Workbook
The Sergeant's Leadership Workbook
Leading a Squad When You Were One of Them Last Week
You were promoted because they trusted you. Now you have to decide what kind of leader to be.
For the newly promoted NCO managing the identity shift from peer to leader in a military or uniformed service context.
The Name It First Experience
The NCO promotion is one of the most consequential identity transitions in military service — you go from being one of the team to being responsible for it, often with the same people, overnight. Most new NCOs lead by the models they absorbed without examining whether those models are theirs. This workbook is the examination. The output is not a leadership theory. It is Your Sergeant's Leadership Charter.
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Sample questions
- What changed when you were promoted — in your relationships with the people you now lead, in how you see your role?
- What kind of NCO are you committed to being — and where did that standard come from, your own values or the models you absorbed?
- What do the people under your command need from you as their leader — and what does that require you to do differently than when you were one of them?
Research basis
Litz et al. moral injury research applied to NCO leadership (decisions made for and about people under one's command — the moral weight of first-line leadership) / Maslach burnout inventory applied to NCO-level role conflict (peer loyalty vs. command responsibility) / Cruess & Cruess professional identity formation adapted for enlisted leadership transitions / Swanner NCO leadership identity research / Janowitz military profession research applied to NCO identity formation and peer-to-leader transition
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