Citadel Leadership Training: Building Subordinate Skills & Understanding Followership, Exercises of Decision Making

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Followership

Follow to Lead

Leadership Development 4-2c

1 Preparing to Lead

FOLLOWERSHIP

LD 4-2C

2 Each of you have experienced what it is like to follow someone else. You recorded some of those experiences in your Knob Year Journal under paragraph 1-2, Leadership Frame of Reference. Examples:

• Being a member of a sports team
• Serving on a project team for an academic class
• Holding a job – working for someone else
• Being a member of your family
• Your new role as Freshmen at The Citadel will bring this notion of being a follower to a whole new level! Leader Subordinate Situation

Followership- What is it?

The Leader Development Model

• The first stage in The

Citadel’s four-stage

leader development

model is to “prepare”

• What are you

preparing for?

• To lead
• What else?

The Citadel Training Model

• Five Steps

• Set expectations
• Build necessary skills
• Give feedback
• Follow through with consequences
• Work for growth in others

• Right now, in the “build necessary skills”

step, you are building skills as a

subordinate

Preparing yourself to lead

• Leaders prepare by expanding their

knowledge, developing self-awareness,

and getting ready for expected and

unexpected challenges

• As leaders expand their knowledge, they

will also become more aware of their

strengths and weaknesses.

Strengths and Weaknesses

• Open your Knob Year Journals to paragraph 1-

1, Strengths and Weaknesses

• What does that paragraph mean when it says

often times our strengths and weaknesses “are

two sides of the same coin”?

• On page 4 of your Knob Year Journal, make a

list of what you think are your strengths and

weaknesses

• Be prepared to discuss them

Objectives of the FCS (Guidon, pages 111-126)

• To provide new cadets with an understanding of The Citadel’s core values of Honor, Duty, and Respect
• To teach new cadets the regulations, customs, and traditions of The Citadel
• To remove wealth and former station as factors in the development of new cadets
• To instill in new cadets a sense of humility and selfless subordination
• To develop personal character and create a foundation for honorable and ethical decision-making

Objectives of the FCS (Blue Book and Guidon) (continued)

• To instill new cadets with self-discipline
• To physically challenge new cadets and establish a foundation of understanding the necessity of physical fitness for life
• To instruct new cadets in time management
• To prepare new cadets for academic achievement
• To inculcate class cohesion in support of The Citadel’s Mission and the development of Principled Leaders

What you can expect from your cadet leaders : The Principles of CTM

• Leadership as service
  • To get to know you as a person and to learn what are your legitimate needs
  • To meet those legitimate needs in order to allow you to better focus on and accomplish the organizational mission
  • To put their own needs aside and devote time and energy to create an environment where you are both cared for and empowered SOURCE: The Citadel Training Manual, p

What you can expect from your cadet leaders : The Principles of CTM

• Accountability
  • To go beyond the mere “responsibility” of their position and to assume the intrinsic ownership, investment, and commitment that comes with holistic “accountability”
  • To extend their care for you to every aspect of your legitimate needs; even those that may originate outside of The Citadel
  • To be fully invested in your success, health and welfare, and growth and development SOURCE: The Citadel Training Manual, p4- 5

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In Summary

• Your prior experiences have provided you

more preparation than you know; build on them

• Commit yourself to work hard for the coming

year – it will be a challenging, exacting, and

demanding… and worth it

• Commit to our Core Values… you are now part

of something bigger than yourselves

• Be ready and willing to help your classmates…

and your leaders (BE EASY TO LEAD!)

QUESTIONS?