Featured Resource: Transformational Leadership

At some point in our careers, most of us have likely experienced working for a truly great leader and were probably seen some successes during that time. Sometimes we attribute the “secret sauce” of success to technology or product, but what if a truly strategic advantage originated from the team or organization’s leadership style?

New research suggests that teams and organizations with these kinds of leaders have an advantage. They perform better, deliver better business results, and in many cases, do truly great and amazing things.

In fact, it has been shown that:

• Organizations and teams with transformational leaders obtain better business results.
• Transformational leadership is a predictive factor in software delivery and organizational performance, with high-performing teams having leaders with the strongest transformational leadership traits.
• Strong transformational leaders also create a good work climate and culture for their teams, with their employees reporting the highest employee Net Promoter Scores.

In this week’s resource, (download here) we’ll be diving into the qualities and approaches of ‘transformational leaders’ so that it can act as a guide to help identify behaviors, attributes, and areas for improvement.