Table 2.

Increasing Wellness Through Effective Followership

Effective Followership	Impact on the Follower Wellness	Impact for Organizational Wellness
Takes initiative	Increases sense of purpose	Allows supervisor to focus on other tasks and supports team getting job done
Researches problems to provide context	Increases sense of ownership	Saves time for supervisor by providing data to help guide decision making
Proposes solutions	Increases sense of effectiveness	Solves problems helping to move things forward and reduces tasks for supervisor
Take ownership of team failures	Decreases depersonalization	Fosters sense of team and generates more motivation to solve problems from the bottom up
Provides constructive criticism to colleagues and superiors	Increases sense of ownership	Improves accountability and lost time for personal and organizational improvement by pointing out potential weaknesses
Handles disagreements in private	Increases empathy	Allows for disagreements to be settled with a private conversation allowing for the opportunity for improved communication and avoiding negative spillage into the workplace
Acknowledges work of others	Decreases depersonalization	Encouraging other brings up moral for the entire team
Volunteers to assist with change	Increases sense of autonomy	Directly supports superiors while fostering teamwork, can lead to work diversification