Transformational Leadership: How Leaders Change Teams, Companies, and Organizations

By: Michael A. Roberto, The Great Courses

Narrated by: Michael A. Roberto

Discover an essential handbook for strategies, concepts, and insights into the dynamics of transformational leadership in these 24 lectures, which take you on an in-depth examination of the leadership behaviors and capabilities essential to creating positive change in teams and organizations. Filled with case studies and lessons from leaders in business, politics, sports, and the military, as well as a range of specific skills and strategies you can put to use in your own career, this lecture series is an authoritative guide to successful leadership.

You'll learn why, unlike management, which focuses on achieving consistent and reliable results, transformational leadership focuses on producing change - sometimes very substantial or even radical change. After an introductory lecture on the definitions of effective, transformational leadership, you dive right into the nuts and bolts of this important professional skill. In order to make the subject well organized and easily accessible, Professor Roberto has arranged Transformational Leadership into four key modules, each of which offers a focused look at a particular aspect of leadership: models of leadership (which surveys critical issues such as human behavior and long-term goals); the change process (which focuses on resistance to change as well as ways to institutionalize it); critical skills and capabilities (including motivation, persuasion, negotiation, and teamwork); and creativity, innovation and learning (which is devoted to everything from after-action reviews to systems thinking to mentoring).

Taken together, Professor Roberto's lectures are a stirring call to responsible leadership and a learning experience that's as informative as it is inspiring.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

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Captivating and Immediately Useful

It seemed that every time I turned this lecture series on (I rotate between a few when driving), something from the lecture was immediately relevant and useful to a situation I was facing within my organization. I appreciated Roberto's speaking presence, historical references and anecdotes and the flow of the presentations thoroughly.

One of the best

This was my first Great Courses audio presentations. It was fantastic. I'll be listening again with a notebook at hand. Top notch lectures with both theory and practical knowledge.

Great Courses at their best!

Practical leadership information that is both well researched and well taught. This was as good as - if not better than - the leadership courses I had in graduate school.

Listen to this twice!

If you hate your job and its leadership as much as I hate mine, your thoughts might get a bit distracted while listening. Listen to this twice to soak in all knowledge!

Covers many aspects of leading

The author does an amazing job (narrating himself). Many many great insights about what it means to be a leader.