How to Use followership in a Sentence

followership

noun
  • This drives repeat and drives followership.
    — James Manso, Footwear News, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The first step to creating a growth mindset is followership where your team signs up to follow you as a leader.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • Such competencies help build followership and sell ideas up the chain of command.
    — Inga Bielińska, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • His style is more followership than leadership.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 2025
  • But more important than the leadership was the party’s followership, which did the same.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Over the past few years, as her fame and her followership numbers increased, her understanding of social media’s core principles did so as well.
    — Josh Duboff, Vanities, 4 Jan. 2017
  • Developing as a leader largely comes from also practicing good followership.
    — Katie Reilly, Time, 24 May 2018
  • Developing as a leader largely comes from also practicing good followership.
    — Katie Reilly, Time, 16 May 2018
  • His research centers on leadership and followership within the context of human resource management.
    — Harvard Business Review, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Inclusiveness has gained ground as criteria for acceptance, respect, support, and followership.
    — Ritu Anand, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Barrett was interviewed by international media outlets and his Twitter followership swelled even more.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Inspirational leaders create followership, and that in turn encourages greatness.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Effective leaders create followership by connecting with heart and convincing with intellect.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The likes of Matt Gaetz believe that Republicans have a problem with the quality of their leadership when the quality of the followership is more the issue.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 3 Oct. 2023
  • There’s an essential connection between the concepts of trust, followership, and authenticity.
    — Jack McCullough, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The Nigerian-American couple leveraged their massive online followership to build a physical business that has already begun thriving in just a month.
    — Josh Wilson, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • Start incorporating teamwork and followership more than leadership.
    — Daria Rudnik, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Dibadji listed team problem-solving, developing a strategy, articulating a vision, and creating a followership as among those traits.
    — Jackson Fordyce, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Influencers with sizable active followership can make a substantial full-time income from their social media activities and marketing partnerships with luxury brands.
    — Josh Wilson, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • Because bad leadership and followership tend to flourish when the contexts within which they are situated are perceived as unfair and unequal, as strongly favoring the richer and more powerful at the expense of the poorer and weaker.
    — Barbara Kellerman, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In the context of followership, my own definition of reasoning is the reflective application of the right assumptions, rooted in historical context and enhanced by grace and understanding.
    — Thomas Bradley Cox, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • Gallup’s latest research on followership reveals four needs — trust, stability, compassion and hope — with hope emerging as a universal theme, comprising 56% of all words used to describe influential leaders.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • However, true leadership, as Lunt defines it, is about inspiring willing followership—where individuals are motivated to contribute their full potential to the organization’s vision.
    — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024

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