I’ve been a police officer guys wrote some long questions for Echo Charles Street were in that he’s been studying him for four hours I’ve been a police officer for about four years I consider myself to be proactive and try to get after it every day much like many of my brother and sister law enforcement officers recently I switched to a bigger agency with a with a bit of a different mission I still try to be as proactive and as thorough as I can in everything that I do but I’ve noticed that many of the frontline supervisors in this agency want officers to be reactive rather than proactive the supervisor in particular has told me to stop working so hard and get salty suggesting that I lower my morale the question is how do I build a relationship with these supervisors while still being proactive and working hard so this is what I did when I got to SEAL team 1 I was this guy right here I was fired up I was hey oh we’re doing an obstacle course today cool I’m gonna wear my rucksack with a forty pound sandbag in it and all the guys that were older were you know looking at me like dude pump the brakes and you know of course what did I think those cars are part of core those guys are weak that’s what I was thinking and then you know I thought to myself okay how can i how can I have influence over them how can I have influence over the platoon element can I have influence over the platoon that I’m in if everyone that’s in my platoon doesn’t like me no can you if everyone in my platoon doesn’t like me because I’m super hardcore then are they gonna steer it all in my direction no the answer’s no the answer is no in fact they’re gonna isolate me in fact I’m gonna have no influence over my platoon and that’s that’s a horrible thing so what did I do did I just go okay chord it looks like Donuts is the deal no I didn’t do that at all but I conformed but I conformed and people think oh that’s weak you shouldn’t conform look you are not the priority you as an individual are not the priority in a seal platoon you’re not the the priority is the platoon the priority is the mission and if we’re gonna execute a mission we need to be very tight as a team so if I put my personality above the unity of the team I’m hurting our capability of accomplishing the mission especially if I realize that guys need to train a little bit harder and instead of actually doing something that’s gonna move them in that direction they reject me and now I’m outside the the Brotherhood the circle and now I haven’t moved them in any right direction at all so now there’s one guy that’s a really good shape me and everyone else is going in the other direction and I have no influence over them that’s just terrible the mission is the most important thing in order to most effectively execute the mission we have to have the best possible team in order to have the best possible team we have to have trust and relationships inside the team if I violate that I’m taken away from the team I’m taking away from our mission capability now of course if there’s someone that’s grossly out of shape or out of standards yeah I’m gonna I’m gonna try and tighten that person up but again if someone’s completely out of standards and all I do is attack them what’s their reaction it’s to step away from me to reject me but if I see if I say hey man you know I know you got a lot of experience and you know I’m 19 and I just got a bud so I’m in pretty good shape but like can you teach me some of the tactics that you know and all of a sudden I’m building a relationship with them and then I say hey do you want to go for a little a little job with me after work and you know that guy’s done eight deployments and he’s tired he is old but he wants to be back in shape because we all want to be in shape and he goes okay a short one and we’re moving in the right direction so that’s what you needed to be you have to you have to back off a little bit you have to find balance and you have to focus on the team and it’s better to have the whole team it’s better to have 20 people that move a little bit in the right direction then have one person by themself that’s going on the right direction and everyone else is going in the wrong direction so that’s what you need to do take the sandbag out of your rucksack a little bit and you know I ran with jungle boots on I did all this stuff and it didn’t take me very long to realize I was not doing the right thing not making my team stronger I was isolating myself and stopped it so this guy he should like what start acting just a little bit salty or you know or you know lower his morale appearance a little bit like they’re kind of fit in so to speak yeah do you want to be part of the team yeah if you’re not part of the team you don’t have any influence if you don’t have any influence you can’t move the team in the right direction if you can’t move the team in the right direction the team is less mission capable that’s what you’re there for yeah is to make the team more mission capable every moment that you don’t do that you’re doing something wrong so yes you don’t have to show up I mean just imagine I was a new guy at school team one people we show up to run the O course the O course is the obstacle course is a really hard obstacle course and I show up with a rock sack on with a forty pound sandbag in it as a new guy yeah you know of course got people I got that’s fired up but people were like okay oh you’re oh you’re you’re 19 years old and you just got out of buds yeah whatever mix we don’t like you yeah yeah so it’s kinda like steering like a big van right you can’t just start making big turns with a big otherwise that thing’s gonna gonna tip over a little bit so you’re saying no you gotta like you can’t if there you gotta you gotta go slow is what I’m saying okay you guys understand
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