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Followership

Follow to Lead Leadership Development 4-2c

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The first step in The Citadel Leadership Model

FOLLOWERSHIP

LD 4-2C

Each of you have experienced what it is like to follow

someone else.

Examples:

• Being a member of a team
• Serving on a project team for an academic class
• Holding a job – working for someone else
• Your new role as Freshman at The Citadel will bring this notion of being a follower to a whole new level!

Leader

Subordinate Situation

Followership- What is it?

Some Qualities of Followership

• Self-management/Discipline
• Commitment
• Competence and focus
• Courage
• Humility
• Understand and live by our Core

Values

Applying Followership

• Always strive to improve self
• Seeing good/bad examples of leaders and

adjusting oneself accordingly

• Reactions to stress, remaining calm
• Use constructive ways to fight stress/fatigue

Fourth Class System – What is it?

• It is a system of requirements, traditional

behaviors, duties, and expectations designed to promote this concept of followership.

• Governed by Cadet Regulations, “The Blue

Book,” the Fourth Class System is one of the foundational aspects of The Citadel Experience.

Principles of the Fourth

Class System

• All cadets will be treated with dignity and respect.
• All cadets, regardless of class, will accept personal responsibility for the fair, equitable, proper, and effective operation of the system.
• All cadets will implement the system in such a manner as to support each cadet's opportunity to achieve academic, military, physical, and moral-ethical excellence.
• No cadet will put another cadet in a position where he or she must compromise Citadel Core Values or disregard prescribed rules, regulations, or standards. - Source: The Blue Book, Chapter 3

• To teach new cadets the regulations, customs and traditions of The Citadel. - The Blue Book - The Guidon

Key Objectives of the Fourth Class System

• To remove wealth and former station as factors in the development of new cadets.

–Same Hairstyles –No Car –Same Uniform

Key Objectives of the Fourth Class System

• To develop personal character and create a foundation for honorable and ethical decision-making.

BEWARE of moral temptations associated with cutting corners, being a Spotlight Ranger, and misaligned loyalties.

Key Objectives of the Fourth Class System

• To instill new cadets with self-discipline.
• To physically challenge new cadets and establish a foundation of understanding the necessity of physical fitness for life.
• To instruct new cadets in time management.
• To prepare new cadets for academic achievement.
• To inculcate class cohesion in support of The Citadel Mission and the development of Principled Leaders.

Source: The Blue Book, Chapter 3

Key Objectives of the Fourth Class System

Training Schedule

-Prepare to brief key highlights in training -Take ownership of the training and use this opportunity as a way to set your training expectations moving forward

In Summary

• BE EASY TO BE LED!
• Your prior experiences have provided

you more preparation than you know

• Commit yourself to work hard for the

coming year – it will be a challenging,

exacting, and demanding.

• Understand our Core Values and be

ready and willing to help your classmates