1. Embracing Change:
The Journey Toward
Transformational Leadership
Dr. Robert Wright
CEO, Wright
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2. The Case for
Transformational
Leadership
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3. Transformational Leadership
defined
• Charismatic, visionary leaders who
transform organizations through
empowering followers.
• Leaders who bring out the best in
followers and develop them into leaders.
• Leaders who motivate and
challenge teams to perform at levels
beyond expectations.
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4. Does Transformational Leadership
Matter?
• Transformational leaders clearly have more
satisfied followers (r = .3-.6)
• Transformational leaders lead more
effective work groups (r = .6, rated
performance; r = .25, objective performance
measures)
• Followers of transformational leaders
experience less stress and burnout (r = -
.4-5)
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5. Transformational Leadership Criteria
Idealized Inspirational
Influence Motivation
Walking Vision &
the Talk Meaning
Intellectual Individualized
Stimulation Consideration
Engaged Care for Individuals’
Thought Concerns &
Development
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6. Transformational Leadership
Idealized Inspirational
Influence Motivation
Walking Vision &
the Talk Meaning
Intellectual Individualized
Stimulation Consideration
Engaged Care for Individuals’
Thought Concerns &
Development
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7. Inspirational Motivation
Motivate and inspire followers by
providing meaning and challenge.
• How inspirational are your …
– Meetings?
– Interactions with staff?
– Your direct reports with their staff?
– Interactions with clients/customers?
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8. Intellectual Stimulation
Stimulate followers to be creative/
innovative by:
• questioning assumptions
• reframing problems
• devising new solutions.
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9. Intellectual Stimulation
• How stimulating are your …
• Assignments?
• Interactions with staff?
• Meetings?
• How often do you ask questions? How
much creativity and innovation do you
expect from your staff?
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10. Individualized Consideration
Paying special attention to followers’ needs
and concerns; developing followers via
mentoring/coaching
• How well do you recognize your individual
staff strengths and weaknesses? To what
extent do you identify individual staff support
needs?
• Are all staff clear on the skills they are
developing, and are you providing what
you need to provide for them to do it?
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11. Transformational Leadership
with all Three
How do all three interact?
• Individualized Concern
• Inspirational Motivation
• Intellectual Stimulation
Discuss and report:
• Break into threes
• Pick spokesperson to report
• Discuss the interaction of all three
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12. Transformational
Leadership &
Change
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13. Research: Leadership & Emotions
“ Emotional intelligence is carried
through an organization like
electricity through wires…the
leader’s mood is quite literally
contagious, spreading quickly and
inexorably throughout the
business…
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14. Research: Leadership & Emotions
…Managing for financial results,
then, begins with the leader
managing his inner life so that
the right emotional and
behavioral chain reaction occurs.
- Goleman
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15. Evolating
Yearning
Dedicating Engaging
Rematrixing Revelating
Liberating
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16. Transformational Engagement
Consciousness,
TRANSACTIONAL Tied to Yearning TRANSFORMATIONAL
& Emotions
DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
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17. Transformational Engagement
Consciousness,
TRANSACTIONAL Tied to Yearning TRANSFORMATIONAL
& Emotions
DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
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18. Transformational Engagement
Consciousness,
TRANSACTIONAL Tied to Yearning TRANSFORMATIONAL
& Emotions
DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
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19. Transformational Engagement
Consciousness,
TRANSACTIONAL Tied to Yearning TRANSFORMATIONAL
& Emotions
DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
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20. Transformational Engagement
Consciousness,
TRANSACTIONAL Tied to Yearning TRANSFORMATIONAL
& Emotions
DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
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21. Transformational Engagement
Consciousness,
TRANSACTIONAL Tied to Yearning TRANSFORMATIONAL
& Emotions
DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
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22. Transformational Engagement
Consciousness,
TRANSACTIONAL Tied to Yearning TRANSFORMATIONAL
& Emotions
DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
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23. Transformational Engagement
Consciousness,
TRANSACTIONAL Tied to Yearning TRANSFORMATIONAL
& Emotions
DISENGAGED MIS-ENGAGING ENGAGING
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24. Are you an answering machine?
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25. Grounded Leadership:
The LIVE model of
Transformational
Conversations
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26. Grounded Leadership:
A Four-Step Process
Listen
Identify
Vision
Execute
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27. Conversation Movers
• Listen
– Opener—Tell me about that
– Tell me more
– What do you think?
• Identify
– Do you mean?
– Are you saying?
• Vision
– So it sounds like
• Execute
– What will you do?
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– Will you…..?

28. Embracing Change
with Transformational
Leadership:
Practice & Takeaways
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29. Practice
A. Leader
B. Staff
C. Observer
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30. Assignment
Practice once a day over the next
seven days.
• Who did I engage with that I might not
have otherwise engaged with?
• How did I do it?
• How could I be better with open-ended
questions?
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31. Review
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32. Connect with Dr. Bob Wright
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drbobrobertwright Dr. Bob Wright
CEO, WRIGHT
445 E. Ohio, Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60611
drbob@wrightliving.com
312-645-8300
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