A Celebration of Followership: The Story in Documents of Courageous Followership and the Followership Community
A retrospective comprising nearly 400 documents of the vital contribution of Ira Chaleff’s decades of work on courageous followership.
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Lead & Follow Podcast
Lead & Follow offers a personal and provocative discussion of collaboration and teamwork. Host Sharna Fabiano talks with artists, activists, athletes, gamers, volunteers, and everyday working people to highlight and celebrate the essential counterpart...
Lead & Follow: The Dance of Inspired Teamwork
Using the metaphor of tango social dance, Lead & Follow explores 9 aspects of the follower’s role in professional teams, as it functions in relati”onship with the leader’s role.
A Lesson in Partnership
This 30-page e-booklet tells the story of two tango students who overcome the stereotypes of both the leading and the following roles in their pursuit of seamless creative collaboration.
Followership Education – New Directions for Student Leadership
This is a book is on how followership complements leadership studies and how to teach it. The editors are Marc Hurwitz and Rachael Thompson. Ira said that, “the knowledge it contains… had not been...
Invictus Participate in Transformation
This video is an excellent example of how a follower participates in transformation even when they do not agree with the leader. It also highlights how the leader respectfully shares his vision for the...
Tango shows us the Leader-Follower Dynamic
The beautiful Argentinian dance, Tango, is the perfect metaphor for the dynamic between leaders and followers. To understand this dynamic, watch this video, listen to Ira’s explanation of it.
Constructive Dissent
This video is a great example of the importance of courageous followership with constructive dissent (This is available on YouTube, unclear if it is under copyright).
First Follower Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
An interesting take on the importance of starting a movement with followers that got a lot of views on YouTube (This is available on YouTube, unclear if it is under copyright).
Mitigating Language: Everybody loves Raymond
A humourous example of using mitigating language (This is available on YouTube, unclear if it is under copyright)
Mitigating Language: Co-Pilot Before Crash
How mitigating language can result in poor outcomes under certain circumstance (This is available on YouTube, unclear if it is under copyright)
Co-Pilot slaps Pilot to Attention
The need for extreme action to get a leader’s attention (This is available on YouTube, unclear if it is under copyright).
Failure to Listen to Feedback (Video)
A Bridge Too Far- failure to listen to feedback resulting in disasterous outcomes (This is available on YouTube, unclear if it is under copyright)
Running with Scissors: Leading in Uncertainty
This is a book that contains chapters from several authors (including fellow alumnus Alain de Sales) and tackles followership and leadership in uncertain, dynamic and multicultural environments. Visit this site to know more about...
Intelligent Disobedience
Intelligent Disobedience is an important concept that has been discussed by both Ira and fellow alumnus Bob McGannon in their books on the topic. You can find out more about their books on Intelligent...
Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations
This is an excellent resource that contains insightful chapters from leading thinkers in the field of followership and is a must read. It can be found here.
The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders
Most of us will still have a copy of this seminal book. If you want more or want to point your trainees to the resource, you can get an eCopy here: The Courageous Follower:...
Followership Styles Assessment (Not for Reproduction)
Please see the ‘Follower Style’ instrument to ascertain the different type of followers. Of note is that this is not a validated instrument. While you can view the assessment here, it is not for...
Courageous Follower Worksheets
This resource contains several worksheets that you can use to facilitate discussions. Download the Worksheets here
1 Day Seminar Handout
This is an example of a handout that you can provide to participants when you do 1 day training sessions and is linked to this 1 day Corporate Executive training session. Download the handout...
1.5 hours – Mayoral Chiefs of Staff
If you have limited time to present this 1.5 hour presentatiion will help you give people a good overview of Courageous Followership. Download the 1.5 hours presenation here or view below
Half Day Training Handout
This is an example of a handout that you can provide to participants when you do half day training sessions and is linked to this half day training presentation. Download the handout in powerpoint...
2 Hour Seminar
If you are delivering a short two hour seminar the contents of this presentation should enable you to hit all the hit notes of Courageous Followership. Download this 2 hour presentation here or view...
Half Day Presentation – European Commission
This is an example of a half-day presentation, please modify this for your purposes. Download this half day presentation here or view below
