The document discusses leadership skills and ethical behavior from an interview with Major Shane Pittman. Some key points: - Pittman defines leadership as empowering others to accomplish the mission through guidance and ensuring they have the proper tools. - When people aren't performing, he takes them aside privately to understand issues and provide guidance to meet standards. - One challenge was filling three roles at once due to understaffing. He relied on subordinates' expertise and ensured all tasks were completed. - Pittman communicates directly and expects ethical conduct from his staff, having relieved two officers previously for unethical actions. He emphasizes setting a good example through his own conduct.

1. a How would you define leadership?
Leadership is the ability to see a situation or problem and be
able to provide a solution or a means to the ends. While also
ensuring that you provide the tools vision and guidance needed
for your subordinates to meet those ends and succeed.
b As a leader, what do you do when people on your team aren’t
pulling their weight?
As a leader it would be my responsibility to take them aside and
inform them of the issues or the events that have me concerned
as a leader. I would also empower them by providing them with
guidance on what actions they would need to do to meet the
mission. I would ensure that I had providing them the tools
needed to meet the mission.
c What is one of the greatest leadership challenges you have
ever faced? What did you do? What was the result?
When I was at the Joint Spectrum Center I had to fill the role of
three positions at one time due to the change over of personnel
without back fill for three months. It was a very challenging
time. Especially since I was unsure how to do one of the jobs.
I relied allot on my subordinates to provide me guidance and
support where I was lacking in know how. But I continued to
push forward and ensured I followed up on all issues and
tasking’s and I also ensured that if I did not know something I
used the personnel I had that where the experts to assist me in
making the proper choices. In the end I was able to not only
succeed but excelled to where several of the job requirements I
retained even after the new personnel came on board.
d How would you describe your communication style?

2. My communication style is open and direct. I will provide you
with guidance on what needs to be done. I will provide you
with the path to get to the end if needed, but I would rather
empower you to meet the mission in your own way. I am also
straight forward and not one to skirt the issue. If there is a
problem I will point it out directly.
e Describe a situation in which effective interpersonal
communication skills contributed to your success.
When I was a Troop Commander there were several situations
that I needed to sit down with one of my subordinates and
discuss issues with them directly. This provided me the ability
to present my side as well as being able to see the others point
of view on the issue or event in question. Most of the time I
was able to empower the subordinate to see the right path and
become a better soldier in the end. Although there where times
when I had to provide direct guidance and over sight to ensure
what was needed was done even if it was very painful and
difficult for the Soldier in the long run.
f Describe your personal actions by which you convey to your
staff that ethics/ethical behavior is a high priority with you and
that you also expect it to be a high priority with your staff.
I make it a point to ensure my subordinates understand what is
ethical and expected to meet the mission correctly without
taking the easy way out. Sometimes the right way is not the
easy way but the hard way. There have been several time that I
have had to take responsibility for my failures even if I did not
feel it was warranted. The ability to know you are wrong and
ask for help is one of the best behaviors a leader can have.
g Related to the previous question, describe how your personal

3. actions (demonstrating ethics is a priority) have impacted your
staff and/or colleagues.
Describe a situation where you recognized a need to
communicate clear expectations for ethical practice. How did
you recognize that expectations had to be clarified? What did
you do or say to clarify the expectations?
When I was a troop commander I had several junior officers
under me and it was essential that my actions where very ethical
and I required it of my junior officers as well. There where a
few times where I had to not just pull my subordinates aside to
correct them, but actually counsel them on improper actions to
the point that two of my junior officer’s needed to be relived of
their positions due to unethical or improper actions for a officer
in the US Army. The actions I took where to made sure that I
put out a guidance that clearly expressed my expectations and
my ethical requirements. Additionally I had one of my junior
officers provide me with a 1000 word essay on what the
penalties where in the state of Washington and in the Uniform
Code of Military Justice for the unethical actions he had done.
I will say though in retro spec I would do the same things again
in the fact that 1 of the two officers because an exceptional staff
officer. The other unfortunately left military service and, went
back to school on a better note. He is currently working on a
law degree. Hopefully he has learned from his mistakes and
will excel in the future.
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4. The individual that I selected was Army Major Shane Pittman.
He is currently the Deputy Chief of my Satellite
Communications Capabilities Division at the National Security
Agency. He has been in the Army for 16 years total including a
break in service. He is from Youngstown, Ohio and is married
with two young daughters.
I selected MAJ Pittman because I believe that he embodies what
it truly means to be a leader. He does not look for recognition,
and he has a people first mentality. He always makes sure that
the job gets done whether that means staying late or finding the
right people for the job. He is a great mentor and someone I
wish I worked with while in the military.
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
1. Create five to seven (5-7) questions (already attached
separately) to ask your chosen leader to determine his / her
views of motivation, ethical leadership and performance. Then,
conduct the interview based on your selected questions.
HINT: The following are some examples of questions. Feel free
to select them from here. However, we urge you to revise your
Assignment 2 for some ideas of what you would like to know
from an experienced leader.
a. How would you define leadership?
b. As a leader, what do you do when people on your team aren’t
pulling their weight?
c. What is one of the greatest leadership challenges you have
ever faced? What did you do? What was the result?
d. How would you describe your communication style?
e. Describe a situation in which effective interpersonal
communication skills contributed to your success.
f. Describe your personal actions by which you convey to your
staff that ethics/ethical behavior is a high priority with you and
that you also expect it to be a high priority with your staff.
g. Related to the previous question, describe how your personal

5. actions (demonstrating ethics is a priority) have impacted your
staff and/or colleagues.
h. Describe a situation where you recognized a need to
communicate clear expectations for ethical practice. How did
you recognize that expectations had to be clarified? What did
you do or say to clarify the expectations?
2. Analyze the leadership, motivation, and ethical values of the
leader interviewed and assess its impact in the ethical
performance of the organization.
HINT: You should summarize the answers that you gathered in
your interview. Thereafter, you should compare and contrast his
/ her point of view about leadership with your own perception
of it.
3. Use at least three (3) quality academic. Note: Wikipedia does
not qualify as an academic resource, and neither do web-based
blogs.
4. Format your assignment according to the following
formatting requirements:
a. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size
12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment,
the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and
the date. The cover page is not included in the required page
length.
c. Must have introduction and conclusion.
d. Must have at least one (1) in text citation in each paragraph
(excluding introduction and conclusion).
e. Include a reference page. Citations and references must
follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the
required page length.