CORPORALS COURSE LEADERSHIP 1 EXAM ACTUAL
EXAM 250 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |
ALREADY GRADED A+
Coaching: Importance - ANSWER: The Marine Corps' vision of leading is less
concerned with rank, self-identity, recognition, or privilege than with the essence of
our Corps —the individual Marine and the unyielding determination to persevere.
Our vision of leading is linked directly to our common vision of warfighting, which
needs leaders devoted to leading, capable of independent and bold action, who are
willing and eager to assume new and sometimes daunting responsibilities, and
willing to take selfless risks because the Corps must succeed.
Coaching, Counseling, Mentoring - ANSWER: Enabling marines to assume
progressively greater responsibilities.
Coaching Methodology - ANSWER: The coaching methodology complements a
leader's existing knowledge toward developing leadership in subordinate leaders.
Coaching defined - ANSWER: Coaching is defined as a process of ongoing observation
and encouragement for a Marine's personal and professional growth. It occurs on a
daily basis and provides informal feedback, documentation, and communication of
goals focused on the development of the Marine.
Improved competence is the desired outcome of coaching. The coaching
methodology uses interpersonal interaction to impart techniques and improve the
recipient's ability to accomplish their goals. Coaching occurs whenever an individual
provides a fellow Marine with the benefit of their experience.
Coaching is a continuous process. - ANSWER: Coaching is a continuous process. It
occurs during training while Marines show others how to perform actions during the
course of their duties or the accomplishment of their missions. While Marines carry
out tasks, coaching is applied to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their
work and simultaneously develop subordinate leaders confidence and knowledge
base.
The true value of training. - ANSWER: The true value of any training is not so much
the training itself, but the change in behavior that should result from learning.
Performance is not so much about what you know as it is about what you do with
what you know.
Coaching is a process. - ANSWER: Coaching is a process that enhances potential in
individuals to improve performance. It is about helping someone learn rather than
drilling them on memorization.
,Coaching uses: - ANSWER: Hard leadership skills:
- Goal setting
-Reviewing performance
Soft leadership skills:
- Believing in potential
- Developing self-belief.
It is often about addressing the "attitude or motivation of an individual," which all
too regularly limits their performance, progress, and potential.
Setting Goals - ANSWER: Using the S.M.A.R.T. method of setting goals empowers
subordinate leaders to influence coaching outcomes.
Additionally, developing goals should be treated as Marines treat mission
statements. Therefore, include a proper in order to (IOT) at the end of your set goals.
Characteristics of Goals - ANSWER: SMART
Specific: The goals must be clear (PT, education)
Measurable: Check progress and hold accountable
Attainable: Relevant, manageable, and challenging
Realistic: Tools and abilities to accomplish
Timely: Provides focus and accountability
Setting Goals: Hard Leadership skill - ANSWER: Setting goals empowers us to take
control over our own circumstances and gives us control to affect what happens in
our lives. Additionally, it fosters leader development through engaged leadership,
which encourages personal accountability and motivation for enhanced time
management.
When you are setting goals it is important to: - ANSWER: - Prioritize the basics (MOS
competencies, PME, PT, family readiness).
- Design a plan for achieving your goals.
- Continuously assess results and adjust your plan as needed.
Goal Pyramid - ANSWER: - Prioritize Daily
- Plan Weekly
- Set Goals
- identify Mission Values
Reviewing Performance: Hard Leadership skill - ANSWER: After you create and
document SMART goals with a plan for reaching them, engaged leadership becomes
easier and more focused.
,Assessing Progress - ANSWER: Assessing progress is where small unit leaders truly
get to know and understand their Marines. By using a recommended goals form or a
locally produced version, documenting these SMART goals sets a standard of
assessment. Additionally, leaders have the opportunity to ensure these goals are
balanced against all other competing factors of their Marines' time. The foundational
key to setting and meeting these goals centers on the fact that the Marine is in
control of achieving them. If adjustments to existing goals need to be made, leaders
are involved in reinforcing or advising the adjustments.
"Equipment is useful only if it improves combat effectiveness"
MCDP-1
Believing in Potential: Soft Leadership skill - ANSWER: Coaching is not a short-term
fix; it is a long-term solution to help a person unlock their true potential and
maximize their own performance through instilling confidence.
Coaching involves a skill set that can only be developed with practice and requires an
investment in time, energy, and resources to maximize performance.
Four facets of coaching: - ANSWER: As a leader there are four facets of coaching to
keep in mind. You want to develop yourself to:
Coach as a guide—to keep individuals on target with performance.
Coach as an instructor—to focus on objectives.
Coach as a motivator—to enhance performance.
Coach as a mentor—so that your subordinate leaders have the desire to emulate you
Developing Self-Belief: Soft leadership skill - ANSWER: The key to reaching the
established S.M.A.R.T. goals is to continuously create and maintain an inspiring
shared vision.
Developing self-belief is essential and the most powerful instrument a leader can
cultivate. Useful tactics include coaching on:
The "golden hour": Your thoughts in the first hour of the morning, the "golden hour,"
have a strong influence on how you think, feel, and act for the rest of the day. Take
advantage of the "golden hour" and start every day in a thoughtful, productive way
that sets you up for greater success in the hours ahead.
Improving habits of personal development: Investing in your mind by reading
something motivational, positive, and consistent with reaching your goal.
Engaging in productive behaviors: Plan every day in advance—make a list of
everything you have to do; prioritize your list by value and importance.
