350-1 Flashcards
Define Leadership
Leadership is the ability to provide tasks and purpose to help motivate while promoting the welfare of others to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.
What regulation covers Army Training and Leader Development?
AR 350-1
Define an Army Leader
An Army Leader is anyone by assigned rank or virtue that can inspire and motivate others to accomplish organizational goals
What is Command?
Command is the authority bestowed to a commander to lawfully execute orders over subordinates
What are the expectations of an Army Leader?
An Army Leader will follow the leadership requirements model
What are the Leader Attributes
The Leader’s Attributes are Character, Presence, and Intellect
What does Attribute mean?
Attributes are the key aspects of a leader
What does Character mean?
Character can be defined as the features that define us as persons, soldiers, and leaders through living the Army Values
What does Presence mean?
Presence can be defined as the way others view us through leading by example, and projecting military bearing, confidence and fitness
What is Intellect?
Intellect can be defined as the wisdom and knowledge gained through accomplishing the mission and putting other’s welfare before one’s self
What are the Leader Competencies?
The Leader Competencies are Leads, Develops, and Achieves
Define Competencies
Leader Competencies are what the Army expects out of a leader, and what subordinates are entitled to from their leaders
Defines Leads
Leads can be defined as leading others by leading ourselves through trust and expertise in our craft
Define Develops
Develops can be defined as developing ourselves to create a positive environment to develop others
Define Achieves
Achieving can be defined as providing results, through accomplishing the mission
What is ARFORGEN?
ARFORGEN is Army Force Generation
What is METL?
METL stands for mission essential task list
What are Unit Readiness Priorities?
Rebuild Combined Arms, protect home station training, establish a common objective, improve personal readiness, and ensure training and leader developments
What is the Amry’s training challenge?
The Army’s training challenge is to optimize, synchronize, and support training in schools, training and education in units, and self-development training to produce forces and leaders capable of responding across the range of military operations.
What is NCOPDP?
NCOPDP is the Non-commissioned officer professional development program
Why do you deserve to win this board?
I have demonstrated that I am knowledgeable in the fields that a quality soldier and leader should possess based on trials and testing, and have therefore proved that I am willing and capable to endure what is necessary to be a proficient solider that can lead and motivate, even if it means putting other’s needs before my own
What is Proficiency?
Proficiency can be defined as the measure of the ability of a solider to perform their job
What are the indicators of good leadership?
A good leader is someone competent and committed, with character and candor
What is Purpose?
Purpose gives subordinates a reason to act in order to achieve a desired outcome
What is Direction?
Direction can be defined as providing a clear path that involves communicating how to accomplish a mission
What is Motivation?
Motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a mission.
What are the three principal ways leaders can develop others through which they provide knowledge and feedback?
Counseling
Coaching
Mentoring
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.
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, and a professional image of authority.
What is physical fitness?
Having sound health, strength, and endurance, which sustain emotional health and conceptual abilities under prolonged stress.
What is confidence?
Having firm trust in yourself, your subordinates, and unit
What is resilience?
Showing a tendency to recover quickly from setbacks, shocks, injuries, adversity, and stress while maintaining a mission and organizational focus.
What are the three core domains that shape the critical learning experiences throughout Soldiers’ and leaders’ careers?
Institutional training.
Education, and job experience
Self-development.
What are the Leader Actions?
Influencing - getting people to do what is necessary.
Operating - the actions taken to influence others to accomplish missions a
Improving - capturing and acting on important lessons of ongoing and completed projects and missions.
What are the three levels of leadership?
Direct - Direct leadership is face-to-face, first-line leadership.
Organizational - Organizational leaders influence several hundred to several thousand people.
Strategic - Strategic leaders include military and DA civilian leaders at the major command through Department of Defense levels.
Why must leaders introduce stress into training?
To closely resemble the stresses and effects of the real battlefield to ensure victory and test survival in combat.
What are the intended and unintended consequences?
Intended consequences are the anticipated results
Unintended consequences arise from unplanned events
What is communication?
A process of providing information
Name the two barriers of communications
Physical
Psychological
Name some physical barriers of communication
Noise of Battle
Distance
What is counseling?
Counseling is the process used by leaders to review with a subordinate
What are the three major categories of developmental counseling?
Event counseling
Performance counseling
Professional growth counseling
What does FM 6-22 cover?
FM 6-22 cover Army Leaders
What does FM 7-0 cover?
FM 7-0 covers Training the Force
What are the three major factors that determine a leader’s character?
Army Values
Empathy
Warrior Ethos
What are beliefs?
Beliefs are ideas indiviudlas hold to be true and can be derived from upbringing, culture, religious backgrounds and traditions.
Why does the Army train?
To win America’s wars.
What are the steps to training?
Plan, prepare, execute, and continually assess.
What does ATRRS stand for?
Army Training Requirements and Resources System
Who is the Army’s proponent for the training and leader development process?
TRADOC
What may happen to a Soldier that declines NCOPDP attendance?
They may lose current promotion or promotable status.
What does the Acronym TASS stand for?
Total Army School System.
What is the purpose of AR 350-1?
Prescribes policies, procedures, and responsibilities for developing, managing, and conducting Army training and leader development.
What is the number one principle of peacetime training
Replicate battlefield conditions
What are the three primary methods used to present training?
Demonstration, conference, lecture
(Conferences are involve interaction and lectures are strictly speaking)
What is the Goal of the NCOPDP?
The goal of the NCOPDP is to increase and sustain NCO combat readiness and compliment the overarching Army
NCOPDP
What are the levels of NCOPDP?
The levels of the NCOPDP are BLC, ALC, SMC, MLC, NLC
What is a Proffesional?
A military professional is an individual that is high motivated, physically fit, has a firm military bearing, and is profcient at their occupational job
