The Importance Of Transformational And The Team Approach To Leadership

To best meet the needs of business today the transformational and the team approach leadership styles seem to provide solid solutions. Leaders who are informed and make an effort to include followers in decision making are better equipped to lead a workforce that is equally informed and able to contribute on an equal basis. Transparency among management leads to a collective involvement amongst employees that can be invested in and improved upon from within. As individuals within an organization feel their input and expertise is requested, utilized, and implemented their passion and overall buy in to the organizations goals and mission is inevitably higher.

The Transformational approach to leadership encompasses vision and passion with an

Under her guidance her team is confident they can find the problem with the new system, or if that is not possible, recommend alternatives that will be met with open ears to produce an equitable outcome. This leader’s willingness to pitch-in while giving individualized consideration to everyone should help the other division cooperate to the utmost so the project is successful (Northouse, p.190).

The Team Approach to leadership is catching on with innovative small companies who seek to keep up with technology, attract a workforce, and customer base that is savvy and selective in our global economy. According to Northouse (2013), “A team is a specific type of group composed of members who are interdependent, who, share, common goals, and who must coordinate their activities to accomplish these goals” (p.287). A leader whose personality combines charisma with a transformational style seems most able to achieve within a team

Examples: David Williams, CEO and Mary Scott, President of Fishbowl team lead with the concepts – “no hierarchy, personal growth, more creative outcomes – the pairs contrast one another “left brain” and “right brain” one is linear and one is creative resulting in synergy” (Williams & Scott, 2012). It is inspiring to read that team leadership is a working and successful model. As Morgeson, DeRue,and Karam (2010) suggest through their research the team leadership approach allows members to tackle tasks that aren’t being done, with the overall well being and success of the group as the driving force. Gender can and will play an important role in a team leadership concept. When both genders are flattened and one is not superior to the other, in this case equally responsible for the success or failure of the organization, then the team concept will undoubtedly benefit from the differences of individual leadership styles that are representative from both