Why Effective Team Leadership Requires Transformational Leadership

Effective team leadership can be defined in many ways, but for the purposes of today, I’d like to define it in terms of a concept that’s near and dear to my heart: transformational leadership. I’ve spent a good chunk of my career as a transformational leadership expert, and I’m more convinced with each passing day that effective team leadership and transformational team leadership are basically the same thing.

In this post, we’ll look together at what transformational leadership is; I’ll explain why I think it’s so advantageous; and I’ll even point you toward a few small steps you can take to start honing your own transformational leadership abilities.

Understanding Transformational Leadership

Naturally, as a transformational leadership expert, I spend a lot of my time explaining to people what this important term really means.

The core of it is right there in that word transform. When you embrace this leadership style, you actively try to change your team members; you try to be the catalyst of positive transformation that yields improved processes…