LEADERSHIP TOOLS LEADING MARINES FINAL PAPER
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔which of the following statements on mentoring is true? - ✔✔Mentoring typically
endures beyond a single tour of duty.
Mentoring is a voluntary, developmental relationship between an experienced person
and one of lesser experience
Mentoring Is characterized by mutual trust and respect
✔✔Why de we use coaching to develop Marines? - ✔✔Coaching provide Marines the
opportunity to create and sustain their own developmental opportunities; accept
responsibility for their performance; and build stronger skills, abilities, and unit cohesion
✔✔Active listening enables a coaching relationship to achieve which of the following? -
✔✔Mutual trust and respect
✔✔Coaching is a(n) __________
relationship where the coach helps a Marine move to a desired state of performance -
✔✔One - on - one
✔✔Counseling is - ✔✔imperative to manage the expectations of the Marine. Every
Marine wants to know where they stand and what is expected of them. Counseling is
the tool that establishes these expectations and articulates how well the individual
Marine meets them.
Counseling:
•Establishes the seniors expectations
•Establishes the billets within the unit assigned to the Marine
•Establishes goals to be met before next scheduled counseling
•Prevents against surprises on performance evaluations
✔✔Counseling focuses - ✔✔on improving performance, which increases unit readiness
and effectiveness.
Counseling:
•Is used to develop Marines to their highest potential
•Involves two-way communication
, •Merges personal and organizational values
•Supports and reinforces good performance
•Identifies and corrects deficiencies
✔✔A leader senior to yourself describes their personal expectations, those of the unit,
and those of the Marine Corps; they also explain the requirements for successful job
performance. When do these expectations and requirements occur? - ✔✔Formal initial
counseling session
✔✔Performance evaluations focus on the past. Counseling also considers the past, but
only as a _______________ - ✔✔Means of directing attention to improving
performance
✔✔Performance evaluation: - ✔✔•Is always formal in nature.
•Conducted at set periodic timelines by the chain of command to document
performance and uncorrected deficiencies.
•Focuses primarily on observed past performance
✔✔Negative counseling does not automatically constitute an impact on a performance
evaluation, unless - ✔✔the deficiency remains uncorrected and the desired standard is
not maintained.
✔✔What is the purpose of the Marine Corps counseling program? - ✔✔To develop a
Marine to their highest potential
✔✔Marine Corps policy establishes three types of counseling: - ✔✔directive, non-
directive, and collaborative.
✔✔DIRECTIVE COUNSELING - ✔✔With the directive approach, the senior carries the
ball, analyzing the situation, developing a solution or a plan for improvement, and telling
the junior what to do. This approach is "senior centered." The senior is open and frank
about influencing the junior to be one kind of person rather than another.
When questioning is used with directive counseling, closed-ended questions will be
asked to elicit yes or no responses.
✔✔NON-DIRECTIVE COUNSELING - ✔✔With the nondirective counseling approach,
the senior asks open-ended questions, listens, and draws the junior out. The senior
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔which of the following statements on mentoring is true? - ✔✔Mentoring typically
endures beyond a single tour of duty.
Mentoring is a voluntary, developmental relationship between an experienced person
and one of lesser experience
Mentoring Is characterized by mutual trust and respect
✔✔Why de we use coaching to develop Marines? - ✔✔Coaching provide Marines the
opportunity to create and sustain their own developmental opportunities; accept
responsibility for their performance; and build stronger skills, abilities, and unit cohesion
✔✔Active listening enables a coaching relationship to achieve which of the following? -
✔✔Mutual trust and respect
✔✔Coaching is a(n) __________
relationship where the coach helps a Marine move to a desired state of performance -
✔✔One - on - one
✔✔Counseling is - ✔✔imperative to manage the expectations of the Marine. Every
Marine wants to know where they stand and what is expected of them. Counseling is
the tool that establishes these expectations and articulates how well the individual
Marine meets them.
Counseling:
•Establishes the seniors expectations
•Establishes the billets within the unit assigned to the Marine
•Establishes goals to be met before next scheduled counseling
•Prevents against surprises on performance evaluations
✔✔Counseling focuses - ✔✔on improving performance, which increases unit readiness
and effectiveness.
Counseling:
•Is used to develop Marines to their highest potential
•Involves two-way communication
, •Merges personal and organizational values
•Supports and reinforces good performance
•Identifies and corrects deficiencies
✔✔A leader senior to yourself describes their personal expectations, those of the unit,
and those of the Marine Corps; they also explain the requirements for successful job
performance. When do these expectations and requirements occur? - ✔✔Formal initial
counseling session
✔✔Performance evaluations focus on the past. Counseling also considers the past, but
only as a _______________ - ✔✔Means of directing attention to improving
performance
✔✔Performance evaluation: - ✔✔•Is always formal in nature.
•Conducted at set periodic timelines by the chain of command to document
performance and uncorrected deficiencies.
•Focuses primarily on observed past performance
✔✔Negative counseling does not automatically constitute an impact on a performance
evaluation, unless - ✔✔the deficiency remains uncorrected and the desired standard is
not maintained.
✔✔What is the purpose of the Marine Corps counseling program? - ✔✔To develop a
Marine to their highest potential
✔✔Marine Corps policy establishes three types of counseling: - ✔✔directive, non-
directive, and collaborative.
✔✔DIRECTIVE COUNSELING - ✔✔With the directive approach, the senior carries the
ball, analyzing the situation, developing a solution or a plan for improvement, and telling
the junior what to do. This approach is "senior centered." The senior is open and frank
about influencing the junior to be one kind of person rather than another.
When questioning is used with directive counseling, closed-ended questions will be
asked to elicit yes or no responses.
✔✔NON-DIRECTIVE COUNSELING - ✔✔With the nondirective counseling approach,
the senior asks open-ended questions, listens, and draws the junior out. The senior
