Assignment - Learning Activity
This learning activity was designed for you to examine the relationship between leaders and followers.
You will defend the truth (agreement) of the following statement.
The expectation is that you present a thorough analysis and presentation to defend the statement. You are required to support the positions put forth in defending the statement. The course material must be used to provide the support.
"It is better to be a leader than a follower."
Leaders and Followers -
Theme 1: A leader can plan and strategize all he or she want but they cannot succeed if the vision cannot be sold to others. Influencing people to follow is about creating trust, which is the building block of the leader-follower relationship.
Having a story is not enough! A leader must sell the story to others. This means a leader must learn about his or her own style, traits, knowledge, etc. in developing knowledge about others. The leader will create a relationship that if successful will result in "others" following the strategic vision. The leader-follower relationship is crucial to successfully selling the story to others. One truth to the leader-follower relationship is that the relationship must be based on mutual trust if it is to succeed.
Read/View:
- Dancing Man Video
- Barbara Kellerman on Followership
- Followership is Underrated and Misunderstood
- The Tango; the leader and follower dance
- Building and Sustaining Relationships
- The Leadership Relationship, Part I - Understanding Trust
- Building Trust in the Workplace and Team
- The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why Followers Rarely Escape Their Clutches
Theme 2: Communication is essential to developing all leadership relationships.
Communication skills are the leader's great set of paintbrushes as they cover and color every aspect of a leader's job and are essential to creating change.
Read/View:
- Critical Leadership Skills in a New Business Reality
- How Good Are Your Communication Skills
- The Role of Social and Emotional Communication Skills in Leader Emergence and Effectiveness
- Communicating in the Workplace
- Leadership Communication: Why it is Important
Attachment:- Assignment File.rar