15_ADP_6-22_Army Leadership Flashcards
What does FM 6-22 cover?
Army Leadership (Competent, Confident and Agile)
Define Leadership.
Leadership is influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization.
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.
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.
What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop others through which they provide knowledge and feedback?
Counseling
Coaching
Mentoring
A leader’s effectiveness is dramatically enhanced by understanding and developing what areas?
Military Bearing
Physical Fitness
Confidence
Resilience
What is military bearing?
Projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of authority.
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.
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
Core leader competencies are what an Army leader does. What are the core leader competencies?
An Army leader leads
An Army leader develops
An Army leader achieves.
Name the two barriers of communications
Physical
Psychological
What is counseling?
Counseling is the process used by leaders to review with a subordinate the subordinate’s demonstrated performance and potential.
What are the three major categories of developmental counseling?
Event counseling
Performance counseling
Professional growth counseling
Character is essential to successful leadership. What are the three major factors that determine a leader’s character?
Army Values
Empathy
Warrior Ethos
What are beliefs?
Beliefs derive from upbringing, culture, religious backgrounds and traditions.
What Army Regulation prescribes the policies for completing evaluation reports that support the Evaluation Reporting System (ERS)?
AR 623-3
What DA Pamphlet prescribes the procedures for completing evaluation reports that support the Evaluation Reporting System (ERS)?
DA Pam 623-3
What does the Evaluation Reporting System (ERS) identify?
The ERS identifies officers and non-commissioned officers who are best qualified for promotion and assignments to positions of higher responsibility. ERS also identifies Soldiers who should be kept on active duty, those who should be retained in grade, and those who should be eliminated.
What will a rating chain for an NCO consist of?
Rated NCO
Rater
Senior Rater
Reviewer
What is the ERS Process designed to do?
Set objectives for the rated Soldier that supports the organization’s overall achievement of the mission.
Review the rated Soldier’s objectives, special duties, assigned tasks, or special areas of emphasis and update them to meet current needs.
Promote performance-related counseling to develop subordinates and better accomplish the organization’s mission.
Evaluate the rated leader’s performance.
Assess the rated leader’s potential.
Ensure a review of the entire process.
Non-commissioned officer’s organizational rating chain use DA Form 2166–8; and DA Form 2166–8–1.
What is an NCOER?
Rating chain members use the DA Form 2166–8 (NCOER) to provide DA with performance and potential assessments of each rated NCO. The DA Form 2166–8 also provides evaluation information to ensure that sound personnel management decisions can be made andthat an NCO’s potential can be fully developed.
How many types of NCOERs are there?
There are 7:
Annual
Change of Rater
Relief for Cause
Complete the Record
60 Day Rater Option
60 Day Senior Rater Option
Temporary Duty, Special Duty or Compassionate Reassignment
What is the minimum period of time for rater qualification?
3 Rated Months
What is the minimum period of time for senior rater qualifications?
2 months
What form is used for the NCO Counseling/Checklist Record?
DA Form 2166-8-1
What is a rating scheme?
A rating scheme is the published rating chain of the NCO’s rating officials (rater, senior rater, and reviewer).
What forms are used for the NCOER?
DA 2166-8-1, NCO Counseling Checklist/Record
DA 2166-8, NCO Evaluation Report.
Who is the last individual to sign the NCOER?
The rated NCO
Is the use of the 2166-8-1 mandatory for counseling all NCOs in the ranks of CPL through CSM?
Yes.
What NCOER is used upon the removal of an NCO from a ratable assignment based on the decision by a member of the NCO’s chain of command?
Relief-for-cause
What are the parts of the NCOER?
PartI.Administrative Data
PartII.Authentication
PartIII.Duty Description
Part IV.Army Values/ NCO Responsibilities
Part V.Overall Performance and Potential.
What Field Manual covers counseling?
FM 6-22 Appendix B
What are the three approaches to counseling?
Directive
Non-directive
Combined
Explain the advantages and disadvantages of Directive counseling.
Advantages:
Quickest method.
Good for people who need clear, concise direction.
Allows counselors to actively use their experience.
Disadvantages:
Doesn’t encourage subordinates to be part of the solution.
Tends to treat symptoms, not problems.
Tends to discourage subordinates from talking freely.
Solution is the counselor’s, not the subordinate’s.
Explain the advantages and disadvantages of Non-Directive counseling.
Advantages:
Encourages maturity.
Encourages open communication.
Develops personal responsibility.
Disadvantages:
More time-consuming
Requires greatest counselor skill.
Explain the advantages and disadvantages of Combined counseling.
Advantages:
Moderately quick.
Encourages maturity.
Encourages open communication.
Allows counselors to actively use their experience.
Disadvantages:
May take too much time for some situations.
What are the three major categories of developmental counseling?
Event counseling
Performance counseling
Professional growth counseling
What are some examples of Event counseling?
Instances of superior or substandard performance.
Reception and Integration Counseling.
Crisis Counseling
Referral Counseling
Promotion Counseling
Separation Counseling
What is counseling
Counseling is the process used by leaders to review with a subordinate the subordinate’s demonstrated performance and potential.
How many human needs are there?
4 (Physical, Social, Security and Higher (Religious))
Leaders should seek to develop and improve what three leader counseling skills?
Active Listening
Responding
Questioning
What are the qualities of an effective counselor?
Respect for subordinates
Self-awareness
Cultural awareness
Empathy
Credibility
What form is used for counseling?
DA Form 4856 E
