7/3/2023 0 Comments Senior enlisted academy![]() ![]() This multi-dimensional approach to creating leaders with values and behaviors will synergistically develop and strengthen SOF’s unique organizational culture.Ī key aspect of organizational culture is that it guides individuals when faced with ethical dilemmas, making ethical decision-making the glue that holds mission success and SOF operational culture together. F or JSOFSEA educators, “humans are more important than hardware” is a bedrock truth of the SOF community and the driving force behind deliberate educational investment in SOF operators. Simultaneously, they focus their research and study on creating a culture of shared responsibility and commitment grounded in ethical behavior.Īs indicated by the future SOF environment, ethical awareness by enlisted leaders and ethical decision-making in complex SOF operational engagements remains increasingly vital to how operational units frame the quality of their leaders and how their actions and behaviors impact mission effectiveness. ![]() Within this academic area, SOF enlisted leaders research the essential concepts of proven leadership theories, apply the proven SOF Leadership Competency Model (LCM), complete personalized evaluations of leadership traits, and discuss executive leadership considerations centered around tenets of (a) organizational change and (b) management and conflict resolution. This new JSOFSEA leadership development curriculum empowers the next-generation SOF HE 2 RO as a program that teaches enlisted team members how to capitalize on their personal individual leadership experiences while providing advanced, ethically grounded leadership education designed to develop SOF’s senior enlisted leaders as highly effective organizational leaders. Re-Imagining Ethical Decision-Making and SOF Leadership Development This innovative concept is specifically designed to foster the next generation of ethically minded Highly Educated, Hyper-Enabled, Responsible Operators (HE 2RO). As such, JSOFSEA is building on the academic concepts of relational and guerrilla leadership studies in the development of the newly designed “Leader-Shift” program. JSOFSEA has reimagined ethical decision-making and leadership development in a way that arms SOF leaders with new and innovative approaches to leading SOF units and partner forces. In preparing the Joint SOF senior enlisted community for understanding leadership in the future SOF environment, JSFOSEA recognized that traditional professional military education (PME) inadequately addresses the skills required for gaining the competitive edge needed to analyze, interpret, and act decisively and effectively in the increasing ambiguity of the future SOF environment. In developing this new way of thinking about the strategic importance of relational leadership in SOF formations, the Joint Special Operations Forces Senior Enlisted Academy (JSOFSEA) is increasingly recognizing that the emerging concepts of guerrilla leadership and the guerrilla-leader identity characterize the SOF-distinct-and-SOF-peculiar nature of the future global environment (Long, 2017, 2019 Long & Walton, 2019). ![]() To confront these challenges, SOF must reimagine ethical decision-making as a foundational aspect of leadership and leader development in the context of the future SOF environment.Īs discussed in recent Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)-sponsored forums on JSOU Next, the strategic need for American SOF to build micro-level relationships in highly complex, increasingly diverse and remote, potentially hostile environments within developing states and often tribal societies has never been more critical. This compound security dilemma combines the Joint Special Operations Forces’ (SOF) decades-long imperatives to counter violent extremist organizations (CVEO) and counter weapons of mass destruction (CWMD), all within the global framework of "rising competition with China and Russia, under conditions of eroding US relative military advantage” (p. The emerging global environment marked by the competing interests of current and emerging great powers has enmeshed American foreign policy and strategic military preparations in understanding the 21 st century’s new “converging, trans-regional compound security dilemmas” (Wilson III, 2020, p. Ethics in Special Operations and the Joint Special Operations Forces Senior Enlisted Academyīy Wojciech Labuz, Kari A.
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