Dynamic Followership

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Dynamic Followership

• Fine Tuning for
• World Class Performance

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ACU Competency

• Self-Development
• Builds and applies new knowledge and skills
• Identifies areas for self-improvement
• Takes charge of seeking out opportunities for
  personal and professional development
• Applies creativity, innovation, decision-making,
  problem-solving, risk-taking skills and balances
  life activities

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Course Objectives

• Identify the style of Follower that you
  naturally are in the workplace
• Analyze the tools learned in this class to align
  your natural Follower Zones with work
  expectations and organizational values
• Apply the concepts of the 4-D Followership model
  to become a better follower and leader at work

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Class Agenda

• What is Followership
• Followership Principles
• Tools for Success Part 1
• 4-D Followership Model
• Tools for Success Part 2
• Reports Review
• Wind Down

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Typical View of Followers

• Team Activity
• As a team discuss the question, What is a
  follower?
• List at least five negative terms of Followers
• Be brutal
• Combine on master flip chart for class
• List at least five positive statements per team
• Combine on master flipchart for class

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What is Followership?
What it is NOT Passive compliance Unmotivated Par
t of leadership Easily controlled
What it is Proactive compliance Motivated Foundat
ion of leadership Easily aligned
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Followership Principles

• Proactive Compliance
• Commitment to excellence
• Courage to stand up to your leaders
• Courage to stand up for your leaders

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Followership Principles

• Motivated
• Everyone is motivated by something
• We all have hot buttons
• The Four Views
• Competence
• Appearances
• Achievement
• Relationship

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Followership Principles

• Foundation of Leadership
• Foundation metaphor
• Pure followers can exist
• Pure leaders can NOT exist
• Followers have all the power

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Power

• Followers have all the power
• Leaders never had it
• The more managers try to take it, the less they
  get
• Followers acquiesce more power though trust than
  coercion
• Leaders can exercise power only on loan
• Success is part of the relationship

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Followership Principles

• Easily Aligned
• We all want to succeed at something
• Eustress vs. Stress
• Mutual influence
• Four behaviors
• Avoidance
• Courageous
• Contentious
• Assertiveness

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Followership Principles

• Measuring Relationships Factors
• Fight/Flight
• Competitive vs. Passive
• Courage vs. Avoidance
• Stress vs. Eustress
• Reactive vs. Proactive

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Reactive vs. Proactive

• Stress path
• Fight or flight
• Stress or Eustress
• Predictable patterns
• We create habits of being reactive or proactive
• Many times others see our patterns before we see
  them

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Participant Wisdom

• If you accept the premise that leadership
  is nothing more than influence and that everyone
  is simply a reflection and product of their
  influences then every leader is a follower to
  some extent, because all leaders are being
  influenced by someone.
• Don Lanhart
• 28 June 2007

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Tools For Success Part 1

• If you were broken,
• how would you want to be fixed?
• 22 Intervention Ideas
• Focusing on Followership needs
• Read Scenario on page three (3) andHelp!!!!

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4-D Followership Model
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4-D Followership Model
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4-D Followership Model
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4-D Followership Model
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4-D Followership Model
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4-D Followership Model
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4-D Followership Model
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4-D Followership Model
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4-D Followership Model
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Tools For Success Part 2

• Application
• Introduce Table Map
• 22 Intervention Ideas
• Focusing on Followership needs
• Read scenario on page five (5) and align
  employees needs

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Reports Review

• Your Reports
• Read page one as a class
• Complete Worksheet on page two
• Read your assessment
• Share with a neighbor
• Questions and Discussion
• Develop a mini action plan (last page)
• Share with class

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Wind Down

• What is Followership
• Followership Principles
• Tools for Success Part 1
• 4-D Followership Model
• Tools for Success Part 2
• Reports Review