What a Leader Must Do

• Provide direction.

• Implementing.

• Provide motivation.

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1. Leadership that provides direction includes setting goals, problem-solving, decision-making, maintaining standards supervise, evaluate, and planning. These are thinking skills of leadership.

2. Leadership that implements includes communicating, coordinating, supervising, and evaluating. These are the implementing skills necessary to achieve goals.

3. Leadership that motivates includes applying the principles of motivation. It also includes teaching and counseling. These are the skills necessary to influence human nature and to guide motivated people to carry out plans and programs.

3.Take care of soldiers; Serve as the ethical standard bearer; Develop cohesive soldier teams; Make soldiering meaningful; Reward performance that exceeds; Correct performance not meeting standards; Punish soldiers who intentionally fail to meet standards or follow orders.