Followership means being actively engaged in helping the organization succeed while exercising independent, critical judgment of goals, tasks, potential problems and methods.

The value that exemplary followers contribute to an organization’s success cannot be overstated. This session makes participants more aware of the daily opportunities to demonstrate original and evaluative thinking. Participants learn how star performers fully engage themselves in support of their leaders and the organization by exhibiting passion, enthusiasm, and persistence in all assignments. They complete a questionnaire that helps them understand and interpret their own followership style—pragmatist, conformist, passive, alienated, or exemplary. And during a simulated team meeting, they see how their style preferences can impact their own performance, as well as the productivity of the team and organization.

The session can be tailored for delivery to individual contributors, managers who want to encourage exemplary followership, or mixed groups.

Session Objectives

In this session learners will:

• Clarify the value exemplary followers bring to an organization.
• Identify your followership style and consider how it affects your productivity and relationships.
• Discover steps you can take to become a more exemplary follower.
• Find out what approaches work best when encouraging exemplary followership.
• Understand what good leaders expect from their followers.
• Learn how star performers gain the trust, confidence, and respect of followers by strengthening their leadership quotient.
• Develop your awareness of leadership responsibilities from a follower’s perspective.

Session Agenda

• Introduction
• The Value of Followership
• Understanding Your Followership Style
• Characteristics of Exemplary Followers
• Becoming an Exemplary Follower
• Simulated Meeting—Exploring the Relationship Between Leaders and Followers
• Setting Goals—Identifying Followership Opportunities
• Wrap-up

For more information about Followership, contact us, or read HOW TO BE A STAR AT WORK: Nine Breakthrough Strategies You Need to Succeed, by Robert E. Kelley.