Followership in Family Involvement
One of the taxonomies of followers identified is the activist taxonomy (Kellerman, 2007). These followers always possess strong affiliations with their leaders and organizations and act accordingly as per the requirements (Kellerman, 2007). Activists are either working hard in support of their leaders or else against them, whereby they even undermine the leaders at times. The activist taxonomy of followers is characterized by a lot of energy, eagerness, and engagement in the activities that they are well suited. The unique thing about this taxonomy is their investment in people or processes whereby they are either supportive of the leaders who possess similar ideologies or against them (Kellerman, 2007).
Whenever an activist allies with the leader, most of the organization’s activities are successful, and they always ensure that they fight in support of the decisions made by their leaders (Wuetherick, 2018). However, this taxonomy is not populated following that many people cannot attain the time and energy required in activism activities. Therefore, the only needs that are superlative for followers’ activist taxonomy are for the leader to ensure that their ideologies relate rather than varying (Kellerman, 2007). Leaders who gain the support of the activists around them are always successful following that activists are conformist and passive and can significantly influence others to buy their ideas. Furthermore, most of them, when under leadership that aligns with their ideologies, are exemplary and eventually trigger positive change, and through their energetic nature, they foster motivation to others (Sy et al., 2018).
My leadership approaches in my project on increasing family engagement in their children’s education and development, can significantly impact positively to activists who focus on child wellbeing (Wuetherick, 2018). Most of the planned techniques incorporated within the project can compellingly affect the activists to attract them to buy the idea and support the same notion. For instance, activists against child abuse will profoundly support the concept of families’ involvement in their children’s affairs like schooling, following that the intervention can help in their fight against abuse (Kellerman, 2007). Furthermore, most of the activist followers in my leadership are prospected to be in those positions by will not due to circumstances. Therefore, their contribution to the project would probably be positive.
On the other hand, the activist followers in my leadership can also extensively affect the project in many dimensions, depending on their participation and contribution (Wuetherick, 2018). Those activists directly involved in the process under my leadership can profoundly impact the decisions made, although the vice versa is also true (Kellerman, 2007). That is, the activist directly under my proposed leadership can lead to the project’s failure or even in the breakage of the barriers that hinder the effective administration of the plan (Sy et al., 2018). Moreover, the activists that are not directly involved in the project but they have a similar ideology can act as the pacesetters or inciters for the general public to conform to the proposed changes and thereby trigger the success of the project (Wuetherick, 2018). However, those indirectly engaged and have a different perspective concerning the subject matter also have a certain degree of impact on my leadership following that it would take time to convince them that my ideology is the best and that they should also buy it. However, most activists are always for the wellbeing of the general community and often for vulnerable groups like children. Therefore the highest probabilities are that they will support the ideology of families’ involvement in their children’s education (Wuetherick, 2018).
References
Kellerman, B. (2007). What every leader needs to know about followers. Harvard Business Review, 85(12), 84. http://thebusinessleadership.academy/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/What-Every-Leaders-Need-to-Know-About-Followers.pdf
Wuetherick, B. (2018). Teaching Activism: Reflections on Developing “Leaders of Tomorrow” through Activist Approaches to Community Service-Learning. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 4(1), 107-121. https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/esj/article/view/61587
Sy, T., Horton, C., & Riggio, R. (2018). Charismatic leadership: Eliciting and channeling follower emotions. The Leadership Quarterly, 29(1), 58-69. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984317300693