Global Followership Conference

Creating teams that can dynamically plan and implement organizational programs is a key performance strategy to achieve organizational goals. Using Followership principles, developing teams can thrive in environments that typically slow in progression as complex implementation issues takeover timelines. Team creation processes seek specific attributes of team members to match the right people to right teams for optimal project workflow. Diverse team development has four essential characteristics that team members can flex-in and -out of as the teamwork evolves to implementation. This workshop will provide opportunities to practice creating teams that demonstrate followership acumen through intentional team-creation and teamwork.

Employee engagement is a hot topic for organizations because it significantly impacts just about every outcome from customer satisfaction to profitability to turnover. However, the way we think about it and try and improve it in organizations is driven by top-down, leadership thinking. Frankly, it doesn't work (well). In this highly interactive session you will learn how to apply a followership-leadership lens to engagement that changes everything. You take away practical ideas that can be implemented immediately and, for researchers, it opens up an entirely new way to research it.

In this facilitated discussions, participants will explore what leaders and followers need from each other to partner to develop and enact strategy, design and deliver on culture, create and recreate structure and processes, and empower and enact high performance.

What do you really think about followers? Who are more important to an organization: leaders or followers? Are you a leader or a follower? Key topics explored in this session include follower as role, reimagining leadership as a system, unspoken follower perspectives, and the key characteristics of effective followers. Learn how a focus on followership and follower development may be more important to high levels of organizational performance than leadership development. Recipients of the 2023 Followership Trailblazer award and co-authors of the landmark textbook, The Essentials of Followership, already in its 2nd edition, Mark and Mike have designed this deep dive session especially for those new to followership and for those seeking effective models of presenting it to others.

Using images with an active learning approach, this interactive experiential session will enable you to explore and discover what represents leadership + followership to you, your organization, and how it impacts what you do when leading + following. Everyone’s perception of both leadership + followership influences their thoughts, feelings, and behavior which also impact a variety of unique perspectives, contexts, and situations. This workshop session will bring to life different learning activities that visually and interactively increase the value and perception of both followers and followership as well as leaders and leadership—working together.

What do you really think about followers? Who are more important to an organization: leaders or followers? Are you a leader or a follower? Key topics explored in this session include follower as role, reimagining leadership as a system, unspoken follower perspectives, and the key characteristics of effective followers. Learn how a focus on followership and follower development may be more important to high levels of organizational performance than leadership development. Recipients of the 2023 Followership Trailblazer award and co-authors of the landmark textbook, The Essentials of Followership, already in its 2nd edition, Mark and Mike have designed this deep dive session especially for those new to followership and for those seeking effective models of presenting it to others.