Pat,

Empower your NCOs to create a plan that fits their Squad/Team. You pay them to lead so make them lead their Soldiers, especially at PT. As a PL, your job is to ensure your leaders are challenging their troops and making them better. Also, like any plan, double check it and make sure it makes sense. If a squad is struggling with their run…[Read more]

Pat,

Empower your NCOs to create a plan that fits their Squad/Team. You pay them to lead so make them lead their Soldiers, especially at PT. Allow them to create a plan that best fits their squad/team. As a PL, your job is to ensure your leaders are challenging their troops and making them better. Also, like any plan, double check it and make…[Read more]

Greg,

Great question and I appreciate that you mentioned a book that is outside of the military realm. Another book that was influential was Jim Collins “Good to Great”. My favorite line in the book (and one that I stole for my command philosophy, “All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of…[Read more]

Greg,

Great question and I appreciate that you mentioned a book that is outside of the military realm. Another book that was influential was Jim Collins “Good to Great”. My favorite line in the book (and one that I stole for my command philosophy, “<span style=”font-family: ‘Times New Roman’,serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: ‘Times…[Read more]

Yes the Army will pay to transport your car to your next duty station. Also, although it is difficult you can get through BOLC without a car, but I would not recommend it. As an officer and a leader I would expect my LT to show up to any duty station with his/her own transportation.

If you need help, USAA makes it easy to secure a car loan and…[Read more]

Cho,

Great question. I agree with a lot of what has been said in here. The way I counsel my NCOICs at any level is we just have a talk. We talk about my expectations, there expectations, and where we envision our unit going forward. After we had that informal talk, I would put everything we discussed on paper to make the counseling formal. By…[Read more]