What Is The Importance Of Leadership And Professionalism

Graduating High School, many young adults feel like they’re at the top. They’ve been the oldest and most experienced for a year now. Fast forward to their first encounter with real world reality. Many young adults realize they know little about professionalism as a whole. If they’re lucky, at some point, someone or some experience will majorly impact their growth with their professional development.

I was an eighteen year old straight out of high school, signing a dozen dotted lines to go defend the United States of America. If I had taken the time to think about it, I would’ve never crossed the thought process of leadership, or professionalism. I had only thought as far as being taught what I was supposed to do, and blindly listening and obeying. Arriving at my first duty station, after basic and technical training, I discovered how much of an amateur I truly was with understanding the importance of leadership and professionalism while co-working alongside a …show more content…
The most important things I have learned from her influence, is to always continue to better yourself as a leader and as a professional because there is always room for improvement. Some forget that we work with human beings who have things going on outside of the workplace. Taking care of your people, your equals, and those above you is the best way to have a work environment where people want to get their job done and their job done right because they know they’re noticed and important. Whether taking care of them is excusing them for personal appointments or asking them if everything is okay or taking time out of your workday to help them understand how to do a task from start to finish correctly, and so on. Thanks in large part to SSgt Glaze, I stay extremely organized, I go to work, ready to work, willing to work with and teach others, and I feel great about how I influence other young