Leadership Secrets of the Australian Army: Learn from the best and inspire your team for great resultsNicholas Jans identifies the distinctive egalitarian leadership principles behind the effectiveness of the Australian defence forces, and shows how they can be applied in any organisation at any level Australia's military consistently punches above its weight, and its approach to leadership is the key to its success. Developed over a century ago by fusing national values with battlefield imperatives, its approach has been fine-tuned over generations. It is now an adaptable and egalitarian leadership culture that ticks all the boxes for best practice. The military assumes no-one is born a natural leader, and that good training makes good leaders. Drawing on his own long military career and defence training programs, and on research, Nick Jans has identified the core principles of this consistently successful approach to leadership. These '3Rs' are the leadership skills which generate loyalty and commitment at an operational level, and they are just as successful in everyday team management as they are in the field. Leadership Secrets of the Australian Army includes real stories from the field and from workplaces, from everyday employees and from well-known leaders. It shows how you too can become a leader your team can believe in, and-equally importantly-how you can help them believe in themselves. 'Read it and be wise.' Lieutenant General David Morrison, AO |
Contents
Prologue | |
Leadership we can believe | |
Leadership culture and context | |
Looking at leadership | |
The military leadership ethos | |
An overview | |
The supportive people manager | |
The engaging catalyst | |
Building an organisation by building its people | |
Its the backswing stupid | |
Contemporary Army structure | |
Making the leaderascatalyst approach work | |
Index | |
The role model | |
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3Rs model achieve activities approach Army’s Australian Army Australian Defence Force Australian military backswing battalion behaviour Blue Cow Building followership career challenges Chris Masters civilian Colin Chapman colleagues communication competence confidence contemporary effect elements engagement ethical example experience focus focused followership former national serviceman goals golf identity important improve individual infantry Jeff Kennett Jim Clement John McCallum junior officers lead leadership culture leadership development leadership ethos leadership style levels Lieutenant Colonel Major Melbourne Mick King military appreciation process military leaders military leadership military’s mission command morale Mount Blue Cow national service officers NCOs Nicholas Jans Nick Cater Noel operations organisational performance perspectives Peter Graham platoon commander practices principles professional recalls role Running the team says senior sense sergeant servant leadership shared situation skills SMEAC success task team members team’s teamwork things thinking Tim Fischer transformational leadership trust values Warrant officer