Personal Essay: My Personal Philosophy Of Leadership
My Leadership Philosophy
My philosophy boils down to this: just care about your team and seek to improve yourself and others. If you care about your team members and the team’s success, all else can fall into place. Leadership is a daily practice that seeks to better oneself and others. There are lots of books written on the topic of leadership, its meaning, and how to exercise it. However, the best lessons don’t come from a book. Instead, good leaders continually use their experiences to develop a leadership philosophy (or style) that’s driven by beliefs, values, and principles. These principles are rules, shaped by our values and beliefs, which dictate and guide behavior.
Principles
I’ll share some of the principles that drive my own leadership philosophy and continued development. For one, create a positive work environment for every Soldier. A positive environment is not necessarily a friendly one, but it’s one that’s fair, predictable, and encourages us all to be our best selves. Ideally, it’s like a family where everyone feels they can depend on each other. One Soldier’s success is success for the team, and the success of the team is success for each member. Also, give each Soldier …show more content…
Hard work and discipline leads to progress, progress leads to success. Everyone deserves the opportunity to learn, grow and develop personally and professionally. This means defining goals, developing action plans, measuring progress, and holding people accountable for actions/inactions. Another principle is to create opportunity space for Soldiers to fail and learn from those failures. I firmly believe that we learn best from failures, but our culture is one that avoids it far too often, many times to the detriment of our Soldiers. Obviously there are times when failure isn’t an option, but if we want to develop leaders that have the knowledge and experience to take reasonable risks, we must allow them to fail at
My philosophy boils down to this: just care about your team and seek to improve yourself and others. If you care about your team members and the team’s success, all else can fall into place. Leadership is a daily practice that seeks to better oneself and others. There are lots of books written on the topic of leadership, its meaning, and how to exercise it. However, the best lessons don’t come from a book. Instead, good leaders continually use their experiences to develop a leadership philosophy (or style) that’s driven by beliefs, values, and principles. These principles are rules, shaped by our values and beliefs, which dictate and guide behavior.
Principles
I’ll share some of the principles that drive my own leadership philosophy and continued development. For one, create a positive work environment for every Soldier. A positive environment is not necessarily a friendly one, but it’s one that’s fair, predictable, and encourages us all to be our best selves. Ideally, it’s like a family where everyone feels they can depend on each other. One Soldier’s success is success for the team, and the success of the team is success for each member. Also, give each Soldier …show more content…
Hard work and discipline leads to progress, progress leads to success. Everyone deserves the opportunity to learn, grow and develop personally and professionally. This means defining goals, developing action plans, measuring progress, and holding people accountable for actions/inactions. Another principle is to create opportunity space for Soldiers to fail and learn from those failures. I firmly believe that we learn best from failures, but our culture is one that avoids it far too often, many times to the detriment of our Soldiers. Obviously there are times when failure isn’t an option, but if we want to develop leaders that have the knowledge and experience to take reasonable risks, we must allow them to fail at