Leadership Styles: Revolving Leadership

Revolving Leaders

Regardless of the purpose, size, or longevity of an organization, managing changes in its leadership is often difficult. In the Navy, due to the regulatory in changing duty stations by its personnel, leadership change occurs more frequent than within the civilian sector. At the AEGIS Training and Readiness Center (ATRC), a naval training command, this duty station is presented with an even harder leadership frequency change. The schoolhouse is the most advanced naval training command within the United States Navy, and continuously develops sailors that maintain and fire advanced weapon systems. In order to ensure the command is successful each division requires dedicated management by a military course supervisor. One of the greatest challenges facing this command is having a quality pool of selectable candidates for this position. Selecting the course supervisor is a difficult equation that if completed incorrectly fails within a few months. To ensure that only the highest quality military member applies for the course supervisor position at ATRC, it must provide them a beneficial reason.

Organization Description

The AEGIS Training and Readiness Center primary objective is training sailors on the complexities of the AEGIS weapon systems. This organization stresses the importance of technical skills, instructor proficiencies, and curriculum delivery to its sailors. The governing body of ATRC is the Center for Surface Combat Systems (CSCS). The commands mission statement outlines significance of training the right sailor tiling established procedures. CSCS mission statement is “To develop and deliver surface ship combat systems training to achieve surface warfare superiority” (CSCS, n.d., p. 1, par. 1)...

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