Military 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

Define Leadership.

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What is purpose?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is direction?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What is motivation?

Answer 6

Motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a mission.

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.

Question 8

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

Answer 8

1. Counseling 2. Coaching 3. Mentoring

Question 9

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

Answer 9

1. Military Bearing 2. Physical Fitness 3. Confidence

4. Resilience

Question 10

What is military bearing?

Answer 10

Projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of authority.

Question 11

What is physical fitness?

Answer 11

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

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.

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.

Question 14

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

Answer 14

1. Institutional training.

2. Training, education, and job experience gained during operational assignments. 3. Self-development.

Question 15

What are the Leader Actions?

Answer 15

1. Influencing - getting people (Soldiers, Army civilians, and multinational partners) to do what is necessary.
2. Operating - the actions taken to influence others to accomplish missions and to set the stage for future operations. 3. Improving - capturing and acting on important lessons of ongoing and completed projects and missions.

Question 16

What are the three levels of leadership?

Answer 16

1. Direct
2. Organizational
3. Strategic

Question 17

What are the Army Values?

Answer 17

Loyalty
Duty
Respect Selfless Service Honor
Integrity
Personal Courage

Question 18

What are the attributes of an Army leader?

Answer 18

1. A leader of character
2. A leader with presence
3. A leader with intellectual capacity

Question 19

What are the core leader competencies?

Answer 19

1. An Army leader leads

2. develops 3. achieves

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.

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.

Question 22

What is communication?

Answer 22

A process of providing information

Question 23

Name the two barriers of communications

Answer 23

1. Physical

2. 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.

Question 26

What are the three major categories of developmental counseling?

Answer 26

1. Event counseling
2. Performance counseling
3. Professional growth counseling

Question 27

What are the three major factors that determine a leader’s character?

Answer 27

1. Army Values 2. Empathy
2. Warrior Ethos

Question 28

What are the 7 steps to problem solving?

Answer 28

1. ID the problem
2. Gather information
3. Develop criteria
4. Generate possible solutions
5. Analyze possible solutions
6. Compare possible solutions
7. Make and implement the decision

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.

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.

Question 31

What are the team building stages?

Answer 31

1. Formation 2. Enrichment 3. Sustainment

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.