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FOUNDATIONS OF ARMY
LEADERSHIP
FOUNDATION OF ARMY LEADERSHIP
• Part one / Chapter 2 / FM 6-22
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• Leadership (Defenitions)
ARMY FM 6-22: Is the process of influencing people
by providing, purpose, direction, and motivation while
operating to accomplish the mission and improving the
organization. (same as your Introduction to Leadership
-MSL I)
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (NROTC):
leadership is defined as influence relationship among
leaders and followers who intend real changes that
reflects their shared purposes.
FOUNDATION OF ARMY LEADERSHIP
• Leadership (Definitions)
LEADERSHIP AND FORCE DEVELOPMENT(AFDD
1-1):
Leadership is the art and science of motivating,
influencing, and directing airmen to understand and
accomplish the Air Force mission in joint warfare.
MARINE CORPS (MCWP 6-11):The primary goal of
the Marine Corps leadership is to instill in all Marines
the fact we are warriors first. (FMFM 1-0, purpose and
scope, pg93.
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Leadership (Defenitions)
LEADERSHIP (THEORY,APPLICATION AND SKILL
DEVELOPMENT) PS-334: The influencing process of
leaders and followers to achieve organizational
objectives through challenges.
CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT (7TH
EDITION):The process by which an individual exerts
influence, motivates, and directs their activities to help
achieve group or organizational goals.
FOUNDATION OF ARMY LEADERSHIP
• Army leaders are responsible for being
personally and professionally competent, they
are also charged with the responsibility of
developing their subordinates.
• Army identifies three categories of core leader
competencies: lead, develop, and achieve.
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• Leadership and Command Authority
When you are commanding, leading [ Soldiers] under conditions where
physical exhaustion and privations must be ignored; where the lives of
[Soldiers] may be sacrificed, then, the efficiency of your leadership will
depend only to a minor degree on your tactical or technical ability. It
will primarily be determined by your character, your reputation, not so
much for courage-which will be accepted as a matter of course-but by
the previous reputation you have established for fairness, for that highminded patriotic purpose, that quality of unswerving determination to
carry through any military task assigned to you.
General of the Army George C. Marshall
Speaking to officer candidates (1941)
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• Command is a specific and legal leadership responsibility
unique to the military.
Command is the authority that a commander in the military
service lawfully exercises over subordinates by virtue of rank
or assignment. Command includes the leadership, authority,
responsibility, and accountability for effectively using available
resources and planning the employment of, organizing,
directing, coordinating, and controlling military forces to
accomplish assigned missions. It includes responsibility for the
unit readiness, health, welfare, morale, and disciplinary of
assigned personnel. (FM 5-0.1)
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• Command:
Is about sacred trust. Nowhere else do superiors
have to answer for how their subordinates live
and act beyond duty hours. Society and the
Army look to commanders to ensure that
Soldiers and Army civilians receive the proper
training and care, uphold expected values, and
accomplish assigned missions.
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• Leadership Requirements Model
The model’s basic components center on what
a leader is and what a leader does.
--Attributes: What a leader Is.
--Core Leader Competencies: What an Army
leader Does.
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• Attributes: What an Army leader ____.
- A leader of character
- A leader with presence
- A leader with intellectual capacity
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• Attributes:
- A leader of character
1. Army Values
2. Empathy
3. Warrior Ethos
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• Attributes:
- A leader with presence
1. Military Bearing
2. Physically Fit
3. Composed, confident
4. Resilient
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• Attributes:
- A leader with intellectual capacity
1. Mental agility
2. Sounds judgment
3. Innovation
4. Interpersonal tact
5. Domain Knowledge
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• Core Leaders Competencies: What an Army
leader _______.
- Leads
- Develops
- Achieves
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• Core leaders competencies:
- Leads
1. Lead others
2. Extends influence beyond the chain of
command
3. Leads by example
4. Communicates
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• Core leaders competencies:
- Develops
1. Creates a positive environments
2. Prepares self
3. Develops others
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• Core leaders competencies:
- Achieves
1. Gets results
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• Excelling at the Core Leader Competencies:
- Leader competence develops from a balance
combination of institutional schooling, self
development, realistic training, and
professional experience. Apply these in
concert and tailoring them to the situation at
hand.
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• Excelling at the Core Leader Competencies:
- Why competencies?
It provides a clear and consistent way of
conveying expectations for Army leaders.
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QUESTIONS?
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