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  • Essay / Improving NCO Development - 803

    NCOs are deficient in vital areas of leadership due to a lack of training. This leads to inexperienced soldiers becoming inexperienced leaders. The NCO Corps must develop and implement comprehensive interactive training that will challenge the next generation to achieve a functional level of communication skills before advancing to leadership positions. This will generate leaders who can write effectively, speak with merit, and teach adaptively while training others to do the same. Growing up in the military, the most aggravating experiences this author encountered involved NCOs who lacked writing skills, teaching skills. and speech. This led to unclear guidance, vague verbal instructions, and poorly executed training. Everyday junior Soldiers lose imperative feedback and professional development because of this deficiency, creating a negative cyclical effect. This negative cycle causes our young soldiers to place little or no importance on effective communication skills. As a result, newly promoted NCOs lack the tools to accomplish critical tasks such as recommending a well-deserving Soldier for the Army Commendation Medal or clearly explaining a complex topic. There is no denying that NCOs need to place more emphasis on effective communication skills. In order to implement change, this author has developed suggestions for integrating each communication skill into daily training. Writing is an invaluable skill that every leader must master to thrive in the Army. During the NCO development program, the most common defect that this author observed in the middle of the article......is combat, maintenance, specific documents and corrective measures, but missing of established guidelines and guidelines. materials for writing, speaking and teaching. Every NCO must challenge themselves to take the time necessary to train their Soldiers in the basics of communication skills. It is not honorable to allow this trend to continue. It is our responsibility to reevaluate our training methods and content to improve the Army. Therefore, we owe it to the Corps and our Soldiers to develop and train the writing, speaking, and teaching skills that are so desperately needed. Without this training, we will continue to be a frantic corps with borderline illiterate NCOs who send the wrong message to our enlisted subordinates. We must improve the Corps and ourselves so that we can fulfill our primary duty as NCOs, train.