FOLLOWERSHIP LEARNING COMMUNITY MEETING AT ILA CONFERENCE 2011

Dear Followership Learning Community  Colleagues

If you’re going to the 2011 International Leadership Association Conference in London, October 26-29 and have an interest in Followership studies and practice, please join us at a meeting to discuss how the Followership Learning Community can become more involved with the ILA Membership Interest Groups (MIGS). A key concern is how to best generate more proposals that will be accepted for the next conference.  

We will be gathering in a room at the conference site, Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, from 1:30-2:30 on Saturday, October 29th.  The exact room number is still to be determined.

For more information about the conference:
http://www.ila-net.org/Conferences/2011/index.html

--Ira Chaleff, FLC President

A CALL FOR PAPERS, ILA CONFERENCE 2011  [repeat from front page]

Dear Followership Learning Community  Colleagues:

In addition to ILA being one of the few organizations that successfully combines scholars and practitioners internationally, it is also the only organization I know that has seriously planted a flag for the “other half of leadership” – namely, followership.
 
But even within the ILA community, too many have not yet recognized the critical role played by followers in ensuring that positive leadership succeeds and that toxic leadership is disempowered. The well-being of the world depends on this as much as it depends on efforts to develop ethical leadership. The ILA conference presents an opportunity to focus more attention on the follower-leader dynamic.
 
Therefore, I encourage each of you to consider proposals that place followership more centrally in the conversation taking place at the upcoming conference. If you are a member of ILA, please use the ILA social space to let others know your ideas for the conference. In that way, clusters of interest and synergy can be formed to create presentations, co-presentations, and panels examining the critical role of followers in creating the leadership we need for our world during this critical period in human history.

The Conference w ill take place in London, October 26-29, 2011, and the deadline for submitting proposals is March 1st. For more information, see the conference website. We have also created a Conference 2011 folder in the sidebar with a page for queries, ideas, and the exchange of thoughts  and information.

--Ira Chaleff, FLC President