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Title: Leadership


1
Leadership
  • Foundation of Army Leadership Doctrine
  • What a Leader Must Be
  • Officer and NCO Relationships
  • Developmental Leadership Assessment
  • Oath of Enlistment

2
Foundation of Army Leadership
  • Factors of Leadership
  • the Led
  • the Leader
  • the Situation
  • Communication
  • Principles of Leadership

3
Foundation of Army Leadership The Led
  • Correct assessment by the leader of the soldiers
    being led
  • Subordinates competence
  • Subordinates motivation
  • Subordinates commitment
  • Proper leadership actions taken at the correct
    time

4
Foundation of Army Leadership The Led (cont.)
  • The leader must create a climate that encourages
    subordinates active participation to accomplish
    the mission
  • Key ingredients to develop this are
  • Mutual Trust
  • Respect
  • Confidence

5
Foundation of Army Leadership The Leader
  • Honest understanding of yourself
  • who you are
  • what you know
  • what you can do
  • Knowledge of
  • strengths, weaknesses
  • capabilities, limitations

6
Foundation of Army Leadership The Situation
  • All situations are different
  • Leadership actions which work in one situation
    may not work in another
  • Consider available resources and factors of
    METT-T (Mission, Enemy, Terrain, Troops-Time and
    weather)

7
Foundation of Army Leadership Communications
  • The exchange of information and ideas from one
    person to another.
  • Effective communication others understand
    exactly what you are trying to tell them AND when
    you understand precisely what they are trying to
    tell you

8
Foundation of Army Leadership Communications
(cont.)
  • The Leader must recognize that you communicate
    standards by your example an by what behaviors
    you ignore, reward, and punish.
  • Effective communication implies that your
    soldiers listen and understand you, the leader.

9
Principles of Leadership
  • Know yourself and seek self improvement
  • Be technically and tactically proficient
  • Seek responsibility and take responsibility for
    your actions
  • Make sound and timely decisions
  • Set the example
  • Keep your subordinates informed

10
Principles of Leadership (cont.)
  • Know your soldiers and look out for their
    well-being
  • Develop a sense of responsibility in your
    subordinates
  • Ensure the task is understood, supervised, and
    accomplished
  • Build the team
  • Employ your unit in accordance with its
    capabilities

11
What a Leader Must Be
  • Beliefs
  • Assumptions or convictions you hold as true about
    some thing, concept, or person
  • People generally behave in accord with their
    beliefs
  • Values
  • Attitudes about the worth or importance of
    people, concepts or things
  • Values will influence your priorities the
    stronger values are what you put first, defend
    most, and want least to give up

12
What a Leader Must Be (cont.)
  • Individual values all soldiers are expected to
    possess are
  • Courage (Physical and Moral)
  • Physical courage is overcoming fears of bodily
    harm and doing your duty
  • Moral courage is standing firm on your values,
    your moral principles, and your convictions
  • Candor is being frank, open, honest, and sincere
    with your soldiers, seniors, and peers. Also
    called personal integrity

13
What a Leader Must Be (cont.)
  • Competence is proficiency in required
    professional knowledge, judgement, and skills
  • Commitment means the dedication to carry out all
    unit missions and to serve the values of the
    country, the Army and the unit
  • Norms
  • Formal such as UCMJ, and Geneva Convention
  • Informal norms are unwritten rules or standards

14
What a Leader Must Be (cont.)
  • Character
  • Describes a persons inner strength and is the
    link between values and behaviors
  • A soldier of character does what he believes is
    right regardless of the danger or circumstances

15
What a Leader Must Be (cont.)
  • Soldiers want to be led by leaders who provide
    strength, inspiration, and guidance and will help
    them become winners. Whether or not they are
    willing to trust their lives to a leader depends
    on their assessment of that leaders courage,
    competence, and commitment.

