Army Leadership And The Profession Flashcards
What are the echelons of leadership?
Direct
Organizational
Strategic
What are the Army’s four strategic roles?
- Shaping operational environments
- Preventing conflict
- Prevailing in large scale ground combat operations
- Consolidating gains
What makes an effective leader?
A person of integrity who builds trust and applies sound judgement to influence others
What is leadership?
The act of providing people with purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission
What are the leader attributes?
- Character
- Presence
- Intellect
What are the leader competencies?
- Leads
- Develops
- Achieves
What regulation covers Army Leadership and the Profession?
ADP 6-22
What is the “Army Profession”
A trusted vocation of Soldiers and Army Civilians whose collective expertise is the ethical design, generation, support, and application of land power; serving under civilian authority, and entrusted to defend the Constitution and the rights of the American people
Who comprises the Profession of Arms?
- Soldiers of regular Army
- Army National Guard
- Army Reserve
What is the Army Civilian Corps?
Army civilians serving in the Department of the Army
What is the Army’s motto?
“This We’ll Defend”
What are the Army Values?
- Loyalty
- Duty
- Respect
- Selfless Service
- Honor
- Integrity
- Personal Courage
What is a trusted Army professional?
Responsible stewards of the Army profession
What is Army ethic?
The set of enduring moral principles, values, beliefs, and laws that guide the Army profession and create the culture of trust
What is the leadership requirements model?
It establishes a core set of requirements that inform leaders of the expectations for what they need to be, know, and do
What is the Be and Know portion of the leadership requirements model?
- Leadership attributes and what they encompass
- Character: Army values, empathy, warrior ethos, discipline, humility
- Presence: Military bearing, professional bearing, fitness, confidence, resilience
- Intellect: Mental agility, judgement, innovation, expertise
What is Do in the leadership requirements model?
- Leadership competencies and what they encompass
- Leads: Leads others, builds trust, extends influence, leads by example, communicates
- Develops: Prepares self, creates a positive environment, develops others, stewards the profession
- Achieves: Gets results, anticipates tasks, roles, resources, and priorities, improves performance, gives feedback, executes
What are the characteristics of the Army Profession?
- Trust
- Honorable service
- Military expertise
- Stewardship (the responsibility to strengthen the Army as a profession)
- Esprit de corps (the Army’s winning spirit)
