GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

Leadership style in this paper is viewed as the leader's characteristic behaviors when directing, motivating, guiding, and managing groups of people. It is the style leaders use to determine the success or failure of any organizations, nations and other social units. As it may, transformational leadership style has proven to be effective in various aspects, though to different extents. This fact has become universal as it has been unanimously welcome. Transformational leadership is the leadership skills in principals who can pioneer the school to a new level at the hinge of school improvement. School improvement is seen as the process by which schools become more effective both in terms of academic outcomes as well as in developing the social and cultural wellbeing of the children and adults within the school. It is to this extent that transformational leadership exhibited by principals plays a key role in school improvement initiatives and is evident when principals engage in building a shared vision. Hence, this paper concluded that transformational leadership is the key to prompt school improvement. It can help the school solve problems pertinently and obtain various degrees of improvement on different stage. One of the recommendations was that education ministries and boards should therefore establish and implement programs that help to develop transformational leadership skills among school leaders. Such programs may include seminars, workshops and updates on school administration.