Leadership Levels

Question 1

The officer force structure is comprised of three distinct and separate tiers.

Answer 1

The tiers are Company Grade Officer, with grades O-1 through O-3; Field Grade Officer, with grades O-4 through O-6; and General Officer, with grades O-7 through O-10.

Question 2

What is the focus of each leadership tier in the officer force structure?

Answer 2

Above all, each tier focuses on leadership, professionalism, and mission success in the profession of arms.

Question 3

How does the Air Force develop technical experts in the enlisted force?

Answer 3

Through career field progression and succession planning.

Question 4

Functionally, the Air Force strives to develop?

Answer 4

Experienced leaders

Question 5

As Airmen demonstrate expertise and potential, opportunities should be made available to

Answer 5

Encourage more responsibility and increased leadership roles. Developmental opportunities, such as deployments, exercises, joint assignments, special duty assignments, and headquarters staff assignments, offer unique perspectives on how the USAF functions.

Question 6

Effective career progression and development are dependent upon?

Answer 6

Deliberate conversations between supervisors and subordinates regarding career field and USAF requirements, personal qualifications, and goals.

Question 7

The three distinct levels associated with leadership skills are:

Answer 7

Tactical expertise, operational competence, and strategic vision.

Question 8

Development at the tactical expertise level includes a

Answer 8

A general understanding of team leadership and an appreciation for organization leadership.

Question 9

Airmen at the tactical expertise level learn what?

Answer 9

to become the USAF’s primary technicians and specialists, assimilate into the USAF culture, and
adopt the USAF core values.

Question 10

Development at the operational competence leadership level includes

Answer 10

developing a broader understanding of the USAF perspective and the integration of diverse people and capabilities in operational execution.

Question 11

The majority of Airmen operate at what levels?

Answer 11

At the tactical expertise and operational competence levels

Question 13

Development at the strategic vision level includes

Answer 13

combining highly developed personal and people/team institutional competencies, applying broad organizational competencies, and leading and directing exceptionally complex and multi-tiered organizations

Question 14

Core competencies are about

Answer 14

big picture concepts that the USAF does, or is expected to do or know, all of the time.

Question 15

In the USAF being competent means

Answer 15

That a person or organization has the necessary abilities or qualities to perform or function successfully.

Question 16

For the USAF, core competencies are

Answer 16

those special abilities and qualities we collectively possess that enable us to function successfully and create airpower effects.

Question 17

Occupational competencies describe

Answer 17

The technical/functional knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics needed to perform that function’s mission successfully.

Question 18

Foundational competencies are

Answer 18

Observable, measurable patterns of knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics needed to perform successfully across a USAF career.

Question 19

The Foundational Competencies are grouped into four major categories:

Answer 19

Developing Self, Developing Others, Developing Ideas, and Developing Organizations.