Military Leadership Philosophy Paper

Leadership philosophy is a bit hard to do a self-assessment on. When we look at what defines a leader, you have to take multiple factors into consideration. The first being their military style of doing business, and the second being their personal style. I believe you have to take a leader’s personal life style into consideration as well, because it tells you what their true morals, beliefs, and personal values are. We have all had bad or horrible leaders that we had zero respect for, but I feel that we can learn something even from them. How do you we do that? By watching what they are doing, then do the opposite. I try and live my life, both personal as well as professional with the same type of leadership style. In the rest of this paper I will discuss what my leadership style is according to my values (personal/professional), how I carry out those responsibilities, what my priorities are, what I expect from my Soldier’s, and what they can expect from me. I do my best to uphold and embrace the Army Values, with the one I value the most be integrity. When I was an E-5 (SGT), I didn’t have a very good name for myself. I complained about everything, challenged leadership, and talked back to higher ranking NCO’s. Then came deployment, where I …show more content…
I do not feel that you can have one without the other, and I have seen plenty of bad leaders that do not follow both. Being a National Guard Soldier, I have seen many commanders and NCOIC’s that have focused too much on mission accomplishment and spending no time on the Soldiers. They work them ridiculous hours, hammer them when they do something wrong, and talk down or belittle them in front of the unit. Then they come to us full-time staff and ask why retention is down as well as the moral of the troops. Even though you can call that a bad leader, you can still learn from that leader just doing the reverse of what they