Interactive Leader Development Guide
Leaders at every level are a multiplying and unifying element of combat power (ADP 3-0). Army research has found that leader effectiveness at the unit and individual level is critical to building positive outcomes (e.g., strong performance, readiness, positive command climates, trust, discipline, etc.).
The Interactive Leader Development Guide was created to support your self-development as a leader in two ways:
The Army defines leadership as influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization (ADP 6-22). Effective leadership blends core competencies with leadership attributes as illustrated in the Army Leadership Requirements Model below. As an Army leader, you should be familiar with the competencies and attributes in the ADP 6-22 and FM 6-22.
Army Leadership Requirements Model
Attributes are the desired internal characteristics of a leader – what the Army wants leaders to be and know.
Competencies are groups of related behaviors that leaders are expected to perform – what the Army wants leaders to do.
While attributes can be molded by your experiences over time, competencies can be improved in the near term through feedback, study, and practice. Therefore, this guide focuses on the competencies. It will improve your leadership effectiveness by helping you reflect on your current abilities, identify where you demonstrate strengths, and reveal where there is room for improvement.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Video, 5 minutes
This Army Leader talks about changing wishes to goals.
Document, 10 minutes
Counterproductive thinking can be reduced through practice and activities.
Website, 5 minutes
Strong relationships are not automatic, but they can be developed using the ideas on this page.
This short video helps you improve trust skills by buiding respect with the people in your life.
Website, 10 minutes
This webpage gives creative ways to transform challenges into opportunities.
This resource contains articles and activities to develop connections to meaning and purpose in your own religious/spiritual traditions.
Video, 4 minutes
Purpose comes from believing in something greater than yourself. This video provides ideas for how to grow spiritually to survive crises.
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.
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.
Training, 30 minutes
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.
Training, 45 minutes
This training outlines how to manage difficult behavior. This training will help you understand what difficult behavior is and how to deal with it when it is coming from either a subordinate or a superior.
This training describes how to navigate contentious conversations. This training will help you improve your skills for identifying underlying issues during contentious conversations and how to execute a successful problem-solving session.
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 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.
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.
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.
Document, 85 minutes
This handbook describes how to provide feedback to leaders about Soldier performance and mission accomplishment. Reviewing this document will help you contribute to improving leader performance related to motivating Soldiers.
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.
This video describes how Army Soldiers should provide feedback to leaders. By watching this video, you'll learn several strategies and tips to effectively deliver feedback and consider people's individual differences.
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.
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, 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.
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, 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.
This video describes ethical difficulties and processes to improve ethical behavior.
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.
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 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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
This video helps you understand how positive self-talk can improve your physical fitness.
Positive character focuses on what is right. This video describes how to improve character strengths.
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 short video will help you think beyond resilience to thriving.
Training, 60 minutes
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.