the courageous follower

The Courageous Follower

EA Staff MeetingOctober 9, 2012

Followership Style

Quadrant IPartner

Quadrant II Implemente

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Quadrant IIIIndividualist

Quadrant IVResource

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Challenge

Low Support

Personal Growth

• Self assessment and feedback help us determine which areas to pursue growth

• Requires courage – continuous process of exposing our vulnerable areas

• Urge toward growth in contest with urge to protect our self-image

If we shy away from discomfort, we will never grow.If we seek challenge, we will continuously grow, often in unexpected ways.

Self Management

Key is Personal Organization• The way information, requests, and responses flow in

and out of our work environment must be clearly established and maintained.

• Criteria and measurement by which work will be judged needs to be clearly understood and monitored.

• Tools, materials, and info needed to perform a function must be easily accessible and well maintained.

Taking care of ourselves

• We must do our jobs, not become our jobs.• Burn out = letting down the people we are serving• Serve well = passionately committed to our jobs,

but not consumed by the passion• Telltale signs of burnout: exhaustion, chronic

frustration, shortness of temper, frayed relations, feelings of emptiness, lack of caring, wanting to be elsewhere

Conversation

How can we identify areas of growth?How can we take care of ourselves?

How can we take care of each other?