Welcome to the Leader-Follower Identity Tracker (LFIT)
LFIT-Reflector
Please enter your unique 6-digit ID to begin. This ID allows us to connect your reflections across days for your results report.
Here's how to create your unique ID (e.g., SM25EN):
- First two characters of your maiden name (e.g., Smith --> SM)
- Two digits of your birthdate (e.g., 25th May --> 25)
- Final two characters of the place you were born (e.g., Copenhagen --> EN)
Use the LFIT to Explore the Complex Dynamics between your Leader and Follower Identities
Spend 3 minutes per day to gain insights into the changing nature of your leader and follower identities. Engage in the following short reflections at the end of each day and over a period of at least two consecutive weeks.
Both leadership and followership are not only roles or positions. They concern how you feel about the interactions with others. When answering the following questions, keep in mind that both leadership and followership are equally valuable.
How did you feel about yourself today?
How did you feel about yourself today. Did you consider yourself more of a follower, a leader, none or both?
Please click on the grid at the position that best represents how you considered yourself today. We are asking you to rate on both leader and follower simultaneously with a 'click'.
Today, I considered myself a ...
Follower
Leader
Not at all
Very much so
Very much so
Not at all
Today's most important experience – your reflection
Now please think about the most important event that happened to you during the day. Please describe the event you are thinking about in a few sentences.
Today's most important experience – your rating
Please rate this event you are thinking about on the following dimensions.
4
1 (Familiar)
7 (Novel)
4
1 (Not at all)
7 (Highly disruptive)
4
1 (Very ordinary)
7 (Very extraordinary)
Thank you for today's short daily reflection.
We recommend you to engage in the daily reflections for a minimum of two consecutive weeks. In that sense, see you again tomorrow 😊
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Leader-Follower Identity Tracker
This visualization tool helps you track and understand patterns in your leader and follower identities over time. The sections below match the framework presented in Nieberle et al. (2024), making it easy to relate your results to the concepts in the book chapter.
(1) Leader and Follower Identity Trajectory
This section visualizes the trajectory lines of your daily leader and follower identities over time, showing how they change and interact with each other.
(2) General Identity and Equilibrium
This section reports how much you felt like a leader and a follower in general during this period, and how much leader-follower identity liminality you experienced.
Average Identity Scores
Distribution of Identity Types
This chart displays your overall identity liminality by showing how often you identified primarily as a leader, follower, or maintained a balanced state between the two.
(3) Day-to-Day Identity Dynamics
This section shows how much your leader and follower identities varied from day to day, and how much you engaged in leader-follower identity switching.
Variability Indicators
| Leader identity variability | Follower identity variability |
|---|---|
Interpretation:
- 0-10: Low variability
- 10-20: Moderate variability
- >20: High variability
High variability means you felt very much like a leader on some days and not at all on others. Low variability means your feelings of being a leader or follower were more consistent.
Leader-Follower Identity Switches
(4) Your Daily Events
This section gives you a summary of the type of events that you experienced on the respective days, and a quantification of how strong you experienced these events to be. As discussed in the book chapter, significant events can trigger changes in your leader and follower identities.
This chart shows three key dimensions of your daily events:
- Novelty: How new or familiar each event was
- Disruption: How much each event disrupted your normal routine
- Extraordinariness: How ordinary or extraordinary each event was
Higher values on these dimensions typically indicate more impactful events that may have influenced shifts in your leader-follower identity.