BUS 272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Goal Setting, Cadence Skill

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Bill Scott

Document Summary

Articles: rethinking followership and followers: the reason for leaders. For the most part, our impressions of followers are that they are less than . No engaged with their organization or task and do not apply independent critical thinking. Give praises, compliments, or rewards for their contributions and good work to motivate them. Need the leader to think and do for them. Complete their tasks and then seek further direction. When they don"t agree, they offer practical, alternative solutions. Want to be clear about the direction before joining. Leaders and followers form an action circle around a common purpose ira chaleff. Followers get the job done with little questions about the leader"s directions. High support and low challenge (don"t challenge the leader) Followers get the job done and questions the leader"s directions when follower wants to express his/her thoughts. Never fully complete the task and always goes against the leader. Guest speaker david woodland; salvation army executive secretary.