Team Reflection And Analysis

I realized I had to gradually guide my new team and team members from questioning everything to trusting themselves, their peers, and their leaders. I hoped they would learn to trust by listening, following up on what they heard, establishing clear lines of authority, and setting high standards. The most important thing I could do as a leader to strengthen the team was training. Training enabled me to take a group of individuals and mold them into a team while preparing them to accomplish their missions. Training occurs during all three stages of team building but is particularly important during enrichment. It is at this point that the team is building collective proficiency.

I needed my team to bring a sense of professionalism to the job.

My advisers learned that their code of ethics is closely related to their values. Their values include what they wanted, but their ethics were more involved with the way they obtained what they wanted. Getting promoted may have been important to many of them, but they learned it was not ethical to advance by putting down other people through “back biting” and cheating. Additionally, they learned that if, on the other hand, they desired to improve themselves (value), they must work to improve their knowledge and ability (technical competence) and use methods that were fair and honest (ethical conduct). They were learning to be a professional team

Through demonstration, motivation, and hard work, I needed my leaders to ensure all missions were accomplished. A leader’s failure to ensure that his subordinates accomplished their task leads to the failure of ACU 4 to accomplish its mission and, thus, the failure of the military service in carrying out the larger mission. And if the military service fails, our country and way of life are in danger.

Within the military structure, there are two general areas of responsibility for every leader in every situation: (1) the responsibility to ensure the mission is accomplished and (2) the responsibility to support the subordinates who work to accomplish that mission. Completion of the mission is the first priority of leadership. How we accomplish the mission depends on the subordinates, the situation, and the leadership style.

In October 2015, we had reached the six-month reorganization milestone. I was building my team with a focus on teamwork, cohesion, and esprit de corps. Most of the concerns during the forty-five-day survey were starting to dissipate, and we were aligning ourselves to the new organizational maintenance