16
The Professional Army Ethic
  • Loyalty to the Nation, the Army and the Unit
  • Support and defend the Constitution
  • Duty
  • The legal or moral obligation to do what should
    be done without being told to do it
  • Accomplishing all assigned tasks to the fullest
    of your ability

17
The Professional Army Ethic (cont.)
  • Selfless Service
  • Put the nations welfare and mission
    accomplishment ahead of the personnal safety of
    you and your troops
  • As a leader, you must be the greatest servant in
    your unit. Your rank and position are not
    personal rewards. You earn them so that you can
    serve your subordinates, your unit, and your
    nation
  • Integrity
  • Being honest and upright, avoiding deception, and
    living the values you suggest for your
    subordinates

18
Ethical Responsibilities
  • Ethics are principles or standards that guide
    professionals to do the moral or right thing
  • Leaders have three general ethical
    responsibilities
  • Be a role model
  • Your actions must be more than your words
  • You must be willing to do what you require of
    your soldiers and share the dangers and hardships

19
Ethical Responsibilities (cont.)
  • Develop your subordinates ethically
  • You develop subordinates by personal contact and
    by teaching them how to reason clearly about
    ethical matters
  • Avoid creating ethical dilemmas for your
    subordinates
  • I dont care how you get it done - just do it!
  • Theres no excuse for failure!
  • Setting goals that are impossible to reach
  • Can Do!
  • Zero Defects
  • Loyalty up - not down

20
Ethical Decision Making Process
  • Interpret the situation. What is the ethical
    dilemma?
  • Analyze all the factors and forces that relate to
    the dilemma
  • Choose the course of action you believe will best
    serve the nation
  • Implement the course of action you have choosen

21
Ethical Decision Making Process (cont.)
  • Forces that influence decision making
  • Laws, orders and regulations
  • Basic national values
  • Traditional Army values
  • Unit operating values
  • Your values
  • Institutional pressures

22
Officer and NCO Relationships
  • Share the same goal - to accomplish the units
    mission
  • Responsibilities overlap and must be shared
  • Officers must give NCOs the guidance, resources,
    assistance, and supervision necessary to do their
    duties.
  • NCOs are responsible for assisting and advising
    officers

23
Officer and NCO Relationships (cont.)
  • Communications
  • One chain of command in the Army
  • NCO support channel parallels and reeinforces it.
  • Officer Responsibility
  • Commands, establishes policy and manages the
    Army.
  • Focuses on collective training leading to mission
    accomplishment.
  • Is primarily involved with units and unit
    operations.
  • Concentrates on unit effectiveness and readiness.
  • Concentrates on the standards of performance,
    training and professional development of officers
    and NCOs.

24
Officer and NCO Relationships (cont.)
  • NCO Responsibilities
  • Conduct the daily business of the Army within
    established policy.
  • Focuses on individual training that leads to
    mission capability.
  • Is primarily involved with individual soldiers
    and team leading.
  • Ensures subordinate NCOs and soldiers, with their
    personal equipment, are prepared to operate as
    effective unit members.

25
Officer and NCO Relationships (cont.)
  • NCO Responsibilities (cont.)
  • Concentrates on the standards of performance,
    training and professional development of
    subordinate NCOs and soldiers.

26
Authority
  • Legitimate power of leaders to direct
    subordinates or to take action wihtin the scope
    of their responsibility.
  • Begins with the Constitution
  • Command authority
  • Leaders have command authority when they fill
    positions requiring the direction and control of
    other members of the Army.

27
Authority (cont.)
  • General Military Authority
  • Originates in the oath of office, law, rank
    structure, tradition and regulation
  • Delegation of Authority
  • To meet the organizations goal, the officers
    must delegate authority to NCOs
  • Accountability
  • Soldier have individual responsibilities, they
    are responsible for their own actions they
    assume them when they take the oath of enlistment
  • Command responsibilities refer to collective or
    organizational accountability

28
Developmental Leadership Assessement
  • Leadership assessment is to develop competent and
    confident leaders
  • It should be a positive, useful experience that
    does not confuse, intimidate, or negatively
    impact on leaders.

29
Developmental Leadership Assessement (cont.)
  • Conducted as follows
  • Decide what skill, knowledge or attitude you want
    to assess
  • Make a plan to observe the leadership performance
  • Observe leadership performace and record
    observations
  • Compare performace you observed to a standard or
    performace indicator
  • Decide if the performace you observed exceeds,
    meets, or is below the standard or performace
    indicator
  • Give the person leadership performace feedback
  • Help the person develop an action plan to improve
    leadership performance

30
Developmental Leadership Assessement (cont.)
  • Feedback Sources
  • The person himself
  • Leaders
  • Peers
  • Subordinates
  • Close friends and family members
  • Trained leadership assessors

31
Oath of Enlistment
  • I (state your name), do solemnly swear (or
    affirm) that I will support and defend the
    Constitution of the United States against all
    enemies, foreign and domestic that I will bear
    true faith and allegiance to the same and that I
    will obey the orders of the President of the
    United States and the orders of the officers
    appointed over me, according to regulations and
    the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me
    God.
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