Leadership (Army Board Study Guide)
What does FM 6-22 cover? - Answer -Army Leadership (Competent, Confident and Agile)
What does FM 7-0 cover? - Answer -Training the force
Define Leadership - Answer -Leadership is influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and
motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization.
What is purpose? - Answer -Purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in order to achieve a desired
outcome.
What is direction? - Answer -Providing clear direction involves communicating how to accomplish a
mission: prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibility for completion, and ensuring subordinates understand
the standard.
What is motivation? - Answer -Motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a
mission.
Describe the "Be, Know and Do". - Answer -Army leadership begins with what the leader must BE, the
values and attributes that shape a leader's character. Your skills are those things you KNOW how to do,
your competence in everything from the technical side of your job to the people skills a leader requires.
, But character and knowledge while absolutely necessary are not enough. You cannot be effective, you
cannot be a leader, until you apply what you know, until you act and DO what you must.
What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop others through which they provide
knowledge and feedback? - Answer -1. Counseling
2. Coaching
3. Mentoring
A leader's effectiveness is dramatically enhanced by understanding and developing what areas? -
Answer -1. Military Bearing
2. Physical Fitness
3. Confidence
4. Resilience
What is military bearing? - Answer -Projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of
authority.
What is physical fitness? - Answer -Having sound health, strength, and endurance, which sustain
emotional health and conceptual abilities under prolonged stress.
What is confidence? - Answer -Projecting self-confidence and certainty in the unit's ability to succeed in
whatever it does; able to demonstrate composure and outward calm through steady control over
emotion.
What is resilience? - Answer -Showing a tendency to recover quickly from setbacks, shock, injuries,
adversity, and stress while maintaining a mission and organizational focus.
What are the three core domains that shape the critical learning experiences throughout Soldiers' and
leaders'
careers? - Answer -1. Institutional training.
2. Training, education, and job experience gained during operational assignments.
3. Self-development.
What does FM 6-22 cover? - Answer -Army Leadership (Competent, Confident and Agile)
What does FM 7-0 cover? - Answer -Training the force
Define Leadership - Answer -Leadership is influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and
motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization.
What is purpose? - Answer -Purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in order to achieve a desired
outcome.
What is direction? - Answer -Providing clear direction involves communicating how to accomplish a
mission: prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibility for completion, and ensuring subordinates understand
the standard.
What is motivation? - Answer -Motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a
mission.
Describe the "Be, Know and Do". - Answer -Army leadership begins with what the leader must BE, the
values and attributes that shape a leader's character. Your skills are those things you KNOW how to do,
your competence in everything from the technical side of your job to the people skills a leader requires.
, But character and knowledge while absolutely necessary are not enough. You cannot be effective, you
cannot be a leader, until you apply what you know, until you act and DO what you must.
What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop others through which they provide
knowledge and feedback? - Answer -1. Counseling
2. Coaching
3. Mentoring
A leader's effectiveness is dramatically enhanced by understanding and developing what areas? -
Answer -1. Military Bearing
2. Physical Fitness
3. Confidence
4. Resilience
What is military bearing? - Answer -Projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of
authority.
What is physical fitness? - Answer -Having sound health, strength, and endurance, which sustain
emotional health and conceptual abilities under prolonged stress.
What is confidence? - Answer -Projecting self-confidence and certainty in the unit's ability to succeed in
whatever it does; able to demonstrate composure and outward calm through steady control over
emotion.
What is resilience? - Answer -Showing a tendency to recover quickly from setbacks, shock, injuries,
adversity, and stress while maintaining a mission and organizational focus.
What are the three core domains that shape the critical learning experiences throughout Soldiers' and
leaders'
careers? - Answer -1. Institutional training.
2. Training, education, and job experience gained during operational assignments.
3. Self-development.
