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

This would depend on component. As National Guard or Reserve no. As active duty yes.

Yes. Soldiers should be receiving initial, monthly and event oriented counselings. NCOs should be receiving annual AND quarterly NCOERS.

I feel it's is the best was to gage ones development in their skills.

Hoorah

Yes, you are supposed to do both.

Not to be a smartass but the Army should have a regulation on counseling. It should tell you how frequent what form to use and so on. I was in the Marine Corps and we had one. But to answer your question yes you should be regularly counseling your soldiers. I was in for 11 years before medical retirement. I DID NOT want to leave. A couple tios i can give you is don't be one sided. Give them goals to meet yes, but ask them what they want to accomplish. Stress the importance of training. You have those people who have no desire whatsoever to stay in the military and that's fine. Just let them know hey while your here take advantage of what the military offers. Successful military training can go a long way in civilian life. I have a great career because I saved all my training records to prove my experience. Now with that said don't just know your soldiers professionally. Counseling doesn't have to be formal. Sit with them one on one once in a while and get to know then personally. You'll never know what your going to find out. Different people have different issues. With the rate of suicides as sad as it is you just might save a life by identifying someone has a problem. As an NCO you are the one they look up to. You are what they want to be. I used to tell my junior NCOs. You can be a Corporal of Marines or you can be just an E-4. The difference is monumental. As corny as it sounds you are shaping young people. And if you got some soldiers that joined late. Like that 25 year old PFC don't insult their intelligence. They have prelude experience. Hope I can help.

For me, I had my team under me previous to being promoted to SGT. So thus I gave my monthly counseling when it was due and clarifying the promotion, but no change on how we ran things besides addressing me as my rank.

Your soldiers need to know the standards (initial). Afterwards you should counsel them on there performance on a monthly basis

You should do the initial and have the PSG do the monthly on a count that you only just became a NCO. The PSG should have more info on said solider.

Depends if ur active. In the guard we do it once a year ( well at my unit anyways)