Followership

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Followership

• Crusader Leadership Development Series
• By
• Kristy Brischke Thursday, October 18, 2007

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Followership

• What do you think when you hear the word
  follower?
• When are you a follower?
• Not all of us are leaders, but all of us are
  followers in some arenas of our lives.
• Most of us will be in more follower roles
  throughout our lives than in leadership roles

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The Changing Nature of Leadership
Reference Komives et al
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Followership

• People don't just follow anyone. You can't just
  say 'follow me' and expect people to follow out
  of the goodness of their hearts. You have to give
  them good reason for them to follow.
• www.ChangingMinds.org

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• Followers and Respect

Respect for Solution
Respect for the Leader
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• Valuing the Follower
• The best organizations are humble its not
  about you as a leader its about the
  organization.
• Share your success and your failures!
• Create a culture of Courageous Followership

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Baylor University
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Followership

• Creating a Culture of Courageous Followership
  (Chaleff, 1995)
• The Five Dimensions of Courageous Followership
• The courage to assume responsibility
• As a leader, you must give opportunities to your
  members to assume responsibility! Delegate, pass
  on ownership, listen, and recognize the
  contribution of your members
• Courageous followers create opportunities to
  fulfill their potential and maximize their value
  to the organization
• followers engage body, mind, soul, spirit in the
  commonly held purpose and vision of the
  organization and being a follower is a
  condition, not a position (Dixon, 2003)

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Followership

• Creating a Culture of Courageous Followership
  (Chaleff, 1995)
• The Five Dimensions of Courageous Followership
• The courage to assume responsibility
• The courage to serve
• Give your members opportunities to work hard!
  Provide ever increasing expectations so your
  members can increase their investment in and
  ownership of the organization
• Courageous followers are as dedicated to the
  common purpose of the group as the leader is
• The capacity or willingness to serve another

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Baylor University
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Followership

• Creating a Culture of Courageous Followership
  (Chaleff, 1995)
• The Five Dimensions of Courageous Followership
• The courage to assume responsibility
• The courage to serve
• The courage to challenge
• Give your members a voice and listen intently
  to their feedback! Give them the freedom to
  question you and challenge your choices
• Followers have the courage to speak out against
  decisions that go against the integrity of the
  group

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Follwership

• Creating a Culture of Courageous Followership
  (Chaleff, 1995)
• The Five Dimensions of Courageous Followership
• The courage to assume responsibility
• The courage to serve
• The courage to challenge
• The courage to participate in transformation
• Your members will likely be in a position to
  recognize the need for change long before you
  will as a leader! Be open to their call for
  change and transformation!
• Courageous followers stay with the leader as they
  struggle through change

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Baylor University
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Followership

• Creating a Culture of Courageous Followership
  (Chaleff, 1995)
• The Five Dimensions of Courageous Followership
• The courage to assume responsibility
• The courage to serve
• The courage to challenge
• The courage to participate in transformation
• The courage to leave
• Courageous followers have the courage to leave a
  group even under the most enlightened and
  effective leader (Chaleff, p. 8). However, when
  a leader is ineffective and his or her actions
  are detrimental to the group, a courageous
  follower knows when to depart from the group.

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Followership

• Becoming an effective follower takes just as
  much work as being an effective leader.
• Leaders may direct the activity, but followers
  create the end results.

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• Six characteristics of an Exemplary Followers
• Professionalism
• Interpersonal Communication skills
• Conflict Orientation
• Intelligence
• Initiative
• Integrity

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• The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
  The good leader is he who the people revere. The
  great leader is he who the people say we did it
  ourselves .
• - Lao-Tzu

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Followership

• References
• Chaleff, I (1995). The courageous follower
  Standing up to and for our leaders.
  Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco.
• Followers and Respect found at http//changingmind
  s.org/disciplines/leadership/followership/follower
  ship.htm on October 15, 2007.
• Komives, S.R., Lucas, N., McMahon, TR.(1998).
  Exploring leadership for college students who
  want to make a difference. Jossey-Bass, San
  Francisco.
• Thank you Student Activities at Baylor University