title: The value of active followership.
abstract: Followership is an emerging concept based on human factors science. It describes a set of skills and behaviours that help improve team performance. An effective leader creates vision, sets direction and enables a culture in which others can thrive and work together to deliver the goals. Like leadership, good followership is increasingly being recognised as an important component for high performance. Good followership is based on good communication and 'upward influencing' (Willson 2012). This article discusses the concept arid provides scenarios to illustrate examples of good and poor followership, and how they affect care.
authors.affiliation: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. Joywhitlock1@gmail.com
authors.forename: Joy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Whitlock
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D006113:United Kingdom