Right-To-Lead Assessment Model

The concept that I found most important in Module 5 was the trust element of the Right to Lead Assessment Model. The main reason I find this concept to be crucial to how to lead people is simple, without trust, leadership does not exist. If your people do not trust you, how can they be expected to stand by your decisions? For example, when I was a Senior Airman at my last duty station, my supervisor would always get outraged with me when I corrected him on certain job specific tasks that he was doing incorrectly. This made me less likely to approach him. It also made me worry that he was inefficient in some of the new tasks that he was training me to do. I was apprehensive about taking advice from him which caused me to progress slowly
I told myself then that I will do everything in my power to be proficient in everything that I expect my subordinates to do. If trust is broken down within the work center, it will greatly hinder mission success. Airmen will not follow a leader that they do not have confidence in, are not committed to or disrespect. The amount of trust my Airmen have in me is very hard to gauge and takes time to develop. Additionally, my Airmen can lose their trust in me very quickly, so it’s very important that I continually sustain the bond I have with the guys in my supervision.
One of the reasons that my subordinates have trust in me is because they respect the rank that I wear. Over time, this respect is not only given to me because of the stripes on my sleeve, but because of who I am. As a leader, I