“BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD” –MAHATMA GANDHI CASSIE MEADE AND SIERRA WILSON HTTP://WWW.SOCIALACTION.DK/COOLBOOK/ BJORK/
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“BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE
WORLD” –MAHATMA GANDHI
CASSIE MEADE AND SIERRA WILSON
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WHO IS GANDHI?
Name: Mahatma Gandhi
Born: October 2nd, 1869
Died: January 30th, 1948 (78 years old)
Known for: Leadership of Indian Independence and non-violent protest
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WHAT IS TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP?
• Transformational Leadership is a style that focuses on a bigger change through commitment to vision.
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THE STEPS USED BY LEADERS TO MAKE CHANGE
• Challenge the process involves identifying a problem that needs
to be improved or changed.
• Inspire a shared vision involves being able to explain and share
your vision to others. Find a group of people who also share the same
vision, and understand the affect it has on people.
• Enable others to act involves creating a plan that will achieve the goal and sharing that plan with others that way the change can happen.
• Model the way involves demonstrating how to make the change happen, and actually doing the things you ask your followers to do.
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CHARACTERISTICS OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS
• Idealized Influence involves gaining trust and confidence of those who are following you.
• Inspirational Motivation involves urging followers to move towards new goals through motivation.
• Intellectual Stimulation involves followers in developing new and different solutions to common problems and conducting work in new ways.
• Individualized Consideration involves treating all followers equally and giving respect
GANDHI’S TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
• Gandhi is a perfect example of a transformational leader.
• He was able to identify problems that needed to be fix, and come up with ways to fix them.
• He knew how to lead a group of people and inspire them to work towards change.
• Gandhi was very good at giving motivational speeches that helped inspire his followers.
• This presentation demonstrates how Gandhi used transformational leadership qualities to free India.
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Challenge the Process
• In the film, Gandhi noticed the problem of racism that India had. He realized that anyone who wasn’t white was
considered a second class citizen.
• Gandhi identified a problem, and worked on ways to improve the situation.
Inspire a Shared Vision
• There was a scene in the film where Gandhi was giving a speech. He explained how they needed to eliminate the difference between the people, and how they were all children of god.
• During the speech he was able to share his vision to others.
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Enable Others to Act
• At a time Gandhi protested the use of the passes. He asked his followers to burn their passes as an act of defiance against the registration and immigration law.
• The idea of burning the passes was his way of enabling others to act.
Model the Way
• Gandhi modeled the way by burning his own pass. Even when the British
Started to beat him, he continued to throw passes into the fire.
• By doing this, Gandhi demonstrated how to make the change happen.
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Idealize Influence
• Gandhi gained trust and respect amongst his followers every time he took a beating from a British solider.
• By not fighting back, he demonstrated his vision of non-violent protest.
Inspirational Motivation
• Gandhi gave many speeches to his followers
motivating them to continue with the non-violent protest.
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Intellectual Stimulation
• During many of Gandhi's speeches, he changed his followers minds and hearts. He enlarged his vision and clarified the importance of their protest.
Individual Consideration
• Gandhi respected and treated all his followers equally.
• He spoke to everyone, and got involved with their lives which made them feel important.
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Challenge The Process
• After India was freed, Gandhi realized that he now had a new problem to face, the slavery between the two religions.
Inspire a Shared Vision
• Gandhi believed in non-violent protest. To inspire that vision
to his followers he explained how he was a Muslim, a Hindu, a
Christian, and a Jew and that all everyone was doing was
creating fear.
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Enable Others to Act
• Gandhi wanted all the religions to be a part of the newly unified India.
• He offered Jinnah The Prime Minister ship
• This enabled the Muslims to take part of India, and to allow the country to not slit apart.
Model The Way
• When the rioting started to happen again in India, Gandhi modeled the way by fasting again.
• After a while, all fighting ended, and Gandhi stopped fasting.
• A transformational leader is someone that focuses on a bigger change through commitment and vision. They are able to lead a group of people towards change.
• Gandhi was a transformational leader because he could see a problem and seek out ways to fix it. He was a good motivational leader, so he had many followers to help him fix the problems India was faced with.
• He lead his country in an honorable, nonviolent way. When confronted with problems he always looked to the peaceful way, rather than spread chaos and violence.
• Gandhi was the voice of India, and the leader of so much more.