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Naval Science 407Leadership and Ethics

Followership, Loyalty and

Senior-Subordinate Relationships

Naval Science 407Leadership and Ethics

Followership

• Know the importance of followership and the role it plays in leadership.
• Know the qualities, behaviors, and principles of effective followership.
• Know how an effective leader encourages correct behavior, suppresses fear, and attends to a subordinate's needs.

• Know why cohesion and discipline are essential in any command, and how a leader can instill these essential concepts.
• Know the importance of enhancing technical, tactical, and professional knowledge.

• Fulfill the Organizational Role Assigned
• Responsible Behavior
• Initiative
• Take Action Even Though Complete Information May Not Be Known.
• Loyalty to Seniors - Sets the Example
• If Conflict Exists, Bring It to the Senior's Attention (Moral Courage?)

Sheep

Yes People

Alienated Followers

Survivors

Effective Followers

Truthfulness

Accuracy

Self-discipline

Competence

Responsibility

Professionalism

Dedication

Loyalty

Initiative

Courage

Weed Distractions

Dependable

Thick Skinned

Asks Questions

Enthusiastic

Doesn’t This Sound a Lot Like LEADERSHIP?

Courage

Decisiveness

Dependability

Endurance

Enthusiasm

Initiative

Integrity

Sound Judgement

Sense of Justice

Knowledge

Loyalty

Tact

Unselfish

Because, at a Minimum…

It Takes a Good Follower to Be a Good Leader.

Taking Care of Your People

• Set a Positive Example for Subordinates to Emulate
• Are You a Good Follower?
• Be Approachable. Listen to Your People. Encourage Them to Offer Suggestions:
• Effective Listening Is a Practiced Trait

• Encourage Subordinates to Become Innovative and Self-starting:
• Task, and Provide the Required Authority
• Include the Responsibility
• Develop a Sense of Dedication and Commitment to the Mission at Hand.
• Share in Creating the “Vision”

• Improve Independent, Critical Thinking
• Focus on Self-management
• Learn How to Disagree Agreeably
• Building Your Own Credibility
• Aligning Goals and Commitments
• Acting Responsibly
• Similarities Between Leadership/followership
• Moving Between the Two Roles With Ease

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Naval Science 407Leadership and Ethics

Loyalty:

Senior-Subordinate Relationships

• Know why naval officers should support the policies and actions of seniors and peers.
• Know that a naval leader should promptly comply with lawful orders, directions, and decisions of seniors.
• Know effective use of the chain of command.

• Know the importance of complete honesty in communicating with seniors, peers, and subordinates.
• Know the importance of keeping seniors and subordinates informed.
• Comprehend the importance of feedback to mission effectiveness.

• Ego in Check
• Truly Cares for the Welfare of His/Her Sailors And/Or Marines
• Tactical and Technical Proficiency
• Ability to Listen to Criticism Without Being Offended
• Dedicated and Mature

• Operates in Crisis Mode All the Time
• Fails to Plan Ahead
• Won’t Listen to Advice
• Tries to Be Hard Instead of Smart
• Talks Instead of Does

• Advice on Courses of Action
• Honest Counsel on How the Navy/Marine Corps Should Really Work
• Helping Officers Understand the Point of View of their Troops

• Country (Patriotism)
• Duty (Mission)
• The Service (Esprit de Corps)
• Seniors in Command
• Subordinates
• Self

• Purpose of …
• Supposed to be used for two-way flow of communication
• How do you reinforce it?

• Staff Experts
• Legal Officer, DAPA, EOO, Ombudsman
• Command Master Chief
• Personal Network
• Suggestion Boxes?

• Emergent conditions demand immediate attention
• Unsafe or immoral situation covered up by the immediate superior
• What do you do if you bypass?
• Inform on the way up (time permitting) or
• Advise after the fact
• Also applies going down the Chain

• Accepting
• Listen - No Matter How Soft or Loud the Voice
• Criticizing Subordinates
• In Private Vice Public
• Performance Counseling
• Criticizing Superiors (Offering)
• Tact, Knowledge-based
• “May I Make a Suggestion, Sir?”
• Complaining Ain’t Criticizing

• Damn Exec

• Naval Leadership: Voices of Experience

-sections 20, 21, 22, and 77

(pp. 153-171 and pp. 390-394)

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