Small Unit Leadership, a Commonsense Approach

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9. Third Chapter-How to Figure out the Right Things to do. This Chapter discusses what to do as a leader. The writer found out three basic leadership procedures, those are

a. Troop leading process

b. Estimate of the sit

c. Five paragraph fd order.

One word all of you must have heard, that is “Chain of Comd”. Various suggestions were put forth in an attempt to show how you can act as a part of chain or a link of chain.

11. Forth Chapter- How to dev sldr. This chapter brings to light how we can improve the skill, will, and confidence of a sldr. How to get a task done by the sldr of various categories are discussed in this chapter (able and willing, unable but willing, able but unwilling, unable and unwilling). In this chapter the author tried to cover the leadership principle and traits by only four words, those are Candor, Commitment, Courage, and competence.

12. Chapter Five-Small Unit Teamwork. In this chapter the author describe what is teamwork, importance of teamwork, how to build teamwork or develop the tenth principle of leadership means “Train your men as a team”. In this chapter the author laid out a basic formula of leadership arithmetic, ie

SKILL x WILL x DRILL = KILL

The formula means basic indl SKILL, the WILL to wk to get ready, and TEAMWORK drill. That’s the only road that leads to winning teams.

13. Chapter Six-Putting Skill, will, and Teamwork Together. _ The chapter discussed about teamwork, pull all of it together, and combine it with what was discussed in the forth chapter “How to Develop Soldiers”. The author four things for a team in which SKILL, WILL, and TEAMWORK have been put together and balance. Those are-

a. Mission-type orders.

b. General supervision.

c. Trust.

d. .....and a battle fd.

14. Chapter seven-Leadership Skill. This final chapter carefully selected tool kit of all-purpose leadership skill. Here it is deliberately discussed as a small unit leader how to Lister, Process Info, Transmit, Be a self-starter, Plan, Manage Time, Make Meetings Work, Set Standards, Delegate, Inspect, Maint good Performance Levels, Motivate, Use Team Rewards, Use Team Punishment, Supervise and even ask the right question.