SSG Private RallyPoint Member 6071826 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Besides the obvious basic Soldiering skills/Team leader tasks 2020-07-04T21:12:34-04:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 6071826

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Besides the obvious basic Soldiering skills/Team leader tasks

2020-07-04T21:12:34-04:00 2020-07-04T21:12:34-04:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 6071827

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Read AR 600-20

2020-07-04T21:14:06-04:00 2020-07-04T21:14:06-04:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 6071838

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>How to delegate to your team leaders<br />Time management.<br />Active listening <br />Communication skills. How to give orders in a clear concise manner. As well as receiving brief backs<br /><br />How to properly counsel

2020-07-04T21:20:56-04:00 2020-07-04T21:20:56-04:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 6071842

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Oh and trust but verify.<br />And don’t micro manage, give your team leaders just enough rope to not fuck themselves so they can learn, but then mentor them as well. Leadership is putting you there for a reason pass that knowledge on

2020-07-04T21:23:05-04:00 2020-07-04T21:23:05-04:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 6071844

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>BLUF(bottom line upfront) get on the computer and start learning the office work involved in a platoon/section. <br />Start embracing and learning Microsoft Excel, Power Point and Word. There are many books and online tutorials to guide you through basic user functions. <br />The reason behind this; there is a tactical side of your job and an administration side of your job that usually suffers neglect. Learn how to build clean, efficient products for your team, squad and possibly platoon. <br />Dive into the EES, learn its functions and prepare your NCOER support form.

2020-07-04T21:24:08-04:00 2020-07-04T21:24:08-04:00 COL David Turk 6071862

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Technique - <br />1. How are you going to get 9 squad members to follow you and your orders. Another way of saying, “what type of leader do you want to be?”<br />2. Establishing interfaces (networking) with other squad leaders, Platoon Sergeant/Leader, and first sergeant.<br />3. What tasks/roles (platoon, company) are required of your position.<br />4. Predesignating who’s in charge in your absence.<br />5. There will be personnel conflicts internal to your squad and external to your squad. Start thinking of your resources and potential courses of action to resolve.<br />6. Understand what you should handle and what you should refer up the chain of command.<br />7. Specific act; ask your platoon sergeant (or first sergeant), “what are the top three issues you have with new squad leaders)”?<br />(That’s enough for now).<br />A lot of these can be accomplished by networking with other squad leaders and your chain of command.<br />Last, remember your are squad leader. You can’t do it all be yourself.

2020-07-04T21:35:06-04:00 2020-07-04T21:35:06-04:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 6071870

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>A lot of great advice has been posted already but I spent the past 3 years rated in either an E6 or E7 slot as an E5 so I&#39;ll drop my advice.<br /><br />The knowing your job, those under yours, and two ranks up still apply. This helps as if you will be delegating and leveraging the leadership of your team leaders. You should also know the job above yours for succession of command reasons as well as autonomy and being able to anticipate future tasks and missions that might come down and you&#39;ll be ahead of the power curve. <br /><br />Understand some might look down at you regardless of your position simply because of your rank. Just like trying to get your SPC and SGT, bust your ass and show why you&#39;re in that position and the good peers and leaders will help you improve in your position. <br /><br />Admin stuff. Get good at having an organized folder on your computer for your squad. It&#39;ll make life easier.<br /><br />If you aren&#39;t already, try and ensure you&#39;re being developed and mentored by your PSG and 1SG. I&#39;ll add more as it comes to mind

2020-07-04T21:42:41-04:00 2020-07-04T21:42:41-04:00 SSG Roger Ayscue 6071881

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Counseling<br />Battle Drills from FM 7-8<br />Your Unit FSOP<br />Packing your Basic Load correctly<br />Correct Physical Fitness Training<br />How to build, Update and use a Leader&#39;s Smart Book

2020-07-04T21:51:51-04:00 2020-07-04T21:51:51-04:00 MAJ John Lavin 6071883

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Learn how to listen to the Soldiers who serve under you!!!!!!!!!! You may be the boss, you may be the guy with the strips and the guy who gets the higher pay check. But the day you forget that the 8 or 10 or 12 Soldiers who serve under you are human beings with human problems, human wants, human desires and who most likely are just as smart and just as knowledgeable about their jobs and ABOUT YOUR JOB as you are is the day you become an utter failure. So learn to listen and remember what they say and want to say. If you can learn this one lesson you will probably be a successful Squad Leader. And being a success is much more fun and much more self fulfilling than being a failure because you never learned how or tried to learn how to listen. Good luck because you asked the right question which means to me that you are already on the right road to success.

