Scott’s leadership journey started when he was young and had the drive to take control of everything that needed to be planned. Transferring these skills to the Canadian Army, Scott enrolled as a Logistics Officer in 2001 when he was selected to attend the prestigious Royal Military College of Canada. At the age of 24, Scott commanded an Army transport platoon comprising of over 80 soldiers. At 33, he was selected to command a Logistics Squadron of 200 members. In 2009, Scott was deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan where he was selected to help train, mentor, and coach members of the Afghan National Army.
Show Notes
“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” –James Humes
Leadership matters and in this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, Scott McCarthy tells us why. There are so many important elements to being an effective leader; it just doesn’t happen by chance.
Communication
Here is a snippet of what she shared on this episode of the podcast:
“Communication is key. If you can’t communicate your intent, your own vision, what you want to achieve, it’s going to fall apart. The other thing is being present, being seen you got to be able to show that you can do whatever it is that you demand of your people and I went extremely far with this. So when I was that transport platoon commander, (my job isn’t to drive vehicles, it’s not the drive to get in truck and drive the truck. But I did. I got into every piece of vehicle every piece of equipment that we owned and operated. Why? So that I had an understanding of what my guys would go through on a daily basis when they were operating that equipment. How difficult is it actually to move a semi, a tractor trailer that has a tank loaded onto the back of it. How difficult is it to move a bus, a refueling truck? Up here in Canada, snowplow, right? How difficult are those tasks to actually achieve? So that gives you actually a greater fidelity when people come to me like oh, we need this piece of equipment for this reason, actually understand quicker and then that shortens those timelines.”
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Hot Point: It is important to communicate with your team and to be very present with them.
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