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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?
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?