Followership

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Followership

• Follow to Lead
• Leadership Development 4-2c

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Followership- What is it?

• Similar to the concept of Leadership you have
  all experienced what it means to follow others.
• Examples
• Being a member of a team
• Serving on a project team for
• an academic class
• Holding a job working for someone else
• Your new role as Freshman at The Citadel will
  bring this notion of being a follower to a whole
  new level!

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Like Leadership, the concept of Followership is
best understood by a concise definition
Followership a definition

• Followership Definition - Followers of character
  and commitment acting to support the needs and
  goals of the team.

• This means putting the needs of others in front
  of your desires and building a relationship of
  trust and loyalty to your leader and your team!

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Group Work

• Work together to identify the qualities to be a
  successful follower
• Be prepared to share again with the whole group

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Qualities of Followership

• Self-management/Discipline
• Commitment
• Competence and focus
• Courage
• Humility
• Understand our Core Values

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Applying Followership

• Always improving self
• Seeing good/bad examples of leaders and adjusting
  oneself accordingly
• Reactions to stress, remaining calm
• Use constructive ways to fight stress/fatigue

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Fourth Class System What is it?

• It is a system of requirements, traditional
  behaviors, duties, and expectations designed to
  promote this concept of followership
• Governed by the Redbook, the Fourth Class System
  is one of the foundational aspects of The Citadel
  Experience

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Principles of the Fourth Class System

• 1. All cadets must accept personal responsibility
  for the fair, equitable, proper, and effective
  operation of the System.
• 2. All cadets must implement the System in such a
  manner as to support each cadet's right to
  achieve academic excellence.
• 3. The System must not interfere with a cadet's
  right to adequate sleep and food.
• 4.The System must provide the new cadet with the
  necessary positive leadership development
  training to be prepared to exercise leadership
  within the Corps of Cadets.
• 5.The System, properly implemented, uncovers and
  attempts to correct weaknesses in new cadets,
  which might otherwise result in a cadet's failure
  to meet prescribed standards.
• 6.The System provides selected upper-class cadets
  with the opportunity to demonstrate learned
  leadership characteristics as they set the
  example, motivate, train, and mentor new cadets.

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Key Objectives of the Fourth Class System

• To teach new cadets the value of, and allow them
  to develop honor, integrity, character,
  responsibility, and personal pride.
• To teach new cadets the concept of selfless
  subordination of personal desires and comforts
  for the good of their organization.
• To teach new cadets how to live within a
  disciplined military environment in which they
  are also expected to discipline themselves.
• To teach new cadets the importance of loyalty and
  honor. Loyalty to The Citadel supersedes loyalty
  to an individual cadet.
• To provide fourth class cadets with the
  opportunity "To Follow" under the mature,
  competent and understanding guidance of cadet
  leaders, as the first and most important step in
  becoming leaders themselves.
• To provide each fourth class cadet with a mentor
  from the first class. The mentor will be the
  fourth class cadet's advisor to assist the fourth
  class cadet in coping with the many challenges
  the cadet faces during the first year in a
  military environment.
• To teach new cadets the importance of time
  management and organization in order to do things
  correctly the first time.

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Summary

• Your prior experiences have provided you more
  preparation than you know
• Commit yourself to work hard for the coming year
  it will be a challenge
• Understand our Core Values and be ready and
  willing to help your classmates