THEORY 22

BENNIS AND NANUS’ TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP (TL) THEORY

Use this to develop a vision for your organisation based on values and beliefs and not management-speak.

Following interviews with a range of leaders Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus identified four strategies that leaders should use when trying to transform their organisations. These are shown in the figure below.

Leader behaviour

HOW TO USE IT

  • Develop a clear vision for your team. Your vision has to be simple, understandable and worthwhile and unless you are running the organisation it must be aligned with the organisation’s overall aims and objectives.
  • Decide if the existing organisational ...

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