Being a Follower

At this stage, you should feel more informed about the concept of followership and understand why it is becoming such an important element of leadership learning. You've looked at followership from both the perspectives of follower and leader. You have also considered how you might develop as a follower yourself and how you might develop your own followers.

You should now feel that you can:

• recognise different types of followership
• describe the benefits of effective followership
• identify followers' needs
• describe ways of engaging and developing your followers.