Leader Development in Army Units : Views from the Field.

Developing leaders is critical for the Army; given the amount of time officers spend in units, that experience should be important to their development. Yet few studies indicate whether Army units even have leader development programs, and, if they do, what the programs consist of and how well they...

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Author / Creator: Schirmer, Peter.
Other Authors / Creators:Crowley, James C.
Blacker, Nancy E.
Brennan, Richard R.
Leonard, Henry A.
Polich, J.Michael.
Sollinger, Jerry M.
Varda, Danielle M.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Santa Monica : RAND Corporation, The, 2008.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One - Introduction -- Background -- What We Set Out to Do -- How the Report Is Organized -- Chapter Two - Study Participants and Methods -- Sources and Numbers of Participating Officers -- Most Recent Operational Experience of ParticipatingOfficers -- Level of Participation -- The Questionnaire -- The Discussions -- Chapter Three - Overview of Unit-Level Leader Development -- There Is No Standard Leader Development Program -- Besides Actual Experience, Role Models and PersonalInteraction Are Most Valued by Junior Officers -- Chapter Four - Commander's Influence on Unit-Level LeaderDevelopment Activities -- Unit Commanders Affect the Leader DevelopmentActivities Within a Unit -- Unit Commanders Are Role Models for Subordinates -- Commanders Adapt Leader Development Activities toChanging Circumstances of the Unit -- How Command Influence Affected Responses in theQuestionnaire -- Chapter Five - Counseling, Coaching, and Mentoring -- Mentoring -- Junior Officers' Discussions with Raters and Senior Raters -- Use of Formal Counseling Process -- Supporting Self-Development -- Chapter Six - Specific Elements of Leader DevelopmentPrograms -- Training Exercises -- Officer Professional Development Classes -- Staff Rides -- Reading Programs -- Progressive Assignments -- Chapter Seven - Conclusions and Recommendations -- Conclusions -- Recommendations -- Use TRADOC Institutions to Raise Expectations for LeaderDevelopment in Units -- Promote a Collaborative Environment for Sharing Ideas and ToolsThat Support Leader Development -- The Future of Army Leader Development -- Appendix A - Junior Officer Questionnaire -- Appendix B - Leadership Qualities That Junior Officers MostAdmire and Wish to Emulate. 
505 8 |a Appendix C - Lessons Learned by Junior Officers from Goodand Bad Examples of Army Leadership -- Appendix D - Sample Battalion Commander Development Form -- Appendix E - Brief Review of Other Studies of LeaderDevelopment -- References. 
520 |a Developing leaders is critical for the Army; given the amount of time officers spend in units, that experience should be important to their development. Yet few studies indicate whether Army units even have leader development programs, and, if they do, what the programs consist of and how well they are executed. To gain insight into these issues, Arroyo Center researchers met with over 450 officers (lieutenants through colonels) to discuss leader development within Army units. The discussions revealed that no set of activities exists that could be characterized as a standard unit-level leader development program. Instead, leader development tends to be informal, personality-driven, and dependent on the abilities, experience, and inclinations of the unit commander. The researchers do not recommend that the Army impose more formal programs or requirements on commanders, but instead that the Army's school system demonstrate the proper way to do counseling; introduce Army leaders to an array of leader development tools that could be adapted to a unit's needs in different situations; and, most importantly, foster the expectation that leader development will take place, according to Army standards, in operational units. The authors note that the Center for Army Leadership can support these efforts by fostering the sharing of leader development tools and ideas, possibly online, and exercising continuing quality control over the ideas being shared, based at least in part on user feedback. 
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