Analyze adaptive, transformational and transactional leadership theories. Adaptive Leadership focuses on how leaders encourage people to adapt to change, and address organizational challenges whereas Transformational Leadership is a process of change and transformation. Transactional Leadership is often compared to management as it describes the exchange that occurs between leaders and followers. Examine each of these leadership approaches by responding to all the following: Transformation leadership is described as including four factors: Idealized Influence, Inspirational Motivation, Intellectual Simulation, and Individual Consideration. Define each factor and discuss how you as a Transformational leader can use these factors to develop and motivate followers. Support your analyses with specific examples. Why do you agree or disagree effective leaders can be both transformational and transactional? Support your analyses with specific examples. Identify an adaptive challenge you currently or have faced, and apply the Adaptive Leadership Model in recommending how you as a leader would approach the challenge; identify and discuss specific leader behaviors from the model and why you chose them. Reflect on the value of Adaptive and Transformational Leadership to your leadership practice identifying three or more important insights gained.
