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Followership

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, followership means: The active role people play in supporting, questioning and contributing to a leader's direction.

In Turkish: izleyicilik

How it is used

Use to discuss how followers exercise judgement; effective followership is not simply passive obedience.

Example sentences

  1. Good followership meant raising the delivery risk even though the director favoured the plan.

    Supporting leadership can include constructive challenge to its choices.

  2. The workshop examined followership as well as leadership during a difficult team transition.

    Outcomes depend on the contributions of those being led as well as the leader.

Common collocations

  • effective followership
  • followership skills
  • leadershipThe ability to guide a group of people towards a shared goal, and the act of doing so, through example, influence and clear direction rather than authority alone.
  • psychological safetyA shared belief within a team that people can speak up, ask questions, admit mistakes or disagree without being punished or embarrassed.

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