Leadership’s fluidity is informed by countless factors, styles, personalities, environments, circumstances, and more. My leadership posture leans on discipline, dedication, and cooperation, while I evaluate under the pillars of attitude, effort, and performance. I believe that through personal preparedness (discipline), we are better able to commit to our roles and responsibilities (dedication) and more effectively serve one another (cooperation). With these three framing perspectives, my metrics for evaluation apply to my team just as equally to myself. Our attitudes inform our readiness to train, maintain, or operate. Our effort determines the extent to which we focus, retain, and prepare. Our performance is our chance to prove (to ourselves and our peers) that all of our investment is paying off—or not. As leaders, if our investment into those whom we serve equips and inspires beyond the bare minimum, attitudes should be resilient, effort should be focused, and performance should be meeting the mark.
