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Leadership
Study Guide
Term | Definition |
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Why must leaders introduce stress into training? | Using scenarios that closely resemble the stresses and effects of the real battlefield is essential to victory and survival in combat |
7 steps to problem solving | ID the problem; Gather information; Develop criteria; Generate possible solutions; Analyze possible solutions; Compare possible solutions; Make and implement the decision |
What is reverse planning? | Reverse planning is a specific technique used to ensure that a concept leads to the intended end state |
What are intended and unintended consequences? | Intended consequences are the anticipated results of a leaders decisions and actions. Unintended consequences arise from unplanned events that affect the organization or accomplishment of the mission |
FM 6-22 | Army Leadership (Competent, Confident, Agile) |
FM 7-0 | Training the Force |
What is military bearing? | Projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of authority |
What are the team building stages? | Formation; Enrichment; Sustainment |
Name some things in a unit that affect morale | Mess; Military justice; Mail; Supply; Billets |
What are beliefs? | Beliefs derive from upbringing, culture, religious backgrounds and traditions |
What are the three levels of leadership? | Direct; Organizational; Strategic |
Direct leadership | Face-to-face, first-line leadership |
Organizational leadership | Influence several hundred to several thousand people. They do this indirectly, generally through more levels of subordinates than do direct leaders |
Strategic leadership | Include military and DA civilian leaders at the major command through DoD levels. Strategic leaders are responsible for large organizations and influence several thousand to hundreds of thousands of people |
What are the Army Values? | Loyalty Duty Respect Selfless Service Honor Integrity Personal Courage |
Attributes of an Army leader can best be defined as what an Army leader is. What are the attributes of an Army leader? | A leader of character; a leader with presence; a leader with intellectual capacity |
Describe the Be, Know, Do | Be- the values and attributes that shape a leaders character Know-skills you know how to do Do- what you must |
What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop oothers through which they provide knowledge and feeback? | Counseling; Coaching; Mentoring |
A leader's effectiveness is dramatically enhanced by understanding and developing what areas? | Military bearing; Physical Fitness; Confidence; Resilience |
What is purpose? | Purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in order to achieve a desired outcome |
What is direction? | Providing clear direction involves communicating how to accomplish a mission: prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibility for completion, and ensuring subordinates understand the standard |
What is motivation? | Motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a mission |
To assess subordinates, leaders you must- | Observe and record subordinates performances in the core leader competencies; determine if the performances meet, exceed or fall below standards; tell sub. what was observed and give opportunity to comment; help sub develop an individual development plan |
What are the Leader Actions? | Influencing-getting people to do what's necessary; Operating- the actions taken to influence others to accomplish missions and to set the stage for future ops; Improving- capturing and acting on important lessons of ongoing and completed projects/missions |
What are the three core domains that shape the critical learning experiences throughout Soldiers and leaders careers | Institutional training; Training, education, and job experience gained during operational assignments; Self-development |
What is resilience? | Showing a tendency to recover quickly from setbacks, shock, injuries, adversity, and stress while maintaining a mission and organizational focus |
What are three major categories of developmental counseling? | Event; Performance; Professional growth |
Character is essential to successful leadership. What are the three major factors that determine a leader's character? | Army Values; Empathy; Warrior Ethos |
What is counseling? | Counseling is the process used by leaders to review with a subordinate the subordinates demonstrated performance and potential |
Name some physical barriers of communication | Noise of battle; Distance |
Name the two barriers of communication | Physical; Psychological |
What is communication? | A process of providing information |
What is confidence? | Projecting self-confidence and certainty in the units ability to succeed in whatever it does; able to demonstrate composure and outward calm through steady control over emotion |
What is physical fitness? | Having sound health, strength, and endurance which sustain emotional health and conceptual abilities under prolonged stress |
Define leadership | Leadership is influencing people by providing purpose, direction adn motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization |
What are the core leader competencies? | An Army leader leads; An army leader develops and an army leader achieves |