Full Range Leadership

The full range leadership model is based on over 100 years of leadership research. It identifies both transactional and transformational behaviors.

Transactional behaviors include laissez-faire (hands-off leadership), management-by-exception (putting out the fires) and contingent rewards (let's make a deal).

Transformational behaviors include individualized consideration (compassionate leadership), intellectual stimulation (thinking outside of "the box"), inspirational motivation (exciting the masses/sharing the vision), and idealized influence (walking the walk). Research conducted in Nebraska shows that leaders able to practice these four behaviors tend to gain extra effort from employees and experience higher employee satisfaction and higher productivity and greater organizational effectiveness.