Question

In the readings, Kellerman discusses good leadership and bad leadership. For the Unit 5 Discussion, relate the concepts of good and bad leadership. If there is good leadership and bad leadership, is there good followership and bad followership? Based on the readings and personal experience, compose your definition of good followership and bad followership. Examine how your definition relates to leadership.

Answer 1

A team or any group of persons is as good and capable as its leader. Good leaders inspire and motivate those whom they lead.Simply put a good leader needs to possess certain leadership qualities , so as to enhance his team's performance, towards the set goals.

Characterisitics of good leader-ship

Communication ability:

A good leader must be able to communicate his ideas effectively to the team he leads.Clarity in thought & focus about the goals to be achieved & carrying along the team by frequent & open discussions are all part of a leader's ability.

Passion & commitment to the cause:

A leader should be ,oit ony,passionate about his team's goals ,but also stay committed & focused all the way through. He should himself be accountable for any deviations in the jointly-planned missions .

Positive & Innovative:

A leader should not only remian positive himself , but alos spread positivity amongst hisbteam members.And keep his eyes& ears open for new & innovative strategies , coming on its own to him or suggested by his team-mates----ie. be adaptable to different ideas.

Collaboraing with team members:

Frequent collaboration with team members ,in the form of meetings & discussions about various issues , & getting them to inter-act & be pro-active, will earn the goodwill of the every member of the team. This will also encourage & involve them ,in the final product.

Characterisitics of bad leader-ship

A bad leader is one who is self-centered & does not care much for etiquacy and one who does not possess any policy for being or not-being this way or that way.

Does not have the basic quality of integrity--ie. Not Standing steadfast to the ideals , he himself trumpeted .

Does not know,or not willing , to adapt to changing circumstances & bent on having his own way ,in everything , without lending a listening year.

Does not have any concrete vision for the future leading to stagnation , chaos & lack of progress .

A bad leader often shifts blame for wrong consequences to plans on something /somebody -else in the team ---but tries to take personal credit for positive turning points.Does not work as a team.

As there is good leadership and bad leadership, there certainly is good followership and bad followership

Leaders make /mar followers & the vice-versa is also perfectly true.

Moreover, a good follower has a very good probability of becoming even more good leader & also

a leader in one facet of life ,becomes a follower in other walks of life.

A good follower-ship

## possesses the ability to read the mind of his leader & his potential or the lack of it, to lead a team.

## is often diplomatic in solving issues both with his leader & capable of steering his peers to the team's goals.

## makes his leader's job easy , by interacting & aligning/ carrying along -- others in the team.

## lives up to his leader's expectations ,& courageous when it comes to dissenting with the leader for right causes, in the interest of the team's goals.

## Has the very same qualities admired in a leader --ie. Participative/inter-acting without dominating, able to carry through points to a crowd of people, namely the team members,capacity, competence,motivation & good intellect to critically analyse things

So a bad follwer ship

Mars/ fails the leadership also .

Nothing much can be achieved when the follwership is insincere & not very serious about the organisational growth or prospects

They do not even bother about hampering their own growth & wasting their potential & capabilities.

All they do ,is to counter-argue & find fault at every other plan , brought in by the team leader.

They like to stagnate things & gloat in revolting all the time.They create issues out of every non-issue, just for teh sake of it.