Transformational Leadership A Personal Reflection
Transformational Leadership a Personal Reflection
A Transformational Leader is a person who assesses a country, or organization/company, and recognizes the need for a change in the entity and is able to envision what this change should be. The transformational leader not only envisions the necessary change but has the required personality and strength of character that will enable them to influence others to buy into their vision and make it their own, and hence be willing to follow the leader in the quest to bring about the vision.
Transformational Leadership can be defined as a style of leadership in which the leader identifies the needed change, creates a vision to guide the change through influence and inspiration, and executes the change with the buy in of the members of the group.
Transformational Leadership is a partnership between leaders and followers who mutually support each other to reach a higher level of motivation. This level of interaction of engaging in each other’s best interest has both ethical and moral benefits that are inspirational for both parties, hence the term ‘transformational’; its core is change and it has lasting changing effect.
In the Jamaican context leadership has traditionally been absent, we moved out of slavery and the bacra master mentality pretty much stayed with us with the business owners being the new bacra’s as well as the politicians becoming the new imperialists.
Over the last 30 years there has been a subtle shift towards leadership in corporate jamaica which is now evident in how companies like Grace Kennedy co ltd, and JMMB are operated leadership and indeed transformational leadership is starting to take place in Jamaican companies as they look to emulate a Grace and/or JMMB, in the political arena though Transformational leadership is lacking.
There have been isolated cases of Transformational leaders in the Jamaican political landscape, Mavis Gilmour comes to mind, also Edward Seaga, Michael
A Transformational Leader is a person who assesses a country, or organization/company, and recognizes the need for a change in the entity and is able to envision what this change should be. The transformational leader not only envisions the necessary change but has the required personality and strength of character that will enable them to influence others to buy into their vision and make it their own, and hence be willing to follow the leader in the quest to bring about the vision.
Transformational Leadership can be defined as a style of leadership in which the leader identifies the needed change, creates a vision to guide the change through influence and inspiration, and executes the change with the buy in of the members of the group.
Transformational Leadership is a partnership between leaders and followers who mutually support each other to reach a higher level of motivation. This level of interaction of engaging in each other’s best interest has both ethical and moral benefits that are inspirational for both parties, hence the term ‘transformational’; its core is change and it has lasting changing effect.
In the Jamaican context leadership has traditionally been absent, we moved out of slavery and the bacra master mentality pretty much stayed with us with the business owners being the new bacra’s as well as the politicians becoming the new imperialists.
Over the last 30 years there has been a subtle shift towards leadership in corporate jamaica which is now evident in how companies like Grace Kennedy co ltd, and JMMB are operated leadership and indeed transformational leadership is starting to take place in Jamaican companies as they look to emulate a Grace and/or JMMB, in the political arena though Transformational leadership is lacking.
There have been isolated cases of Transformational leaders in the Jamaican political landscape, Mavis Gilmour comes to mind, also Edward Seaga, Michael
Cited: (2007). Retrieved from BBC Caribbean: http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2007/09/070910_jamaica.shtml Appendix 1