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Debeli Geleta
Manager, Ethiopia
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How Leaders Create Followers
What is exactly is the quality of leaders to have followers? I want to have insight how do leaders create (true) followers?
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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How a Leader Creates Followers True followers are only created by a true leader. In simplistic terms " the manager chooses the right person for the right job", and the leader makes the chosen person happy doing the job allocated.
In business there are many guides as to how the first job can be done, but very few on how to do the second.
While leadership skills can be enhanced, they cannot be created. You can see this by examining your politicians, the true leaders truly serve their people not themselves. The true leaders stand out e.g. Nelson Mandela and Winston Churchill.
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Stephen O. Asaju
Student (University), Nigeria
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Effective Followers are Effective Leaders An effective follower is most likely to emerge as an effective leader. Leadership and followership are dynamic human dimensions of management. A leader in one sphere of management may of necessity be a follower in another depending on the administrative structure of the organization. A leader who would efficiently create true followers must know the nitty gritty of followership and must have been true to the leaders he had served under. There is no fear in leadership if the occupant of the position had demonstrated submission, loyalty and commitment to the ideals of the organization under the leaders he had served as a follower. The principle is simply "as you lay your bed so shall you lie on it," or simply "whatever you sow, you shall reap." Pronto!
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Parthasarathy R
India
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How Leaders Create Followers The leaders shall be a role model to his followers in true sense. I think of Mr. M. K. Gandhi, as a true leader whose ideology and practice many of the leaders want to follow. The true leader shall develop more effective leaders who can take the industry/ country forward. I totally agree with Mr. Stephen that true follower will one day become a true leader.
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George sleeba, India
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HOW a Leader Creates Followers? I do agree with Stephen & Prthasarathy on their views. I remember to have read in a book by Napoleon Hill that an effective leader is a leader by choice, rather than a leader by force.
The reason why many imposed from top fail as leaders may be due to this. In each level of organisational hierarchy, managers have the opportunity to serve as both followers and leaders. Leaders to their colleagues/subordinates and followers to their bosses/colleagues as the situation warrants.
One who has not at anytime in his/her career been a follower may fail to understand that leading involves more in listening to the followers than giving them orders.
Effectiveness stems from taking them together in the journey to achieve organisational goals, walking in the front only when needed.
I feel the model of servant leadership, as Jesus Christ demonstrated, is more appealing to the present generation.
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Phillip J. Ramirez, United States
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How a Leader Creates Followers By walking the talk. Gaining trust from the one's you lead. Setting a prime example. If your followers see you straying off the path, then they'll have second thoughts about you as a true leader. A good leader should also have excellent listening skills, if you don't know what your people want and need, then you'll never gain the trust and followership that is needed. Servant leadership as George Sleeba above stated is very true too.
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Robert Wamai, Kenya
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Creating True Followers as a Leader Leadership is about inspiring people. Give them a vision and guide them to the promised land so to speak.
Followers will only be true if they feel that you care. They listen to a leader but more importantly watch his actions.
Any contradictions will result in mistrust and loss of respect. Then the followers lose passion and are no longer 'true followers'. As such there are no true followers only true leaders - caring, passionate, authentic, visionary and patient.
When one has such qualities and some indicated above, the followers will become true. They are not 'created' true but are 'made true by the leader. Many times when leaders have a problem with their followers they should first look into the mirror - they could be staring at the source and hence the solution of the problem.
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O.O.Testimony Onifade
Director, Nigeria
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Followership in Leadership No leader can lead well except he also possesses the attribute to follow instructions and guide the people in obedience to the vision and common set goals of the organisation he is leading. Therefore, no leader possesses power of absolute leadership. The followers determine his success by their choice to follow or not. So the effectiveness of a leader resides in the willingness of followers to accord their leader that honor. Because a true leader earns respect not by commanding respect.
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George sleeba, India
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Followership in Leadership @O.O.Testimony Onifade : We often debate whether leaders are born or made? There could be many examples that substantiate both. But whichever route one takes to become a leader, the most important trait that sustains him and makes him effective in his leadership role is his ability to be a follower of those whom he leads.
Because, it is the concern he has for his followers and the extend to which he understands their genuine needs and addresses them in his plans and programs that keeps him relevant.
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Stephen O. Asaju
Student (University), Nigeria
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Followership in Leadership @George Sleeba : There should be no controversy that leaders are MADE not born. Yes, there is an interaction between nature and nurture in order to facilitate and bring forth the potential qualities of the leader. The personality of the leader which may affect his activity and productivity is dependent on his ability to learn and apply the principles of leadership to practical situations.
Even in certain aristocratic and monarchical settings, where the assumption of leadership role(s) is almost automatic, leaders must be nurtured and tutelaged in order to conform to the norms, ethics, and etiquette of leadership.
Without the necessary and concrete socialization, leadership becomes a bane and a blight hence ineffective and inconsequential.
Relevance as a true leader depends on the acceptance by the followers of his plans, programmes and projects as regards their general welfare, upward vocational mobility and job satisfaction both intrinsic and extrinsic.
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Good Followers Seldom Make Good Leaders @Stephen O. Asaju: I am not sure I agree that being a good follower is a prerequisite to being a good leader. In my experience, many a poor follower makes an exceptional leader, essentially because th...
