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FollowershipFollowership

Follow to LeadFollow to Lead

Leadership Development 4-2c Leadership Development 4-2c

The first step in The Citadel Leadership Model

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• Similar to the concept of Leadership you have all

experienced what it means to follow others

Examples:

– Being a member of a team

– Serving on a project team for

an academic class

– Holding a job = working for someone else

• Your new role as Freshman at The Citadel will bring this notion of being a follower to a whole new level!

Followership- What is it?

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Followership Definition - “Followers of

character and commitment acting to

support the needs and goals of the team.”

Followership – a definition

• This means placing the needs of others before your desires and building a relationship of trust and loyalty between your leader and your team!

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Group Work

• Work together to identify the qualities to

be a successful follower

• Be prepared to share again with the

whole group

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Some Qualities of Followership

• Self-management/Discipline

• Commitment

• Competence and focus

• Courage

• Humility

• Understand our Core Values

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Applying Followership

• Always strive to improving self

• Seeing good/bad examples of leaders and

adjusting oneself accordingly

• Reactions to stress, remaining calm

• Use constructive ways to fight stress/fatigue

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Fourth Class System – What is it?

• It is a system of requirements, traditional It is a system of requirements, traditional behaviors, duties, and expectations designed behaviors, duties, and expectations designed to promote this concept of followership.to promote this concept of followership.

• Governed by Cadet Regulations, “the Blue Governed by Cadet Regulations, “the Blue Book,” the Fourth Class System is one of the Book,” the Fourth Class System is one of the foundational aspects of The Citadel foundational aspects of The Citadel Experience Experience

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Principles of the Fourth Class System

• All cadets will be treated with dignity and respect.

• All cadets, regardless of class, will accept personal responsibility for the fair, equitable, proper, and effective operation of the system.

• All cadets will implement the system in such a manner as to support each cadet's opportunity to achieve academic, military, physical, and moral-ethical excellence.

• No cadet will put another cadet in a position where he or she must compromise Citadel Core Values or disregard prescribed rules, regulations, or standards.

• Source: The Blue Book, Chapter 3

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• The system will not interfere with a Fourth Class Cadet's right to adequate sleep and food.

• The system must provide the new cadet with the necessary positive leadership development training to be prepared to exercise leadership within the Corps of Cadets and serve as the foundation for the four-year progression of The Citadel leadership model.

• The system, implemented in a manner that personifies our institutional core values, uncovers and attempts to develop deficiencies in new cadets, which might otherwise result in a cadet's failure to achieve or exceed prescribed standards of performance.

Principles of the Fourth Class System

Source: The Blue Book, Chapter 3

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Key Objectives of the Fourth Class System

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•To teach new cadets the regulations, customs and traditions of The Citadel

The Blue Book

The Guidon

Key Objectives of the Fourth Class System

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• To remove wealth and former station as factors in the development of new cadets

Same HairstylesNo CarVery few privileges

Key Objectives of the Fourth Class System

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•To instill in new cadets a sense of humility and selfless subordination

A Fourth classman out ranksSir/Ma'am, the President's cat, the Commandant's dog, and all the captains at VMI, Sir/Ma'am!

Servant Leadership

Key Objectives of the Fourth Class System

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• To develop personal character and create a foundation for honorable and ethical decision-making

Beware of moral temptations associated with

cutting corners, being a Spotlight Ranger, and misaligned loyalties

Key Objectives of the Fourth Class System

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Key Objectives of the Fourth Class System

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What you can expect from your cadet leaders

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In Summary

• Your prior experiences have provided you more preparation than you know

• Commit yourself to work hard for the coming year – it will be a challenging, exacting, and demanding

• Understand our Core Values and be ready and willing to help your classmates

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QUESTIONS?