Analysis the effectiveness of a transformational leader in promoting innovation at the workplace to achieve its goals.

Transformational leaders are able to promote innovation at the workplace due to their abilities to generate organizational learning a leading knowledge management, which in results promoting the organizational innovation (Akel & Demirel, 2017). First, generating organizational learning. Transformational leaders are seemed by their employees as the role models as they always encourage the stimulation of intellectual and provide motivation and supports to their employees. The stimulation of intellectual is very necessary for the employees to generate new ideas and turn them into reality. Besides, transformational leaders are usually willing to entertain new ideas so their employees would not be afraid to speak out their ideas, instead, they are brave enough to say whatever brilliant or not ideas in their minds, creating greater possibilities of effective innovation. The process of new ideas generation, experimentation and solve problems actually put the employees to learn more and more stuffs. Even when they fail, they learn from their mistakes and they have more experiences when it comes to next time.

Second, leading knowledge management. There is no a simple way that could categorize knowledge management but transformational leaders are always deemed important in leading the knowledge management to make it more effective. Knowledge management involves the five processes including construction, embodiment, dissemination, use and management, which means that ones should create, gather, store, distribute and apply knowledge properly in order to effectively manage the knowledge that stay within their brains. As mentioned before, transformational leaders are able to generate organizational learning, which would allow employees to put what they have learnt before into practices. This is a very crucial steps in the knowledge management. Employees who are skilled in the knowledge management could quickly identify, develop and leverage knowledge to create something innovative. This is a very important assets for an organization as these employees have become the talents in the organizations, which would in turns result in a lot of competitive advantage for the organizations.

Akel, E. & Demirel, A. G. (2017). Transformational leadership and innovation: An empirical study of direct and indirect effects in HR consulting companies. International Journal of Business and Management, 13(1).