Leadership ADP 6-22 Flashcards
What does adp 6-22 cover?
Army Leadership (Competent, Confident and Agile)
Define Leadership
Leadership is influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization
What is purpose?
Purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in order to achieve a desired outcome
What is direction?
Providing clear direction involves communicating how to accomplish a mission: prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibility for completion, and ensuring subordinates understand the standard.
What is motivation?
Motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a mission
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
What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop others through which they provide knowledge and feedback?
- Counseling
- Coaching
- Mentoring
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, 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?
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.
What is resilience?
Showing a tendency to recover quickly from setbacks, shock, 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.
- Training, education, and job experience gained during operational assignments.
- Self-development.
What are the Leader Actions?
- 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
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. 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