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George sleeba, India
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Followership in Leadership is Situational @Stephen O. Asaju: Is not leadership situational? Leaders may have to steamroll in certain situations in the overall interest. They cannot be democratic when handling crisis situations. But that doesn...
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Gregory Johnson
Coach, United States
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Authentic Leadership Creates Authentic Followers Interesting commentaries. I was struck with the idea of "organizational culture" when thinking of followers. Leaders can set the tone of an organization, either good or bad. But authentic followers ar...
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Javier Elenes
Business Consultant, Mexico
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The 3 Keys of the Leader to Create True Followers Your people will be true followers if they perceive that you as a the "leader":
1. "Wants my well-being" (so be sure that reaching the goals will be God for your people not only the organization)
2....
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Sunder Rajan, India
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Leaders Have the Power to Influence Leadership is "the power to influence and bring about change".
Hence, effective leaders are able to influence others to their line of thinking - be it vision, goals, or action.
Note that a good lead...
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Ramesh Ch, MBA, PMP, Six Sigma BB
Business Consultant, India
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How Leaders Make Followers Managers supervise people and do the ground-level work of organizations. Leaders change and improve the way organizations do their ground-level work.
Being a leader is the modern philosophy. From thi...
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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
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How Great Leaders Create Followers I recently came across the following quote which I need to share with everyone on the forum:
"Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to th...
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Konstantinos Zacharis, Greece
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Transferring Leadership to Followers To my opinion a leader is someone who manages to become "transparent" by psychologically transferring part of his power to his followers, so that they grow as "small leaders", each in his own section....
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Gregory Johnson
Coach, United States
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Leadership Growth from Followership to Presence @Konstantinos Zacharis: great closing line on this comment that adds to and changes the growth of this discussion from "quality of followers" to leadership presence.
Leadership presence is critical a...
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Alex Halale
Manager, Zambia
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How Leaders Make Good Followers I am having a problem to see real followers of a leader, being at work or in political parties. Example is one African country that had just lost the sitting head of state. Immediately when it was mad...
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Leaders and Followers in Politics in Africa @Alex Halale: the reason for the "party swopping" in politics in Africa is that those who swop are in politics for their own benefit - the people who elect them are of no value or importance other tha...
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Worknesh
Business Consultant, Ethiopia
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Leader, Leadership and Having Committed Followers For me to be able to have good followers is determined by the leader's understanding of the difference between "leader" and "leadership".
While it is one thing for a leader to define clear direction,...
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Gopalakrishna Bhat
Project Manager, India
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How to Have Followers First of all you need to be clear which type of leader you want to be. Political, spiritual, corporate or another?
Then you have to adopt suitable skills to inspire people. Then they will follow you....
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George sleeba, India
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HOW Does a Leader Create (true) Followers? Distinguish the Political from the Organisational Leader I feel that we should differentiate between political and organisational leadership:
- In a political context, the leadership mostly emerges out of a win-lose situation. Once in power, they implement...
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Political and Organisational Leadership @George sleeba: I think that if you had added the following words at the end of your comment, you would have found your answer. The words to be incuded are "If he cannot, he fails". There is no differ...
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Charlyn Warner, United States
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How can a Leader Create True Followers? Thanks to all those who have taken the time to put above reactions together and submit them.
I think that all leaders/followers in any organization have a responsibility to all stakeholders. They nee...
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Tom Wilson
HR Consultant, United States
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Create Players, not Followers I want to create players, that is, individuals with the skill sets to operate independently and to contribute appropriately and constructively to tasks requiring interdependent behaviors.
Followers t...
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Players and Followers @Tom Wilson: I think you are being over-sensitive. In this context, a follower is a disciple i.e. a person who chooses to subscribe to the tenets promoted by a leader and contributes time, skills and...
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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Should a Leader Create Players or Followers I think Tom actually summarizes in the word 'players' what kind of followers great leaders will create.
Certainly when you compare them with coercive, bullying or commanding leaders who will create '...
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Tom Wilson
HR Consultant, United States
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Players and Followers @Jaap de Jonge (Editor): I will stipulate to your comment, Mr. De Jonge, because it captures the essence of my experience. My point is that players and followers are different categories, one being in...
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Christian D. Clores
Director, Philippines
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How Overseers Should Lead and Create Followers from the Bible I once sought for the answer to your question and found the following to be effective: to become a good leader, and to be followed by your followers, we should be a good follower also of the ultimate ...
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Tom Wilson
HR Consultant, United States
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True Leaders of the Bible @Christian D. Clores: Aside from Jesus, the clearest example of "the overseer" in the Gospels is the centurion who approaches Jesus in Matthew 8 with the petition to heal his slave. This is one of the...
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Tom Wilson
HR Consultant, United States
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The “true Follower” is a Player @Andrew Blaine: We are talking about leadership development. Your concept of the “true leader” suggests that leadership development is a process of a special anointing (Editor: ~gloryfying) that only ...
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Anneke Zwart
Student (University), Netherlands
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How Leaders Influence Followers through the use of Nonverbal Communication Although attention has often been paid to the way that leaders influence and direct their followers through means of VERBAL communications, a leader’s emotions – exhibited through NON-VERBAL communica...
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Javier Elenes
Business Consultant, Mexico
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POINT TO THE SKY when Communicating your Mission @Anneke Zwart You are right, so be sure to point to the sky, to the peak of the mountain, to move your arms like eagle wings, when you communicate your pulling mission....
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