Army Leadership

Front 1

What does FM 6-22 cover?

Back 1

Army Leadership (Competent, Confident and Agile)

Front 2

What does FM 7-0 cover?

Back 2

Training the force

Front 3

Define Leadership.

Back 3

Leadership is influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization.

Front 4

What is purpose?

Back 4

Purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in order to achieve a desired outcome.

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What is direction?

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Providing clear direction involves communicating how to accomplish a mission: prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibility for completion, and ensuring subordinates

understand the standard

Front 6

What is motivation?

Back 6

Motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a mission.

Front 7

Describe the "Be, Know and Do".

Back 7

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

Front 8

What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop others through which they

provide knowledge and feedback?

Back 8

Counseling

Coaching

Mentoring

Front 9

A leader's effectiveness is dramatically enhanced by understanding and developing what

areas?

Back 9

Military Bearing

Physical Fitness

Confidence

Resilience

Front 10

What is military bearing?

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Projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of authority.

Front 11

What is physical fitness?

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Having sound health, strength, and endurance, which sustain emotional health and conceptual abilities under prolonged stress

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What is confidence?

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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.

Front 13

What is resilience?

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Showing a tendency to recover quickly from setbacks, shock, injuries, adversity, and stress while maintaining a mission and organizational focus.

Front 14

What are the three core domains that shape the critical learning experiences throughout

Soldiers' and leaders' careers?

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-Institutional training.

-Training, education, and job experience gained during operational assignments.

-Self-development.

Front 15

What are the Leader Actions?

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-Influencing - getting people (Soldiers, Army civilians, and multinational partners) to

do what is necessary.

-Operating - the actions taken to influence others to accomplish missions and to set the

stage for future operations.

-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?

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-Direct - Direct leadership is face-to-face, first-line leadership.

-Organizational - Organizational leaders influence several hundred to several thousand

people. They do this indirectly, generally through more levels of subordinates than do direct leaders.

-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.

Front 17

What are the Army Values?

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Loyalty

Duty

Respect

Selfless Service

Honor

Integrity

Personal Courage

Front 18

Attributes of an Army leader can best be defined as what an Army leader is. What are the

attributes of an Army leader?

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A leader of character

A leader with presence

A leader with intellectual capacity

Front 19

Core leader competencies are what an Army leader does. What are the core leader

competencies?

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An Army leader leads

An Army leader develops

An Army leader achieves.

Front 20

Why must leaders introduce stress into training?

Back 20

Using scenarios that closely resemble the stresses and effects of the real battlefield is

essential to victory and survival in combat

Front 21

What are intended and unintended consequences?

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-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.

Front 22

What is communication?

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A process of providing information

Front 23

Name the two barriers of communications

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Physical

Psychological

Front 24

Name some physical barriers of communication

Back 24

Noise of battle

Distance

Front 25

What is counseling?

Back 25

Counseling is the process used by leaders to review with a subordinate the subordinate's demonstrated performance and potential

Front 26

What are the three major categories of developmental counseling?

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Event counseling

Performance counseling

Professional growth counseling

Front 27

Character is essential to successful leadership. What are the three major factors that

determine a leader's character?

Back 27

Army Values

Empathy

Warrior Ethos

Front 28

What are the 7 steps to problem solving?

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-ID the problem

-Gather information

-Develop criteria

-Generate possible solutions

-Analyze possible solutions

-Compare possible solutions

-Make and implement the decision

Front 29

What is reverse planning?

Back 29

Reverse planning is a specific technique used to ensure that a concept leads to the

intended end state

Front 30

To assess subordinates, leaders you must-

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-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.

Front 31

What are the team building stages?

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Formation

Enrichment

Sustainment

Front 32

Name some things in a unit that affect morale

Back 32

Mess

Military justice

Mail

Supply

Billets

Front 33

What are beliefs?

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Beliefs derive from upbringing, culture, religious backgrounds and traditions