Emerging Roles in Training and Development: Transformational Leadership

Research has revealed training and development professionals who employ three of the Big Five personality traits could handle various working environments (Sundstrom et. al., 2015). Training and development professionals are taking on the role of leader in many training settings (Helms, Arfken, & Bellar, 2016). They must lead in the class and in post training. Training and development professionals may need to assess their transformational leadership style; a transformational leader is one who supports, recognizes, corrects, and lays down expectations (Kareem, 2016). A training and development professional can exercise their mentoring skills within a transformational leadership style within the community of practice. A transformational leadership style correlates with the training and development competencies that require timely executions of responsibilities, dependability, and self-discipline (Sundstrom et. al., 2015). Being a mentor who is a leader and vice versa will play a factor in organizational learning as a whole. 

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