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INSTRUCTOR’S PROFILE

CLASS RULES
Dress Code: White round neck T-shirt and Maong long pants.

Microphone device should be in muted.

No sit-in audience during class session.

Create a quiet work place.

Questions will be entertained after class session.

Unnecessary use of devices, websites and other applications


during class session are prohibited.

No eating during class session.


OBJECTIVES
To internalized the importance of being a follower. To
know the role of a follower.
SCOPE OF PRESENTATION
• Followership
• Role of a Follower
• Importance of Followership
• Qualities of an effective Follower
• Rules of Good Followership
ROLE OF A FOLLOWER
The role of followers is not to be mindlessly
implementing the ideas of leaders. Their role is
to help the leaders become effective while
remaining true to their own values and
essential needs, demonstrating self-
management skills, and being effective
individual contributors, even in the absence of
leadership.
IMPORTANCE OF FOLLOWERSHIP
1. Followership are potential leaders
-Superior education, technical skills and access to
information are no longer available only to leaders or
the aristocracy. They are available to everyone. As a
result, there is a very narrow gap between the leaders
and followers.

2. Most leaders are also followers-Leaders come from


the ranks of followers. Few leaders can be successful
without first learning skills of followership. Hence, the
contemporary study of leadership must examine
followership and leader development as they affect the
organizational success.
IMPORTANCE OF FOLLOWERSHIP
3. The traits required from followers are the
same traits required from a leader.
-Qualities that make effective followers are
paradoxically the same qualities found in
effective leaders. What distinguishes effective
followers from effective leaders is the role they
play. Effective followers and leaders easily
move from one role to the other.
QUALITIES OF AN EFFECTIVE
FOLLOWER
1. They manage themselves well.

The key to be an effective follower refers to


the ability to think for oneself—to exercise
control and independence to work without
close supervision. Good followers are people
to whom can safely delegate responsibility,
people who anticipate needs at their own level
of competence and authority.
QUALITIES OF AN EFFECTIVE FOLLOWER
2. They are committed to the organization and to a
purpose, principle or person outside themselves.

Effective followers are committed to something — a


cause, a product, an organization, an idea – in addition
to the care of their own lives and careers. This is
especially true for soldiers, to risk one’s life and follow
a leader to accomplish a difficult mission requires
commitment to the cause of the profession of arms.
QUALITIES OF AN EFFECTIVE FOLLOWER
3. They build their competence and focus their
efforts for maximum impact.

Competence and Focus means that effective


followers master skills that will be useful to
their organizations. They generally hold higher
performance standards than the work
environment requires, and continuing
education is second nature to them, a staple in
their professional development.
QUALITIES OF AN EFFECTIVE FOLLOWER
4. They are courageous, honest and credible.

Courage, honesty and credibility are


important characteristic of effective followers.
They establish themselves as independent,
critical thinkers whose knowledge and
judgement can be trusted. They give credit
where credit is due, admitting mistakes and
sharing successes. They form their own views
and ethical standards and stand up for what
they believe in.
Rules of Good Followership
1. Do not blame the boss. Do not blame your boss for
an unpopular decision or policy. Your job is to support,
not undermine.
2. Do not fight the boss. Fight with your boss if
necessary, but do it in private.
3. Use Initiative. Make the decision and then run it past
the boss.
4. Accept responsibility. Accept responsibility
whenever offered.
5. Tell the truth and do not quibble. Your boss will be
giving advice up the chain of command based on what
you say.
RULES OF GOOD FOLLOwership
6. Do your homework. Give your boss all the
information needed to make a decision.

7. Suggest implementation. When making


recommendations, remember who will probably have
to implement them. This means you must know your
own strengths and limitations.

8. Keep the boss informed. Keep the boss informed of


what is going on in the unit.
RULES OF GOOD FOLLOWERSHIP
9. Fix problems as they occur. If you see a
problem, fix it. Do not worry who gets the
blame, or praise.

10. Put in an honest day’s work. Put in more


than an honest day’s work, but never forget the
needs of your family. If they are unhappy, you
will be too, and your job performance will
suffer accordingly.
CONCLUSION
Leadership and followership are
interpedently to each other. We have learned
that you cannot have one without the other.
Followership will always be in the shadow of
leadership. Leader without follower could not
accomplish anything and follower without a
leader will have a hard time to accomplishing
the mission. Therefore, learning to be a good
follower is preparation in becoming a leader.
WRITTEN EXAMINATION
Name: __________________________________
Date: ______________
Course: _________________________________
Score: _____________

I. Write an essay in your own word about on


what you have learn in Followership. Not less
than 300 words.

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