ARMY MRT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Identify C.S. in Self and Others Key Principles - ✔✔Know Your Strengths: knowing
your CS is as important as knowing your weaknesses
All 24 Won't Be Signature: some CS come more easily to you than others
Non-signature CS: Some situations require that you pull on your CS that are not
signature
Shadow Side: Each CS has a shadow side that can get you in trouble or limit you.
✔✔How to identify a signature character strength? - ✔✔1) It true to you
2) It leaves you feeling energized
3) Motivation to use
✔✔C.S.: Challenges and Leadership - ✔✔The MRT skill where you use your C.S. to
overcome challenges, increase team effectiveness, and strengthen your leadership
✔✔C.S.: Challenges and Leadership KEY POINTS - ✔✔Useful in challenges: use CS to
successfully overcome challenges
Useful as a leader: CS will make you more effective
Useful as a team: increase effectiveness of the team
✔✔Assertive Communication - ✔✔The MRT skill that is used when you want to address
a problem or an issue in a way that respects the other person and strengthens the
relationship
✔✔What core competency does Assertive Communication build? - ✔✔connection
✔✔The three C's - ✔✔clear, confident, controlled
✔✔The IDEAL model - ✔✔I=Identify
D=Describe
E=Express
A=Ask
, L=List
✔✔Assertive Communication Key Principles - ✔✔Takes practice
Flexibility: adjust your style of communicating to the situation/person
Skill, not personality: Assertive communication is a skill
Re-Engage: Take a break from the conversation
✔✔Effective Praise and Active Constructive Responding - ✔✔The MRT skill that
delivers praise to build winning streaks and responds to others in an authentic, active,
and constructive interest to build strong relationships
✔✔When you recognize someone and offer praise, name the specific strategy, effort, or
sill that led to the good outcome.... - ✔✔It just takes another sentence
✔✔Active Constructing Responses - ✔✔Authentic interest
Elaborates the experience
Shares the joy
JOY MULTIPLIER
✔✔Passive Constructive Responses - ✔✔distracted, understated support
conversation fizzles out
CONVERSATION KILLER
✔✔Passive Destructive Responses - ✔✔ignoring the event
changing the conversation to another topic
one-upper
CONVERSATION HIJAKER
✔✔Active Destructive Responses - ✔✔squashing the event
negative focus
poking holes in someones good news
JOY THIEF
✔✔What are the benefits of ACR? - ✔✔ACR leads to stronger relationships, belonging,
well-being, and life satisfaction for both parties.
✔✔When is it mandatory for soldiers to complete Deployment-Cycle Resilience
Training? - ✔✔Soldiers being deployed for 90 days
✔✔What MRT skills build the core competency of self-awareness - ✔✔ATC, Detect
Icebergs
✔✔Which MRT skills build the core competency of self-regulation? - ✔✔Goal Setting,
Energy Management, Mental Games
✔✔Identify C.S. in Self and Others Key Principles - ✔✔Know Your Strengths: knowing
your CS is as important as knowing your weaknesses
All 24 Won't Be Signature: some CS come more easily to you than others
Non-signature CS: Some situations require that you pull on your CS that are not
signature
Shadow Side: Each CS has a shadow side that can get you in trouble or limit you.
✔✔How to identify a signature character strength? - ✔✔1) It true to you
2) It leaves you feeling energized
3) Motivation to use
✔✔C.S.: Challenges and Leadership - ✔✔The MRT skill where you use your C.S. to
overcome challenges, increase team effectiveness, and strengthen your leadership
✔✔C.S.: Challenges and Leadership KEY POINTS - ✔✔Useful in challenges: use CS to
successfully overcome challenges
Useful as a leader: CS will make you more effective
Useful as a team: increase effectiveness of the team
✔✔Assertive Communication - ✔✔The MRT skill that is used when you want to address
a problem or an issue in a way that respects the other person and strengthens the
relationship
✔✔What core competency does Assertive Communication build? - ✔✔connection
✔✔The three C's - ✔✔clear, confident, controlled
✔✔The IDEAL model - ✔✔I=Identify
D=Describe
E=Express
A=Ask
, L=List
✔✔Assertive Communication Key Principles - ✔✔Takes practice
Flexibility: adjust your style of communicating to the situation/person
Skill, not personality: Assertive communication is a skill
Re-Engage: Take a break from the conversation
✔✔Effective Praise and Active Constructive Responding - ✔✔The MRT skill that
delivers praise to build winning streaks and responds to others in an authentic, active,
and constructive interest to build strong relationships
✔✔When you recognize someone and offer praise, name the specific strategy, effort, or
sill that led to the good outcome.... - ✔✔It just takes another sentence
✔✔Active Constructing Responses - ✔✔Authentic interest
Elaborates the experience
Shares the joy
JOY MULTIPLIER
✔✔Passive Constructive Responses - ✔✔distracted, understated support
conversation fizzles out
CONVERSATION KILLER
✔✔Passive Destructive Responses - ✔✔ignoring the event
changing the conversation to another topic
one-upper
CONVERSATION HIJAKER
✔✔Active Destructive Responses - ✔✔squashing the event
negative focus
poking holes in someones good news
JOY THIEF
✔✔What are the benefits of ACR? - ✔✔ACR leads to stronger relationships, belonging,
well-being, and life satisfaction for both parties.
✔✔When is it mandatory for soldiers to complete Deployment-Cycle Resilience
Training? - ✔✔Soldiers being deployed for 90 days
✔✔What MRT skills build the core competency of self-awareness - ✔✔ATC, Detect
Icebergs
✔✔Which MRT skills build the core competency of self-regulation? - ✔✔Goal Setting,
Energy Management, Mental Games
