Essentials of Followership: Rethinking the Leadership Paradigm explores different ways of thinking about leaders and followers as role and as relationship-based qualities. This publication provides the student and scholar key components of followership and inspires leaders and followers in organizations to adopt transformed attitudes and actions that move beyond the constraints of current stereotypes, catalyzing stronger, healthier, and more effective communities of purpose.Essentials of Followership introduces a purposeship model, comprising the leader, follower, leadership, followership and context. Beyond the disruption in the workplace attributed to the recent pandemic, there is a significant movement afoot - the empowerment of the follower.