I like to think that I have been quite lucky when it comes to working under great
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I like to think that I have been quite lucky when it comes to working under great leadership. The one that sticks out the most is the police lieutenant I worked under at a community college campus security station. As a former soldier with over 20 years of police experience, Lt. Moreland came out of retirement to head the western division of our city's community college. He was strong in his values yet gentle in his approach. In fact, a faculty member told me there that they believed his strength was in his ability to see the human side of people and his passion to help people grow. A statement that I came to find to be true.
Another great leader that I had the pleasure of working under was another lieutenant at the same college. Lt. Bankston was over the police dispatchers and their administrative matters. We covered seven different campuses, and she was the only female officer that we had in leadership. Although she was a compassionate person, she had to hold a certain level sternness because there were some police officers that did not like having to take orders from a woman. Never-the-less, she stood her ground and responded accordingly to those that tried to come against her. The best part was she has the backing of the chief and the other officers in leadership.
I can't say that I have ever really worked with someone that was a narcissist or even psychotic, but I did work with someone who I later found out has traits of Machiavellianism. He was my first manager at my current job, and the one who hired me. He also just happened to be Care Connections manager. In the department where I work, the different departments have trainer analysts, supervisors, and managers for each department. Well, not my department. We only had Michael, our manager. And although he provided us with the overall resources for our department, we lacked the general day-to-day resources needed to care for our patients. So, most things we had to find on our own. Don't get me wrong, if we presented him with an issue, he would take care of it right away but outside of that, we had to be completely self-sufficient. About 6 months after I started, he announced that we would be getting a new manager and that he was moving to another department. One he had been striving for for quite some time. He didn't really want to be in the Care Connections department, but he accepted it on a short-term basis and waited for the person holding desired position to retire. I viewed it as a strategic career plan, although others believe he was plotting the whole time.
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