For all of the buzz around followership and its importance in any conversation about leadership, there are precious few followership courses offered at either universities or in corporate leadership training departments. Student feedback consistently reveals that followership content and courses rank highest in student engagement/learning within the leadership discipline at the co-presenters’ university. This interactive workshop has been refined, updated, and built upon the popular “teaching followership” workshop conducted at the 2024 Global Followership Conference, combines a variety of elements designed to engage participants, from short videos and group breakouts to discussion questions and hands-on table activities.
If role-clarity boosts partnership, perspective-taking promises to enhance role-agility and performance. This interactive session invites participants to learn from "preflecting," acting, and reflecting as we practice performing leader and follower roles in teams. Ideal for educators and practitioners, we'll explore themes in followership education and the benefits of "role-ing" within the process for leader-follower learning.
This interactive session explores how traditional definitions of leaders and followers may unintentionally encourage passivity, potentially contributing to democratic erosion. Can a new definition of "follower" save democracy? And how can the followership community impact political engagement in democracies
