Joint Force Operation Center Exercise

Being a leader is always a challenge, and assuming a new command is challenging. There are a lot of expectations to me as a leader. The organization has selected me to a new position, and they believe I fulfill their standards for their leaders. The organization trust and expect me to lead, develop and achieve. My superiors and subordinates have a lot of expectations. They expect me to lead them in the best way to solve our assigned missions. In my new assignment as commander of 4th Armor Brigade Combat Team (ABCT), the main critical leadership problems are the lack of cohesive teams, ethical and work standards and the level of stress. I will through analyze explain and defend my selection of critical leadership problems and apply a model for solving them, including implementing and measuring my vision as the new brigade commander.

I attend a military school and i have been a part of many leadership roles at Fork union Military Academy. One of my unique experiences was when we were drilling my company to prepare for a parade. I am a day student which places us in our own platoon. In my day student platoon there were no cadets with rank at the time which means we had no particular leader. This was the perfect opportunity for me to take charge and become the temporary leader for the drill. I had no real experience with drilling besides the steps i have learned while being at FUMA for 2 years at that time. . I drilled the cadets in front of the 120 cadets in my company. I did particularly well besides one mistake on a facing movement. Taking this leadership role earned me

Served as the Levant analyst on the Joint Operation Center (JOC) Current Intelligence Team (CIT) during the Iraq crisis. Tasked with standing up a 24 hour intelligence section on the watch floor to provide intelligence support to the JOC watch staff and joint planning group (JPG). My daily duties were to provide the most up to date information for the daily intelligence summary, commanders read book, and preparation of the daily situational awareness brief for directorate and CG. As a trusted analyst I individually managed, addressed, and answered five requests for information directly from the 2-star Commanding General (CG) without requiring follow ups. Additionally, I supported the joint planning efforts by answering 12 additional requests

Annual Retiree Summit, Career Fair & MWR Showcase: FFSC Joint Forces Expeditionary Base Little Creek: FFSC Oceana’s representatives participated in the Annual Retiree Summit, Career Fair & MWR Showcase located at FFSC Joint Forces Expeditionary Base Little Creek. The FFSC Oceana representative duties consisted of escorting register employers and individuals to their assigned table, setting up a marketing resource table, and providing additional resources from their assigned center. The initial data assessment suggested the event was a success as 500+ military affiliated personnel attended the event and 200+ individuals received their annual flu shot. The event had 40 employers on-site, 8 Educational Institutions on site, and MWR presented

1. Cyberspace: One trend of the future security environment that will most influence the operational environment (OE) is the impact of the rapidly changing technology on the use of cyberspace, which will in turn effect the Joint Force going into 2025. (Carrington post, July 28, 2016).

Task leadership roles “help the group acquire, process, or apply information that contributes directly to completing a task or goal”, while procedural leadership roles, “are sets of communication behaviors that provide logistical support, keep the group focused on the task, and record the group’s accomplishments” (Verderber, Sellnow, Verderber 134). The task roles were filled primarily by two guys by the name of Eden and Nick, and the team leader Courtney. Courtney took the role of an opinion seeker by probing the team for their thoughts and ideas. The other two both took the role of analyzers by scrutinizing any issues with the reasoning of group discussing and trying to analyze how best to complete the tasks for the hunt. The procedural roles were filled mainly by me and two other people by the names of Sam and Kit. While Sam and I both took roles as expediters trying to keep everyone on track and helping to make sure that we got as many items done as we could. Everybody else in the group either switched between roles or never took any

I am currently an officer for my church youth group. Every year, the youth are responsible for organizing a bible camp. In order to prove myself, I agreed to lead every aspect of the camp. However, I quickly realized that this project was too complicated to handle by myself. Instead, I enlisted my fellow officers to assist me. Another obstacle was the lack of event awareness. Since our original marketing methods were unsuccessful, we pursued other avenues (i.e. social media campaign, promotional video). By overcoming these obstacles, my goal of conducting a successful bible camp was achieved.

In another instance, I had to lead my fellow student employees during one of our biggest summer events. Our team had coordinated this event a few times before and each person had both the ability and the confidence to complete their tasks. For this situation, I used an entrusting style of leadership and let them take charge of their respective portions of the event (Daft, 2014). This style of leadership gave them the freedom to use their creativity to improve the event and the decision-making process was more efficient.

For the last decade, the Army has been actively engaged in the War on Terror. Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) began on October 7, 2001 with allied air strikes on Taliban and Al Quada targets in Afghanistan. Even though United States President Barrack Obama announced the drawdown of Armed Forces in Afghanistan by the end of 2016, OEF would have lasted 15 years, becoming the Army’s longest war in the United States history (Taylor, 2014). On the other hand, Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) lasted approximately 105 months, beginning in March 2003 and lasted until December 2011 with the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq (Schifrin, 2011). Between OEF and OIF, over 2 million American Military personnel have deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan or both

the majority of nations consider Al-Qaeda and other such groups to be evil, and US to be good to fight against bad.

One of my greatest leadership responsibilities is in my High School's FIRST Robotics Team. On My Team, I took on a lot of responsibility from the beginning. In My Freshmen year, I started off working on Build Team, Program Team, and Electrical Team. When I started off participating in arguably three of the most important teams, I had no intention of becoming a leader or being responsible for keeping such a large group of people coordinated with each other, but it arose out of need. Program Team had very little understanding of the current whereabouts of the robot, how the electrical system was currently operating (things change as the design matures), or how well the code actually performed. Build team always makes sure to leave room for any

I worked with five other dedicated students. As the CEO, I was responsible for formulating the overall strategy, assigning tasks to the team and ensuring that the tasks are completed on time and with quality. This meant finding a common ground between being an authoritative and a laissez-faire leader. In the initial phase of the project, my team was under intense pressure to meet our deadlines. I quickly realized that I was not being an effective leader and sought to change that. I started assigning tasks to each team member and making sure tasks were understood and completed prior to our next meeting, and I made sure that we discussed as a group each person’s material. I would then spend time combining and refining the work, and I made sure we had a rehearsal before each week’s presentation. I had found that common ground and over the course of four weeks, we successfully developed a prototype along with financials, marketing data and product development materials to support the business. We also gave a final presentation that was well received by other students, faculty and parents. This was definitely a great learning experience for me, and it helped me grow as an individual and as an

Beginning in boot camp and continuing throughout my career, I’ve seen the Coast Guard promote the leadership model to be: “You” influencing “Others” to achieve a “Goal”. With all the different ways leadership can be defined, this simplistic model which has been permanently engrained in my thinking definition still rings true for me. As such, when defining my own personal definition of leadership, I align it to this same model. More specifically, while I support the fact that leadership involves influencing others to achieve a common end I propose that is not the whole story. Leaders must not be stagnant in their vision and must lend themselves to the possibility they may have to adjust their leadership styles depending on the goal. The best leaders are the ones that understand their own personality traits as well as those traits of the people they are trying to lead.

Leadership is summarized as ‘the process in which an individual impacts a variety of individuals to attain a common goal’. The goal is attained by mutual collaboration and cohesive behavior. A leader infuses a sense of positivity and manages others to reach a specified goal. Leadership has had a very profound influence throughout my life by affecting my family, friends, teammates, and the overall decisions that I have made. By using my personal experiences with leadership, I have learned how to use these skills not only on the field, but throughout my everyday actions.

Leadership/Group Work: Give an example of your leadership within the context of a group activity. Focus on your specific contribution to the group, particularly noting how you were able to influence or motivate others especially when conflicts arose.