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Mastering Followership: Building Leadership Skills Through Effective Support

This guide explores the critical role of followership in developing leadership qualities. It highlights the importance of loyalty, responsibility, and understanding the chain of command while encouraging self-discipline and personal goal setting. Insights into human nature, motivation, and the emotional challenges faced during deployment provide a comprehensive overview of effective practices for both followers and leaders. The text emphasizes that being a good follower is essential for becoming a strong leader and achieving unit effectiveness in any organization.

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Mastering Followership: Building Leadership Skills Through Effective Support

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  1. Junior Officer Relationships

  2. Hornblower

  3. Followership • Subordinate personal ambition • Loyalty up the Chain of Command • Responsibility to comply with orders of leaders • Know when to speak up • Personal Code of Conduct

  4. You are a leader • Leaders and followers have similar traits • Your leader is following someone else • Know your organization’s personnel wiring diagram

  5. Discussion • Being a good follower takes work • Professionalism whether a leader or a follower • Self-discipline • Have goals – best goal is to become a future leader • Being a follower is one of the many roles you will assume

  6. Traits of a good follower • Self-managed • Commitment • Competence • Courage • Compliance • Self-knowledge (know your strengths and weaknesses)

  7. Application in Real Life • Go beyond the minimum standard. • Know your role in the organization and live up to it. • Make sound recommendations (based on research and knowledge) but comply with the decision once it is made –Must be free to accomplish mission. • Keep the Chain of Command informed.

  8. Understand Human Nature • Motivation and discipline • Need to understand seniors, peers, and subordinates

  9. First Deployment Emotions • Stress • Fear • Homesickness • Loneliness • Fatigue • Demotivation Your Sailors have the same fears.

  10. Combat your fears • Set a positive and cheerful example • Talk with your Sailors • Instill a sense of confidence, self worth, and self respect • Be sincere • Fine line, but show compassion, empathy, and understanding

  11. Human Needs • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs • Physiological Needs - air, water, food, sleep, sex, etc. • Safety Needs - establishing stability and consistency in a chaotic world • Love Needs - Humans have a desire to belong to groups • Esteem Needs - self-esteem and the attention and recognition that comes from others • Self Actualization - Be all that you can be

  12. Professionalism • Know your job, know what is going on • Dangerous duties demand it • Mission accomplishment needs it

  13. When Followership Fails… • Potential loss of life • Loss of unit effectiveness in combat • Failure to complete the unit’s mission

  14. Loyalty • Tailhook (example of bad loyalty) • Up and down • Earned • Don’t be a “yes man”

  15. Visibly Support the Orders of Seniors • Damn Exec • Passing the Buck • Give orders in first person. Make them your orders, not your boss’s.

  16. Bypassing the Chain of Command • Captain’s Call • Suggestion boxes • Open door policies • 1-800 numbers • Chain of command should be approachable

  17. Summary • Being a good follower is training you to become a good leader. • The most effective follower is that individual whose goal is being a future (better) leader.

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