Athena Leader Self-Development Tool
Training, varies
Civilian experiences and/or education in different organizational cultures and environments allow individuals to develop skills that will assist them and benefit their agency as they move into increasingly senior roles.
Document, 10 minutes
NCO perspectives on leader development help all leaders practice influencing others.
Training, 60 minutes
This training describes how to manage and prioritize competing demands in a constrained amout of time. By completing this training, you'll learn how differentiate between effective and ineffective time management practices and apply time management strategies to manage competing demands.
Website, 3 minutes
This article describes the importance of the Battalion Commander and CSM's relationship within the Army, and the criticality of communicating senior leader intent.
Training, 1 hour, 27 minutes
This training describes ways to achieve shared understanding. By completing this training, you'll learn why shared understanding is important and how to achieve and evaluate shared understanding.
Document, 2 hours
This ADP explains the importance of the Army, key components of today's Army, and the Army's vision for preparing for the future. Reading this ADP will help you understand the Army's core competencies, strategies, and insights into how the Army is preparing for the future needs.
Video, 124 minutes
This video introduces 5 core skills that leaders can use to excel while under stress. By watching this video, you'll learn about what you need to thrive in stressful situations.
Video, 113 minutes
This video describes how to teach ethical decision making in a multi-generational environment. By watching this video, you'll learn how to instill positive values and ethics in your organization.
Video, 125 minutes
This video describes how large scale combat operations are changing and how the revised FM 3-0 addresses challenges facing operation environments. By watching this video, you'll learn about what the Army is doing to adapt to conflicts and maintain readiness.
Video, 86 minutes
This video focuses on the future of mission command. By watching this video, you'll learn how mission command has changed over time.
Training, 120 minutes
The Army Ethic Development Course (AEDC) provides Soldiers and Army Civilians with an introduction to the Army Ethic and Values. By reviewing this training, you'll learn about the Army's ethics and values, including how to evaluate key issues affecting Army ethics.
Document, 30 minutes
This guide provides a comprehensive approach to developing Army leaders to meet the security challenges of tomorrow. By reviewing this strategy guide, you'll learn how to develop leaders through training, education, and experience.
Document, 90 minutes
This ATP focuses on improving the critical and creative thinking abilities of leaders and teams. By reading this document, you'll learn about Army design methodology (ADM) in the context of the operations process and techniques for forming and leading teams for group problem solving.
Document, 1 hour
This ATP describes the importance of team building in the Army and several team building techniques. By reading this ATP, you'll learn about the formation stage of team building, the enrichment stage of team building, adapting to change in teams, and responding to team conflict.
Video, 4 minutes
This video helps you understand how positive self-talk can improve your physical fitness.
Stress is normal, but you can learn to redirect it.
Training, 70 minutes
This IMI lesson explains how to address counterproductive leadership in the most effective way possible. This resource will help you understand strategies to intervene for others handling a leader exhibiting counterproductive leadership, strategies to use to directly address a leader exhibiting counterproductive leadership, strategies to strengthen your resilience against the effects of counterproductive leadership, and how to handle pushback.
Training, 25 minutes
In this IMI lesson, you'll learn the situational factors and personal characteristics that can contribute to counterproducte leadership. By completing this lesson, you'll identify strategies for observing counterproductive leadership behaviors and assessing their impact and determine when to move forward with addressing counterproductive leadership.
Training, 35 minutes
This IMI lesson focuses on how to identify counterproductive leadership behaviors. By completing this training, you'll learn about the types of behaviors counterproductive leaders engage in and how to identify counterproductive leadership.
Website, 5 minutes
Strong relationships are not automatic, but they can be developed using the ideas on this page.
Video, 5 minutes
This short video will help you reframe stress and develop optimistic ways of thinking
Training, 10 minutes
These leader training and development resources are provided by the Office of Personnel Management.
Video, 3 minutes
This video coaches you on how to improve your ability to have important conversations.
Document, 35 minutes
This Army Techniques Publication (ATP) 6-22.1 provides doctrinal guidance for all leaders, military and civilian, responsible for planning, preparing, executing, and assessing counseling actions. This resource will provide you with a doctrinal framework for counseling subordinates.
Positive character focuses on what is right. This video describes how to improve character strengths.
Document, 4 hours
This FM describes how the Army identifies and executes individual leader development needs. This FM will help you understand how the Army develops leaders and what you can do to improve your own leadership development.
This FM describes strategies for developing Army leaders. Reading this FM will help you learn about unit leader development programs, tips for providing feedback, and how to improve learning for development.
Training, 30 minutes
This training explains how to foster team unity and create more effective teams. By completing this training, you'll learn about your role in creating an effective team and how you can mitigate dysfunctional team behaviors.
This training describes ways to manage conflict. By completing this training, you'll learn about different conflict management approaches and how to resolve conflict collaboratively.
Document, 3 hours
This ADP describes how the Army conducts operations using the Army's operational concept. Reading this ADP will provide you with guidance on problem solving in the Army and how the operational concept is applied to various operations.
