Dynamic Followership
Fine Tuning for
World Class Performance
ACU Competency
Self-Development
• Builds and applies new knowledge and skills
• Identifies areas for self-improvement
• Takes charge of seeking out opportunities for
personal and professional development
• Applies creativity, innovation, decision-making,
problem-solving, risk-taking skills and balances life
activities
Course Objectives
• Identify the style of “Follower” that you naturally are in
the workplace
• Analyze the tools learned in this class to align your
natural “Follower” Zones with work expectations and
organizational values
• Apply the concepts of the 4-D Followership model to
become a better follower and leader at work
Class Agenda
• What is Followership
• Followership Principles
• Tools for Success – Part 1
• 4-D Followership Model
• Tools for Success – Part 2
• Reports Review
• Wind Down
Typical View of Followers
• Team Activity:
As a team discuss the question, “What is a
follower?”
– List at least five negative terms of Followers
• Be brutal
• Combine on master flip chart for class
– List at least five positive statements per team
• Combine on master flipchart for class
What is Followership?
What it is NOT:
What it is:
Passive compliance
Proactive compliance
Unmotivated
Motivated
Part of leadership
Foundation of leadership
Easily controlled
Easily aligned
Followership Principles
• Proactive Compliance
– Commitment to excellence
– Courage to stand up to your leaders
– Courage to stand up for your leaders
Followership Principles
• Motivated
– Everyone is motivated by something
– We all have hot buttons
– The Four Views:
• Competence
• Appearances
• Achievement
• Relationship
Followership Principles
• Foundation of Leadership
– Foundation metaphor
– Pure followers can exist
– Pure leaders can NOT exist
– Followers have all the power
Power
• Followers have all the power
– Leaders never had it
• The more managers try to take it, the less they get
– Followers acquiesce more power though trust than coercion
• Leaders can exercise power only on loan
– Success is part of the relationship
Followership Principles
• Easily Aligned
– We all want to succeed at something
– Eustress vs. Stress
– Mutual influence
– Four behaviors
• Avoidance
• Courageous
• Contentious
• Assertiveness
Followership Principles
• Measuring Relationships Factors
– Fight/Flight
– Competitive vs. Passive
– Courage vs. Avoidance
– Stress vs. Eustress
– Reactive vs. Proactive
Reactive vs. Proactive
• Stress path
– Fight or flight
– Stress or Eustress
• Predictable patterns
– We create habits of being reactive or proactive
– Many times others see our patterns before we see them
Participant Wisdom
“If you accept the premise that “leadership” is
nothing more than influence and that everyone
is simply a reflection and product of their
influences – then every leader is a “follower” to
some extent, because all leaders are being
influenced by someone.”
Don Lanhart
28 June 2007
Tools For Success – Part 1
“If you were broken,
how would you want to be fixed?”
– 22 Intervention Ideas
– Focusing on Followership needs
– Read Scenario on page three (3) and…Help!!!!
4-D Followership Model
Avoidance Low
Low
High Reactive
Low
Productivity
Job
Satisfaction
High
Courage
Turnover
Passive
High
Competitive Proactive
© Rodger Adair, 2005
4-D Followership Model
Avoidance Low
Low
Turnover
Productivity
Job
Satisfaction
I
High Reactive
Low
Disciple
High
Courage
Passive
High
Competitive Proactive
© Rodger Adair, 2005
4-D Followership Model
Avoidance Low
Low
Turnover
Productivity
Job
Satisfaction
I
High Reactive
Low
Disciple
High
Courage
(Believes they
are in the right
place at the right
time)
Passive
High
Competitive Proactive
© Rodger Adair, 2005
4-D Followership Model
Avoidance Low
Low
(Believes they
are in the right
place at the right
time)
Passive
Productivity
Job
Satisfaction
I
Disciple
High
Courage
High Reactive
Low
Turnover
II
Doer
High
Competitive Proactive
© Rodger Adair, 2005
4-D Followership Model
Avoidance Low
Low
Productivity
Job
Satisfaction
High
Courage
High Reactive
Low
Turnover
I
II
Disciple
Doer
(Believes they
are in the right
place at the right
time)
(Good work
ethic, but the
grass is always
greener…)
Passive
High
Competitive Proactive
© Rodger Adair, 2005
4-D Followership Model
Avoidance Low
Low
III
Disengaged
Productivity
Job
Satisfaction
High
Courage
High Reactive
Low
Turnover
I
II
Disciple
Doer
(Believes they
are in the right
place at the right
time)
(Good work
ethic, but the
grass is always
greener…)
Passive
High
Competitive Proactive
© Rodger Adair, 2005
4-D Followership Model
Avoidance Low
Low
High Reactive
Low
Turnover
III
Disengaged
Productivity
Job
Satisfaction
High
Courage
(No interest in
job, no desire to
improve)
I
II
Disciple
Doer
(Believes they
are in the right
place at the right
time)
(Good work
ethic, but the
grass is always
greener…)
Passive
High
Competitive Proactive
© Rodger Adair, 2005
4-D Followership Model
Avoidance Low
Low
Turnover
III
Disengaged
Disgruntled
I
II
Disciple
Doer
(Believes they
are in the right
place at the right
time)
(Good work
ethic, but the
grass is always
greener…)
Passive
Productivity
Job
Satisfaction
High
Courage
(No interest in
job, no desire to
improve)
IV
High Reactive
Low
High
Competitive Proactive
© Rodger Adair, 2005
4-D Followership Model
Avoidance Low
Low
III
IV
Disengaged
Disgruntled
(No interest in
job, no desire to
improve)
(Angry and ready
to jump ship)
I
II
Disciple
Doer
(Believes they
are in the right
place at the right
time)
(Good work
ethic, but the
grass is always
greener…)
Passive
Productivity
Job
Satisfaction
High
Courage
High Reactive
Low
Turnover
High
Competitive Proactive
© Rodger Adair, 2005
Tools For Success – Part 2
Application
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Introduce Table Map
22 Intervention Ideas
Focusing on Followership needs
Read scenario on page five (5) and align employee’s
needs
Reports Review
Your Reports
• Read page one as a class
• Complete Worksheet on page two
• Read your assessment
• Share with a neighbor
• Questions and Discussion
• Develop a mini action plan (last page)
• Share with class
Wind Down
• What is Followership
• Followership Principles
• Tools for Success – Part 1
• 4-D Followership Model
• Tools for Success – Part 2
• Reports Review