Transformational Leadership – A key to empower your Employees

Transformational Leadership is the style of leadership where the leaders work with their committed members of the group to classify the necessity to change and create a path guiding change execution through inspiration.

Unlike traditional leadership, transformational leadership aims at motivating the employees, improving their morale and job performance.

In general, no transformational leader goal for perfection, instead, they aim to follow through the imperfections to leverage their team member’s strength. The approach to transformational leadership cause change in individuals and social systems. The transformational leader not only invigorates their thinking but also empower one to the extent where they can make changes and transform into an organisational asset.

In this blog, we will delve into the ways Transformational Leadership empower employees,

1. Be TransparentTransformational Leadership require transparency of roles and responsibilities of both transformational leader and the employees. Being transparent create a sense of accountability, encourage collaboration, competency and the employees to own the outcomes of the tasks performed by them. It is essential for building trust in employees for the leader and the other group members.
2. Encourage real-time feedbackEncouraging real-time feedback let the employees open up to share their opinions, build the culture of transparency, trust and foster an environment of honest feedbacks that encourage employees to praise or criticise through in-the-moment feedback regarding any workplace or process issues and workflow concerns before it gets old and unnecessary with time. Accepting both positive and negative feedbacks helps to tackle the matter and improve the quality and accuracy.
3. Give your team autonomyAlthough, giving n amount of freedom to employees and having less control over the task-based activities is a tough job, but is essential to improve employee’s skills and make them feel trusted. The transformational leader must discuss the level of flexibility allowed for each task and give clarity while directing them to let them experience on their own. To ensure that they function better and improve with each passing day, never discourage them by highlighting their weakness, guide and nurture the members, show trust to expect great things.
4. Bring challenges and opportunitiesBringing challenging opportunities and assigning work based on an individual interest helps the transformational leader to identify team members strength, discover and demonstrate their potential and capabilities. Work-life challenges help an employee to improve their interpersonal skills, come out of their comfort zone and plan and schedule work on their own with the sense of purpose and responsibility.

Not following the traditional leader-follower mindset require a transformational leader to show trust, give support and direct the committed members of the group about the tasks laid to them instead of controlling them. The authority to make decisions make one feel empowered, trustworthy and confident.

So try on these ways and see what it results in for your employees.