Posted on Jul 7, 2016
Very direct question for soldiers and leaders. What's morale looking like in your ranks? How can you personally improve it?
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Our unit and leadership doesn't really understand the struggles we are facing (we are about an hour away from HQ), so while things are slowly improving, we have such a high turnover rate with our civilians, that we are always at square one.
We need better communication, and some consideration....
I try to get involved, and am ADSO, EM, Hazmat NCO, Audiology NCO, and I try to network on those rare occasions I am at the unit..... but mainly, I am honest with our OIC when he manages to sneak away from HQ for a visit.
He has helped grease a few wheels recently (fixing the A/C in our building, and ordering dehumidifiers)
We need better communication, and some consideration....
I try to get involved, and am ADSO, EM, Hazmat NCO, Audiology NCO, and I try to network on those rare occasions I am at the unit..... but mainly, I am honest with our OIC when he manages to sneak away from HQ for a visit.
He has helped grease a few wheels recently (fixing the A/C in our building, and ordering dehumidifiers)
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So, I am in the corporate world now and I lead a large team with direct and indirect reports. When I came here two years ago, the morale was in the toilet. We worked to replace all the supervisors and change the culture. It has so much to do with how people are treated. For instance, when I was the XO of a company, our commander was about worthless and the 1Sgt wasn't any better. They would call early formations, pull people off passes, hold people past the final formation and they did it all the time. You can imagine, these people just wanted some down time and they couldn't get it. There were some good NCO's that tried to help by extending lunch breaks but the damage was done. We aren't always at war. We need to treat these soldiers like people. Even when they make a small mistake, sometimes a second chance and some compassion shows the whole team that everyone is human.
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