The Pathway to Enlightened Leadership

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The Pathway to Enlightened Leadership

• NCO Management and Leadership Training

Sqn Ldr P Andrew Vaughton WO Bob Allen Airmens
Command Squadron RAF Halton
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Introduction

• Squadron Leader PA Vaughton
• PTI/PEdO Adventurous Trg Instructor
• 15 years working in development Trg
• Experience of Phase 1/2/3

• Warrant Officer RG Allen
• A Eng Tech
• 25 years working on FJ and SH
• 6 years working in development Trg

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Commanders Intent
Provide a World-class flying and ground training
system and improve through-life education and
training to produce well-motivated, highly
trained, agile and adaptable warfighters
It is no use having the best kit in the world,
unless we continue to have world-class personnel
to field it in the future.
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ACS Courses

• Junior Management Leadership Courses JMLC (On
  promotion to Corporal) 2-weeks
• Intermediate Management Leadership Course IMLC
  (On promotion to Sergeant) 3-weeks
• Advanced Management Leadership Course AMLC (On
  promotion to Flight Sergeant) 2-weeks
• Under development Warrant Officer Study Period
  WOSP (On promotion to Warrant Officer) 1-week

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• High/Low Ropes Leadership Tasks Exercises
• Coaching Mentoring

Team Building Leadership Followership
Mission Command The Estimate Air Power

• Communication Welfare Interviews Public Speaking
• Briefings Defence Writing

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The Aim of ACS

• To provide effective leadership training for
  NCOs, shaping their behaviour, skills, attitudes
  and values to meet the future needs of the Royal
  Air Force

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The Aim of ACS

• To provide effective leadership training for
  NCOs, shaping their behaviour, skills, attitudes
  and values to meet the future needs of the Royal
  Air Force

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ACS Ethos and Principles

• Positive Psychology
• Success criteria
• Choose your attitude
• Create opportunities for connections to be
  developed in a martially spirited environment
• Engage the student intellectually, emotionally,
  spiritually and physically
• Reflective Analysis

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Reframing
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Attributes for RAF Leaders

• Warfighter, Courageous
• Emotionally Intelligent
• Flexible and Responsive
• Willing to Take Risks
• Able to Handle Ambiguity
• Mentally Agile - Physically Robust
• Politically and Globally Astute
• Air Warfare Minded
• Technologically Competent
• Able to Lead Tomorrows Recruit

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Potential
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Realising the Potential of the Airman
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Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

• Self-reporting questionnaire
• Helping understand Personality Types in self
  others in everyday life
• Help you appreciate people who differ from you
• Used to appreciate differences in
• Teams, leadership styles,approaches to problem
  solving, relationships, diversity, communicating
  etc

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Reflective Comment
Nearly all these self-assessments that we have
carried out so far I was totally unaware of. But
it does give you the opportunity to discover the
true you. These sessions have made me realise
that a lot of people do not have failings they
are just completely different to me.
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MBTI

• We have captured the spread of personality type
  from 30 AMLC courses (609 students)
• Significant variation between Western Norms and
  AMLC
• Is this a true reflection of their personality
  type?
• Does this meet the need of the RAF
• Does our working and training environment truly
  recognise diversity

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MBTI Western Norms
ISTJ   13.7 ISFJ   12.7 INFJ   1.7 INTJ   1.4
ISTP   6.4 ISFP   6.1 INFP   3.2 INTP   2.4 
ESTP   5.8 ESFP   8.7 ENFP   6.3 ENTP   2.8
ESTJ   10.4 ESFJ   12.6 ENFJ   2.8 ENTJ   2.9
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AMLC versus Western Norms
ISTJ   129 (21.2) 13.7 ISFJ   62 (10.2) 12.7 INFJ   10 (1.6) 1.7 INTJ   13 (2.1) 1.4
ISTP   37 (6.0) 6.4 ISFP   24 (3.9) 6.1 INFP   12 (2.0) 3.2 INTP   13 (2.1) 2.4 
ESTP   13 (2.1) 5.8 ESFP   23 (3.8) 8.7 ENFP   27 (4.4) 6.3 ENTP   21 (3.4) 2.8
ESTJ   132 (21.7) 10.4 ESFJ   59 (9.7) 12.6 ENFJ   19 (3.1) 2.8 ENTJ   15 (2.5) 2.9
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Increasing uncertainty about solution to problem
LEADERSHIP Ask Questions
WICKED
MANAGEMENT Organize Process
TAME
COMMAND Provide answer
CRITICAL
Increasing requirement for collaborative
resolution
NORMATIVE/ EMOTIONAL
CACULATIVE/ RATIONAL
COERCION/ PHYSICAL
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Ever Changing Environment
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Ever Changing Environment
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What does the RAF want
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The Aspire/Reward Dichotomy

• Aspire to
• Teamwork
• Innovative thinking risk
• Development of people skills
• Mission Command
• Empowerment

• Reward
• The best individual
• Proven methods not making mistakes
• Technical/mechanical accomplishments
• Conformist behaviour
• Control

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People make the Difference
The RAF is not successful it is the people in the
RAF that are successful, it is they who drive the
organisation forward, slow it down or even put it
in reverse. Conflict, stress, misunderstanding,
poor communication, demotivation, resistance, low
morale, poor productivity all have their origins
in people and relationship issues.
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AMLC Course Content
ACS Course Content
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The ACS Approach

• Specialist work
• Staff development training
• Transformational
• Creating the Environment
• Followership
• Coaching
• Mentoring
• Rewards

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Coaching Principles

• Coaching is the art of releasing the potential in
  another in order to improve performance. The
  coach believes in the potential of the coachee to
  reach that superior performance.
• ? DLMC

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Why have we taken this pathway

• Leadership at all levels
• Higher expectation of NCOs
• From the Service
• From the individual
• Better educated NCOs
• Choosing career path
• Help realise potential
• Genuinely engage the student
• Emotional Intelligence

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Summary
Provide a World-class flying and ground training
system and improve through-life education and
training to produce well-motivated, highly
trained, agile and adaptable warfighters
It is no use having the best kit in the world,
unless we continue to have world-class personnel
to field it in the future.
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People Focus

• Technical know-how without an awareness of the
  workings of the human mind is worth next to
  nothing.
• It is only the combination of human development
  skills and the ability to use the latest
  technology that will enable you to stand a remote
  chance of succeeding in the world.
• 
  Sue Knight

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