Transformational leadership is associated with a leader’s ability to influence employees to transcend their interests by pursuing those that promote a common goal for all employees. One advantage of this leadership style is its potential to have a lasting impact on employees because it uses motivation and inspiration to boost performance. Other leadership styles are often associated with a “stick-and-carrot” approach to employee engagement, where benefits are either withdrawn or provided to boost employee performance.
The transformational leadership style takes a different approach to employee engagement, which is founded on respect and the drive to unlock potential for transformative change. However, the “big picture” perspective of the transformational leadership style is one of its disadvantages because it rarely provides details regarding how to achieve specific milestones. Therefore, transformational leadership is an abstract way of boosting employee performance if it does not give specifics on how objectives will be achieved.