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Leadership Styles: Charisma vs. Transformation

Transformational leadership focuses on developing team members and moving them towards a common vision, while charismatic leadership centers more around the leader's persona and followers viewing the leader unquestionably. Key differences are that transformational leadership prioritizes individual development and is built on transparency and empowerment, whereas charismatic leadership treats followers more as tools to accomplish the leader's goals. Both can inspire followers, but transformational leaders do so by raising awareness of needs for change and searching for self-fulfillment, while charismatic leaders rely more on their own communication skills and ability to inspire trust.

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Leadership Styles: Charisma vs. Transformation

Transformational leadership focuses on developing team members and moving them towards a common vision, while charismatic leadership centers more around the leader's persona and followers viewing the leader unquestionably. Key differences are that transformational leadership prioritizes individual development and is built on transparency and empowerment, whereas charismatic leadership treats followers more as tools to accomplish the leader's goals. Both can inspire followers, but transformational leaders do so by raising awareness of needs for change and searching for self-fulfillment, while charismatic leaders rely more on their own communication skills and ability to inspire trust.

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  • Charismatic and Transformational Leadership
  • Charismatic VS Transformational Leadership
  • The Meanings of Charisma
  • Effects of Charisma
  • Types of Charismatic Leaders
  • Characteristics of Charismatic Leaders
  • Techniques for Developing Charisma
  • Transformational Leadership
  • How Transformations Take Place
  • Attributes of Transformational Leaders

Charismatic and

Transformational Leadership
Chapter Three
Charismatic VS Transformational
Leadership
Sr. No Transformational Charismatic Leadership
Leadership
1 Moves Around Common Vision and Moves around the leader and persona
focuses on all team members of the leader

2 Built on transparency and Listen to what leader tells you


empowerment

3 Development of individuals is Followers are more of a tool


prioritized
The meanings of charisma
• Variety of definitions:
• The various definitions above have a unifying theme:
“Charisma is a positive and compelling quality that makes many
others want to be led by the person who has it.”
Charismatic Rela tionship

• ATTRIBUTIONS are made

• Charismatic leaders use impression management to cultivate their


relationships with group members.
Effects of charisma
Group Members:
• Trust the leader’s beliefs
• Have beliefs similar to those of the leader
• Accept the leader unquestionably
• Have affection for the leader
• Willingly obey the leader
• Identify with and attempt to match the leader
• Have emotional involvement in the mission
• Feel they will be able to accomplish or contribute to the
accomplishment of the mission 
Types of charismatic leaders

• Socialized Charismatics:
• Restrain the use of power in the interest of others.

• Personalized Charismatics:
• Use power to serve their own interests.

• Celebrity Charismatics:
• Overlap their public celebrity with socialized & personalized traits. 
Characteristics of charismatic leaders
• Visionary
• Masterful communication skills
• Ability to inspire trust
• Able to make group members feel capable
• Energy and action orientation
• Emotional expressiveness and warmth
• Romanticize risk
• Unconventional strategies
• Dramatic and unique 
Techniques for developing charisma
• Create visions for others
• Be enthusiastic, optimistic, and energetic
• Be sensibly persistent, with almost never saying no
• Remember people’s names
• Develop a personal brand, including making an impressive
appearance
• Be candid
• Display an in-your-face attitude
Transformational leadership

• Helps bring about major, positive changes by moving group members


beyond their self-interests and towards the good of the group,
organization, or society.
• Essence is in developing and transforming people.
• In contrast, TRANSACTIONAL leadership is focused on routine
transactions and rewarding group members for meeting standards. 
How transformations take place
• Raising people’s awareness
• Helping people look beyond self-interest
• Helping search people for self-fulfillment
• Helping people understand the need for change
• Investigating managers with a sense of urgency to change
• Committing to greatness
• Adopting a long-range perspective and at the same time observing
organizational issues from a broad rather than a narrow perspective
• Building trust
• Concerning resources on areas that need the most change
Attributes of transformational leaders

• Are charismatic, agreeable, and extroverted


• Score high on emotional intelligence
• Create a vision
• Encourage the personal development of others
• Provide supportive leadership
• Practice empowerment
• Think innovatively
• Lead by example

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