Training Units And Developing Leaders Flashcards
What is the army’s life-blood?
Unit training and leader development.
What are the 3 training domains the army uses?
1) institutional
2) operational
3) self development
Who is responsible for training units and developing leaders?
The commander
How do commanders exercise the responsibility to train units and develop leaders?
Through formal and informal chains, assisted by other officers and noncommissioned officers, through the development and execution of progressive, challenging, and realistic training.
Where does training begin for soldiers?
Training begins in the generating force.
Soldiers and leaders should train to master what?
Bight the individual and unit collective tasks that support the unit’s mission-essential tasks.
Who must train as part of a combined arms team?
Individual, teams, sections, and units train to standard as part of a combined arms team.
What training events link together as comprehensive progressive and sequential training and leader development program, providing the experiences necessary for building ready units?
Major training events, combat training center exercises, and operational deployments.
What must commanders do to ensure leaders can meat the prerequisites to attend and get the most benefit from institutional training?
Unit commanders must allocate time during operational assignments.
Who supports both the operational and generating forces?
Army civilians.
What us the major benefit to having army civilians supporting our force?
Army civilians provide the skills and continuity essential to the functioning of army organizations and programs.
What is considered to be as important as institutional training and operational assignments?
Self development.
Who is responsible for self-development training?
Self development is a personal responsibility.
What is the purpose of self-development?
Self development enhances qualifications for a current position or helps prepare and individual for future positions.
What must soldiers and civilians do to understand both personal strengths and gaps in skills, knowledge, and behaviors?
All must be completely honest with themselves to understand their strengths and weaknesses.
Why does the army train?
To provide ready forces to combatant commanders worldwide.
Why do units train?
Units train in garrison and while deployed to prepare for their mission and adapt their capabilities to any changes in an operational environment.
What is the institutional training domain?
The army’s institutional training and education system which includes training base centers and schools that provide initial training and subsequent professional military education for soldiers, military leaders and army civilians.
What is the operational training domain?
Training that organizations conduct at home stations, maneuver combat training centers, during joint exercises, at mobilization centers and while operationally deployed.
What is the self development training domain?
Goal oriented learning that reinforces and expands the knowledge base, self-awareness and situational awareness and it compliments institutional and operational learning and enhances professional competence and professionalism.
What does individual training allow?
Allows individuals to ,aster fundamental skills.
What integrates and synchronizes the skills learned at the individual skill level?
Collective training.
What is the basis for collective proficiency?
Individual skill proficiency.
What does training in units focus on?
Improving unit, soldier and leader proficiencies.
Who ensures unit training plans are prioritized and collective training is executed to maximize the operational performance of the unit?
Commanders and other leaders.
What do soldiers and army civilians cycle between throughout their careers?
The institutional and operation training domains.
What compliments training, educational, and experiences gained in both schools and unit assignments?
Structured, guided, and individualized self-development programs.
What is critical in maintaining awareness of individual skills?
Documentation of individual training in all venues.
What is a continuous and progressive process, spanning a leaders entire career?
Leader development
What is the army committed to?
To training, educating, and developing its leaders.
What develops leaders and prepares them for assignments of increased responsibility?
Training, education and experience in the schools and units.
What is essential to unit readiness and successful deployments?
Competent and confident leaders.
Who is responsible for ensuring their units are capable of performing their missions?
Commanders
Can commanders delegate their responsibility of ensuring their units are capable of performing their mission?
No
What makes a quantitative and qualitative difference in unit training and leader development?
Commander involvement
How do commanders apply the operational process to training?
They use steps: plan, prepare, execute, and assess.