Posted on Jan 28, 2016
If you could go back in time, what would you tell your leadership to change or keep doing?
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If you could back in time, what would you tell your leadership to change or keep doing?
RP Members think about some of the Leaders you served with or for in your career or that you serve with today - if you could back in time today and tell them one thing about their leadership what would it be?
Would it be positive? Would it be negative?
What is would like them to know about their leadership?
RP Members think about some of the Leaders you served with or for in your career or that you serve with today - if you could back in time today and tell them one thing about their leadership what would it be?
Would it be positive? Would it be negative?
What is would like them to know about their leadership?
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Pie in the sky? Enlisted personnel are not tools to be discarded if they have flaws or are broken. Just because you can easily get a replacement, doesn't mean you should lose humanity just because some selection board gave you your senior position.
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SSG Jess Peters
I met many leaders that would discard poor performers. On several occasions, I asked they be assigned to my Chaparral squad. Mostly they were just lazy and would just do things slowly and poorly until no one expected them to do anything. I set a standard for them to meet. If they didn't meet the standard I would just keep them doing it over until it was near perfect. If at the end of the normal duty day, I would keep the working. Usually, after a day or two, I never had to tell them to do anything twice. They became self-motivated and high performers.
Part of their problem was lazy leaders that would not be willing to put in the time to do what is necessary to get poor performers motivated.
Part of their problem was lazy leaders that would not be willing to put in the time to do what is necessary to get poor performers motivated.
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I would thank Col Andrew Beveridge for the example he set for those of us under his command at Eglin AFB when I was at my first assignment.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs I would go back to 1984 and ask the COL and his staff to authorize training so that I could actually use a computer to develop a briefing. As it was I was very good at developing paper briefs and analytical products; but, I didn't know how to use the computer at the base HQs. If I had been able to use a computer to develop the brief the BG base commander wanted on the program I developed from scratch, then he might well have senior rated me higher than the lowest senior rating he ever gave.
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LTC Stephen F.
COL Mikel J. Burroughs - My pleasure my friend. When you provide thought provoking questions I do my best to respond in kind.
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