Leadership

Question 1

What does FM 6-22 cover?

Answer 1

Army Leadership (Competent, Confident and Agile)

Question 2

What does FM 7-0 cover?

Answer 2

Training the force

Question 3

What is direction?

Answer 3

Providing clear direction involves communicating how to accomplish a mission:
prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibility for completion, and ensuring subordinates
understand the standard.(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 1-10 / PDF 12)

Question 4

Define Leadership.

Answer 4

Providing clear direction involves communicating how to accomplish a mission:
prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibility for completion, and ensuring subordinates
understand the standard.
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 1-10 / PDF 12)

Question 5

What is purpose?

Answer 5

Purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in order to achieve a desired outcome.
(FM6-22 Oct 2006 / 1-8 / PDF 12)

Question 6

What is motivation?

Answer 6

Motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a mission.
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 1-12 / PDF 12)

Question 7

Describe the “Be, Know and Do”.

Answer 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.
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 1-1 / PDF 11)

Question 8

What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop others through which they
provide knowledge and feedback?

Answer 8

Counseling
Coaching
Mentoring
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 8-67 / PDF 216)

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Military Bearing
Physical Fitness
Confidence
Resilience

(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 1-7 / PDF 12)

Question 10

What is military bearing?

Answer 10

Projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of authority.
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 1-1 / PDF 11)

Question 11

What is physical fitness?

Answer 11

Having sound health, strength, and endurance, which sustain emotional health and
conceptual abilities under prolonged stress.
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 2-7 / PDF 16)

Question 12

What is confidence?

Answer 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.
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / A-2 / PDF 145)

Question 13

What is resilience?

Answer 13

Showing a tendency to recover quickly from setbacks, shock, injuries, adversity, and
stress while maintaining a mission and organizational focus.(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 5-3 / PDF 51)

Question 14

What are the three core domains that shape the critical learning experiences throughout
Soldiers’ and leaders’ careers?

Answer 14

Institutional training.
Training, education, and job experience gained during operational assignments.
Self-development.
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 8-53 / PDF 89)

Question 15

What are the Leader Actions?

Answer 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.
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 1-7 / PDF 12)

Question 16

What are the three levels of leadership?

Answer 16

Direct - Direct leadership is face-to-face, first-line leadership.
Organizational - Organizational leaders influence several hundred to several thousand
people. They do this indirectly, generally through more levels of subordinates than do
direct leaders.
Strategic - Strategic leaders include military and DA civilian leaders at the major
command through Department of Defense levels. Strategic leaders are responsible for
large organizations and influence several thousand to hundreds of thousands of people.
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 1-1 / PDF 11)

Question 17

What are the Army Values?

Answer 17

Loyalty
Duty
Respect
Selfless Service
Honor
Integrity
Personal Courage
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 2-7 / PDF 16)

Question 18

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

Answer 18

A leader of character
A leader with presence
A leader with intellectual capacity
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / A-2 / PDF 145)

Question 19

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

Answer 19

An Army leader leads
An Army leader develops
An Army leader achieves.
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / A-2 / PDF 145)

Question 20

Why must leaders introduce stress into training?

Answer 20

Using scenarios that closely resemble the stresses and effects of the real battlefield is
essential to victory and survival in combat.
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 10-43 / PDF 113)

Question 21

What are intended and unintended consequences?

Answer 21

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.
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 9-12 / PDF 100)

Question 22

What is communication?

Answer 22

A process of providing information

FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 7-87 / PDF 78

Question 23

Name the two barriers of communications

Answer 23

Physical

Psychological

Question 24

Name some physical barriers of communication

Answer 24

Noise of battle

Distance

Question 25

What is counseling?

Answer 25

Counseling is the process used by leaders to review with a subordinate the subordinate’s
demonstrated performance and potential.(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / B-1 / PDF 157)

Question 26

What are the three major categories of developmental counseling?

Answer 26

Event counseling
Performance counseling
Professional growth counseling
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / B-3 / PDF 157)

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Army Values
Empathy
Warrior Ethos
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 2-15 / PDF 18)

Question 28

What are the 7 steps to problem solving?

Answer 28

ID the problem
Gather information
Develop criteria
Generate possible solutions
Analyze possible solutions
Compare possible solutions
Make and implement the decision
(FM 5-0 Jan 2005 / 2-23 / PDF 46)

Question 29

What is reverse planning?

Answer 29

Reverse planning is a specific technique used to ensure that a concept leads to the
intended end state.(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 9-18 / PDF 101)

Question 30

To assess subordinates, leaders you must-

Answer 30

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.
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 8-59 / PDF 90)

Question 31

What are the team building stages?

Answer 31

Formation
Enrichment
Sustainment
(FM 6-22 Oct 2006 / 8-97 / PDF 216)

Question 32

Name some things in a unit that affect morale

Answer 32

Mess
Military justice
Mail
Supply
Billets

Question 33

What are beliefs?

Answer 33

Beliefs derive from upbringing, culture, religious backgrounds and traditions.(FM 6-22
Oct 2006 / 4-59 / PDF 46)