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Leadership
Question | Answer |
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What Army publication covers Army leadership? | ADP 6-22, ADRP 6-22 |
Define leadership, according to the Army. | Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization. |
What is the importance of purpose? | Purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in order to achieve a desired outcome. |
What is the importance of 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 the importance of motivation? | Motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to acc. a mission. A leader's role in motivation is to understand the needs and desires of others, to align and elevate indiv drives into team goals, and to influence others and acc, those larger aims. |
What are the 3 core leader competencies? | Leads, Develops, Achieves |
What does the core leader competency of "lead" entail? | Leads others, Builds trust, Extends influence beyond the chain of command, Leads by example, Communicates |
What does the core competency of "develops" entail? | Creates a positive environment; fosters esprit de corps, Prepares self, Develops others, Stewards the profession |
What does the core leader competency of "achieves" entail? | gets results |
What are the 3 principal ways that leaders can develop others? | Counseling, Coaching, Mentoring |
Define counseling. | Counseling is the process used by leaders to guide subordinates to improve performance and develop their potential. |
What is coaching? | Coaching is the process of teaching and guiding to bring out and enhance the capabilities already present. Coaches have considerate knowledge on subject matter, not necessarily higher rank. |
What is mentoring? | Mentoring is the voluntary developmental relationship that exists between a person of greater experience and a person of lesser experience that is characterized by mutual trust and respect. |
What is the difference between formal and informal leadership? | Formal leadership is granted to indiv. by virtue of assignment to positions of respon. and is a function of rank/experience. Informal leadership arises from knowledge, experience, or technical expertise; may req. initiative on indiv. to assume respon. |
What are the 3 leader attributes? | Character, Presence, Intellect |
What does the leader attribute of "character" entail? | Army Values, Empathy, Warrior Ethos, Discipline |
What does the leader attribute of "presence" entail? | Military bearing, Fitness, Confidence, Resilience |
What does the leader attribute of "intellect" entail? | Mental agility, Sound judgement, Innovation, Interpersonal tact, Expertise. |
What are the 7 Army Values? | Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, Personal Courage |
Define empathy. | The ability to genuinely relate to another person's situation, motives, and feelings. |
What is the Warrior Ethos? | Warrior Ethos refers to the professional attitudes and beliefs that characterize the American Soldier: I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade. |
Define military bearing. | Projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of authority |
Define fitness. | Having sound health, strength, and endurance, which sustain emotional health and conceptual abilities under prolonged stress. |
Define confidence. | Projecting self-confidence and certainty in the unit's ability to succeed in whatever it does; able to demonstrate composure. |
What is resilience? | Showing a tendency to recover quickly from setbacks, shock, injuries, adversity, and stress while maintaining a mission and organizational focus. |
Define mental agility. | Mental agility is a flexibility of mind, a tendency to anticipate or adapt to uncertain or changing situations. |
Define interpersonal tact. | A keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others and to avoid offense. |
What are some types of Domain Knowledge? | Technical Knowledge, Tactical Knowledge, Joint Knowledge, Cultural and Geopolitical Knowledge |
What is the difference between technical and tactical knowledge? | Technical knowledge is the knowledge you have to operate your equipment; tactical knowledge is the knowledge to employ your equipment. |
Define Army leader. | Anyone who by virtue of assumed role or assigned responsibility inspires and influences people to accomplish organizational goals. |