preview

Marine Corps Leadership Essay

Decent Essays

The Marine Corps has many great philosophies when it comes to leadership, one of the most important being decentralization. By definition decentralization is the ability for subordinates to act, guided by the commander’s intent. This allows subordinates to complete the mission without the “how to” given to them. This style of leadership does not exist at my current unit due to the lack of junior Marines, and the high amount of Staff Non-Commissioned Officers (SNCO’s), and Officers which is hindering the development of Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO’s) within the unit. I am going to create a plan to implement a more decentralized style of leadership at my unit which will give NCO’s more responsibility, provide them an opportunity to hold …show more content…

Working in a unique environment like Officer Candidates School, NCO’s are not given a lot of responsibility because of the politics that surround the school house. In order to ensure candidates are given a fair evaluation and that everything is done by the book, most tasks are completed by the SNCO’s and Officers instead of entrusting it to be done by the unit NCO’s. One thing that can be done to give NCO’s more responsibility is to let them get involved with the decisions that get made on a day to day level at the unit. Allow the Marines who actually have to conduct the tasks to be part of the decision making to have a task accomplished. Another thing that can be done at my unit is to let NCO’s be NCO’s and handle situations that occur on a day to day basis. All too often our NCO’s are getting skipped over in the chain of command and if an issue arises the junior Marine will go to the SNCO to get the problem resolved. This happens because it is allowed in the unit by the SNCO and it almost can be said that it is encouraged. With a lack of responsibility we as NCO’s are not able to grow our leadership style and ability and we are being set up for failure when we do go to a unit that has a more decentralized

Get Access