Senior Warrant Officer: The Leadership Requirement Model

Facts. a. The attributes defined in the Leadership Requirement Model are Character, Presence, Intellect, Leads, Develops and Achieves. Though they are all important, to me the three that a Senior Warrant Officer must have are Presence, Intellect and Develops.
(1) Presence is defined as the impression a leader makes on others contributing to the success in getting people to follow. A Senior Warrant Officer must be confident in his or her decisions, even if it might be the wrong decision. If the wrong decision was made, how resilient the Senior Warrant Officer is an attribute of presence. I will share two examples of Senior Warrant Officers on how they dealt with a mistake and how their presences lead to two different outcomes.
The first example was when my unit
The advantage that a Senior Warrant Officer has in developing subordinates is that they have learned from experience more than most leaders. Sharing the years of learning experience that a Senior Warrant Officer has with subordinates will take effort because sometimes the experiences that need to be shared are failures that Senior Warrant Officer have gone through. Though it might be the most difficult to talk about, it will probably be the most influential to the subordinates.
The final requirement of the develops attribute is to act as a steward of the profession. Described in ADRP 6-22, leaders serving as good stewards have concern for the lasting effects of their decisions and stewardship is about the development and support of members of the Army team. Senior Warrant Officers look at their years of experience and discover better ways of doing things. They are not afraid of making mistakes, instead they learn from them. Being a good steward means that the Senior Warrant Officer is going to leave the organization in a better position than it was when he or she