Followers - R - Us!

Many know what to do without being told. Most of those are not in a formal leadership role, they are followers. We have a weak and incorrect view of followership. Most of the work that gets done, gets done by followers. Every leader is likely following someone and if they are not, it is likely they won't be leaders much longer.
Following is so important, I would go so far to say that little would get accomplished without followers. Yet, few resources and little effort is ever devoted to enhancing followership skills. We are in love with leaders and leadership but I boldly claim that there are no good leaders that were not once followers and most of them were good ones.
Have you ever participated in followership training? I would be curious what impact it had on you and others that accompanied you.
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