“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.

Partition of India

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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.