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This paper discusses the writer's transformational leadership action plan. It specifically defines and reinvents the writer's transformational leadership model into a leadership paradigm based on a designed confluence of several leadership models. The paper begins by defining leadership. It then shows the effects of focusing on the tenets of change and improvement and of stressing a broad humanistic approach to management, to the ability to refocus transformational leadership.

Table of Contents:
Overview
Leadership Model Implementation
Objective
Goals
Best Practices in Leadership
Teams & Team Management
Inter and Intra Personal Communication
Knowledge in Management
Avoiding Negative Leadership
Ethical Leadership
A Five Year Transformational Leadership Plan
Overview
Transformational Leadership Goals
Skills Inventory
Professional Satisfaction
Action Steps
Barriers to Achievement

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"Avoiding negative leadership qualities that can arise during any transformational change, such as competitive urges to sully other managers' reputations, is best accomplished by adhering to the basic principles of the Full Range Leadership Model (FRL) as described by Avolio (par.5): "One key aspect that differentiates the FRL model from other models is that leadership development involves building leaders of higher moral character." This development of moral character on the part of leaders engenders to the FRL leadership style an ethically centered decision-making process upon which all employees, managers and employees alike, can rely on to be both sound in judgment and character. The result of such transformational leadership strategies is an ethically centered leader who is unafraid to make decisions as much on principle as on the underlying business case."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Avolio, B. J. Leader Development for Transforming Organizations: Growing Leaders for Tomorrow. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 2004.
• Becerra-Fernandez, I., Gonzalez, A. & Sabherwal, R. Knowledge Management: Challenges, Solutions, And Technologies. Upper Saddle River, NJ.: Prentice Hall; 2004.
• Capezio, P. & Morehouse, D. Secrets Of Break-Through Leadership. New Jersey: Career Press; 1997.
• Dale, T. "Knowledge Management...An Evolving Act." Information technology. 19/5(2005): 64.
• Harvey, M. "The Hidden Force: A Critique of Normative Approaches to Business Leadership." SAM Advanced Management Journal, 66/4(2001): 36+.

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