Study Guide For Board

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

Front 5

What is direction?

Back 5

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 thee 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?

Back 10

Projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of authority.

Front 11

What is physical fitness?

Back 11

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

Front 12

What is confidence?

Back 12

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?

Back 13

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?

Back 14

Institutional training.
Training, education, and job experience gained during operational assignments.
Self-development.

Front 15

What are the Leader Actions?

Back 15

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.

Front 16

What are the Army Values?

Back 16

Loyalty
Duty
Respect
Selfless Service
Honor
Integrity
Personal Courage

Front 17

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

Back 17

A leader of character
A leader with presence.
A leader with intellectual capactiy.

Front 18

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

Back 18

An Army leader leads
An Army leader develops
An Army leader achieves

Front 19

Why must leaders introduce stress into training?

Back 19

Using scenarios that closely resemble the stresses and effects of the real battlefield is essential to victory and survival in combat.

Front 20

What are intended and unintended consequences?

Back 20

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 21

What is communication?

Back 21

A process of providing information

Front 22

Name the two barriers of communications

Back 22

Physical
Psychological

Front 23

Name some physical barriers of communication

Back 23

Noise of battle
Distance

Front 24

What are the three major categories of developmental counseling?

Back 24

Event counseling
Performance counseling
Professional growth counseling

Front 25

Character is essential to successful leadership. What are the three major factors that determine a leaders character?

Back 25

Army Values
Empathy
Warrior Ethos

Front 26

What are the 7 steps to problem solving

Back 26

ID the problem
Gather information
Develop criteria
Generate possible solutions
Analyze possible solutions
Compare posible solutions
Make and implement the decision

Front 27

What is reverse planning?

Back 27

Reverse planning is a specific technique used to ensure that a concept leads to the intended end state.

Front 28

To assess subordinates, leaders you must-

Back 28

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 29

What are the team building stages?

Back 29

Formation
Enrichment
Sustainment

Front 30

Name some things in a unit that affect morale

Back 30

Mess
Military justice
Mail
Supply
Billets

Front 31

What are Beliefs?

Back 31

Beliefs derive from upbringing, culture, religious backgrounds, and traditions