Title: Followership
1Chapter 7
2Chapter 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.
3Critical 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.
4Ex. 7.1 Followership Styles
Independent, critical thinking
Alienated
Effective
Pragmatic Survivor
Passive
Active
Passive
Conformist
Dependent, uncritical thinking
5Ex. 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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2
Be Proactive
Dependence
6Sources of Follower Power
- Personal Sources
- Knowledge
- Expertise
- Effort
- Persuasion
- Position Sources
- Location
- Information
- Access
7Ex. 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.
8Ex. 7.4 Rank Order of Desirable Characteristics
- Desirable Leaders Are
- Honest
- Forward thinking
- Inspiring
- Competent
- Desirable Colleagues (Followers) Are
- Honest
- Cooperative
- Dependable
- Competent
9Ex. 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.
10Dialogue
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
11Communities 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