Followership

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Followership
The first step in The Citadel Leadership Model

• Follow to Lead
• Leadership Development 4-2c

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Followership- What is it?

• Similar to the concept of Leadership you have
  all experienced what it means to follow others.
• Examples
• Being a member of a team
• Serving on a project team for
• an academic class
• Holding a job working for someone else
• Your new role as Freshman at The Citadel will
  bring this notion of being a follower to a whole
  new level!

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Like Leadership, the concept of Followership is
best understood by a concise definition
Followership a definition

• Followership Definition - Followers of character
  and commitment acting to support the needs and
  goals of the team.

• This means placing the needs of others before
  your desires and building a relationship of trust
  and loyalty between your leader and your team!

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Group Work

• Work together to identify the qualities to be a
  successful follower
• Be prepared to share again with the whole group

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Some Qualities of Followership

• Self-management/Discipline
• Commitment
• Competence and focus
• Courage
• Humility
• Understand our Core Values

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Applying Followership

• Always strive to improving self
• Seeing good/bad examples of leaders and adjusting
  oneself accordingly
• Reactions to stress, remaining calm
• Use constructive ways to fight stress/fatigue

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Fourth Class System What is it?

• It is a system of requirements, traditional
  behaviors, duties, and expectations designed to
  promote this concept of followership.
• Governed by Cadet Regulations, the Blue Book,
  the Fourth Class System is one of the
  foundational aspects of The Citadel Experience

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Principles of the Fourth Class System

• All cadets will be treated with dignity and
  respect.
• All cadets, regardless of class, will accept
  personal responsibility for the fair, equitable,
  proper, and effective operation of the system.
• All cadets will implement the system in such a
  manner as to support each cadet's opportunity to
  achieve academic, military, physical, and
  moral-ethical excellence.
• No cadet will put another cadet in a position
  where he or she must compromise Citadel Core
  Values or disregard prescribed rules,
  regulations, or standards.
• Source The Blue Book, Chapter 3

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Principles of the Fourth Class System

• The system will not interfere with a Fourth Class
  Cadet's right to adequate sleep and food.
• The system must provide the new cadet with the
  necessary positive leadership development
  training to be prepared to exercise leadership
  within the Corps of Cadets and serve as the
  foundation for the four-year progression of The
  Citadel leadership model.
• The system, implemented in a manner that
  personifies our institutional core values,
  uncovers and attempts to develop deficiencies in
  new cadets, which might otherwise result in a
  cadet's failure to achieve or exceed prescribed
  standards of performance.

Source The Blue Book, Chapter 3
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Key Objectives of the Fourth Class System

• To provide new cadets with an understanding of
  The Citadels core values of Honor, Duty, and
  Respect.
• To teach new cadets the regulations, customs and
  traditions of The Citadel.
• To remove wealth and former station as factors in
  the development of new cadets.
• To instill in new cadets a sense of humility and
  selfless subordination.
• To develop personal character and create a
  foundation for honorable and ethical
  decision-making.
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Key Objectives of the Fourth Class System

• To instill new cadets with self-discipline.
• To physically challenge new cadets and establish
  a foundation of understanding the necessity of
  physical fitness for life.
• To instruct new cadets in time management.
• To prepare new cadets for academic achievement.
• To inculcate class cohesion in support of The
  Citadel Mission and the development of Principled
  Leaders.
• Source The Blue Book, Chapter 3

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What you can expect from your cadet leaders

• Demonstrate a sense of accountability for those
  in their care (i.e. you)
• Treat each other with dignity and respect
• Operate within the rules and regulations,
  particularly Chapter Three of the Blue Book
• Never put you in a position where you must
  compromise Citadel Core Values or disregard
  prescribed rules, regulations, or standards.
• SOURCE The Citadel Training Manual, p6

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In Summary

• Your prior experiences have provided you more
  preparation than you know
• Commit yourself to work hard for the coming year
  it will be a challenging, exacting, and
  demanding.
• Understand our Core Values and be ready and
  willing to help your classmates

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QUESTIONS?