As a fairly new NCO, am I supposed to give my soldiers initial and monthly counsellings (PSG is asking for monthly)?

SPC Fred Harrington - Spit Shined and all Uniforms Lightly Starched I even bought extra uniforms for if and when they were needed and ever one of them that was not in the laundry bag was squared away razor creases and lightly starched. PFC at 8 months, E-4 at 13 months, Promotion board at 24 months spent the rest of my time in the service waiting for the points to go below 1000 which only happened once a year and I still had 990 points. A lot of people were in the Ranks above just no slots..

Only counseling I remember in 66 was ,keep your head down and your ass lower.Worked for me.

Yes. And to help yourself please read and the FM. for counseling. And do not be afraid to ask questions about how to conduct counseling.

Understand.

take a college level writing class. and on your own initiative make it your style to do it monthly whether anyone above you follows through or not, as you progress in rank and responsibility make this your way.FYI there are few things worse to read , whether by police officers or NCO's. both have terrible writing skills by the local culture and by limited writing skills and vocabulary. whether you move up to officer ranks or not, getting educated and learning to write better is a skill to help and enhance your career for the rest of your life. slackers and non hackers need not apply.

PFC Bradley Campbell - Back in my early years in the Army they had a course called "Effective Military Writing," which amounted to the KISS principal (Keep It Simple Stupid). Worked great.

SFC Kelly Fuerhoff -
Ah, makes more sense, but will stand by my comments about guidance and supervision regardless. Sounds a bit like someone is enforcing standards upon others but not doing the same in their own life...but we do not have all the latest information...as your reply confirms. :)

I'm now a veteran who's only been out for a year now. It's a standard as you stated MSG as you pointed out; though I too suggest to the newly appointed SGT, develop your Soldiers as if you want to be developed. When I earned my SSG stripes I was thrusted into hold a PSG slot while their was a PSG already appointed to the slot, didn't bother me at all I took charge indeed, it made it difficult to not only take the helm as PSG yet all the time still trying to develop my NCO'S in my squad. I found a way to make it work, through the art of mentorship, my holding Squad based NCODP's where I started training my troops how to counsel which eventually went into learning how to write NCOER's and Awards. The training sessions didn't just stop at performance counselling, reception and integration, crisis, financial, etc. There should never not be a opportunity available to render proper communication and feedback between you and your Soldier's. Though this form of communication is lacking and has been for years.