Understanding Different Fellowship Styles in Leadership

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2 Fellowship Style Leadership is one of the most significant aspects of a business or any organization. It helps ensure better interaction and relationships between the followers and the leaders (Stone & Patterson, 2023). However, according to Kelley, in the articles she published, fellowship is one of the undermined aspects of an organization, and fellowship is another concept that has contrib- uted to about 80 per cent of the success of many organizations. Without followers, leadership cannot exist because the leaders are set to lead followers; there are different styles of fellowships that other followers may tend to embrace in an organization; their type of fellowship can be de- termined by their level of engagement, involvement and independent critical thinking. Kelley suggests five styles of fellowship: exemplary, conformist, passive, alienated and pragmatist tech- niques (Whyte et al., 2022). The fellowship styles in an organization may be split into two main categories, which include passive and active followers where in the case. The passive ones are likely to wait for orders and instructions from their leaders, while the active followers can make decisions and perform their activities independently without waiting for orders. Identify your fellowship style . During the research on the paper, I identified that I had been a passive follower, defined as a follower who is less active in engagement and less independent in decision-making. The passive followers are referred to as the sheep because they are in a position of following the in- structions that are given by their leaders unquestionably and always will wait for the instructions and direction from the leaders. They are defined as doing and stopping what they are told to do (Cunningham, 2022). I identified this fellowship style because the organizational managers and supervisors could set the directions and routines that all the employees were supposed to per- form. I could follow every detailed instruction without adding or removing any step but follow-

3 ing the instructions and procedures ordered by the managers. However, it is not enough for any employee or follower to become a passive follower due to the advanced innovations requiring a fellowship that one can make decisions on their own and be involved in creative thinking (Smith et al., 2021). Several ways would help improve the fellowship and become an active follower. Taking responsibility is one of the essential strategies to improve the fellowship and become a better follower. This will help adopt active follower behaviours in making independent decisions on activities within the organization. The other strategy is to identify the best time to challenge and support leadership since it has been described that fellowship determines the success of lead- ership, on how well the followers will support the management will determine the leadership strategies in the organization (Urooj et al., 2020). One evident leader who was a great follower and whom I would like to follow in their behaviours and styles is General George S. Patton, who portrayed his leadership skills during World War II. References

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4 Cunningham, B. G. (2022). Examining the Relationship Between Followership Style and Ministerial Effectiveness Among Baptist Pastors (Doctoral dissertation, Grand Canyon University). Smith, A. B., Baker, K. A., & Weeks, S. M. (2021). Long-Term outcomes of a collaborative regional evidence-based practice fellowship. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration , 51 (9), 455-460. Stone, A. G., & Patterson, K. (2023). The history of leadership focus. Springer Books , 689-715. Urooj, U., Yasmeen, R., Qamar, K., Iqbal, R., & Khalil, H. (2020). THERE’S ONLY ONE KING AND YOU ARE NOT HIM” FOLLOWERSHIP STYLES OF MEDICAL RESIDENTS IN PAKISTAN. Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal , 70 (2), 362-67. Whyte, J., Naderpajouh, N., Clegg, S., Matous, P., Pollack, J., & Crawford, L. (2022). Project leadership: A research agenda for a changing world. Project Leadership and Society , 3 , 100044.

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