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Title: Followership


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Chapter 7
  • Followership

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Chapter Objectives
  • Recognize your followership style and take steps
    to become a more effective follower.
  • Understand the leaders role in developing
    effective followers.
  • Apply the principles of effective followership,
    including responsibility, service, challenging
    authority, participating in change, and knowing
    when to leave.
  • Implement the strategies for effective
    followership at school or work.
  • Know what followers want and contribute to
    building a community among followers.

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Critical and Uncritical Thinking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Thinking independently and being mindful of the
    effects of ones own and other peoples behavior
    on achieving the organizations vision.
  • Uncritical Thinking
  • Failing to consider possibilities beyond what one
    is told accepting the leaders ideas without
    thinking.

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Ex. 7.1 Followership Styles
Independent, critical thinking
Alienated
Effective
Pragmatic Survivor
Passive
Active
Passive
Conformist
Dependent, uncritical thinking
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Ex. 7.2 The Maturity Continuum
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Sharpen the Saw
Interdependence
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Seek First to Understand Then to be Understood
Synergize
PUBLIC VICTORY
Think win-win
4
Independence
Put First Things First
3
PRIVATE VICTORY
Begin with the End in Mind
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Be Proactive
Dependence
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Sources of Follower Power
  • Personal Sources
  • Knowledge
  • Expertise
  • Effort
  • Persuasion
  • Position Sources
  • Location
  • Information
  • Access

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Ex. 7.3 Ways to Influence Your Leader
Help the Leader Be a Good Leader Ask for
advice. Tell leader what you think. Find things
to thank leader for.
Be a Resource for the Leader Determine the
leaders needs. Zig where the leader zags. Tell
leader about you. Align self to team
purpose/vision.
View the Leader Realistically Give up idealized
leader images. Dont hide anything. Dont
criticize leader to others. Disagree occasionally.
Build a Relationship Ask about leader at your
level/position. Welcome feedback and
criticism. Ask leader to tell you company
stories.
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Ex. 7.4 Rank Order of Desirable Characteristics
  • Desirable Leaders Are
  • Honest
  • Forward thinking
  • Inspiring
  • Competent
  • Desirable Colleagues (Followers) Are
  • Honest
  • Cooperative
  • Dependable
  • Competent

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Ex. 7.5 The Feedback Process
  • Observation
  • Follower misses deadlines repeatedly.
  • Development
  • Follower given training in self-management, team
    allocated work based on personal skills.
  • Assessment
  • Follower lacks self-management skills.
  • Consequences
  • Team members resent delays to team projects.

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Dialogue
A type of communication in which each person
suspends his attachment to a particular viewpoint
so that a deeper level of listening, synthesis,
and meaning evolves from the whole community
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Communities of Practice
Made up of individuals who are informally bound
to one another through exposure to a similar set
of problems and a common pursuit of solutions
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