Foundation Of Marine Corps Leadership
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Ethos
The characteristic and distinguishing attitudes, habits, beliefs, etc. of an individual or of a group
Marine Corps Ethos
The spirit that continues to guide each Marine leader.
Warrior Ethos
Having the physical discipline, mental discipline, and the character discipline that can be obtained only through developing the mind, body, and spirit simultaneously and equally.
Leadership
The sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and to control a group of people.
The foundation of Marine Corps Leadership helps
helps shape the leader to guide their Marines
The Foundation of Marine Corps Leadership consists of
Values, Morals, and Ethics.
What exactly are Values
the basic ideas about worth or importance of people, concepts, or objects. The rules by which we make decisions about right and wrong, should and should not, good and bad.
Personal Values
Influence feelings and actions regarding others as well as social issues, such as equality, justice, freedom, and patriotism.
Organizational Values
The organization's profession of arms to establish a bedrock that drives every Marines' way of life. Commonly referred to as Core Values, Leadership Traits, and Leadership Principles.
Marine Corps Core Values
Honor, Courage, Commitment
Honor
To live your life with integrity, responsibility, honesty and respect
Courage
The mental, moral and physical strength to do what is right in the face of fear or uncertainty or intimidation
Commitment
Unwavering, selfless dedication to mission accomplishment and personal and professional responsibilities
Leadership Traits
JJ DID TIE BUCKLE Justice, Judgement, Decisiveness, Integrity, dependability, Tact, Initiative, Endurance, Bearing, Unselfishness, Courage, Knowledge, Loyalty, Enthusiasm.
What are Leadership Traits
Basic fundamentals that Marines use to develop their own leadership abilities and that of their subordinates.
Leadership Principles
Be technically and tactically proficient. Know yourself and seek self improvement. Know your marines and look out for their welfare. Set the example. Ensure the task is understood, supervised, and accomplished. Train your Marines as a team. Make sound and timely decisions. Develop a sense of responsibility among your subordinates. Employ your unit in accordance with its capabilities. Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions.
Morals
Serve to delineate (describe or portray) the distinction between right and wrong.
Standard
General consent as a basis of comparison.
Right
Conforms to ethical or moral standards.
Wrong
Deviating from moral rectitude (morally correct behavior.)
Norm
Socially enforced.
Two types of Norms
Folways and Mores
Folways
values people accept out of habit
Mores
Defines what is right and wrong , allowed and not allowed. Not socially acceptable.
Ethics
Set of standards or value system. Right or wrong. Good or evil. Refers to the study of morals or ideas about morals.
Professional Ethics
Professional standards and responsibilities
Code of Ethics
Rules of conduct generally recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions, such as medical ethics or legal ethics.
Relationship of Laws and Ethics
Is breaking the Law Ethical if it is for the right reasons for that human.
Elements of effective decentralized leadership
Authority, responsibility, and accountability
Leaders have the Responsibility to set the example of
Obedience, courage, zeal, sobriety, neatness, and attention to duty.
Objective of Marine Corps Leadership
To develop the leadership qualities of Marines to enable them to assume progressively greater responsibilities to the Marine Corps and society.
What three qualities must leaders possess to be successful
Inspiration, Technical proficiency, and Moral responsibility.
The key indicators that a unit is steeped in the foundation of Marine Corps Leadership are
Morale, Esprit de Corps, discipline.
NCO Mindset
Standing firm to the foundation of marine corps leadership and marine corps profession of ethics.
Leadership Styles
Telling, selling, participating, and delegating
Autocratic
Leader making all the decisions
Democratic
Keep marines informed and share decision making and problem solving responsibilities.
Decision Making process
OODA Loop Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act.
Leadership challenges
Physical challenges, Mental challenges, and Moral challenges.
To overcome leadership challenges you should embody.
Adaptability, Innovation, Decentralization, Will, Fighting power and winning.
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