Inspirational leadership is a leadership style where the leader engages with others in such a way that leaders and followers constructively raise one another to:
- higher levels of motivation
- effective relationships
- quality orientation
- overall workplace productivity
Inspirational leaders are team builders and place a great deal of faith in the value of teaching and coaching and will go the extra mile with their people while refusing to compromise on their vision or intent.
This leadership style challenges employees to be creative problem solvers, and develop followers’ leadership capacity via coaching, mentoring and provision of both challenge and support. Using the democratic leadership style or participative style, the leader encourages employees to be a part of decision-making.
We determine this style through the 85 performance traits measured in SuccessFinder.
The National Research Council of Canada has defined in detail the core competencies of inspirational leaders.