Compare And Contrast Servant Leadership And Followership

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The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast followership and servant leadership. Followers are people who are led and accept direction and guidance with an aim towards finishing a task or accomplishing a goal. Leaders are those that have control or dictation over others and provide a goal for them to strive for. These two definitions are the foundation for learning pertinent information about followership or servant leadership. First off followership states "A reciprocal process of leadership. This term refers to the capacity or willingness to follow within a team or organization" (Col. Alicia, 2021). To be a great leader you need to know how to follow first. People who fall under followership know their place due two either positional power or personal power. Boss' use more so positional power due to the hierarchal placement they are in. Soldiers comply due to compliance or resistance due to our rank structure. Followership is a necessity for goals to be achieved. Followership may not be a leader position but it is just as important because without followers there are no leaders. Secondly servant leadership needs to be explained. Servant leadership is when one has the natural feeling to serve others and then they make the choice to …show more content…

"Both servant leadership and followership aim for the achievement of the organizations goals" (Rizvi,2023). Communication in both styles is vital because it does not matter if you are giving or receiving advice or orders you need to be effective in both aspects. Followership and servant leadership on the other hand have some key differences. Followership reaches out to the mission at hand, servant leadership expands into the day to day community you are around. Servant leadership has to be very good at long term goal setting for them and their followers. Followership needs clear concise direction and do not necessarily need to come up with future goals for the