Bad Leadership: Positive And Influence Of Leadership

. Leadership to me is the ability to influence other people to accomplish things they normally wouldn’t do on their own. In that respect leaders can be positive or negative. A good leader will push an individual or group to places they never thought possible. In order to do this they have to have extensive knowledge and foresight in their field. A bad leader has no plan of action and will dump an excessive amount of responsibility on those beneath them due to their own incompetence. I have had the privilege of working with both types leaders. I say privilege because I’ve learned just as much from both types. I have always strived to be the best mechanic and aircrew member that I could be in my career. The leadership influences I have respected the most are the guys who knew their subject of expertise; mainly the Chief and First Class Petty Officers that knew everything about the aircraft we were flying on. Those are the people that I always looked up to and wanted to be around because I always knew I was going to learn something new from them. As I have

Another leadership behavior that I rarely do is ask the question “what can we learn?” when things don’t go as expected. This goes back to policy and procedure as well. Usually when things don’t go as expected it’s because I have skipped a step somewhere along the line. Whenever the error becomes evident, that question answers itself and is easily corrected. The Coast Guard has a system in place that does this already. Maintenance Resource Management (MRM) is a system that gets a number of people together from all different levels and talks about maintenance mishaps, what went wrong, and how we can avoid the same thing from happening again. I could become more actively involved in the MRM process and even become a facilitator. I am already involved with preparing such things as the unit mishap plan and tool control program. I feel like I do a good job at making necessary changes to make each of those