1. Followership
By: Michael Vander Heyden, Graeme McCarrel,
Michael Lamperth, Amy Rose Hetherman, & Matt Seaman

2. What is Followership?
• According to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Followership is:
• “1: FOLLOWING
• 2: the capacity or willingness to follow a leader”
• For any group or organization to succeed, there must be followers
• It is a place to learn skills valuable for leadership

4. Handout

5. Learning Activity

6. Managing up
• Consciously and deliberately developing a meaningful, task-
related, mutually respectful relationship with you direct superiors

7. Tactics For Managing Up
• Be a Resource for the Leader
• Help the Leader Be a Good Leader
• Build a Relationship
• View the Leader Realistically

8. Sources of Power for Managing Up
• Personal
• Knowledge Skills
• Expertise
• Effort
• Persuasion
• Position
• Visible Position
• Flow of Information
• Central Location
• Network of Relationship
• Assume Responsibility
• Courage to Challenge
• Participate in Transformation
• Courage to Serve

9. Styles of Followership
• Alienated Follower
• Conformist
• Pragmatic Survivor
• Passive Follower
• Effective Follower

10. What a Leader Wants From Followers
• A make it happen attitude
• A willingness to collaborate
• The motivation to stay up to date
• The passion to drive your own growth

11. What Followers Want From Leaders
• Opportunities for Growth
• Clarity of Direction
• Frequent, Specific, and Immediate Feedback
• Protection from Organizational Intrusions

12. Bibliography
• Daft, R. (2015). Followership. In The Leadership Experience (6th
ed., pp. 195-215). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.
• Dictionary: Followership. (n.d.). Retrieved October 6, 2015, from
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/followership
• Garone, E. (2008, October 8). What It Means to 'Manage Up'
Retrieved October 4, 2015, from
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122511931313072047
• Hoption, C. (2014). Learning and Developing Followership. Journal
Of Leadership Education, 13(3), 129-137.