Lessons Learned from Training Center Yorktown's Chief Warrant Officer Pre-Board- CDR Doug Simpson

Training Center Yorktown (TCY) typically has 50 enlisted members request to compete for Chief Warrant Officer commissions annually.  These candidates come from various divisions and branches, posing the potential for numerous chains of command to request “highest recommendation” for any given warrant officer specialty from the commanding officer.    ...read more.

Afloat Managers Needed- LT Mark Rawls

The cutter fleet is aging rapidly and help has been hindered by dramatically cut future budgets. Now, more than ever the cutter community needs its leaders to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty to help preserve the aging fleet.    ...read more.

Crossing the Cultural Barrier:  Leadership Learning for an International Audience- LCDR Erin Williams

Teaching self-awareness to a group of Coast Guardsmen with varying backgrounds can be challenging.  Teaching this to an international audience raises the challenge to an entirely new level.   ...read more.

Coast Guard Environmental Sustainability Awards Program-                             Dr. Kenneth Malmberg

The Environmental Sustainability Awards Program is designed to promote awareness and action on the part of Coast Guard personnel to comply with environmental requirements while being good stewards of the environment. ...read more.

What a Dollar Bought Me- CDR Paul Fawcett

This article is a sequel to the article “My First Salute Opened a Door”, published in the Leadership News in the fall of 2000 and in RESERVIST in 2002. ...read more.

GET OUT (and about)-Mr. Michael P. Smith

Are you a Leader and Manager? Getting out and visiting your workers in their workspaces is one of the best ways to build trust, understanding, and esprit de corps. Taking the time to visit your folks informally in the spaces where they work shows that you really care about them and the work they do. ...read more.

The Coast Guards Dirty Laundry: Should We Air It or Bury It?-CDR Mike Dolan

The Coast Guard is an organization of tens of thousands of people. Collectively, we take immense pride in our service and we live by the Core Values. However, any large organization has a few individuals who commit dishonorable, illegal, and even evil acts. They are rightfully and routinely discharged and sent to prison.  ...read more.

Cutterwomen-MKC T. Claflin

Holding in its fury, is a beauty and mystery unlike any other natural force on earth. With settled calmness, it can soothe the most troublesome of souls but its sporadic impulsiveness will slap a mariner with a rogue wave when least expected…it is the sea! The sea holds no prejudice to the unfortunate souls that are taken to the depths of their fate nor does the sea discriminate against the saviors of those souls.  ...read more.

The Leadership Journey: How Great Leaders are Made-Mrs. Carla Carlton

For more than 45 years, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Federal Executive Institute and Management Development Centers has trained federal managers, executives, public service career employees and military personnel to be effective government leaders. ...read more.

What's Your Contribution?-LT Fred Bertsch

We tend to think about personal conduct in terms of individual actions and behaviors as they relate to misconduct and disciplinary issues. While clearly an aspect incorporated in the concept, personal conduct is a much broader idea that includes self accountability for performance, actions, and contributions. ...read more.

Effective Leadership-YNC Jeff C. Wheater

Looking around, one can see that leadership is everywhere. However, people often disagree with each other as to what constitutes good leadership. "It is determined by how effective it is." "No, it is based on how efficient it is." "No, no, no, it is both, plus how happy the workers are at performing their respective tasks." Leadership is sophisticated and how it is interpreted influences others perspective of work as well as the way their success is measured. ...read more.

Personal Conduct: A Systems Thinking Approach-Mr. Nelson Torres

 The aforementioned epigraph illustrated the employee’s recognition that his Personal Conduct mattered and that his actions and performance aligned with the aims, mission, and strategy of the organization. ...read more.

The Learning Leader: A New Perspective on Coast Guard Leadership Culture-LCDR Meridena Kauffman

The Coast Guard is facing a leadership dilemma. It has enjoyed, and deserved, the reputation as a world leader across its many programs, from Search and Rescue and Law Enforcement to Marine Environmental Response. Semper Paratus is ingrained in Coast Guard culture and has led to an organization that tries to answer the call regardless of increasing stress placed on its personnel and systems. ...read more.

Building Leaders of Character...One Protege at a Time-Captain Andrea Marcille and Dr. Laurel Goulet

Leadership means different things to different people. Most would agree that a leader has a vision and builds upon it. There may not be as much agreement about how that is accomplished. Strong leadership usually means a leader who is charismatic and decisive.  ...read more.

Personality Typing and Leadership-CDR Richard J. Wester

The Strategic Leadership style highlighted in LAMS curriculum is typically very effective since different styles of leadership may be more appropriate for certain types of decision making and people involved. But one very important difference among people that is often overlooked is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality type ...read more.

Lessons From a Leader- Master Chief Mark Allen