Do you think a good leadership is very important?

I think you are on to something -- May you find good leadership where you are and if not, take the lessons learned from bad leadership with you so that you don't make the same mistakes. Good Luck

PFC (Join to see) In the military and civilian world, you will have good leaders and bad leaders. Emulate the behaviors of the better leaders so that you are a good leader. Be a leader at all ranks and always put forth your best effort. Be the kind of Squared Away Soldier that others look up to. In your lifetime, you will work for a number of what you consider bad leaders. Maintain a good attitude and continue to do the best job that you can.

Be the type of leader that you want leading you. You can start that right now. Take care of your folks and the mission will do near write itself. Be humble. Never forget your PVT roots. But always be ready to put boot to ass if all else fails and the boot needs using.

What is a leader? What are the traits of a good leader? In the military, it is simple--get promoted to E4 and go to PME classes. With that answer, I would FAIL you because that type of leader will fail you. MOTIVATION is one of many factors. TRUST, I believe, is the most important. If the Leader "walks the walk", they inspire the people below them to become Motivated.

If you don't have a good leader you need to do your best to become the leader that your team needs. Rank will limit you, but what won't limit you is your knowledge. If your leadership isn't good at something or is lacking knowledge in an area that you see needs improvement, start studying. No Soldier can know everything, but you can continue to improve your knowledge or at the very least know where to begin looking.

Just make sure you can do PT and study hard, you'll do leaps and bounds above others who were advanced because confident durrr run fast. I've met more than a few incompetent NCO's who the only thing they were good at was PT, ask them for information on anything else Army related and they get mad at you because they honestly don't know.

It will take time but you can pin point the good NCO's and Officers if you sit back and observe. Try to adopt some of their actions into your own. You'll also want to check with the SME's (subject matter experts), by which I mean people who actually perform the MOS. Now you'll find worthless layabouts in every MOS, but if it doesn't sound right just take the time to verify it. Remember that phrase, trust but verify.

This is important to remember because there is a thing called NCO chatter (similar to PNN), where NCO's got bad information from one of their senior NCO's and then they continue to regurgitate it to everyone they know without verifying the information. Where this usually causes problems is when something is said or done versus what's actually in the regulation. You will also want to be cautious when you find this happening because correcting an NCO is something you should do, but the manner in which you do it is important.

A good NCO will accept that they were wrong and will intake the information you're giving them, usually with thanks and whether you consider it a good thing or not a class you may have to teach to your peers and your seniors about the correct information you've discovered. So if you're going to start correcting things, be prepared to do additional work.

A bad NCO might chew you out for attempting to correct something, it's happened to me. Don't take that personally, it's just something you have to deal with. Maintain respect and keep trying to improve.

Absolutely. One thing people tend to forget is every member can exert leadership down to the newest private.

Train your troops to do the job even when you are not there. Then go have a coffee and donut

Without leadership, you'd be in a circus ... or more likely, a zoo!

Of course. You are preaching to the choir a little. I think everyone here would agree that good leadership is good, bad leadership is bad and good is definitely preferred over bad. Some people are born leaders, others thrust into it and unfortunately some people fail to meet the expectations we set for them as leaders.

I'm looking at this issue in my doctoral dissertation. I think for retention, so far all signs point to yes.