Assignment: Discipleship Quadrant

Assignment: Discipleship Quadrant

Assignment: Discipleship Quadrant

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Leadership and Followership Communication Styles 61

quadrant, followers need to change their attitudes and, at the same time, work with their leaders to make this change. For example, the disciple follower who wants to function independently may become passive if supervised closely. To return to the discipleship quadrant, this follower will need to give up some of her autonomy and the leader will need to relinquish a degree of control. A doer follower who is used to being a top performer is likely to become aggres- sive in the face of failure. To return to the doer quadrant, the disgruntled employee will have to change from within by accepting the fact that he may not always excel. His leader will need to set limits on how vocal the worker can be in expressing his displeasure about his current situation. (Turn to box 2.8 for more information on how followers and leaders can work together more effectively.)

This business of making another person feel good in the unspectacular course of his [her] daily comings and goings is, in my view, the very essence of leadership.

—Irwin Federman

Box 2.8 Managing Up

Harvard professors John Gabarro and John Kotter emphasize that, as followers, we need to develop good working relationships with our leaders.45 They introduce the phrase managing your boss to describe “the process of consciously working with your superior to obtain the best possible results for you, your boss, and the company.” Subordinates often forget that their bosses depend on them. If they fail to carry out their responsibilities, followers can harm their leaders, coworkers and the organization as a whole. At the same time, subordinates need to recognize that they are dependent on their superiors for the information and resources they need to do their jobs.

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