This document discusses the concept of followership. It states that effective followership is as important as leadership for a team's success. An effective follower knows their role and responsibilities, maintains two-way communication with their leader, challenges flawed plans constructively, provides accurate feedback, and supports their leader's efforts. The key behaviors and characteristics of effective followers are outlined. Followers should expect clear goals and objectives from their leader, as well as opportunities for feedback and challenges. In return, leaders should welcome questions and challenges, act on feedback, and reward loyalty. The document prompts reflection on how a team can improve its followership.

1. A new Concept

2. What does your department strive
for?

3. What do you aim to achieve by 31st
December, 2013?

4. What is the vision of AIESEC In
Lucknow?

5. “A humble organisation striving to create
responsible leaders resulting in high
number of promoters for years to come.”

6. What is the vision of your
department?

7. Why are you contributing to your
leader or to the department?

8. What is needed for a team to
succeed ?
Ans : It starts with F… 

9. FOLLOWERSHIP
If Leadership is “the relationship between
those who choose to lead and those to
follow”, then it is as important for a team
to have followers as it is for the team to
have a leader.

10. What is it?
An act of blind faith…
An act of unquestioning faith…
OR
Set of behaviours & characteristics?

11. What are those?
Effective followers know what’s expected of
them; they make sure that their role/tasks
have been clearly communicated to them
and that they are clear about their
responsibilities.

12. What are those?
Effective followers seek to establish and
maintain lines of two-way communication to
reduce the risk of unclear messages.

13. What are those?
Effective followers take initiatives, keeping
their leader informed.

14. What are those?
Effective followers challenge flawed plans.
This is one of the most valuable contributions that can be
made by an effective follower. It is also one of the most
difficult, since there is a risk of appearing negative, or
distrustful of the leader’s judgement.

15. What are those?
Effective followers provide accurate
feedback to their leader and their
colleagues. This means providing both good
& bad news in a timely and honest way.

16. What are those?
Effective followers support the leader’s
efforts – all leaders need support &
encouragement. This also means acting as
advocates among their peer group and
attempting to quash rumours.

17. Expected from
you.
Provision by
your leader
What you can
expect from your
leader
Clear about role &
responsibilities.
Unambiguous goals
& objectives
Open to requests
for clarification or
reasoning
Maintain two-way
communication.
Regular, frequent &
relevant messages
Ask questions &
listen to answers.
Challenge flawed
plans.
Opportunities &
environments
where challenges
can take place.
Welcome
challenges, willing
to re-write plans.
Provide accurate
feedback
Opportunities for
frequent feedback.
Welcome feedback,
act on it and
wouldn’t take it
personally.
Support the leader’s
efforts
Place for team
members to meet
Reward loyalty.

18. Activity

19. What does your team lacks in terms of
followership?

20. How as a team you can ensure all the
members strives to be effective
followers?