The world of business is a large and complex organism with numerous people of different skills and talents. In this world, there will always be leaders and there will always be followers. There are many resources explaining the important traits on how to be a leader, but the content on how to be a follower is very lacking. Statistically in the world of business a person is going to end up being a follower to some sort of leadership. Even if the person is put in a leadership position, they will most likely be following a leader above them. Knowing how to be a good follower is not only important in the business world to progress, but it is essential to a business if the business is going to keep operating at its fullest potential. According to Virginia's CTE Resource center, being a critical thinker, consistent and dependable, patient, and able to receive and give constructive criticism are all excellent follower qualities to have (CTE 1). On top of that, I think that honesty is a good quality for a follower to have too. The first trait described by …show more content…
This skill is all about swallowing your pride and being able to gently tell others about their mistakes. As a follower you need to be able to correct those who are wrong in the nicest way possible and more importantly, take correction from others when you are wrong. I personally had to swallow my pride when I was doing updates in Banner. I had gone ahead and run a command that I shouldn't have run and I ended up causing a lot of extra work for my coworker. I had to swallow my pride and take correction from my coworker on how I need to read the directions for the update and not just run commands blindly. In my opinion, it is much harder to be corrected than it is to correct someone. Learning to take criticism is a skill that is critical to being a