This interactive session will dive deeper into the topic of ethical followership and explore follower moral courage when making ethical decisions. Participants will wrestle with thought-provoking questions about ethical behavior, influence, and courage. Using role play and collaboration, we will examine real-life scenarios from an ethical followership perspective. Participants will leave with insights on enacting moral courage in their own practice of ethical followership. This workshop is ideal for those looking to develop stronger ethical decision-making skills within the context of followership and those who want to explore this growing area of ethical followership.
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.
This unique dialogic facilitated session consists of a Game Café conducted in the combined styles of World Café and Campfire. The purpose of this session is three-fold. First, we will use a custom-designed game, approached through a 3-round world-café style schema. Second, we will engage in discussions and explore participants’ (students, academics, practitioners, experts, thought leaders) experiences regarding the game they participated in to explore their thoughts and understanding of the dynamics of followership and leadership as real-time responses to conflict. communication, and other group dynamics. We will then relate the game outcomes to the audience’s experiences in their own workplaces. This fun activity will bring both laughs and learning to the audience and help them recognize and aid them in further developing their own leader-follower reaction and interaction approaches in organizations, growing followership learning and methods.
Many of us recognize that the most dangerous expression of bad leadership and bad followership is in the political realm. Liberal democracies around the world are increasingly losing support as voters gravitate to more authoritarian styles and models of leadership. Our community has learned a tremendous amount about followership. How can we apply this to raising consciousness of the power of followers to create political leadership that uses power beneficially and checks the power of leaders who abuse their power?
