Pros And Cons Of Followership

Finding My Followership Style What an interesting survey this was about one’s style, beliefs, pros and even cons. I receive a 43 on the independent thinking line and a 45 on the active engagement line. The 43 put me in the higher end of the chart leaving me to be either Alienated or Exemplary. Then the 45 put me towards the end of the active line closest to the Conformist and Exemplary followers categories finalizing my followership as Exemplary. Once placed in that category I was enthused to look into exactly what that meant. After reading the positives, negatives, and believes that boxes that went with my Exceptional Follower title I was a bit overwhelmed to be completely honest. I have taken many leadership and management surveys and

Something I always try doing is greater than expected I think back to my chemistry class in high school where we were always instructed to leave the lab better than it was left for us. Or even in my work with my fraternity where in our new member oath it says to “transmit the fraternity to those who may follow after not only not less but greater than it was transmitted to me.” I have had the great honor to take on many leadership opportunities with my fraternity and attend many leadership conferences with that mindset, to do greater. Everything that arises whether opportunity or problem I want to go above and beyond leaving my mark ensuring my value and skills are being

After being invested and putting my all out there if I see something that I could have done better, a mistake, or missed opportunity, I get very disappointed often times beating myself up on the inside questioning things which can cause a delay in my work and even a negative mindset until I’m able to break the barrier and find my passion again. I even have caught myself several times after being so involved getting burnt out and just ready for a break, I see this in work, organizations and even school. This is definetley true in the fall semester, especially this past fall semester. I moved into my new house in Cape in early July and was doing constant preartion for work and school. My car broke down and is still, unabling me to see my family as often as I wanted to and escape and actually take a break. I went hard attempting at 18 hours the most I have ever tried at, mostly all online classes except for 1. I experienced so many changes from classes, to the change in my major, and then adding my promotion at work, only to later a month later get an even bigger promotion I was stressed, overwhelmed and burnt out before October even started. I quickly needed a break, but was stuck. I ended up dropping a course in order for my work load to get lighter and discussed with my employees and supervisor about some new delegation to help alleviate my work load in