Army Leadership Flashcards

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What is an Army leader?

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An Army leader is anyone who by virtue of assumed role or assigned responsibility inspires and influences people to accomplish organizational goals.

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What is leadership?

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Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.

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What is toxic leadership?

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Toxic leadership is a combination of self-centered attitudes, motivations, and behaviors that have adverse effects on subordinates, the organization and mission performance.

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What is purpose?

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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.

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What is motivation?

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

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Describe the “Be, Know, and Do” of leadership.

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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 you 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?

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Coaching, counseling, and mentoring.

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A leader’s effectiveness is dramatically enhanced by understanding and developing what areas?

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  1. Military Bearing.
  2. Physical Fitness.
  3. Confidence.
  4. Resilience.
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What is military bearing?

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Projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of authority.

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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 units 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?

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Showing an 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 Army values?

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Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless-service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage.

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What is communication?

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A process of providing information.

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Name the two barriers of communications.

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Physical and Psychological.

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What is counseling?

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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?

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  1. Event counseling.
  2. Performance counseling.
  3. Professional growth counseling.
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Name some things in a unit that affect morale.

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Mess, Military Justice, Mail, Supply, Billets.