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Developing Your Full Range of Leadership: Leveraging a transformational approach

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Jun 1, 2022 by Business
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Ratings

Overall Rating: 4.8 stars
Content Quality: 4.8 stars
Effectiveness: 4.8 stars
Ease of Use: 4.8 stars
Overview:

A book on Leadership. Leadership is a daunting subject for most developing leaders, but eventually, all followers will be called upon to lead. Where do we start? What model or theory do we utilize? The choices become overwhelming for anyone attempting online searches. Everywhere you look are leadership books, programs, degrees, workshops, seminars, boot camps, and even mobile apps! Many organizations at Air University are utilizing the full range of leadership approach. Initially introduced by James MacGregor Burns in 1978 and Bernard Bass in1985, these transformational and transactional leadership styles have sustained nearly four decades. Through (1) idealized transformational leader behaviors, one may raise the levels of his or her ethical and moral values while committing to “doing the right thing” for himself or herself and his or her followers: (2) by using inspirational motivation, leaders learn to articulate a vision to energize followers to accomplish more than they ever thought possible; (3) by intellectually stimulating followers, leaders will challenge followers to create and innovate as they reframe problems with renewed visions; and by providing individualized consideration, leaders may learn to incorporate each member’s distinct gifts and talents as individual contributors to the organizational team. These transformational behaviors can offer connections to reaching (4) authentic transformational leadership by incorporating not only ethics and values but also, according to John Sosik, virtues and character strengths to refine one’s leadership acumen, ameliorating leader-follower dynamics

Type of Material:

On-Line Textbook

Recommended Uses:

This is recommended for in class discussion, individual homework or team homework, lecture material, and for professional development for anyone interested in leadership

Technical Requirements:

 Adobe Reader

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Identify Major Learning Goals:
  • Understand the foundations of leadership theory.
  • Explore the full-range leadership model and consider how to implement the model into practice.
  • Deploy the full-range leadership model within the team setting.
  • Discover the evolution of leadership theories, followed by the “full-range leadership model) (FLRM) which examines team leadership by using FLRM behaviors, including a focus on virtues and character strength.
Target Student Population:
  • Upper-level management students
  • Graduate businerss students
  • Any class where leadership is discussed
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

Foundational leadership knowledge

Content Quality

Rating:
Strengths:
  • Key leadership theories are reviewed and discussed in a way that can be easily understood
  • Decision-making is discussed within the context of leadership
  • Leadership models are presented
  • Applications of leadership theory are available, such as contingent reward as an element of leadership
  • Comprehensive content on full-range leadership.
  • The authors provide examples and graphics to explore leadership theory further.
Concerns:
  • There are no questions, summaries, etc. included in the different sections (other than what is at the end of the book) included with the material.  
  • Instructors will need to develop their own key points for review and summary purposes.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

Rating:
Strengths:
  • This book discusses and analyzes most of the basic leadership styles in terms of decision-making, multiple solutions, and benefits of certain approaches as well as problems that could arise through poor decisions and lack of leadership.
  • Leadership in groups is included Different measures of leadership are addressed.
  • Events that happened in the past are used as scenarios; these events are examples of military leadership.
Concerns:
  • Learning goals and objectives are not specifically defined.
  • Provide examples on how to incorporate textbook in the classroom setting.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

Rating:
Strengths:
  • Examples are provided when discussing leadership and the various models.
  • This book covers numerous leadership models in addition to models representing leadership responsibilities such as decision-making, rewards, and contingency planning.
  • Quickly loaded and was easy to access
  • Software or membership not required for access
Concerns:
  • It would be beneficial to see summary concepts so readers understand what needs to be emphasized.
  • The information included appears to be comprehensive and accurate, but it’s not clear what key points the reader needs to understand for each section discussed.
Other Issues and Comments:
  • This is a comprehensive review of key leadership theories that should be informative for anyone interested in leadership development.
  • Last update 2018
  • Part of the US Air Force leadership curriculum.
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