Posted on Sep 10, 2016
What are some of the main ways you see your leadership skills impacting your workplace performance?
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Leadership skills can play a large role in career development. Often, your technical skills can only take you so far. To help you move forward in your career, you need soft skills such as the ability to be a good leader. Therefore, leadership skills are considered to be important traits which can help you get to the top of your career field.
Few people are born to be leaders. Most of us need to practice being a good leader, and that's why leadership development is so important. There are many different types of leadership, and there are many skillsets that can help you become a successful leader.
CAPT Michael Moran1SG Randy BookSSG Eduardo Ybarra Jr. MS PsycPO2 Richard C.Richard VisconteCPT W BrownSGT Michael HarbisonSGT David LacksSSgt James CottrellSP5 Rod BernsenTSgt Robert AllenSteve NewsomSSgt Craig DanielsonPre-CommissionCPO (Join to see)SPC Rikk HillicossLCpl Douglas Landrith JrSFC (Join to see)CPO Tony Hatzenbuehler
Few people are born to be leaders. Most of us need to practice being a good leader, and that's why leadership development is so important. There are many different types of leadership, and there are many skillsets that can help you become a successful leader.
CAPT Michael Moran1SG Randy BookSSG Eduardo Ybarra Jr. MS PsycPO2 Richard C.Richard VisconteCPT W BrownSGT Michael HarbisonSGT David LacksSSgt James CottrellSP5 Rod BernsenTSgt Robert AllenSteve NewsomSSgt Craig DanielsonPre-CommissionCPO (Join to see)SPC Rikk HillicossLCpl Douglas Landrith JrSFC (Join to see)CPO Tony Hatzenbuehler
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Well the biggest impact is the shop I transferred to was suffering from a severe lack of leadership problem. Leadership was never in the office, so the shop just did whatever to look busy until it was time to leave. There was also a severe lack of training and mid level workers couldn't perform the basics of entry level work.
First thing I did was spend 2 weeks making a list of every single discrepancy I found and then I pointed it all out to them. It took a little while and a lot of knowledge to pass, but eventually I got it to the point where the mid level workers were taking charge when the senior levels weren't around and delegating work accordingly. Instead of just passing time, they actually did meaningful work and even learned to prioritize accordingly.
The biggest thing was getting people to recognize how deficient they were. When they realized they could do so much more their confidence improved and morale improved and thus the quality of work improved.
First thing I did was spend 2 weeks making a list of every single discrepancy I found and then I pointed it all out to them. It took a little while and a lot of knowledge to pass, but eventually I got it to the point where the mid level workers were taking charge when the senior levels weren't around and delegating work accordingly. Instead of just passing time, they actually did meaningful work and even learned to prioritize accordingly.
The biggest thing was getting people to recognize how deficient they were. When they realized they could do so much more their confidence improved and morale improved and thus the quality of work improved.
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I asked a good friend of my one time why he thought his career had gone so well over 40 years. His response to me was I'm really not a smart man. However I know what my short comings are and constantly surround myself with smart people I trust like you. Not only was I very humbled but really understood what made him such a great leader himself.
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Organization. Creating steps for what was expected. Following thru. Holding myself accountable. Each one was learned thru military. And more. And has helped me to move from bottom to higher position. And to actually be trusted. My favorite quote from higher up. "She can be a pain in the ass, but she was damned good at getting the job done. When she said it couldn't, it couldn't." Second favorite, "If she already told you what happened, then that is what happened. She admits when she's wrong. She would tell you." At the time, I never thought about how much confidence was placed in me. But I ended up with the respect of four regional managers and VP's.
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Amen ! Create the atmosphere of a Team. Empower the subordinates while listening with an empathetic ear to the issues & finding the solutions as a Team !
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Stephanie Jones Great question. First, you can take all of the skills you've learn in the military or in the civilian life and write them down on a piece of paper. Have you supervised other individuals, have you been put in charge of other personnel, or a project. Do you direct others in the duties that you've perform in the past whether it was military personnel or civilian personnel or even clients in the customer service world. There are many ways to assess your skill level and skill sets. You can do it yourself like I mentioned above or you can have it done professionally (sometimes for free) through a great recruiting service where the Employer Pays the fee iof your higher. The Recruitin company only gets paid if you get higher and most times that will sit down with you and work on your leadership and techincal skills and translate those into a high powered Resume that will get your foot through step one and hopefully to to the live interview where you need to sell yourself and your skiil set. That is just my answer - there are many more professional leaders out here on RP that can provide their insight and suggestions. Thanks
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Stephanie Jones
Thank you for your insight Mikel, I know In middle to upper, but measuring precisely where I am will help me determine what I need to do next.
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The biggest problem I ever faced was people won't let you lead. It is as if they know your skills are far superior to theirs, and if you demonstrate them, they will be in jeopardy of loosing their own job. Their skills are limited to the threat of someone loosing their job or position, and they seem to rule by fear, and if or when you stand up to the stupidity and ignorance, you need to have your resume in order. Meanwhile, their bosses see the potential, but are restrained by outdated company policies. Then again, a lot of my experiences were with those that were standouts against Vietnam, and the many veterans that served though those years. Maybe that's why so many ended up in the streets.
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With a team of myself and three others, I reengineered three global systems. And, sold the most reticent of users.
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This one is interesting, although I am not in the work place but rather in school. I find that my leadership skills come second nature when dealing with other students. Much like the common sense approach when detangling a plan that has gone from good to full FUBAR. Of course the one difficult aspect of dealing with non military people, is maintaining a civil tongue. Yeah I know........I'm working on it. Just didn't realize people are so sensitive.
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