Leadership

Question 0

what does FM 7-0 cover?

Answer 0

Training the force

Question 1

What does FM 6-22 cover?

Answer 1

Army Leadership (Competent, Confident and Agile)

Question 2

Define Leadership

Answer 2

Leadership is influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization.

Question 3

what is purpose?

Answer 3

purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in order to achieve a desired outcome.

Question 4

what is direction?

Answer 4

providing clear direction involves communicating how to accomplish a mission: prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibility for completion, and ensuring subordinates understand the standard.

Question 5

what is motivation?

Answer 5

motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a mission

Question 6

describe the “be, know and do”

Answer 6

Army leadership begins with what the leader must BE, the values and attributes that shape a leader’s character. Your skills are things you KNOW from technical to people skills of being a leader. and DO is when you actually apply your skills and values.

Question 7

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

Answer 7

counseling
coaching
mentoring

Question 8

a leaders effectiveness is dramatically enhanced by understanding and developing what areas?

Answer 8

military bearing
physical fitness
confidence
resilience

Question 9

what is military bearing?

Answer 9

projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of authority.

Question 10

what is physical fitness?

Answer 10

having sound health, strength, and endurance, which sustain emotional health and conceptual abilities under prolonged stress.

Question 11

what is confidence?

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

what is resilience?

Answer 12

showing a tendency to recover quickly from setbacks, shock, injuries, adversity, and stress while maintaining a mission and organizational focus.

Question 13

what are three core domains that shape the critical learning experiences throughout soldiers and leaders careers?

Answer 13

• institutional training
• training, education, and job experience gained during operational assignments.
• self-development

Question 14

what are leader actions?

Answer 14

• influencing- getting people 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.

Question 15

what are three levels of leadership?

Answer 15

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. they are responsible for large organizations and influence several thousand to hundreds of thousands of people.

Question 16

what are the army values?

Answer 16

Loyalty
duty 
respect
selfless service
honor
integrity
personal courage

Question 17

attributes of an army leader can best be defined as what an army leader is. what are the attributes of an army leader?

Answer 17

a leader of character
a leader of presence
a leader of intellectual capacity

Question 18

core leader competencies are what an army leader does. what are the core leader competencies?

Answer 18

an army leader leads
an army leader develops
an army leader achieves

Question 19

why must leaders introduce stress into training?

Answer 19

using scenarios that closely resemble the stresses and effects of the real battlefield is essential to victory and survival in combat.

Question 20

what are intended and unintended consequences?

Answer 20

• 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.

Question 21

what is communication?

Answer 21

a process of providing information

Question 22

name the two barriers of communication?

Answer 22

physical and psychological

Question 23

name some physical barriers of communication.

Answer 23

noise of battle

distance

Question 24

what is counseling?

Answer 24

counseling is the process used by leaders to review with a subordinate the subordinates demonstrated performance and potential.

Question 25

what are three major categories of developmental counseling?

Answer 25

1. event counseling
2. performance counseling
3. professional growth counseling

Question 26

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

Answer 26

army values
empathy
warrior ethos

Question 27

what are the 7 steps to problem solving?

Answer 27

id the problem
gather information
develop criteria
generate possible solutions
analyze possible solutions
compare possible solutions
make and implement the decision

Question 28

what is reverse planning?

Answer 28

revers planning is a specific technique used to ensure that a concept leads to the intended end state.

Question 29

to assess subordinates, leaders you must?

Answer 29

• observe and record subordinate’s 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.

Question 30

what are the team building stages?

Answer 30

formation
enrichment
sustainment

Question 31

name some things that affect morale?

Answer 31

mess
military justice
mail
supply
billets

Question 32

what are beliefs?

Answer 32

beliefs derive from upbringing, culture, religious backgrounds and traditions.