Essay On Effective Follower

To be able to function in the working world you must be an expert at two things: leading and following. Being a good follower is just as important as being a good leader. To be an effective follower you must be honest, loyal, and courageous. Without these characteristics there couldn't be any effective and succesful companies. Honesty is such a huge thing when it comes to any workplace. If you cant be honest with your company then you don't deserve to have a job. When looking for employees, employers look for an honest person. Suppose Tim works for a convenience store. Tim's boss asks him to watch over the store for a few hours while he runs some errands. In this scenario, Tim is the employee (follower) and his boss is the employer (leader). Tim's boss expects TIm to be an honest employee and to make good decisions while hes out. If TIm's boss didn't think he was an honest eployee, he wouldn't have left him with the store by himself. So say Tim was in a money crisis. If TIm is an effective follower, he will just earn his mone and do what is right. But, if TIm is not an effective follower, his first move is going to be to steal the money that he needs and when his boss gets back, just asct like nothing happened.
Going back to Tim and his boss, if TIm see's anpther employer doing something they aren't supposed to, TIm should have the courage to be able to tell his boss what he saw. Say Tim saw his coworker grab some cash out of the register when his boss went to run his errands. In order for Tim to be an effective follower and to keep the store running, he needs to have the courage to be able to lose that trust with his coworker in order to gain trust from his employer. This will cause trouble and problems between himself and the other workers but it will be worth it to recieve the praise and trust from his