I’m a sergeant and I want to know how to deal with my men in a way without punishment but still make them better for next time okay here’s something for you punishment is actually the last straw in how you deal with people that you’re in charge of in fact I will tell you this if I ever had to punish someone when I had to administer punishment on my troops I always felt that I had done somewhere I’d done something wrong mmm right like even if a guy got in trouble out in town got drunk got in a fight did something stupid I would still look at that and think to myself how could I have allowed this guy to not realize what a disaster it is how much trouble he’s gonna get in what kind of international incident he’s gonna cause how that’s gonna hurt us in the team strategically are all those things how did I let that happen so doling out punishment is not optimum I mean you’ve pretty much you’ve pretty much made a mistake if you have to punish people because if you’re doing if you’re being a good leader people are doing what you want them to do there’s no reason for punishment so that’s what you should not be looking to punish and just like I just said you should be looking to build relationships you should be looking to show people a better way of doing things a way that’s more smooth and more efficient it doesn’t disrupt what the team efforts are you got to explain to people why they’re doing what they’re doing this is all stuff right this is you explain why if things are done a certain way explain how it impacts the team explain how it impacts them that’s also important you’ve got to have people rehearse and in retrain because now now I’m talking about how do you get people to do the right thing right without punishing them so we’re trying to avoid punishment how do we avoid punishment by training how do we avoid punishment by people understanding what they’re doing why they’re doing what they’re doing how do we avoid punishment by setting goals that make sense that are small enough for them to get to and then have fun with the goals and get in the game yourself and show them that you’re not perfect and that is what you need to do you need to make every effort to make people understand why they’re doing what they’re doing how they fit into the big picture and when they figure all that stuff out and they’re on board you shouldn’t have to punish people you shouldn’t have to punish people so I know it’s yeah that’s what it is your sergeant and you want to deal with your men away without punishment well think of what the mistakes you’re making when you’re when you’re when your fire team or your your your platoon does something wrong why did they make that mistake they make the mistake as they wanted to mmm no they made it because you were a bad leader at that point in time you what could you do better hey guys where what didn’t you understand oh you guys messed up this training operation I’m gonna restrict your weekend duty I’m gonna restrict you to weekend duty meaning you can’t go out in town what good did I just do mmm right are they gonna try harder now mmm right now but if you say hey listen guys we did a bad job I know I must have made a mistake in trying to explain this information to you all because we didn’t do what we were supposed to do let’s look let’s dissect this thing as a matter of fact let’s spend Friday night dissecting this thing I’m buying pizza and we’ll sit around the the sand table and we’ll figure out what we did wrong hmm that’s not punishment mmm that has the opposite effect of punishment that has hey I’m gonna bringing everyone in because I want to win I want us all the wind so that’s what you got to do don’t the punishment should be punishment should be I mean do you have to punish people sometime yes yes you do when they’re blatantly out of line when they do something that’s blatantly wrong yeah you got to drop the hammer on them you got to set the example sometimes hey you’re not gonna get away with this sometimes that happened in the teens you know somebody would do something stupid and the command would just drop the hammer and everyone goes man that guy got a DUI and they you know docked him they busted him in rank and they pulled him out of his platoon and they’re sending him to a to a fleet billet for two years but oh my god I might make someone think right you know maybe I won’t step behind the wheel yeah so sometimes you do have to punish if people do something stupid especially after the being warned a couple times yeah but I always look if I have to deliver punishment on to my team I made a mistake somewhere I don’t like it yeah don’t they say that the like reward and encouragement is like way more powerful and punished definitely way more powerful sure I’ve almost never punished people yeah yeah but the reason is why did I punish people because people were doing weren’t doing stupid things they were doing what they were supposed to be doing they were doing yeah I mean I probably I don’t even know if I I probably I think I had like one or two captains mask where I had to bring somebody in and drop the hammer on them that’s because they did dumb stuff yeah like yeah you know what you can’t do that I didn’t think of it I’m sorry but you can’t do that discussions yeah
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