AHS.11 Building Followership – The Leadership Challenge
This LifeKnowledge lesson (AHS.11, “Building Followership: The Leadership Challenge”) teaches advanced high school students about the symbiotic relationship between leaders and followers in an organization. Students explore the role of leadership and effective followers, the characteristics and skills of effective followership (self-management/self-leadership, competence and focus, and courage), and how to form a leader-follower relationship. It includes teaching strategies, transparency masters, an assessment, and FFA/SAE application activities.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Understand the role of leadership and effective followers.
- Recognize the characteristics and skills of effective followers.
- Form a leader-follower relationship.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- Advanced High School
- Materials
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- Writing surface
- Overhead projector
- AHS.11.TM.A
- AHS.11.TM.B
- AHS.11.TM.C
- AHS.11.TM.D
- AHS.11.TM.E
- AHS.11.TM.F
- AHS.11.TM.G
- AHS.11.TM.H
- AHS.11.TM.I
- AHS.11.Assess—one per student
- Unit
- Stage One of Development—ME
- Problem Area
- Who Am I in Light of Serving Others.
- Precepts
- C5: Persuade others to commit.
- Key Terms
- Followership; Self-management; Self-leadership
- Resources
- Kelley, R. E. The Power of Followership: How to Create Leaders People Want to Follow and Followers Who Lead Themselves. Currency/Doubleday, 1992.
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NPH-H.9-12.5Using Communication Skills to Promote Health — Analyze how interpersonal communication affects relationships.