2020-07-04T21:53:48-04:00 2020-07-04T21:53:48-04:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 6071884

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>A lot of the things you are wondering about learning have already been taught to you by virtue of listening and watching your squad leaders and team leaders received and give orders. <br /><br />There are two distinct fundamentals of leadership and those often are confused by lots. <br /><br />There’s a huge difference between being a leader and leadership. <br /><br />Leader: a position granted by virtue of rank or assignment.<br /><br />Leadership: an act or leading with compassion, care, and love for the job you do. Leadership is an art, a craft that must be hone and sharpen and applied different to different situations and people. <br /><br />* Learn to actively listen to your subordinates <br /><br />* learn to passively tackle issues while maintaining discipline and good order.<br /><br />*learn to receive and give orders and never shy away from owning those orders you are giving even if they are shitty. <br /><br />* learn to manage your time wisely and delegate as much of the work as possible to your subordinates. It’s not ditching your job because you made rank, it’s that you have other tasks to tackle. <br />* learn to respect your subordinate time and persona space as much as possible legal. <br /><br />* finally, learn to counsel, read counseling, and most importantly incorporate your subordinates goals into monthly counseling as much as possible. If you rate E5/SGTs, learn to read and understand the EES system and ensure your subordinates also understand its purpose and usage. Good luck. <br /><br />Read up DAPAM: 600-25 for NCOERs

2020-07-04T21:54:04-04:00 2020-07-04T21:54:04-04:00 SSG Jimmy Cernich 6071914

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Congratulations you have a new addition to the family.Get to know your team.Getting to know them and teaching them the skills they need to know is very important.Teach them and challenge them to qaulify expert and score the highest in PT.Most of all respect them the same has you want to be respected.Not all sqaud leaders do this but knowing them and doing things with them one on one when they need help means a lot to them.Dont constantly knock them for their faults.

2020-07-04T22:24:53-04:00 2020-07-04T22:24:53-04:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 6071943

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>So far the biggest things I&#39;ve noticed is:<br />Learn to delegate.<br />Communicate clearly what the mission (task) and your intent is.<br /><br />To make your life easier make a leaders book, some units have an SOP on them, but mine doesn&#39;t. So my book has a section for every soldier in my squad including myself with all the counselings for the year, ERB, copy of pertinent course certificates (so S1 can&#39;t lose them and make them do them over), a personal info page (name, address, phone numbers, work numbers, family, etc), and them useful forms like 4856s, 2404s, range cards casualty feeder cards and other things to practice/get stuff done without relying on a printer.

2020-07-04T22:41:53-04:00 2020-07-04T22:41:53-04:00 CW2 Private RallyPoint Member 6072002

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>In my opinion, the one most often forgotten is people skills. You are in charge of your soldiers but not above them. Learn about them, their families, their goals. Take care of them and nurture them because most will be young in age and experience. Be someone they can and are willing to go to with issues. You should be able to spit out a bio of each of them without pulling out a green book. Just showing you actually care will shine bright. Just my two cents. Good luck!

2020-07-04T23:24:27-04:00 2020-07-04T23:24:27-04:00 MCPO Private RallyPoint Member 6072069

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Know your job and everything about it - anticipate those questions you will get from new folks and make sure you know the answers.<br /><br />Remember what it was like as a Junior Enlisted Member - remember what pissed you off about your bosses - and do your best to NOT do those things to your subordinates.<br /><br />And always keep in mind that your people will copy everything you do. If you slack off on boots, they will see that it&#39;s acceptable. If you slide out of duty, they&#39;ll expect the same treatment. If you are deficient in ANY manner, they WILL emulate your deficiencies. Be the subordinate YOU want to work for you - and that&#39;s what your people will do.

2020-07-05T00:07:25-04:00 2020-07-05T00:07:25-04:00 SGM Private RallyPoint Member 6072079

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>All excellent advice so far, I would like to add that in order to be a good leader, you have got to be a Servant Leader and a Compassionate Leader aswell. Every person in your squad is unique and everyone one of them will require a different approach to get them inspired to do the impossible and to win victories.

2020-07-05T00:16:20-04:00 2020-07-05T00:16:20-04:00 SSG George Holtje 6072641

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>NAVIGATION!!!! Command voice!!!!! Time Management!!!!!

2020-07-05T08:15:13-04:00 2020-07-05T08:15:13-04:00 CSM Darieus ZaGara 6073069

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Study the Creed make it part of your vocabulary and institutional knowledge. Embrace the role of leader by respecting your Soldiers and owning your decisions. Lead from the front in all that you do. Think before you act and disseminate orders. Listen to your Soldiers and hear what they say. Make sure they know you are available for council aside from routine sessions. Be there.

2020-07-05T11:04:25-04:00 2020-07-05T11:04:25-04:00 CPT Private RallyPoint Member 6074787

