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CPL Franks, Pauk, T.
4/1/2020
Building Resilience within my Element
To build resilience in my element I must first understand what resilience is, the
Army definition of resilience is “The mental, physical,emotional and behavioral ability to
face and cope with adversity, adapt to change, recover, learn and grow from setbacks.”
meaning that I, as well as my fellow soldiers need to be able to make a mistake and
instead of just getting mad that we messed up, can take and learn from said mistake so
that we can know what we did wrong so that we can avoid the same issue as well as
teach fellow soldiers what not to do. I will strive to lead by example and teach those
under me how and why I made a mistake and then teach them the correct ways to go
about that given situation. I will also train my soldiers how to remain physicaly resilient
by maintaining their physical training so that they will be able to run faster, farther, and
harder so as to keep up with the demands of the Army in any situation we may be
given.
Soldiers often lose sight of what a certain missions goals are and that could lead
to soldiers no paying attention on watch or just not caring about any given task they are
told to accomplish which can lead to the mission not being completed to standard, I will
strive to have my soldiers mantaining perspective of the task at hand my so that they
accomplish the mission to the commanders standards. I will communicate to my
soldiers clear concise goals that are eaily maintained and wont be forgotten despite how
rought the training or actual mission is. Resilience in the army encurages peak
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performance in soldiers allowing them to quickly recover from intense and stressful
situations in combat as well as in their personal lives.
All soldiers are suseptable to problems at home as well as at work, but it is those
problems at home which can cause major issues at the comnpany level. I will make
sure I am available and open to soldiers who are having personal isues at home so that
the unit can maintain its combat readiness. I know from personal experience what
problems at home can do to your team, squad or, even your whole company. I will
maintain an open but professional chanelle where my soldiers can come to me to ask
questions or just get advice that I can offer to them if they are having issues.
In conclusion resiliency is a huge part of the basic responseability of leaders to
their soldiers and being able to provide and find answers to them is imperretive to make
sure that they are prepared to handle anything the army throws at them and are able
and prepared to bounce back and get right back into the fight and keep moving forward.
I will give more than my fair share of effort in training and maintaining resilence in my
unit, so that we are able to complete any mission given to us.