Videos

Leading and Following Through Tango

 

 Tango is a close, improvisational dance that requires excellence in both the leader and follower role. Ira has produced a video in which one of the leading Tango practitioners in the US demonstrates the ways in which following well brings out the creativity of the leader and following poorly undermines the leader and the dance.

Trust, Tango and Followership

Ira discusses the video he produced on Leading and Following through Tango to graduates of Georgetown’s Professional Manager Development Program. This is an excellent introduction to the tango video.

Is the Follower Role or the Leader Role More Difficult?

This clip provides fascinating commentary on the video Leading and Following through Tango and can be used to stimulate rich group discussions after viewing the tango video.

 

Courageous Followership, Servant Leadership and Trust

Ira teaches in Georgetown University’s Professional Manager Development Program. In this graduation video, he references the Director, Linda Hopper, who writes on the relationship of Servant Leadership and Courageous Followership.

 

Tobias Center’s 2009 Multi-Sector Forum: You Tube Videos

Ira Chaleff spoke at Indiana University, The Randall L. Tobias Center For Leadership Excellence’s 2009 Multi-Sector Forum on the emergence of followership as a topic of research and discourse. Here, he places his pioneering work, The Courageous Follower, within the context of other contributions to this emerging field. Using Powerpoint, Chaleff discusses his model of courageous followership and talks about where and how it is having an impact among practitioners. The presentation is available here in five segments. You can access all of Ira’s videos here.

1. Why Followership Now?

 

2. The Courageous Follower Model

 

3. Why Do Leaders Need Partners?

 

4. Followership Research Agenda

 

5. Courageous Followership: Standing Up to the White House (a.k.a. Courageous Conscience)

 Several short video segments of an interactive presentation by Ira before the Environmental Protection Agency (2008) are now available below. You can access all of Ira’s videos here.

 

Are You a Leader or A Follower?

 

Follower Defined

 

What Is Hard About Followership?

 

How Do Followers Create Trust With Their Leaders?

 

Leaders, Followers, Self-Interest and Risk

 

When Should Followers Bypass the Chain of Command?

 

How Can Followers Give Upward Feedback?