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A leadership assessment identifies that a leader needs to better motivate their team, positively influence task performance, and strongly affect their team's organizational commitment. What type of leadership training would best address these desired outcomes?
Within the Learning and Development domain, HRPA materials describe transformational leadership as developing leaders who elevate followers' motivation, inspire higher task performance, and build stronger commitment through vision, inspiration, individualized consideration, and intellectual stimulation. These outcomes---enhanced motivation, improved performance, and increased organizational commitment---are the hallmark targets of transformational leadership development.
Transactional leadership focuses on contingent rewards and corrective actions, primarily affecting short-term compliance, not deeper commitment.
Idealized influence is one facet of transformational leadership, but training limited to a single facet would not fully address all three outcomes.
Leadership emergence concerns how individuals become recognized as leaders, not how they motivate and drive commitment once in role.
Relevant HRPA references (no external links):
HRPA Study Guide -- Leadership Approaches in L&D: Transformational leadership outcomes (motivation, performance, commitment).
HRPA Competency Framework -- Learning and Development: designing leadership programs that link behaviours to team and organizational outcomes.