Transformational Leadership and Challenges Education in a Pandemic

Leadership is a critical factor in determining an organization's success. This research is an integrative literature review which means that in its preparation the literature used is not only sourced from one scientific discipline but from various sciences that are interrelated with each other. The researcher's steps are broken down into stages, for example, the researcher conducts a review using numerous respectable journal articles obtained from various sources. Researchers enter various keywords related to research topics in literature searches and limit scientific articles published in the last 5 years while transformational leadership during the pandemic which was published in 2020. The journal search results obtained as many as 25 journals but the most appropriate to the topic obtained 10 journals. The study's findings suggest that the problems of transformational leadership in education during a pandemic include societal limits imposed by the Covid-19 outbreak, which can obstruct the nation's ability to achieve and improve its character. Transformational leadership in education describes the level of leader's ability to change the mentality and behavior of staff for the better by showing and encouraging them to do something that seems impossible that offers a changed perspective on the whole educational institution, so that teaching staff and students realize their existence to build institutions that ready to welcome change and even create change. During the pandemic, transformational leadership has hurdles, beginning with social constraints, as the Covid-19 outbreak may obstruct the Indonesian nation's ability to achieve and build its character toward a superior generation.