¿Cuáles son las principales diferencias entre el liderazgo transaccional y el transformacional en la gestión de programas?

Based on my personal and professional experience, I believe that Transactional leaders focus on tasks, use rewards/punishments, and prefer centralized decision-making. In contrast, transformational leaders inspire, emphasize intrinsic motivation, build relationships, embrace change, and involve teams in decision-making. Program success often relies on a balanced blend of both leadership styles, adapted to specific challenges

There is something powerful in the word "transformational". In reality transactional is very robotic and takes culture which is very important away. It is actually interesting to see transactional and transformational as separate methods. I believe the more realistic is a hybrid and transformational.

Transactional leadership revolves around day-to-day operations, emphasizing clear expectations, and rewards, to motivate and manage teams within stable environments. This style is task-oriented and involves a directive communication approach. In contrast, transformational leadership focuses on inspiring and motivating followers through a compelling vision for the future, encouraging creativity, fostering individualized consideration, and adapting to change in dynamic environments. Effective leadership often involves a balance of both transactional and transformational elements, depending on the organizational context and challenges at hand.

Transformational leadership - A vision or long term goal or strategy to influence the change and thereby yielding high quality results to the organisation, people etc. Transactional leadership - A short time goal or task or a project that to be accomplished through a leadership.

Transformational leadership inspires people to grow not only personally but motivates them to elevate all social touch points and organization. Helps to create organizations for generations. Transactional leadership is more short term goal oriented. It often works well in crisis situations which need closer control and guidance. One may also observe faster growth for transactional leaders but such a style may not be helpful in creating long lasting impact in society or organization.

Transformational Leadership : The leader creates high visibility influence & impact by developing more leaders( and not followers) as his successors and high impact teams with similar or equipotential to him so that the community , industry & organization as a whole benefits. This leadership style is the need for the hour in evolving industrial scenarios to take on challenges with AI & machine Learning. The core values are Resilience, Individual ownership Accountability & cognitive flexibility towards people, process & technology. Transactional Leadership: governed by confirmation bias, responsibility based approach. Transactional leadership develops followers who can manage daily tasks. This style feel less empowered to take challenges.