INTERACTIVE LEADER DEVELOPMENT GUIDE
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 2 hours
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.
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, 105 minutes
This handbook provides commanders with guidance on how to develop leaders. By reviewing this handbook, you'll learn how to develop leaders under conditions of limited resources and integrate FM 6-22 leader attributes and competencies consistently across Army leader development doctrine.
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 video provides a scenario where a battalion commander coaches a Captain on areas where she shows some need for improvement. By watching this video, you'll learn how to use physical and verbal actions to create an effective coaching atmosphere, use questions to help the Captain gain insight, and generate a plan for improving behavior.
This video provides a scenario where a Staff Sergeant coaches a Sergeant on areas in which he hasn't realized his full potential. By watching this video, you'll learn how to use physical and verbal actions to create an effective coaching atmosphere and gain commitment to correct problems.
This video describes a formal OER counseling session where an LTC provides counseling to a Captain. By watching this video, you'll learn how to use the rater and senior rater support forms.
Video, 5 minutes
This video shows an NCO counseling session where a Sergeant receives reception and integration counseling from a Staff Sergeant. By watching this video, you'll learn how to use physical and verbal actions to create an effective counseling atmosphere and encourage future performance improvements.
This video shows an NCO counseling session in which a Sergeant receives a good rating from a Staff Sergeant and agrees with the rating. By watching this video, you'll learn how to use physical and verbal actions to create an effective counseling atmosphere, balance discussing strengths and areas for improvement, and encourage future performance improvements.
Training, 30 minutes
This training explains how to create and support challenging job assignments. By completing this training, you'll learn how to challenge and enhance the skillsets of your organizational members through job assignments.
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.
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 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.
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.
Document, 20 minutes
This article describes the importance of leadership development in the Army and the current need to improve leadership development. By reading this article, you'll learn strategies to improve your own leadership development initiatives.
Document, 10 minutes
NCO perspectives on leader development help all leaders practice influencing others.
Document, 6 hours
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 strategies that leaders can take to promote a learning environment in their organization. By watching this video, you'll learn about the importance of mentorship, open communication, learning and failing, and providing challenges.
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 describes the importance of observing subordinate leaders to provide effective leadership development guidance. This video will provide you with guidance on when to observe subordinate leaders.
This video defines guided discovery learning and describes how this learning method can be used to help develop Soldiers. Watching this video will provide you with background on what guided discovery learning is and how to integrate it.
This video describes when to provide feedback and counseling. By watching this video, you'll learn tips on how to provide feedback and counseling and overcome challenges when counseling.
This video describes the importance of providing subordinate leaders with feedback. By watching this video, you'll learn why feedback is so integral, why you should try to identify your top performers and develop them, and how to challenge others.
This video describes the importance of leadership development in the Army. By watching this video, you'll learn how leadership development helps individuals and organizations as a whole.
Assessment, 15 minutes
This reference card includes an assessment of the attributes and competencies needed for Army leaders. This resource will help you understand the attributes and competencies Army leaders need and provides a checklist you can use to evaluate yourself.
Document, 50 minutes
This document provides guidance on how to use performance measurements on Army performance evaluations. By reviewing this document, you'll receive guidance for using direct level and organizational level comments related to character, presence, intellect, leads, develops, and achieves.
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.
This workbook provides realistic scenarios about collective leadership, or sharing leadership responsibilities with other leaders. By reading these scenarios and answering the associated questions, you can improve your ability to lead collectively.
Training, 60 minutes
This training provides guidance on how to rapidly build teams. This resource will teach you how to stand-up and lead rapidly-formed teams.
Training, 90 minutes
This training describes ways to support developing leaders. This training will provide you with guidance on how to establish a developmental climate that supports leader development.
This TC provides guidance on how to address factors affecting employee engagement. By reading this TC, you'll learn how to improve and maintain employee engagement.
Document, 22 minutes
This document provides an introduction to the Army's People Strategy that's focused on shifting from distributing personnel to deliberately managing the talents of Soldiers and Civilians. By reviewing this document, you'll learn how the Army is trying to create a 21st century talent management system with policies, programs, and processes that capitalize on the knowledge, skills and behaviors of every member of the Army.
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.
This training explains the leader's role in providing on-the-job learning support. By completing this training, you'll learn how to build an environment that's conducive to learning and anticipates members' needs.
This training describes the leader's role in the transformation of combat power into action. This training will provide you with background about war fighting functions, the multi-domain battlefield, operational art, combat power and action, and the core competencies of Army leaders.
Training, 10 minutes
These leader training and development resources are provided by the Office of Personnel Management.
This U.S. Army Performance Evaluation Guide describes Army leadership competencies and attributes. By reviewing this document, you'll learn how raters should prepare to observe a subordinate leader's performance related to leadership competencies and attributes.