INTERACTIVE LEADER DEVELOPMENT GUIDE
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.
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, 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, 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.
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.
Video, 4 minutes
This video helps you understand how positive self-talk can improve your physical fitness.
Training, 1 hour
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.
Document, 10 minutes
These short activities will help you reframe challenges for problem solving.
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.
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.
Video, 5 minutes
Positive character focuses on what is right. This video describes how to improve character strengths.
This Army Leader talks about changing wishes to goals.
This video is presented by a veteran who has struggled with a situation, how to identify "stuck points," and how to overcome this struggle.
Counterproductive thinking can be reduced through practice and activities.
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.
Video, 3 minutes
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 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 provides examples of self-development activities. By watching this video, you'll learn about several strategies you can use to develop yourself.
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.
Training, 30 minutes
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.
This short video will help you reframe stress and develop optimistic ways of thinking
Stress is normal, but you can learn to redirect it.
Website, 3 minutes
Loneliness can be overcome by intentionally reaching out to others using the resources on this webpage.
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.
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.
Training, 45 minutes
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.
This short video will help you think beyond resilience to thriving.
This page provides insight on how to use perspective taking to improve your focus.
Website, 5 minutes
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 describes how to seek and deliver face-to-face feedback. By completing this training, you'll learn how to effectively seek constructive feedback and deliver corrective feedback.
This page uses the Army Leader Model for personal and team growth.
This situational judgment test presents situations Army leaders may face and asks how you would respond in these situations. Completing this test will help you identify areas where you may want to further develop your leadership skills.
This resource contains articles and activities to develop connections to meaning and purpose in your own religious/spiritual traditions.
Purpose comes from believing in something greater than yourself. This video provides ideas for how to grow spiritually to survive crises.
The author describes how having a competitive advantage and superiority status can lead to an unforeseen failure of organizations and individuals that do not maintain situational awareness. The author argues that people and organizations get caught in a vicious circle whereby “their victories and strengths so often seduce them into the excesses that cause their downfall.”
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.
This training describes why it's important for leaders to value self-awareness. Completing this training will help you become more self-aware to help you grow as a leader.
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.
Training, 10 minutes
These leader training and development resources are provided by the Office of Personnel Management.
This article discusses why it's important to understand how your character strengths can help you at work and at home.