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“In order to fight a war
effectively, you need an
Army of blind
followers.”
Leadership & Management
Discussion for Lesson 18:
Followership
 Lesson 18
Reading Objectives
1. The student will comprehend their followership style
and take steps to become a more effective
follower.
2. The student will comprehend and apply the
principles of courageous followership, including
responsibility, service, challenging authority,
participating in change, and knowing when to
leave.
3. The student will comprehend developing personal
potential to include the Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People.
 Lesson 18
Discussion Objectives
1. The student will apply the principles of
courageous followership, including
responsibility, service, challenging authority,
participate in change, and knowing when to
leave.
2. The student will comprehend developing
personal potential to include the Seven
Habits of Highly Effective People.
 The Courageous Follower
Courage is found in both effective leaders and
followers.
Willingness to take risks, challenge authority, and
to believe one’s own ideas are superior typically
marks a follower as a future leader
Follower role includes responsibility, service,
challenging authority, participating in change,
knowing when its time to leave organization
These components of followership require courage
 Role of the Follower
Courage to assume responsibility
Courageous followers:
Do not presume that a leader or an
organization will provide them with security,
permission to act, or personal growth
Initiate opportunities for personal fulfillment,
growth, and the fullest use of their capabilities
 Role of the Follower
Courage to serve
Courageous followers:
Discern the needs of the organization and
actively seek to serve those needs
Support the leader’s decision, providing
strength, complementing the leader’s position,
and serving others’ display of follower’s
courage
 Role of the Follower
Courage to challenge
Courageous followers:
Do not sacrifice the purpose of the organization
or their personal ethics in order to maintain
harmony and minimize conflict
They stand up against leaders and decisions
when that behavior contradicts the best
interest of the organization, or their own
integrity
 Role of the Follower
Courage to participate in transformation
Courageous followers:
View the struggle of corporate change and
transformation as a mutual experience
Support the leader and the organization during
a difficult transformation
Are not afraid to confront the changes and
work toward reshaping the organization
 Role of the Follower
Courage to leave
Often organizational or personal changes
create a situation in which a follower must
withdraw from a leader-follower
relationship
Followers are not afraid to depart because
they do not rely on leaders or
organizations for their self-worth
 Sources of Follower Courage
The courage to accept risk derives from
several sources:
Strength from personal philosophy/religious beliefs
A vision of the future can provide courage to follow
difficult course of action
Past event that tested individual courage can make
future courageous behavior easier
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Personal values can give one the courageR E R
to act
O W
Commitment to peers, deep concern M for others,
outrage at injustice can foster change L O and
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 Source of Courage
Answer these questions for
yourself;
Where am I going?
Who am I?
What will make the journey
worthwhile?
 FOLLOWERSHIP STYLES
Independent

Alienated Why do we
Effective
want
Pragmatic ‘effective
Survivor follower’ vs
‘conformist’?
Passive Conformist

Dependent
Passive Active
Developing Personal Potential
Steven Covey defines a
habit as the intersection
of knowledge, skill and
desire
Developing Personal Potential
Each habit builds on the previous one so
individuals grow further along the maturity
continuum as they develop personal
effectiveness habits
Dependent people expect someone to take care
of them and blame others when things go wrong
Independent people have developed a sense of
self-worth and an attitude of self-reliance
Interdependent people realize that it is best to
work cooperatively with others
 7 Habits to develop
Personal Potential
Be Proactive
Begin with the end in
mind To Independence
Put first things first
Think Win-win
Seek first to understand
then to be understood To Interdependence
Synergize
Sharpen the Saw
 Discussion
How does the Navy/USMC develop good
followership

We train leaders!
 Exercise
Play your role.
 Summary
Follower role includes responsibility, service,
challenging authority, participating in change,
knowing when its time to leave organization
Developing Personal Potential
Covey defines a habit as the intersection of
knowledge, skill and desire
He arranges seven habits along a continuum from
dependence to interdependence
When a person moves to interdependence, he
steps into a leadership role
 Summary
Habit 1: Be Proactive®
Habit 2: Begin With The End In Mind®
Habit 3: Put First Things First®
Habit 4: Think Win-Win®
Habit 5: Seek First To Understand, Then To
Be Understood®
Habit 6: Synergize®
Habit 7: Sharpen The Saw®
 Next Class
Groups and Teams
Read: Leadership & Management,
Chapter 19
Written assignment 3 is due at the start
of class on the day of Lesson 21