Rebecca Halstead

Thank you!

Answer

Leadership Labyrinth

Steadfast leadership

9.9 Team Management:

• Relationship orientated and results driven

everyone genuinely loved her

Transformation leader:

• Transformed 63rd ordinance company.
• Met with each solider
• Got their perspective
• Changed their culture
• Open communication
• After Action Reviews

Charismatic leader:

• Confidence that produced trust and support from team
• Desire to influence others

Servant Leader:

• Puts the needs of others first
• Helps people develop and perform

Answer

The 1970's...

Discussion 3

• What are some of the leadership barriers that women face in the military?
• How are they different from the ones they face in business?

• Women are less effective in the military

Excel education, government, and social services.

​

• Women have somewhat less work experience

Choosing family over work

• Women are stereotyped

Sensitivity

Warmth

Helpfulness

Nurturing

• Women tend to struggle with the appropriate leadership style.

Rebecca Halstead

Leadership in Rebecca's Own Words

Discussion 2

What is Rebecca Doing Now?

Life and Times of Women

How would you characterize her leadership style?

• Transformational Leader
• 9,9 Team Management
• Charismatic Leader
• Servant Leader
• Situational Leader

Military Life

Civilian Life

Discussion 5

1775-1783: Women serve on the battlefield as nurses, water bearers, cooks, laundresses and saboteurs

1920: Army Reorganization Act grants military nurses the status of officers with "relative rank"

1961: The first woman Marine is promoted to Sergeant Major.

1973: All Volunteer Force opens the door for expanding service women's roles and numbers.

1980: The first women graduate from the service academies.

• 1700s-early 1800s: Under common law, an unmarried woman can own property,

• 1920: women’s suffrage.

• 1964: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

• 1973: Roe v. Wade

• 1986: Oprah Winfrey

What lessons for business leadership can we learn from Rebecca?​

​

Biography

Answer

Want to make a difference

• Want to see progressive change in the collective good.

You have to lead by example

• Making people feel like they matter

Develop personal relationships

Trust your people .

• They are a result of the influence you had on them. ​

​

Let people know who you are -

• Values
• Priorities
• Expectations

Open communication

A good leader should be able to influence, motivate and inspire others.

Discussion 1

Seventies - Pivot of Change

What were some of retired Brigadier General Rebecca Halstead’s developmental experiences that shaped her leadership? ​

• Early beginnings
• Pivotal Moments
• Methods (Hint: we do this for each reading)
• Career Challenges
• Relationships

• Gas was at $0.36/gallon
• Unemployment rate 3.5%
• U.S. deficit 380 billion

• But was it all good??

• The lessons learned from 1968

Discussion 4

• Was it a mistake to disclose the Germany incident at the Las Vegas Conference?

Themes of the Case

Answer

• An issue of professionalism.

• Goes against her own "moral code."

• Had benefits due to male CEO remarks.

• Transcends across all across the board regardless of gender and industry.

• Overall, as a group we agree it was good to share the experience but could have approached it another way.

Leadership is evolving and adapting to circumstances.

Women are capable leaders.

Rebecca is a pioneer of women's advancement in general.

Answer

Traits: Gen. Halstead possessed qualities of masculinity.

Competitiveness in sports, strong, tough-skinned, independent.

According to Mann (1959), personality traits could be used to distinguish leaders from non-leaders.

​​

Strong foundation: She received an abundance of support from family and community. Her mother cultivated her skills and interests and not to quit.​ Strong ethic not to quit, raised by a village.

​

​Mentor: Colonel Irbv provided her guidance and wisdom within the military, persistence and hardworking, take on challenges.​

Her Motto: Make a difference in someone's life. Led to building long term relationships with whoever served under her. Selfless-Servant leadership.

Method: She kept a journal and notes, After Action Reviews, re-established communication - vital to redeveloping team - huge part of leadership.

Challenges: She prevailed in that she turn the 63rd Ordnance Co around, good stepping stone as start of good things to come.

S.T.E.A.D.F.A.S.T. Leadership