Airsoft club organization
Airsoft team Leadership and Organization day 7
Don’t babysit
Delegate N Disappear
The Canucks military HQ is called the Department of National Defense, or DND. The acronym for the HQ was to throw off the Commies just in case they hear it used in its proper leadership setting (yes i’m joking) . DND is for Delegate N’ Disappear. The greatest leadership advise ever to come out of any military academy. Give your order then leave the Airsofters alone to complete the task. This is important for two reasons. Team mates don’t need you hovering around micromanaging their every move, and it teaches people to think for them selves. Not everything can be taught, people will be required to figure out problems for them selves.
This compliments not contradicts “Monitoring is important” that was taught on day 3. Airsoft team Leadership Day 3 – Supervision
New commanders make the common mistake that their people need to be under constant supervision and micro managed at all times, every day. The goal of monitoring is to correct the mistakes of the individual so he is capable of completing the task alone in the future. If you Delegate N’ Disappear it gives the new person an opportunity to complete the task their way. When you go back and monitor the individual you can do corrective action in bulk, address all the faults at once, instead of every ten seconds. In the future you may not need to monitor the person as they are skilled in the task.
Lead all Supervise four.
The biggest mistake people make when leading groups, especially large groups, is they try and manage the whole herd. This is wrong. You may be in-charge of 200 people (yes i know airsoft teams don’t normally get that large). But you should be only supervising four. Check the Airsoft squad organization for more info on this.
Lets start with the squad of eight people. The team leaders should only be required to manage the other guy in his team. Next up the organizational food chain is the Squad commander. The Squad commander should only be giving orders to the second in command and the two team leaders. Other people in the squad are attached to a team and will follow the team leader. The Squad commander is dealing with three people total. If your group is larger say a platoon size, approx thirty. The platoon commander will only supervise four. The three squad commanders, and of course the platoon 2 i/c. If your group is even larger, company size, approx one hundred twenty people. The same rule applies. Your company commander supervises four people. Your three platoon commanders and your Company 2 i/c. What is easier managing over a hundred or only four. This works all the way down the command chain. Its also important as the commanders can deal with developing their sub commanders, who can then pass on the knowledge down the ranks.