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I have had many conflicts throughout my career and many of them stood out during my reading. The one I am reflecting on today happened at my last duty station. In my section you typically have an NCOIC
(Noncommissioned Officer In Charge) and a civilian counterpart. The NCOIC and civilian supervisor are supposed to work together so that the section can operate as one cohesive team. So, our jobs were interdependent upon one another, but he did not see this way. Because the military members came and
went all the time, and his position never changed, it caused him to think that he was the only one in charge and that the military personnel worked for him. As you can probably guess, this did not fly with me since I was the one who had to answer when leadership came calling. One conflict we would have is when he would take personnel and send them out to work, which was not necessarily a bad thing, except he would have them working on jobs that did not align with the priorities passed to me from leadership that day (Interpersonal Conflict). I would have to request that he tell me where everyone was
and what they were working on which in his mind meant that I was questioning his authority to issue work. I had no issue with him issuing work as long as we communicated about what was priority and what was not. In the beginning I attempted to an Owl. I cared about both the mission and our working relationship so I would sit and discuss concerns with him so we could both come away with an understanding while getting the mission accomplished. Unfortunately, thing started to progress downward due to his authoritative mind set and belittling of personnel in the section. He would also disappear during the workday without notice to anyone and not show up for work claiming to be on leave. I attempted to discuss the issue with him but was only told to mind my business and that he did not have answer to me. Because of this, leadership pushed me to write him up multiple times leading to a poor working relationship and him becoming a “Fox”. By my last year on station the situation had degraded to not communicating with me at all and him becoming a “Shark” through verbal and physical aggression in order to try and get what he wanted.
When I look back at the situation there are some possible times that could have been handle differently.
Things such as not arguing with him publicly. This reflected poorly upon me as an NCO and the sections NCOIC. As for the working relationship between him and I, maybe I could have used a mediator to attempt and overcome our communication challenges. I was always willing to work through our differences so that we could function as a team but unfortunately we had some goal incompatibilities that were not able to be overcome.
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