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Effective Followership: Maximizing Your Potential

Learn how to effectively manage hierarchical relationships, recognize your followership style, and implement strategies for effective followership at school or work. Discover what leaders want from followers and how to provide feedback and coaching for growth.

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Effective Followership: Maximizing Your Potential

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  1. Chapter 7 Followership

  2. Learning Objectives Effectively manage both up and down the hierarchy Recognize your followership style and take steps to become a more effective follower Understand the leader’s role in developing effective followers

  3. Learning Objectives Apply the values 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

  4. Learning Objectives Know what followers want from leaders and what leaders expect from followers Use feedback and leadership coaching to help followers grow and achieve their potential

  5. What Leaders Want • Make-it-happen attitude • Willingness to collaborate • Motivation to stay up-to-date • Passion to drive your own growth

  6. Critical and Uncritical Thinking • Critical thinking • Thinking independently and being mindful of the effects of one’s own and other people’s behavior on achieving the organization’s vision • Uncritical thinking • Failing to consider possibilities beyond what one is told • Accepting the leader’s ideas without thinking

  7. Exhibit 7.2 - Followership Styles

  8. Exhibit 7.3 - Ways to Influence Your Leader

  9. Exhibit 7.4 - Sources of Power for Managing Up

  10. Necessary Courage to Manage Up • Courage to assume responsibility • Courage to challenge • Courage to participate in transformation • Courage to serve • Courage to leave

  11. Exhibit 7.5 - Rank Order of Desirable Characteristics

  12. Exhibit 7.6 - Follower Benefits from Coaching

  13. Feedback • Using evaluation and communication to help individuals and the organization learn and improve • Effective tips • Make it timely • Focus on the performance, not the person • Make it specific • Focus on the desired future, not the past

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