LEADERSHIP AND FOLLOWERSHIP

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LEADERSHIP AND FOLLOWERSHIP
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Discussion Contents

• Leadership and Followership as a subject, and a
  relationship
• Definitions and awareness
• Basic Types and Team operation
• Active Team development in Robotics Teams

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• People describe leadership and followership with
  many different definitions and descriptions.
• Recommendation
• Be open-minded and flexible when discussing
  leadership and followership- try to understand
  others views and perspectives on this subject !

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Leaders and Followers together form teams

• Leadership and Followership are slightly
  different, equally important functions
• They cannot exist without each other !

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What are your initial thoughts?

• What is leadership?
• What is followership?

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Others Definitions

• Leadership is that quality and skills of a person
  which influences other people to model their
  behavior, accept ideas or information, and accept
  suggestions and direction for actions. Leadership
  can be either good or bad, in that it may result
  in either desirable or undesirable consequences.
  Leadership may be formalized or may be informal.

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• Followership involves acceptance of the leader
  role and actions, and some degree of support to
  the leader through behavior or public expression.
• Followership also involves evaluation of the
  leader, their actions, their behavior, and the
  directions or ideas that they propose or promote
  the follower judges whether these attributes are
  acceptable to their personal interests or not.

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• A basic difference between Leaders and Followers
  is that the Leader is generally the initiator,
  moderator, and coordinator of communication and
  group information.

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• The authoritarian leader is the sole source of
  information, ideas, decision, and direction
• Shared leadership makes extensive use of follower
  information, ideas, group decisions, and
  consensus direction. The Leadership role is key
  in providing group discipline.

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• Leadership Development in FLL and FIRST Teams 1
• Coaching Method
• Initially, observe natural team behaviors
• Are there natural, accepted leaders present
• Are there strong followers present?
• Are the leaders promoting good team operation,
  or are they inhibiting or suppressing team
  members ideas and contributions. (Authoritarian)

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• Leadership Development in FLL and FIRST Teams 2
• Addressing existing leadership
• Coaching Method Choices
• -Coach individuals to promote good leadership or
  followership behavior
• -Intervene and model desired behavior
• -Institute group procedures to address personal
  conflicts
• -Rotate or assign different leadership roles
• -Others?

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• Leadership Development in FLL and FIRST Teams 3
• Developing new leadership
• Coaching Method Choices
• -Direct assignment with coaching on details
• -Staged development with increasing
  responsibilities and tasks
• -Group nomination and followup evaluation
• -Others?

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• Followership Development in FLL and FIRST Teams
• Low engagement or contribution
• Coaching Method Choices
• -Address cause of low engagement
• -Encourage/build assertiveness
• -Formalize and measure participation
• -Build habit and comfort by periodically inviting
  response

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• What are typical problems, how do you currently
  improve?