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Good question! I&#39;ll weigh in on what I&#39;d advise from a platoon leader&#39;s perspective, and what&#39;s helpful to your leadership.<br /><br />BLUF: Delegate, Communicate, and Regulate<br />Counseling Soldiers<br />MOS or post-specific maintenance task management<br /><br />The details:<br />From a platoon leader&#39;s perspective, a valuable squad leader takes disciplined initiative to keep their people ready, and communicates and delegates effectively. They also are the pinnacle of tactical and technical competence in their squad.<br /><br />As many others have said, delegation as a leader is key. If you are trying to personally manage every Soldier in your squad all the time, you&#39;re going to burn out and the element isn&#39;t going to function as efficiently. Use your senior E4s and Corporals to manage their Soldiers at a team level, and issue specific direction to your team leaders. Everyone in the military is an adult - use the body of knowledge and skill that you have to help you run your element in the best way that you can.<br /><br />Learn how to communicate in all situations. Learn how to issue direction in combat or garrison. Issue direction face-to-face as much as possible, and if you have to send an email or a text message, leave no room for interpretation in your text. Send reports to higher as soon as you have all the facts. Bad news doesn&#39;t get better with time, especially in the Army.<br /><br />Last, learn to regulate. Manage expectations, as you are the go-between with your platoon leadership and your squad. Make sure your Soldiers are properly prepared, aren&#39;t getting ahead of themselves or falling behind in any aspect, and are handling themselves accordingly. <br /><br />Like SSG Baswell said, properly listening to and counseling Soldiers, and enforcing a consistent standard will win big points with your Soldiers, and you&#39;ll have a more effective squad as a result. <br /><br />A lot of it you will have to learn as you go. You&#39;ll see problems on a daily basis from Soldiers that make you scratch your head and wonder how they got into the situation they&#39;re in, and you&#39;ll get stupid last-minute orders you&#39;ll have to cobble together a plan to execute. There&#39;s no one skill you can have that will prepare you for any and every contingency, but as long as you remember the fundamentals of Delegate, Communicate, and Regulate, you&#39;ll be fine!

2020-07-05T22:18:36-04:00 2020-07-05T22:18:36-04:00 MAJ Ken Landgren 6076433

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Your MOS?

2020-07-06T13:35:28-04:00 2020-07-06T13:35:28-04:00 SFC Brian Gillum 6080525

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Start learning the next job up. Find a mentor, both a current squad leader and a platoon sergeant or higher.<br /><br />Know all your common task skills, not only how to do them but well enough to train them. If you have a special area of interest, focus on that, but be prepared to have to train, do remedial training or evaluate.<br /><br />Think back over all the team leaders and squad leaders you have had. What things did they do that you liked, or found interesting as it related to how they conducted themselves with their subordinates, peers and superiors, how they conducted training, how they counseled and cared for their subordinates. Now, how do you propose to adapt and adopt those things into the leader you want to be?<br /><br />Also think about the stuff they did you didn’t care for. Why didn’t you like it? What do you think you can do to prevent yourself from adopting and using those skills and habits? Because just saying you aren’t going to do that isn’t enough...under stress you do what you know. And having Joe’s that you are responsible and accountable for is a stress all it’s own.<br /><br />Good luck.

2020-07-07T19:17:30-04:00 2020-07-07T19:17:30-04:00 SSG Timothy McCoy 6083493

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>All of them.<br />You won’t know which ones you will need most.<br />Confidence, Candor, Compassion, and Mission accomplishment.<br />Be a bit old school, it work then and it will in the future.<br /><br />HtH<br />Tim McCoy

2020-07-08T18:20:25-04:00 2020-07-08T18:20:25-04:00 1LT Private RallyPoint Member 6084575

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>As SSG Baswell said, communication is key. Delegating tasks is also important as this shows that you trust your subordinates. Counseling is a big thing too. Avoid cookie cutter counseling. If you genuinely care for your Soldiers, you&#39;ll develop these skills naturally.

2020-07-09T01:26:01-04:00 2020-07-09T01:26:01-04:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 6100722

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>So just thought of another one that I really don’t see much of since I came to the Army. <br />Ownership.<br />Own your dudes, own your choices, when leadership pushes something down, own it.<br /><br />Ownership doesn’t just include owning yours or your dudes success, but also their failure. As a leader, what can you teach in order for them to learn and not make the same mistake? Do AARs but make it a conversation not just talking.<br /><br />Be a mentor, don’t coddle your dudes but give them just enough rope not to hang themselves and then positive as well as constructive feedback.<br /><br />Sorry I’m on con leave and I’m just thinking so forgive the rambles

2020-07-14T11:46:19-04:00 2020-07-14T11:46:19-04:00 SSG Steve Knox 8189070

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Be proficient in the platoon MOS. Soldier Individual evaluation reports and counseling statements. good are bad, are a must. Get to know your guys. and their personalities. Be their leader first and their friend a far second. Know squad mission and how to develop training plans IAW platoon mission. Work on IPC skills and most of all, BE Patient. The guys are going to test you to see if you can handle the pressure. You are not their babysitter; you are their mentor.

2023-03-20T16:22:42-04:00 2023-03-20T16:22:42-04:00 MAJ Ken Landgren 8189468

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>MOS?

2023-03-20T23:24:02-04:00 2023-03-20T23:24:02-04:00 SGT Ruben Lozada 8385152

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Good afternoon <a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="1638338" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/1638338-31b-military-police-142nd-mp-94th-mp">SSG Private RallyPoint Member</a>. Excellent post. Thank You for sharing this. I think it all depends on Your MOS.

2023-07-23T16:00:12-04:00 2023-07-23T16:00:12-04:00 2020-07-04T21:12:34-04:00