Cory Bouck

TheLensOfLeadership.com

Convert 25% more prospects into sales

Decrease raw material waste by 40%

Get 29% more output from the same inputs

…wouldn’t your leaders want it?

“Only 2 of 5 Leaders ‘Effective’ or

‘Highly Effective’” -Corporate Executive Board

“Effective Managers Deliver Higher

Performance, Retention, and Engagement”

“70% of Today’s HIPOs Lack Critical

Leadership Skills” -Harvard Business Review, May 2010

“#2 Highest Global Business Risk” -Lloyd’s of London, 2011

Naval Academy

Naval Flight Officer

Marketing

Politics

Business Training

Author

Followership is Leadership

The Roles & Skills of Great Followership

A Sterling Example

Marketing Your Personal “Accomplishment Brand”

Name, Role, & Organization

A company, person, product, or idea that you would invest $100,000 in today to earn a significant financial return

What having “the most” means to you

Why?

1. Yes

2. No 1 2

85%

15%

“My most important and primary

professional duty is to make my boss

look great.”

“Luck’s a fool. The door to success is always

marked, ‘push’.” -Handbook of Harvard University, 1908-09

- 75MM Boomers

+45MM Gen X’ers

Because business is dodgeball

Serve

Build

Inspire

Starts as individual contributors

Everybody has a boss

Paradoxically simultaneous roles

“A set of learnable, practicable skills that

make me professionally essential to my

boss & teammates, and also regularly

create opportunities for me to demonstrate

my superior leadership skills.”

Valet

Socrates-like

Mentor

Chameleon

Pastor Parent

BE PRODUCTIVE

BE INNOVATIVE BE THE EXPERT BE POLITE

Be Productive

Be Innovative

Be the Expert

Be Polite

“I’m not a ‘businessman.’ I am a business, man!”

-Shawn Corey Carter, aka rapper Jay-Z

Serve

Build

Inspire

On the strength of one link in the cable,

Dependeth the might of the chain

Who knows when thou may be tested?

So live that thou bearest the strain.

“The influence of each human being on others in

this life is a kind of immortality”

-John Quincy Adams

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An idea/person/company/product I would invest US$100,000 in, expecting a strong return: __________________________.

What Having or Being “The Most” Means to Me: Money. Status. Recognition for _________________________________

Something else: _______________________________________________________________________________________________.

Being or Having my “Most” Gives Me: _________________________________________________________________________.

And That is Important to Me Because: ________________________________________________________________________.

In my career I am playing YOGA / DODGE BALL ( Circle One)

The Lens of Leadership is an ___________________________________ mindset.

A _______________________ gap already exists in the workplace today. The _____________ ____________________ Exodus will

_______________________________ the growth of that gap.

Followership: The 1st Form of Servant Leadership

23rd Greenleaf Conference, June 13th, 2013 Cory Bouck, Director of OD&L, Johnsonville Sausage

Leadership Development is a ________________________: Serve -- Build -- Inspire

“Followership is a set of ___________________ & _____________________ skills that make me professionally ___________________

to my boss & teammates, and also _____________________ create opportunities for me to demonstrate my

_____________________ ___________________ skills.”

Roles of a Follower

The one-word descriptor for followers is “______________________________”

The Four Roles:

Followership: The 1st Form of Servant Leadership

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Skills of Followership:

My learning partner’s name & role ___________________________________________________________________

My learning partner’s phone ___________________________ email ________________________________________________________

I can be a hero at work by __________________________________________________________________________________________________.

I can be a hero for my community by _______________________________________________________________________________________.

I learned or re-learned: _______________________________________________________________________________________________.

I will live “Serve – Build – Inspire” by ______________________________________________________________________________.

Followership: The 1st Form of Servant Leadership

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What?—So What?—Now What? Your “One-Thing” Development Plan

What? Great leadership begins with great followership. Everyone is simultaneously in the roles of both leader and follower, and both of these roles are servant roles.

So What? You must recognize and differentiate between your obligations as a follower and a leader. You must develop the skills necessary to be successful in these paradoxically simultaneous roles. Knowing how to serve others up, down, and sideways will earn you a reputation as a powerful asset to any team.

Now What?

• I will study __________________ to learn more about the paradoxically simultaneous role of follower and leader.

• I will reach out to _______________________________ in order to seek more insight, guidance, and advice.

• I will ask ________________________________ to hold me accountable for _____________________________.

• And I will __________________________________________________ in order to create an experience to develop competencies that I have not yet adequately developed by (date) _____________________________.

Additional Resources for Your “Now What?” Journey:

Bouck, Cory. The Lens of Leadership: Being the Leader Others WANT to Follow Chaleff, Ira. The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders Fine, Alan. You Already Know How to Be Great: A Simple Way to Unlock Your Greatest Potential Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success Hubbard, Elbert. A Message to Garcia Maister, David H., Charles H. Green, and Robert M. Galford. The Trusted Advisor McNally, David. Be Your Own Brand Pink, Daniel. To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others Riggio, Ronald E., Ira Chaleff, and Jean Lipman-Blumen, eds. The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations Tulgan, Bruce. It’s Okay to Manage Your Boss: The Step-by-Step Program for Making the Best of Your Most Important Relationship at Work Whitten, Neal. Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects