Leadership in Different Environments
Provide a 250-350 word response to your instructor-assigned question,
Question:
Leading in different environments and at different levels requires different skills (competencies). Leading military forces in a civilian humanitarian or international nation building missions and environment brings requirements to coordinate with non-military organizations: FEMA, Red Cross, GGOs, State Police, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, and potentially many others. Based on your readings and your experience are there leadership challenges that you face that you do not encounter when leading in a purely military environment? If so what are the challenges and how does your leadership differ? If no, why not?
*Please see the course materials attached.
* Course Material: https://www(dot)fpri(dot)org/article/2011/06/major-nidal-hasan-and-the-fort-hood-tragedy-implications-for-the-u-s-armed-forces/
*When you place your in-text citation within the essay, please input your page number where you found the information. Example: (Hodges 2003, 176)., Hodges (2003, 176) discussed..., In a 2003 article, Hodges (176) discussed.
LEADERSHIP IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS
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Leadership in Different Environments
Leading military forces in civilian humanitarian raises challenges that I do not encounter when leading in a purely military environment. The first challenge is issuing commands for people to take action. Command authority often allows the leader to execute objectives without having to deliberate with juniors or other individuals. Going with this attitude to a humanitarian setting will raise challenges, as Coats (2005, 1) explained. The rationale is that civilian settings require cooperation with other stakeholders, who have different opinions and perceptions regarding the right way to handle operations (Forster 2000, 43). In this case, the main challenge is ensuring that consensus is reached fast enough not to cause operational delays. This is particularly important in times of crisis. The rationale is that crises require leaders who can take decisive actions and survive public scrutiny (Braden et al. 2005, 1). This is a challenge since operations in purely military settings are not subject to the same level of scrutiny. In this case, the im...
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