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Two Cores of Followership
The fundamental objective of followership development is to improve the leader’s abilities for winning others’ trust, recognition and support. For leaders at various organizational levels, the most critical trust and support that they hope to obtain typically comes from two areas, namely, subordinates and superiors. Trust from subordinates can greatly improve the effective implementation of the mission and tasks assigned by leaders, while trust from superiors enable leaders to obtain more support, resource and help from the top.
In order to win trust from both subordinates and superiors, leaders need to develop two types of followership styles: self-management and upward management. Obviously, strict self-management ...
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