BigOl64 wrote on Jul 26
th, 2017 at 5:40pm:
The social engineering continues, the one organisation whose job it is to kill people has now decided they need to be less 'authoritarian, assertive and angry'.
Even the journos think it is a farce by likening the Australian Army to an episode of Utopia. It would be fkken hilarious if it wasn't so fkked up.
Well with an issue of brand new combat vaginas they will be the belles of any inter-service Dinning in Night.
THE Australian Army is hiring private “executive coaches” to teach its senior officers “self-awareness”, “emotional intelligence”, “cross-cultural competence” and “interpersonal maturity” in an effort to combat perceptions that they are too “authoritarian, assertive and angry”.
It has also commissioned “psychometric and psychological testing” as part of the Australian Defence Force’s push to transform its culture to fit with modern standards.
The Department of Defence has tendered for “executive coaching services” for private and group sessions with its top brass that would not be out of place on the bureaucratic satire Utopia.
The top priority referred to in the tender documents is “Self Awareness of Strategic Leadership Style”.
Defence describes this as: “Exploration of personal values, beliefs, attitudes and associations and their impact on personal leadership behaviour.”
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/careers/selfaware-army-officers-to-get-coach... Shame that those involved in the career of arms should treat their career as well, a career, isn't it, BigOl64.
Having known quite a few senior ranks over the years, both in and out of uniform, they have an aura of command. The successful ones know when to turn it on and off, to be human and act human.
The less successful ones? Oh, dear. Perhaps they need to be taught? Just putting on a Cam uniform does not automatically make a person suitable to command others in battle.