Bold Followership

Hey there, Cadre. Good morning, my friends. Good afternoon. What am I talking about? It is 1230 central standard time, but I guess if you are in a different time zone, it may still be morning to you, or it may feel like it is morning to you, wherever you are. Hey there, Jules. Nice to see you. My name is JC Lippold. If we've never shared time or space together before, thank you for the opportunity to do so right now. This is Monday, which means it is professional development day, and on professional development day, where we may talk a lot about leadership.

I love talking about followership. What is followership? Well, think about it as all of those times that you may not be the one leading the charge, leading the conversation, leading the meeting, leading the organization. How can you boldly follow? How can you be helping the ship go faster, further, more aligned? Because we know so often we are not the one in charge. And that's what we're going to talk about right now. I'm gonna move my phone down here simply because I know sometimes it gets hot when I put my phone on the steering wheel.

So I want to make sure my phone doesn't zap out in the middle of our livestream today. Hey there, Bessie. 834. Nice to see you, my friend. I hope you're having a good day. So for today's bold followership livestream, I love for you to consider the times that you are following the energy of the room. You may be the leader, you may be the one with the microphone, but your job is to be paying attention, to be reflecting and amplifying all that is going on around you. Yesterday I had the opportunity to host a walk Ms event.

I was the one on stage at the microphone with 3500 people in front of me, all preparing to walk in honor of people with miss or in memory of people who have lost their battle with miss. These 3500 people raised over a half million dollars and are getting ready to move in honor of that, in celebration of that. And guess what? This opening ceremony, it was about them. But how often does our culture, does our world, does your work, organization, does the teams that you are a part of? I think that whoever is in front is the one who has the responsibility, has the work to do, has the spotlight.

But we know the movement happens when people see that they have an opportunity. They have a responsibility to take the rein, to take their own microphone, and to amplify to the people that are listening and to speak to them. What did I do? And number one, I saw them and I shared what I saw number two, I listened to them and I put back into their ears what I was hearing. And number three, I spoke very little of my own thoughts, of my own words, but I offered questions and considerations and I asked them what did they think.

And once they replied, I invited them to move with that. So again, invite people to see what you see. Number two, invite them to hear what they are providing you. And number three, provide them questions and considerations. And once they take ownership of those things, invite them to move with that quick, short, clear. Today I'm getting out of the way. So you can boldly follow, who are those people? Who are those people who you are leading that you actually need to take the information from and reflect it back?

So often when we are the leader, we're actually the follower. Lead and follow strong and boldly. Today, my friends.