Transformational

Leadership
Becoming
Inspirational
Leader

Prof.Dr.Aung Tun Thet

BT/10/10/2020
OVERVIEW

1. Introduction
2. Becoming a Transformational Leader
3. Applying Transformational Leadership
4. Facilitating Transformational Leadership

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Introduction
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TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
• Encourage, inspire and motivate employees
• Innovate and create change
• Grow and shape future success

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LEADERSHIP
• Set example
• Strong sense of corporate culture
• Employee ownership and independence

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TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
• Without micromanaging
• Trust trained employees to take authority

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TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
• Leadership style give employees:
• Room to be creative
• Look to future
• Find new solutions to old problems
• Mentor and Coach
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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
CHARACTERISTICS
• Encourage motivation and positive development of
followers
• Exemplify moral standards and encourage same of
others
• Foster ethical work environment with clear values,
priorities and standards
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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
CHARACTERISTICS
• Build company culture by encouraging employees to
move from attitude of self-interest to mindset of
working for common good
• Hold emphasis on authenticity, cooperation and
open communication

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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
CHARACTERISTICS
• Provide coaching and mentoring
• Allow employees to make decisions and take
ownership of tasks

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LEADERSHIP
• Role model
• Demonstrate integrity
• Set high expectations
• “Walks the walk"

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LEADERSHIP
• “… Leaders and their followers raise one another to
higher levels of morality and motivation."

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TRANSFORMATION LEADERS

• Model of integrity and fairness

• Set clear goals
• Has high expectations
• Encourage others
• Provide support and recognition
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TRANSFORMATION LEADERS

• Stir emotions of people

• Get people to look beyond self-interest
• Inspire people to reach for improbable

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Becoming a
Transformational
Leadership
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BECOMING TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADER
1. Create inspiring vision of the future
2. Motivate people to buy into and deliver vision
3. Manage delivery of vision
4. Build ever-stronger, trust-based relationships

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1. CREATE INSPIRING VISION OF

THE FUTURE
• Compelling reason to follow lead
• Create and communicate
• Set out purpose
• Start with company's mission and vision
• Explore ways in which team contribute directly
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2. MOTIVATE PEOPLE TO BUY INTO AND

DELIVER VISION

• Help people appreciate positive impact of vision

• Talk about vision often
• Link to people's goals and tasks to give it context
• Help people see how they can contribute to it

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2. MOTIVATE PEOPLE TO BUY INTO AND

DELIVER VISION

• Nothing significant happens without

encouragement
• their people
• Know different kinds of motivation
• Inspire people to deliver their best

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3. MANAGE DELIVERY OF VISION

• Vision no use on its own

• Need to become reality

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3. MANAGE DELIVERY OF VISION

• Combine effective project management with

change management
• Deliver changes with full support of people
• Communicate each person's roles and
responsibilities clearly

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3. MANAGE DELIVERY OF VISION

• Everyone fully understand what they're responsible

for, and know how you will measure success
• Set clear SMART Goals

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4. BUILD EVER-STRONGER, TRUST-BASED

RELATIONSHIPS

• Focus attention on your people

• Work hard to help them achieve their goals and
dreams
• Leadership long-term process
• Constantly to build relationships, earn trust, and
help people grow as individuals
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4. BUILD EVER-STRONGER, TRUST-BASED

RELATIONSHIPS

• Help them find own solutions

• Create skilled team
• Strengthen self-confidence and trust in you

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KEY POINTS

• Transformational leaders inspire great loyalty and

trust in followers
• Have high expectations
• Inspire people to reach their goals

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KEY POINTS

• Create inspiring vision of the future

• Motivate people to buy into and deliver vision
• Manage delivery of the vision
• Build ever-stronger, trust-based relationships

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KEY POINTS

• Work on own skills

• Set aside time and space for personal development

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Applying
Transformational
Leadership
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LEADER-MANAGER

• Project management
• Organizational skills
• Managing employees and monitoring performance
• Foundations of transformational leaders

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BORN LEADERS

• Charismatic
• Motivating people around them
• Mission to effect positive change
• Energy and passion fuel cohesion
• Challenge long-held assumptions
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TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
• Relate to attitudes, behaviours and culture
• Understanding of necessary goals to be successful
• Articulate in explaining goals and methods to
achieved

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TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
• Charismatic, enthusiastic, optimistic, passionate
and visionary
• Ability to change long-held perceptions and beliefs

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LEADERSHIP TRIANGLE

• 3 kinds of successful leadership styles

• Each one has own place depending on challenges
faced

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LEADERSHIP TRIANGLE

1. Tactical: Solving straight-forward problems

2. Strategic: Working towards future with a vision
3. Transformational: Facilitate conversations
among key stakeholders

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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER

• Vision of where you want to go

• Communicate it
• Diversity of thought
• All key stakeholders represented in decisions made
• Honestly care about what stakeholders want and
need
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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER

• Purposefully find good people with different

perspectives
• Shake things up and bring in new ideas
• Challenge long-term assumptions

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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER

• Strategic from planning and objective setting

perspective
• Strong communicator that can be trusted
• Passionate & focused to drive change from
inception to successful conclusion

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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER

• Strategic from planning and objective setting

perspective
• Strong communicator that can be trusted
• Passionate & focused to drive change from
inception to a successful conclusion

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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER

• Mentoring or coaching role

• Motivation, empowerment and morale of
employees
• Mobilizing people to common good
• Ethics, morality and integrity

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Transformational
Leadership
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1. INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION

• ‘Rocking the boat’

• Asking questions
• Not afraid of failure

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1. INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION

• Foster environment where it's safe to have

conversations, be creative and voice ideas
• All team members feel valued
• Challenge cultural norms
• Inspire passion with teams and peers "turning me
moments into we moments."
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2. INDIVIDUALIZED
CONSIDERATION
• Don't treat people how you want to be treated
• Treat them the way they want to be treated
• People different
• What motivate and excites you different from peers and
coworkers
• Adapt style to accommodate skills and people on team
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3. INSPIRATIONAL MOTIVATION

• Know where you want to go

• Create vision or strategy to get there
• Articulate with optimism and passion

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3. INSPIRATIONAL MOTIVATION

• Two men digging a ditch

• I asked one of them, "What are you doing?"
• “I’m digging a ditch, what's it look like I'm doing?”
• I asked the other guy same question and he says,
• "I'm building a hospital."
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3. INSPIRATIONAL MOTIVATION

• Whatever task they're doing

• They're not doing that task
• Part of something larger

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4. IDEALIZED INFLUENCE

• Ethical leadership
• Decision-making towards greater good
• Mentor
• Lead by example

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4. IDEALIZED INFLUENCE

• Values-based leadership necessary for driving

sustainable change
• Results underpinned with strong moral and ethical
foundation
• Stand up to any scrutiny

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5. PERSEVERANCE THROUGH
CONFLICT
• Transformational change create conflict
• People fight and/or ignore you
• Get everyone to work with you

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TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
1. Keep ego in check
2. Self-management
3. Take right risks
4. Make difficult decisions
5. Share collective organizational consciousness
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TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
6. Inspirational
7. Entertain new ideas
8. Adaptability
9. Proactive
10. Lead with vision
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BIG 4 PERSONALITY TRAITS

• Extraversion
• Openness to experience
• Agreeableness
• Conscientiousness

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REVIEW

1. Introduction
2. Becoming a Transformational Leader
3. Applying Transformational Leadership
4. Facilitating Transformational Leadership

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 Transformational
Leadership
Becoming
Inspirational
Leader

Prof.Dr.Aung Tun Thet

BT/10/10/2020