthuses, and stimulates those around him/her. FL creates intellectual stimulation; such leaders encourage and promote creativity and innovations among followers. TL makes individual consideration—a leader pays attention to individual needs for achievement of growth within the organisation, e.g. staffs have to be trained, refreshed and retooled – allowing personal development for individual staff in order to align them for the achievement of organisational goal, greater good. Transformative leadership thus promotes good programming and good programming is gender programming.