This ATP describes the intelligence analysis process and specific analytic techniques used by intelligence personnel. By reading this document, you'll learn about the intelligence process and how it impacts the commander’s decision making and understanding of complex environments.
Website, 10 minutes
The author describes how uncertainty in warfare is a constant, change in warfare will accelerate, and the magnitude of change in warfare will increase. Therefore, future commanders can ill afford subordinate leaders who cannot connect the dots and turn threats into opportunities.
Document, 45 minutes
This document provides realistic scenarios that explain how leaders exercise sound judgement. By reviewing this document, you'll learn how to exercise sound judgement, especially by learning to understand what's important, listening to others' perspectives, and challenging assumptions.
This video is presented by a veteran who has struggled with a situation, how to identify "stuck points," and how to overcome this struggle.
This training describes the different types of decision-making and how leader perception or interpretation of information inuences decision making. By completing this training, you'll learn how to make appropriate and effective decisions in both chaotic and complex sitations.
Website, 90 minutes
This website provides leaders with resources and skill-building exercises for improving how they manage complex problems. By reviewing the resources on this website, you'll learn how to manage complex problems in the operational environment.
Video, 23 minutes
This video describes how to provide feedback to leadership about attributes and competencies. By watching this video, you'll learn how to observe leaders' abilities and provide feedback that will help them grow.
Training, 45 minutes
This training describes the importance of assessing individuals and groups to match work requirements. By completing this training, you'll learn about when and how to assess your team members' capabilities and assign them to tasks.
This ADP explains how the Army trains and why developing and sustaining readiness is the Army's number one priority. Reading this ADP will help you understand how the Army trains Soldiers and units to conduct operations, the commander's role in training the unit, the Army's principles of training, and the actions units perform while training is conducted.
Video, 7 minutes
This video describes how the Army can develop leaders by creating leader development plans within units. By watching this video, you'll learn how to approach leader development within your unit, including where to look for resources in FM 6-22.
Document, 6 hours
This leadership roadmap and toolkit provides the details APHIS employees need to identify and develop the competencies in their specific case. These resources will help you learn how to create a workplace where employees and supervisors take equal responsibility for leadership development and improve the leadership skills of all APHIS employees.
Document, 80 minutes
This handbook provides guidance on self development, including recognizing strengths and weaknesses, setting or confirming self-development direction, making the most of learning opportunities, and measuring progress and continuing to move forward. You can use the information and exercises in this handbook to guide your own self-development.
Training, 2 hours
This training describes why it's important for Army leaders to understand the perspectives of other people. This training will help you create a climate in your organization that values others' perspectives.
Training, 1 hour
In this online Interactive Multimedia Instruction (IMI), Army leaders will learn how they can leverage an action-oriented approach to understand why climate matters and recognize what can be done to implement a positive organizational climate.
Army leaders can use this handbook to understand, assess, create, and sustain a positive command climate and increase unit effectiveness.
This training aid is designed for small-unit leaders (e.g., platoons, squads, and teams) to supplement and maximize the value of the training and other work tasks that are already taking place in their unit. Specifically, this training aid is intended to help you, as a small-unit leader, build a cohesive and adaptable unit that is better prepared to overcome the challenges that will be encountered in the future operational environment.
Document, 60 minutes
This handbook helps leaders plan and execute a successful transition to a new leadership position. By reviewing this handbook, you'll learn a step-by-step process for assuming a new leadership role from start to finish.
This guide provides Army leaders at all levels with strategies they can use to improve their leadership capabilities. By reading this guide, you'll gain tools and resources to jump start your self development.
This video describes how to identify your own strengths and weaknesses. This video will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses, such as using information from formal assessments and seeking feedback from peers, subordinates, and seniors.
This video describes effective leadership development methods that commanders and unit leaders can implement. By watching this video, you'll learn about the importance of providing challenging assignments, assessing the knowledge and skills of Soldiers and identifying gaps to improve on, altering training activities to become leadership development activities, and creating a climate that focuses on development.
This video discusses the internal and external roadblocks leaders will face during their self-development. This resource will provide you with specific strategies to overcome time management challenges, procrastination, and general advice to help track your self-development.
This video describes the importance of having a direction during your self-development. This video will provide you with strategies on how to set a direction, focus on your strengths, think about yourself in the future, and identify the steps to accomplish your long-term career goals.
This video describes ethical difficulties and processes to improve ethical behavior.
These short activities will help you reframe challenges for problem solving.
This Army Leader talks about changing wishes to goals.
Counterproductive thinking can be reduced through practice and activities.
This short video helps you improve trust skills by buiding respect with the people in your life.
Loneliness can be overcome by intentionally reaching out to others using the resources on this webpage.
This webpage gives creative ways to transform challenges into opportunities.
This page provides insight on how to use perspective taking to improve your focus.
Document, 25 minutes
This document provides a guide to commanders and leaders in United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) to assist with implementing the principles consistent with the Army Campaign Plan for Health Promotion and Risk Reduction. By reviewing this document, you'll learn about ways to manage high risk and suicidal behavior based on valuable lessons learned, best practices, and current behavioral science research.
