This week we are learning about Followership.? 1. Describe a leader you followed and why you followed her or him. 2. What are the six things Dr. Kline has
This week we are learning about Followership.
1. Describe a leader you followed and why you followed her or him.
2. What are the six things Dr. Kline has learned about followership and how can you apply them to your own leadership journey?
3. What are the five insights of collaboration and how can you apply them to your own leadership journey?
4. What did you learn from the videos from this week's course material (2-3 sentences total. Try to summarize them into a single thought instead of a sentence on each video)?
Simon Sinek (4:52) – The Best Leaders are the Best Followers
https://youtu.be/V5wtzze9L_MLinks to an external site.
(8:43) Why Credibility is the Foundation of Leadership (Barry Posner, TEDx University of Nevada)
https://youtu.be/QmMcSBQvQLQLinks to an external site.
Five Insights on Collaboration
Dr. John A. Kline TROY Institute for Leadership Development 2020
Note: This information overlaps that given in the 10-page paper on Servant Leadership
Groups must collaborate (work together) if they are to succeed. Effective communication—verbal and nonverbal—is essential. If leaders communicate willingness to collaborate, followers will be much more likely to take the stance of collaboration. If leaders can’t foster collaboration, few good things will happen. In other words, followers must “buy in” to the leader, before they will “buy in” to working with others to accomplish the objective. Here are six things I have learned from decades of leading and following—I learned from my successes and from my failures.
· Know the objective. It is important that all members of a group or organization know where they are going and how to get there. The Troy Leadership Development website http://www.troy.edu/leadership gives the three things every leader must know. The first thing must happen—and be communicated to followers—before the next two things can happen.
1. Know where the group needs to go.
2. Know how to get there.
3. Know how to get others to follow.
· Be a listener. After years of leading and observing others, I conclude that the most effective leaders and followers focus on being good listeners. Listen first to understand; then you will enhance your understanding of others and their ideas, you will be able to know when and how to respond, and you will build essential relationships.
· Build trust. Without mutual trust between leader and followers—as well as among followers—failure will result. If others don’t trust the leader they will not follow. Without trust, group productivity and satisfaction will “go down the drain.” Once trust is lost, it is difficult to regain.
· Admit when you were wrong. You can’t hide it and you shouldn’t deny it, others will know. The sooner you admit you made a mistake, the sooner you can move on and the group can be productive. While this advice is most important for leaders, followers must also admit mistakes—and the leader sets the example. If leaders are willing to admit their mistakes, followers will be much more willing to admit theirs.
· Encourage others. Somebody said, “Praise in public, criticize in private.” But encouragement is more than that. Demonstrate you care, want to listen, want to help, and appreciate their effort and dedication to the group and the task. These things encourage others. And another thing to do is call the person by name. People like to hear their names. This makes it real and personal.
Others may add things to consider. But you should come up with your own list of how to promote collaboration. This will help you be a collaborator. Leaders must collaborate.
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Six Insights on Followership
Dr. John A. Kline TROY Institute for Leadership Development 2020
Note: This information overlaps that given in the 10-page paper on Servant Leadership
To be a great leader, you must first be a great follower. Consider great leaders in history. They first were great followers.
I have been a follower in large and small groups and organizations. And I have been privileged to lead groups of all sizes—some in the thousands. Here are six things I have learned in my eight decades on this planet.
· Be a servant. You can’t be a servant leader if you don’t first serve as a follower.
· Be humble. Do not make the light shine on you, but on others in the organization. Strive to make the leader and the organization look good. Your efforts will be rewarded.
· Be loyal. This does not mean you can’t question or disagree with leaders. But do it in private, not in public. This lesson was embedded deeply in me as a civilian who for 25 years worked in a military setting. It was there I learned I could express my concerns and suggestions in private to capable supervisors. But when the supervisor made the final decision, I said “Yes, ma’am” or “Yes, sir.”
· Be discrete. A favorite saying in World War II was, “Loose lips sink ships.” Know how to keep your mouth shut. This also means to be careful about what you write. Hastily sent emails, texts, and messages on social media may come back to haunt you and those around you.
· Be proactive. Proactive followers are energetic, hard-working, dynamic, able to look ahead, and always willing to do more than asked of them. But a word of caution: don’t overstep your bounds. Embrace your role as a follower.
· Be a lifelong learner. Learn from your own successes and failures and from those of your leaders and other followers. Learning enhances your competence as a follower and as a leader.
Others can add suggestions based on their experiences as both leaders and followers. And you should develop your own list. These are six things I have learned. And I am still learning how to follow and also how to lead more effectively.
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