Military Leadership (FM 6-22) Flashcards
What does FM 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.
What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop others through which they provide knowledge and feedback?
Counseling, Coaching, and Mentoring
A leader’s effectiveness is dramatically enhanced by understanding and developing what areas?
Military Bearing, Physical Fitness, Confidence, and 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 three levels of leadership?
Direct, Organization and Strategic
What are the Army Values?
Loyalty Duty Respect Selfless Service Honor Integrity Personal Courage
Why must leaders introduce stress into training?
Using scenarios that closely resemble the stresses and effects of the real battlefield is essential to victory and survival in combat.
