Final Reflection Paper

What do you wish to achieve?

With any type of coaching, I would like to achieve a bond between me and the person I am looking to help. Stress can mean many different things to different people as well as affect them in many ways. Finding techniques can be hard, what may work for one person may not work for others. The best thing in my option is to first talk to the person, try and find out triggers to stress, is it work, is it home life, is it kids, or loud noises. After that find out how they normally deal with it, does it, does it help or does something else need to happen in order to cope better in situations.

2. Why is this important to you?

I like helping people, I am in a position of leadership. It is my job to make sure that all my solders can operate under any situation. This also means that I need to be the one to problem solve, take their stress away, or help them deal with it in manners that will help, be the ear that will be ready to listen if they need, talk to them and give advice to them when needed. Learning about coping methods help me to be a better leader as well as a mentor. Being a leader is not always about knowing what is right, it is not always knowing what is best, it is about learning, gaining knowledge and being there to show others that you lead by example and everyone can matter. It is important to me beucase my guys need to feel comfortable coming to me with issues, they need to know that I can help them so that our team can operate as a team. I need them to do what I tell them and trust me it is the correct action without question with this comes trust, leadership and team work.

3. What have you done so far?

Over the past few years I have really changed my leadership style it has been working very well. I have become more open to suggestion, I still belive that being in a leadership position is a responsibility and with that comes hardships. This will never change, I am in a position where I dictate orders, we train where they want to or not, they will do what I tell them but with that comes my leadership style. I need to be sympatric at time, I must be able to be flexible, to be willing to change if I can. There is always something going on in other people lives and at time I need to tell them yes you can take off to handle it or no you can not you are needed here. I have done my best to hear out all the information and make the best decision based on the needs of the individual.

4. How has it worked/not worked?

I feel like it has worked very well for me. I do sometimes butt heads with others but when I feel like I am right, or I know I am I was put in the position of leadership for a reason and I need to stand my ground. I think I have become a more flexible leader, a better leader by finding God and faith that drives me to want the best for others. I am more understanding to other situations, but most of all to me being a leader mean giving my best and having others around me that belive in me and want to do their best helps me to do the best for everyone.

5. What do you need from me? (based off of this question, you will help guide the course in the next log)

I have asked myself this question, I need to know what others expect from me so that I can alter my leadership style. I have recently started a new job here at Fort Sam Huston. It is organized chaos to me right now. There are many people leaving, people that are trying to leave, this creates a stressful environment to begin with as new people entre and others leave. The job is not an easy one and we need the senor personal to educate the new push coming in. I need to learn and understand the job quickly so that as new ones come in, I can be there to teach them and try to elevate the stress in the department.