Followership Training
This training enhances members' followership abilities to support leaders and improve team performance from within the team.
Training Concept
In organizations and teams, the goal is for not only leaders but each member to become someone who thinks and acts proactively and positively influences those around them.
Followership is not about passively waiting for instructions, but being an active partner contributing alongside leaders to achieve goals.
Participants will acquire the mindset and practical skills for proactive followership, which is essential in modern organizations.
Taking the 5D Profile Assessment beforehand clarifies your thinking and behavioral traits,
making it clear what areas to strengthen for the most effective learning and the fastest mastery.
Management and HR Challenges
- Many employees (especially members) are passive and wait for instructions, limiting organizational effectiveness
- Lack of personnel who can support the core of the team
- Over-reliance on leaders, with few members thinking, deciding, and acting independently
- Decreased routine communication between leaders and members
- Especially, next-generation leaders often lack the motivation to become the "right hand" of current leaders
Target Audience
- Young to mid-level employees aspiring to become future leaders
Training Objectives
- Understand the essence of followership and acquire skills to proactively support leaders as followers (behavioral traits related to followership).
Develop the attitude and skills to actively contribute to achieving team goals.
Training Goals
- Understand the roles and expectations of members (followers) and demonstrate corresponding behaviors
- Shift away from passive or critical follower types and grow into constructive followers
- Build trust with leaders and contribute to team success
- Design specific proactive actions you can take
Sample Schedule (1-day course)
| Time | Content |
|---|---|
| 9:00-9:30 | Opening Sharing training objectives |
| 9:30-10:30 | What is followership? (Roles, expectations, importance) Why is followership necessary? |
| 10:30-12:00 | Four types of follower behavior (Passive, Critical, Conformist, Proactive) self-assessment Understand improvement points based on your type |
| 13:00-14:30 | Exercises on common behaviors of effective followers (proactivity, proposal skills, support skills) |
| 14:30-16:00 | Impact exercises comparing absence and presence of followership Scenario planning for followership from case studies Action planning for followership Role-play action plans (supporting leaders, motivating teams) |
| 16:00-17:00 | Create and present personal action plans Closing |
Differentiation From Other Training Programs
All of our training, including followership training, is based on self-understanding through the 5D Profile Assessment, enabling participants to recognize their strengths, weaknesses, and characteristics.
This foundation allows for promoting practical and personalized behavioral change rather than just theoretical knowledge.
Even if participants have not taken the assessment, simplified self-analysis exercises are conducted during training to deepen self-awareness and develop practical skills.
At the end of training, participants take home a concrete action plan specifying how to leverage their strengths and what specific actions to take.