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What does FM 6-22 cover?
Army Leadership (Competent, Confident and Agile)
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What does FM 7-0 cover?
Training the force
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Define Leadership.
- Leadership is influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the
- mission and improving the organization.
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What is purpose?
Purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in order to achieve a desired outcome
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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.
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What is motivation?
Motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a mission.
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Describe the "Be, Know and Do".
- Army leadership begins with what the leader must BE, the values and attributes that shape a leader's character. Your
- skills are those things you KNOW how to do, your competence in everything from the technical side of your job to the
- people skills a leader requires. But character and knowledge while absolutely necessary are not enough. You cannot be
- effective, you cannot be a leader, until you apply what you know, until you act and DO what you must.
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What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop others through which they provide knowledge and
feedback?
- 1. Counseling
- 2. Coaching
- 3. Mentoring
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A leader's effectiveness is dramatically enhanced by understanding and developing what areas?
- 1. Military Bearing
- 2. Physical Fitness
- 3. Confidence
- 4. Resilience
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What is military bearing?
Projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of authority.
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What is physical fitness?
- Having sound health, strength, and endurance, which sustain emotional health and conceptual abilities under prolonged
- stress.
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What is confidence?
- Projecting self-confidence and certainty in the unit's ability to succeed in whatever it does; able to demonstrate
- composure and outward calm through steady control over emotion.
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What is resilience?
- Showing a tendency to recover quickly from setbacks, shock, injuries, adversity, and stress while maintaining a
- mission and organizational focus
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What are the three core domains that shape the critical learning experiences throughout Soldiers' and leaders'
careers?
- 1. Institutional training.
- 2. Training, education, and job experience gained during operational assignments.
- 3. Self-development.
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What are the Leader Actions?
- 1. Influencing - getting people (Soldiers, Army civilians, and multinational partners) to do what is necessary.
- 2. Operating - the actions taken to influence others to accomplish missions and to set the stage for future operations.
- 3. Improving - capturing and acting on important lessons of ongoing and completed projects and missions.
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What are the three levels of leadership?
- 1. Direct - Direct leadership is face-to-face, first-line leadership.
- 2. Organizational - Organizational leaders influence several hundred to several thousand people. They do this
- indirectly, generally through more levels of subordinates than do direct leaders.
- 3. Strategic - Strategic leaders include military and DA civilian leaders at the major command through Department
- of Defense levels. Strategic leaders are responsible for large organizations and influence several thousand to
- hundreds of thousands of people.
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What are the Army Values?
- Loyalty
- Duty
- Respect
- Selfless Service
- Honor
- Integrity
- Personal Courage
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Attributes of an Army leader can best be defined as what an Army leader is. What are the attributes of an Army
leader?
- 1. A leader of character
- 2. A leader with presence
- 3. A leader with intellectual capacity
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Core leader competencies are what an Army leader does. What are the core leader competencies?
- 1. An Army leader leads
- 2. An Army leader develops
- 3. An Army leader achieves.
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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.
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What are intended and unintended consequences?
- Intended consequences are the anticipated results of a leader's decisions and actions.
- Unintended consequences arise from unplanned events that affect the organization or accomplishment of the
- mission.
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What is communication?
A process of providing information
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Name the two barriers of communications
- 1. Physical
- 2. Psychological
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Name some physical barriers of communication
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What is counseling?
- Counseling is the process used by leaders to review with a subordinate the subordinate's demonstrated performance and
- potential.
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What are the three major categories of developmental counseling?
- 1. Event counseling
- 2. Performance counseling
- 3. Professional growth counseling
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Character is essential to successful leadership. What are the three major factors that determine a leader's
character?
- 1. Army Values
- 2. Empathy
- 3. Warrior Ethos
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What are the 7 steps to problem solving?
- 1. ID the problem
- 2. Gather information
- 3. Develop criteria
- 4. Generate possible solutions
- 5. Analyze possible solutions
- 6. Compare possible solutions
- 7. Make and implement the decision
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What is reverse planning?
Reverse planning is a specific technique used to ensure that a concept leads to the intended end state.
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To assess subordinates, leaders you must-
- Observe and record subordinates' performance in the core leader competencies.
- Determine if the performances meet, exceed, or fall below expected standards.
- Tell subordinates what was observed and give an opportunity to comment.
- Help subordinates develop an individual development plan (IDP) to improve performance.
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What are the team building stages?
- 1. Formation
- 2. Enrichment
- 3. Sustainment
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Name some things in a unit that affect morale
- Mess
- Military justice
- Mail
- Supply
- Billets
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What are beliefs?
Beliefs derive from upbringing, culture, religious backgrounds and traditions.
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