This training explains why it's important for leaders to create a vision for the future. By completing this training, you'll learn how to create, communicate, and apply a vision.
This training describes the differences between traditional delegation and mission-focused delegation and explains why mission-focused delegation is important to do. This training will help you improve your delegation skills and manage your mission-focused delegations.
This training defines coaching, describes who can be coaches, and discusses the many benefits of coaching. This resource will show you ways coaching can be effective, how to avoid common coaching pitfalls, and how you can put coaching into practice.
This training explains why many negotiations fail and what you can do to avoid failure. By completing this training, you'll learn about the mechanics of negotiation and how to deal with resistance.
Video, 129 minutes
This video focuses on what makes good leaders in today's Army. By watching this video, you'll learn how to become a good leader by displaying ethics, competence, character, and commitment.
This training describes why it's important to have working relationships across boundaries. By completing this training, you'll learn how to hone your social awareness, build trust and respect with others, and bridge boundaries.
Army leaders also lead their families and communities. This video will help you better lead families and communities by understanding how to help children cope with emotions.
This ADP explains the differences between command and control within mission command. Reading this ADP will help you understand command and control and its relationship to mission command.
Video, 59 minutes
This video explores how the Army can improve its efforts to prevent sexual assault and harassment. By watching this video, you'll learn about what you can do to help the Army reduce sexual assault and harassment by creating a culture of trust.
This training describes how to clarify roles. By completing this training, you'll learn how to clarify roles in your organization and how to manage role conflict when it emerges.
Video, 2 minutes
This video describes the principles of effective learning. This video will teach you the importance of motivation, making the most out of learning opportunities, and practicing deep processing when learning and developing yourself.
This training instructs learners about ways they can influence others. By completing this training, you'll understand the importance of strengthening your influence, how to set the stage for influence, how to choose your influence technique, and how to evaluate your ability to influence.
Training, 90 minutes
This training explains how to incorporate diverse ideas. By completing this training, you'll learn how to create a creative climate where members are encouraged to share diverse ideas.
This article is a summary of an exhaustively detailed academic paper titled “The Effect of Simple Role-Playing Games on the Wargaming Step of the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP): A Mixed Methods Approach,” previously published in Developments in Business Simulation and Experimental Learning.
This training explores the art of asking questions. By completing this training, you'll learn how to ask the right questions and how to use questions effectively.
Website, 60 minutes
This website describes how to work collaboratively to solve complex problems. Using this website will help you learn tips you can use to engage in complex problem-solving activities.
This video providess strategies on how to rebuild relationships.
Purpose comes from believing in something greater than yourself. This video provides ideas for how to grow spiritually to survive crises.
This handbook contains information for leaders on how to build teams and contribute individually to team success, including how to create a cohesive climate and resolve conflict. There are vignettes throughout the handbook to help illustrate key points. These vignettes are experiences from Soldiers across the Army. Some are from the Sergeant Major of the Army’s (SMA) “This is My Squad” panel, while others were gathered from interviews with leaders and squad members at various locations.
This training describes how Army Leaders can build trust in their organizations. By completing this training, you'll understand the differences between category-based and person-based trust and learn tips on how to earn trust.
Video, 10 minutes
This video provides a scenario where a senior rater counsels a top performing First Lieutenant. By watching this video, you'll learn how to create an effective counseling atmosphere where you balance reviewing strengths with areas that need improvement.
This video provides a scenario where a senior rater counsels a First Lieutentant that responds with resistance. By watching this video, you'll see an example of an effective counseling atmosphere and learn how to maintain a balance between reviewing strengths and things that need to be improved.
This video provides a scenario where a Captain counsels a First Lieutenant who received a poor rating. By watching this video, you'll learn how to conduct a systematic review of the OER and offer guidance on future performance.
This video provides a scenario where a Staff Sergeant rates a Sergeant on his annual NCOER and provides counseling. By watching this video, you'll learn the physical and verbal actions that can be used to create an effective counseling atmosphere.
This video provides a scenario where a Captain rates a First Sergeant on his annual NCOER and the First Sergeant resists the poor ratings. By watching this video, you'll learn about how to correct poor performance and respond when met with resistance.
This video provides a scenario where a Staff Sergeant rates a Sergeant on his annual NCOER and the SSG responds to the Sergeant's resistance to poor ratings. By watching this video, you'll learn how to create an effective counseling atmosphere and handle objections and concerns.
This video provides a scenario where a Captain counsels an Lieutenant on poor performance and the Lieutenant challenges the Captain's comments. By watching this video, you'll learn how to benefit from the Developmental Counseling Form and how to listen and follow-up.
This video provides a scenario where a Staff Sergeant counsels a Sergeant on poor performance and how the Staff Sergeant responds to the Sergeant's challenges. By watching this video, you'll learn how to use physical and verbal actions to create an effective counseling atmosphere.
This short video will help you think beyond resilience to thriving.