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Leadership Transformation

Written by: Julwel Kenney

Article Overview: It is imperative that leaders go through a personal transformation process in order to bring about effective change within an organization. People, productivity, and profitability are the tools that make an organization successful. Through personal transformation, you will understand that you can be wounded and still learn from your mistakes. You will learn how to forgive yourself and others. You will learn to deal with reality while being comfortable with changes. Most importantly, you will create and motivate movement, as well as positive changes not only in yourself, but also in the people around you, and in your environment.

Leadership Transformation

One may ask, “I am a leader in my organization? How can I bring forth positive and effective change?”

Leadership is a process that is learned through experiences, education, and skills. Today leaders are learning that in order to be effective and respected in their organizations, one must demonstrate integrity, trust, honesty, knowledge, motivation, communication, equality, vision, and collaboration. Leadership transformation of an individual is a lifetime process. Leaders are not born, but are made through various life experiences and opportunities. Leadership transformation requires continual development of the your “state of mind”. After you have gone through a personal transformation, then you can prepare an organization for an internal transformation. This requires you to stay on the cutting-edge to remain both aware and open to infinite possibilities that are present in an environment of continual interactions and change.

One very important characteristic and challenge of leadership is to be able to control and know oneself—“Mastering You.”, which is the root of effective leadership. So ask yourself one question, and answer it honestly, “How Well Do I Know Myself?” such as moods, emotions, likes, dislikes, insecurities, hot buttons, weaknesses, strengths, etc. You will be surprised that many leaders spend so much time working, being task-driven, helping others, achieving their goals that they don’t even take time to know who they really are. Money and success are their ultimate ambition and goals that drive them. Therefore, when unexpected challenges arise that shakes their world, they are astonished and embarrassed how they handled the situation. As a result, this series will deal with the journey to personal transformation and leadership.

You can’t lead effectively without knowing who you are and being secure with who you have become; otherwise, you will become intimidated by individuals that know and achieved more than you. You will no longer lead but dictate, dominate, manipulate, and interrogate. You will do whatever it takes to achieve your goals and will demote, belittle, and stop anyone that gets in your way.

When leaders know, understand, and are secure with themselves then they can create an environment of change and motivate movement within their organization and teams. These leaders have gone through a transformation and metamorphous process that have allowed them to be able to create a positive environment and bring forth effective change.


My book entitled “How To Bring Out The Best In You” elaborates on the personal journey to transformation and leadership in unfathomable details. It discusses the internal transformation process of:
• Introspection
• Being able to live in the question
• Being flexible
• Being receptive
• Being vulnerable
• Being ethical
• Being able to forgive yourself and others
• Learning how to master you

This book will revolutionize your thinking and transform your life so that you could grow through limps and bounds to create positive change, movement, and motivation in your organization.


Julwel Kenney, MBA, MS
CEO
J K Partners

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Article Tags: ambition, change leadership, continual development, cutting edge, education and skills, effective leadership, emotions, equality, helping others, honesty, hot buttons, infinite possibilities, integrity, internal transformation, leadership transformation, life experiences, moods, motivation, personal transformation, unexpected challenges



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