Marine Leader Development 1 Flashcards
What are the 6 functional areas of Marine Leader Development?
Fidelity: Faithfulness to one another, our Corps, our values
Fighter: Cumulative skill-sets and knowledge that make Marines well-rounded warriors
Fitness: Holistic physical, mental, spiritual, and social health and well-being
Family: The bedrock, fundamental social relationship from which Marines draw strength, and cumulatively make a stronger Corps. The challenges of military life require family love and support
Finance
Future: The practice of setting and accomplishing goals in all of the other five functional areas of leader development
Define Teaching
The process of imparting knowledge from one with experience or expertise, to one without the same level of experience or expertise.
For Marine leaders, teaching is a continuing action.
Define Coaching
The process of both encouraging and demanding output.
Coaching focuses on both individual and team success. Successful coaching draws greater performance from individuals and teams than they might realize they possess. All coaches are teachers. Good leaders are coaching every day. Good coaches welcome questions and feedback. Coaching and counseling are complementary actions. Coaching provides encouragement to succeed in stated goals. It is forward-looking. The best leaders coach every day and counsel as required.
For Marine leaders, coaching is a continuing action. Coaching is closely related to teaching.
Define Counselings
The mechanism Marine leaders use to provide feedback on performance.
Done effectively, counseling can be either positive or negative and depends on the specific circumstances of performance. It is the process of two-way communication between senior and junior to help achieve or maintain the highest possible level of performance. Counseling allows the senior to identify both areas of excellence and deficiency. It also allows the junior the opportunity to ask questions and seek guidance in order to improve.
Counseling primarily focuses on actions that have already occurred. Within counseling, teaching and coaching can occur.
Define Mentoring
A voluntary relationship between two individuals and should not be directed or forced.
One individual has experience and knowledge and is seeking to guide another whose development they have taken interest in. The other individual seeks to learn, gain experience, and model his or her development after the person providing guidance.
Mentoring happens most effectively when two individuals find commonality and although it is not limited to the chain of command, the initial relationship between leader and led should contain an element of mentoring.
Most leaders naturally mentor others. In a mentoring relationship, teaching, coaching, and counseling usually.
What does LEAD stand for?
Leader make things happen
Everything is preparation for combat (and life)
Always find a way to make things fun
Do what is right
