What are some of the main ways you see your leadership skills impacting your workplace performance?

Mentorship of other workers in the same job without judgementalism. Treat as equals with less experience. Offer assistance when needed without letting personal differences affect or change the treatment I would give to a friend. It builds relationships and reduces animosities.

It has taken me 50 plus years to see the truth in this question. Without a great deal of detail or back patting I can tell you that every new job I took I was almost immediately placed in a position of leadership. A short while ago I saw some things about my 68 years of life and was amazed at what I saw about myself. During my years I went about the business of life without much thought to my qualities and abilities far beyond knowing the answers to questions or how things fit together, mechanical things. Finally God has revealed to me that I have been blessed with certain talents and abilities that generally appear to others before they are visible to me. These things are leadership shills. Seems like every time I started a new job, usually some industry in which I had absolutely zero practical experience. Long story but that sums things up for now. Anyone care to know more, please feel free to ask.
God Bless you all my brothers and sisters.
Mark

I partnered with anothet Veteran and we had 25 table restaurant. Our employees were Vets and/or their dependents. We ran it using a lot of military terminology.. we had to turn it down some in respect to the dependents(not be too hard core Military discipline but they knew what we meant in regards to nomenclature for equipment, disciplinary terms. We had many civilian guests who were not familiar with much of our terminology but they enjoyed how the employees "snapped to"(took care of getting a table /area cleared, reset working as a team together and getting guest(s) order taken and turned in.. my Partner Mike had been a Master Gunny and Food Service Superintendent for a base in the West. 4 of his Children worked for us during the week and weekend as kitchen staff and D.R. Staff. We also had
4 Cooks whose dependent spouse and Children worked for us. Everything and e'body worked great.. we never had to worry about health inspections.. if an employee seen s'thing not right, it got took care of.. the person responsible was informed also so they didn't let it be a repeat sit-rep. Mike or myself were usually present.. One time neither of us were there for about an hour one day and the health inspector didn't want to come back. Chrissy our 17 yr. old wait-person and prep s'times offers to take the inspector on the inspection.. the inspector tried to put Chrissy on the spot with a sanitation and time/date question.. how high should lowest shelf in the cooler be from the floor; "1' ft ma'am," "and how long before a product have to be used after cooking before discarding, Ms Chrissy?" "3 days, ma'am." That was our policy also.. she asked her some other questions and Chrissy answered them all and she remarked how clean the cooler was and
Frost free (no excess) the freezer was. Chris showed the inspector the pic of the diagram of the freezer on it's door and the sign saying "know what you want, where it is, get it and get out quickly!" Same with the Cooler.. also shut door behind if going to be in a lengthy time.. most knew to get a cart if going to be getting multiple items.. no open food, beverages in cooler !.. don't need crumbs, liquid on floor left behind!!
The inspector rarely gave us a 100% pass.. usually a 97 and the 3 were immediately correctable.. one of the D.R. Assist'ts went in cooler get some indiv. Milks for the cooler in front and left a soft drink beverage in the cooler.. at least it had a lid on it. But why did they take it in, they knew the rule.. said they was in a hurry and was going back anyway.. so Mike asked them what he said about safety.. so he adds a item on their work list... we follow the praise in public, scold privately rule religiously.. "see me later, when you get a few minutes.. ". There wasn't any "it's not my job!" Whine going on.. we all worked as a team.. So that's how my Military leadership skills had an impact in the business. It worked that way when I worked for others.., I'd be back in the kitchen with one of the prep-cooks and these were Mike my partner's Children..
even though we weren't related.. Chrissy for example had called me Uncle Boyd a few times.. even though we weren't blood relatives.. it actually gave me a good feeling.. there was no one else around.. I realized discipline slipped a bit.. "Chrissy be careful, you know how Gunny is about that!" I'd tell her and smile.. He slipped one day and called me by my first name.. in front of the Children(I acted like I didn't hear) and he was a stickler with title (SSGT. or Mr. Herrst) it was to teach the Young people how to respect.. I didn't need to tell him his children catch people off guard when they are so polite when addressing them. (When I called him "top", that was between us.. )
With proper sir, Ma'am, Mr, Mrs., Ms (which ever applies)..

Dependability and trusting me to take care of certain responsibilities without "micro-management". Whether Coaching or teaching, as I am in the public school system, everything and everyone improves. That's a combination of God, first of course, and then the leadership that are innate and developed through my army training.

Listening, evaluating the situation, making the necessary decision. Empathy for team members. Sense of humor. Involvement in the whole process until completion. Flexibility to circumstance. Compliments on a job well done. Planning and preparation. These are a few of the leadership skills learned along the way.

Put your people first, inspire them to excel by excelling yourself. Invest in them and DO NOT transfer your frustrations to them. Make sure you have peer outlets for that.

While I was active duty, I lead by example n took most of my subordinates to heart, somewhat. I was pretty much like a mother figure, giving out common sense advice in variety of subjects. I didn't talk down to them, treated them as people n young adults.
Lol, use to help one write letters to his girl, another I helped pick out his leathers for his first bike, the style n colors.
The majority were good workers, but you always hv those few who just don't listen or care, a pity.

I lead my truck to the fishing hole. Out of the work force no one to lead

Leading by example is one of the best traits. I've had leaders tell me what to do and walk away, others would be right there beside me. Those are the ones I respect and look up to. That is there tore off leader I strive to be.

For the first ten years or so after I got out, soldiers who knew me would still ask questions and seek advice. Mind you, these were soldiers who I had worked with or had been in their chain of command. That has now changed as it has been 18 years since I "retired",some of the soldiers and co-workers that I interact with today don't want to hear from an "old soldier" , and very few will listen to anything even when backed up by regs or manuals . They could cars less about taking care of equipment or using the tax payers money to its best .