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Executive Summary…………………………………………………………………. 3

Charla, The leader …………………………………………………………………. 4

Transformational Leader…………………………………………………………….5

Example of leader……………………………………………………………5

Graph………………………………………………………………………...8

Perceived Effectiveness……………………………………………………………...9

References…………………………………………………………………………..10

Executive Summary

The writer draws attention to a well-renowned leader in her own right. Charla, over her life span has shown to be an empowering force in her community and in every life that she touches. To get a better understanding of Charla, more specifically her style of leadership. Transformational leadership is broken down and how it intertwines with Charla life and teachings. Further information reveal that she is effective and exemplify great women everywhere.

Charla, The Leader

Great leadership comes in many forms, having work in many different settings professional, educational and personal, there is one leader that stands out across the spectrum. Charla, where do you start, this is a magnificent woman to say the least, but a hell of a leader. She leads with style in grace and a sense of understanding from a multiplicity of levels. Having had the fortunate life experience of being able to know her and to be a part of her has been one of life’s biggest blessings.

Charla, approaches every situation with an open-mind, having the ability to get on the level of whom ever be it singular person or group setting to meet the needs presented before her. Throughout life seeing her come up against many different obstacles have help build resilience and tenacity in her followers. Charla, gives followers the hope in hopeless situations and the daily life tools to fight against such obstacles that one may face. Charla, can be described as having a transformational leadership style, and this she does, however followers understand that it is her roots that are placed deeply in the contingency theory, she relates to the environment that might determine which style of leadership is best suited for the situation. It’s understood with this theory no one leadership style is best for all situations. However, I will focus on her transformational leadership style.

Charla, in her current years is a mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and so on. As followers watch her juggle between the many hats of life while continuing her educational quest. Charla’s leading by example, helped and helps her followers know that they can to achieve and even be greater. Charla has broken generational curses and have obtained her doctorates’, she works in mental health as a therapist and a giant in life empowerment. Through her teachings she shows discipline and is very orderly, those are traits that followers take in as their own. She is a widow, as her husband past many years ago.

Charla is a Minister and one of leaders in the local church within her community. She finds balance through her spiritual walk and through that shares her learnings with followers thus making them stronger in their walk of life. She exemplifies everything a woman can be and enables within her followers a zeal that exudes bigger than herself. At heart Charla is a teacher’s teacher. She strikes the right balance in all she brings to the table in that is mind-blowing, always inspiring and revealing doors to followers otherwise may not have been seen.

Transformational Leader

Transformational leadership, this style of leadership was first introduced by a biographer by the name of James MacGregor Burns. According to Burns, transformational leadership can be exemplified when leaders and followers need each other to advance to a higher level of motivation and moral within one’s self and others. Burns, States through the strength of their vision and personality, transformational leaders can inspire followers to change expectations, perceptions, and motivations to work towards common goals. Transformational leadership aims to bring about organizational change, Northouse (2010). According to Jim Collins (2001), an author and lecturer on organizational sustainability and growth, organizational transformation is best achieved through a transformational building process in three main disciplines—disciplined people, disciplined thoughts, and disciplined action.

· They have a trained condition of order and obedience

· They have a habit of self-discipline - the discipline comes primarily from within

· They typically finish things they start.

· They can face and dealing with brutal facts, even about themselves

· They are willing to adhere to the organization's systems for getting work done

· They are proactive and begin with the end in mind

· They put first things first

· They have a ‘Stop Doing’ List

· They continually improve

Collins (2001) states good leaders have personal humility and professional will; they may not necessarily have high-profile personalities. Such leaders as Charla, build teams with the right people in the right places. Collins (2001) goes even further to state that good-to-great leaders confront their brutal realities with the faith and discipline needed to prevail. They identify their organizations' core strengths and build their businesses around those strengths. Disciplined people naturally create good organizational culture with disciplined thoughts that combine culture with an ethic of entrepreneurship and disciplined actions, Collins (2001). 

Transformational leaders possess characteristics that can effectively bring about change. It is fact that all leaders will not be the same in approach they will have some common things, however, about them some such as:

· Influencing followers through a vision for a better future

· Inspiring followers instead of controlling them

· Leading by example through role modeling

· Contributing to subordinates' intellectual stimulation

· Enhancing the meaningfulness of goals and behaviors

· Fulfilling followers' self-actualization needs

· Empowering followers through intrinsic motivation

Charla, uses transformational leadership on many levels, understanding that each person is an individual thus this type of attention must be given. Be it in a work setting within an organization or any other setting Charla displays such leadership styles i.e.

· Individualized Consideration –the degree to which the Charla, attends to each follower's needs, acts as a mentor or coach to the follower and listens to the follower's concerns and needs. Charla, gives empathy and support, keeps communication open and places challenges before the followers. This also encompasses the need for respect and celebrates the individual contribution that each follower can make within that setting. The followers have a will and aspirations for self-development and have intrinsic motivation for their tasks.

· Intellectual Stimulation– the degree, to which Charla, challenges assumptions, takes risks and solicits followers' ideas. Leaders with this style stimulate and encourage creativity in their followers. Charla, nurture and develop people to think independently. To Charla, learning is a value and unexpected situations are opportunities to learn, leaving every moment an experience. The followers ask questions, think deeply about things and figure out better ways to execute their tasks.

· Inspirational Motivation– the degree to which the leader articulates a vision that is appealing and inspiring to followers. Charla, with inspirational motivation challenge followers with high standards, communicate optimism about future goals, and provide meaning for the task at hand. Followers need to have a strong sense of purpose if they are to be motivated to act. When Charla, provides and exemplify purpose and meaning it provide the energy that drives followers forward. The visionary aspects of Charla, are supported by communication skills that make the vision understandable, precise, powerful and engaging. The followers are willing to invest more effort in their tasks; they are encouraged and optimistic about the future and believe in their abilities.

· Idealized Influence –Charla, provides as a role model for high ethical behavior, instills pride, gains respect and trust.

         The points above have help to motivate followers because they pay personable attention to a group but in an individual way, while focusing on the overall goal of at hand. The points above bring in different aspects of one’s spectrum, understanding that, Charla, just can’t meet a person emotionally without meeting them intellectually, while also meeting their idealized thinking which create a consistency of higher levels. Through This transformational leadership is at work.

Perceived Effectiveness

Followers see themselves as striving towards the presence of positive outcomes, while attempting to avoid the absence of positive outcomes in the now (unrealized opportunity). This can be challenging, but with the help of such a transformational leader, so much unrealized potential can be enacted and glass ceilings began to break in one’s life. Effectiveness can be measured on direct relation to how the follower feels, but more so over time how the follower reacts in situations where Charla, is not present. It is now that tools and the life lessons of such great leadership is on display. Although many times in life the leader is not present, it is at those moments followers really grasp the knowledge and understanding that they have evolved. Perceived effectiveness is positive with this leadership style and amongst the followers of Charla, and they stand firmly in that it is effective, transformational, and in many ways one of a kind.

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