Honest Mistakes and Better Soldiers By Lance Corporal David Griffiths My Company Commander once briefed my company on how to make honest mistakes into positive experiences. He explained how they were, in retrospect, good if not essential things. We can all read about leadership and talk about being better soldiers until the sun goes down…
Leading as a JNCO: An Army Reserve Perspective By Huw Davies How do you lead a section that ranges in age from 18-50 and contains civil servants, police officers, students and executives? How do you motivate soldiers for whom the Army is not their primary source of income? How do you career manage soldiers you…
The Reimagining Defence Interview By The Army Leader What are the most important ideas and trends that every military leader must understand? Grey Zone conflict? Information warfare? The evolution of urban conflict in megacities? Right now there are plenty of contenders for ‘most important trend in defence’. Last week I spoke to two military officers…
Better Government By Better Leadership: Submit Your Ideas! By Nour Sidawi of One Team Gov One Team Gov are a team of UK policymakers, service designers and digital professionals who are working together to make government more effective. Later this year FutureLearn will be releasing their first crowdsourced online leadership course. We are inviting you…
The Army Leader’s Most Read Articles of 2019 So the year is nearly over and we have a chance to look back. For the small team here at The Army Leader its been an international year of achievements and deployments. The editorial team have been to some diverse locations including Finland, Poland, Nigeria and Afghanistan.…
Centre for Army Leadership Conference 2019 – Leading in the Digital Age Article sponsored by The Sandhurst Trust On the 23rd of October the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is set to host the British Army’s largest-yet leadership development conference. Titled Leading in the Digital Age, the Centre for Army Leadership’s third annual conference will look…
Leadership Lessons for Father’s Day If you’re a father, then Father’s Day is a great day. Depending on the age of your children, there’s half a chance you’ll get a lie in, you’ll probably get taken out for a meal somewhere and with any luck your children will at least attempt to pay you some…
Leaders: Myth and Reality by Stan McChrystal, Jeff Eggers and Jason Mangone By The Army Leader Team “Leadership is not what you think it is – and it never was” Last week the Army Leader team went to the Emmanuel Centre in London to listen to General McChrystal talk about his latest best-selling book, Leaders: Myth…
Change and Leadership By The Army Leader Change is coming – and leaders had better be ready. This was the message from the 2018 Army Leadership Conference, where 850 delegates from across the services (and civil service) heard from four speakers on the subject of leading through change. The speakers painted a compelling vision of change…
What’s on at the 2018 Centre for Army Leadership Conference On Thursday the 8th of November around 800 leaders from the three armed services, the Civil Service, business, academia and international sport will be coming together at Sandhurst. Hosted by the Centre for Army Leadership, it will be the British Army’s 2018 leadership conference. Last…