WHAT IS CAREER LONG ASSESSMENTS: ATHENA?

Career Long Assessments: Athena (CLA: Athena) is an Army leader development program designed to inform and motivate Soldiers to embrace personal and professional development. Adding to the Army’s culture of assessments, Athena uses batteries of assessments to increase a Soldier’s self-awareness of leadership skills and behaviors, cognitive abilities, and personal traits and attributes. Assessment batteries are strategically selected to complement the leadership skills being developed at a number of Army schools. For each assessment completed, students receive a feedback report with their results and information about how to interpret their results.

WHY IS CAREER LONG ASSESSMENTS: ATHENA IMPORTANT?

CLA: Athena is all about self-awareness. By providing leaders with the tools to identify their strengths, recognize where improvements can be made, as well as provide access to resources that support self-initiative and self-development, Army leaders can continuously learn new skills and improve their abilities.

CLA: Athena provides students an opportunity to expand their self-awareness and tailor self-development to their individual needs. In addition, schools and faculty can use information from anonymous aggregate results to identify important trends and objectively inform their Programs of Instruction (POIs).