, Methodolgy of Coaching - ANSWER: As a model of peak performance and emotional
intelligence, the Performance Pyramid provides a simple framework that effectively
guides the coaching process and employment of coaching skills. In this way, the
methodology of coaching can be described as helping a person to develop their
emotional intelligence alongside their technical competence. Coaching is a three
stage process where the coach employs three core coaching skills. Attitude,
Knowledge, and Skills.
The coaching process - ANSWER: - Facilitate Performance
- Generate Responsibility
-Raise Awareness
Core coaching skills - ANSWER: - Empathetic response
- Active Listening
- Effective Questioning
Attitude, Knowledge, Skills - ANSWER: While coaching may very well be knowledge-
and skill-based, it is first and foremost an attitude—your attitude as a coach will
fundamentally determine the results.
- It has long been acknowledged that a leader's attitude and emotions are contagious
and they must convey energy and enthusiasm if their organization is to survive and
thrive.
- If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got. If you want
different results for yourself or your people, you'll invariably need to change how
you think and feel, but ultimately you'll need do something different.
Coaching process: Stage One - ANSWER: Stage one of the three-stage coaching
process is: raise awareness. During this stage, the coach helps the Marine create a
vision of their goal in terms of what they want to achieve, why they might want to
achieve it, and how they intend achieve it. Throughout the process, the emphasis is
on guiding the person towards finding their own solutions to their own performance
problems. Raising awareness is about encouraging the person to think for
themselves for the purpose of self-education.
Coaching process (process) - ANSWER: - Raise Awareness
- Generate Responsibility
- Facilitate Performance
Core Coaching skills (How) - ANSWER: - Effective Questioning
EXAM 250 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |
ALREADY GRADED A+
Coaching: Importance - ANSWER: The Marine Corps' vision of leading is less
concerned with rank, self-identity, recognition, or privilege than with the essence of
our Corps —the individual Marine and the unyielding determination to persevere.
Our vision of leading is linked directly to our common vision of warfighting, which
needs leaders devoted to leading, capable of independent and bold action, who are
willing and eager to assume new and sometimes daunting responsibilities, and
willing to take selfless risks because the Corps must succeed.
Coaching, Counseling, Mentoring - ANSWER: Enabling marines to assume
progressively greater responsibilities.
Coaching Methodology - ANSWER: The coaching methodology complements a
leader's existing knowledge toward developing leadership in subordinate leaders.
Coaching defined - ANSWER: Coaching is defined as a process of ongoing observation
and encouragement for a Marine's personal and professional growth. It occurs on a
daily basis and provides informal feedback, documentation, and communication of
goals focused on the development of the Marine.
Improved competence is the desired outcome of coaching. The coaching
methodology uses interpersonal interaction to impart techniques and improve the
recipient's ability to accomplish their goals. Coaching occurs whenever an individual
provides a fellow Marine with the benefit of their experience.
Coaching is a continuous process. - ANSWER: Coaching is a continuous process. It
occurs during training while Marines show others how to perform actions during the
course of their duties or the accomplishment of their missions. While Marines carry
out tasks, coaching is applied to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their
work and simultaneously develop subordinate leaders confidence and knowledge
base.
The true value of training. - ANSWER: The true value of any training is not so much
the training itself, but the change in behavior that should result from learning.
Performance is not so much about what you know as it is about what you do with
what you know.
Coaching is a process. - ANSWER: Coaching is a process that enhances potential in
individuals to improve performance. It is about helping someone learn rather than
drilling them on memorization.
,Coaching uses: - ANSWER: Hard leadership skills:
- Goal setting
-Reviewing performance
Soft leadership skills:
- Believing in potential
- Developing self-belief.
It is often about addressing the "attitude or motivation of an individual," which all
too regularly limits their performance, progress, and potential.
Setting Goals - ANSWER: Using the S.M.A.R.T. method of setting goals empowers
subordinate leaders to influence coaching outcomes.
Additionally, developing goals should be treated as Marines treat mission
statements. Therefore, include a proper in order to (IOT) at the end of your set goals.
Characteristics of Goals - ANSWER: SMART
Specific: The goals must be clear (PT, education)
Measurable: Check progress and hold accountable
Attainable: Relevant, manageable, and challenging
Realistic: Tools and abilities to accomplish
Timely: Provides focus and accountability
Setting Goals: Hard Leadership skill - ANSWER: Setting goals empowers us to take
control over our own circumstances and gives us control to affect what happens in
our lives. Additionally, it fosters leader development through engaged leadership,
which encourages personal accountability and motivation for enhanced time
management.
When you are setting goals it is important to: - ANSWER: - Prioritize the basics (MOS
competencies, PME, PT, family readiness).
- Design a plan for achieving your goals.
- Continuously assess results and adjust your plan as needed.
Goal Pyramid - ANSWER: - Prioritize Daily
- Plan Weekly
- Set Goals
- identify Mission Values
Reviewing Performance: Hard Leadership skill - ANSWER: After you create and
document SMART goals with a plan for reaching them, engaged leadership becomes
easier and more focused.
,Assessing Progress - ANSWER: Assessing progress is where small unit leaders truly
get to know and understand their Marines. By using a recommended goals form or a
locally produced version, documenting these SMART goals sets a standard of
assessment. Additionally, leaders have the opportunity to ensure these goals are
balanced against all other competing factors of their Marines' time. The foundational
key to setting and meeting these goals centers on the fact that the Marine is in
control of achieving them. If adjustments to existing goals need to be made, leaders
are involved in reinforcing or advising the adjustments.
"Equipment is useful only if it improves combat effectiveness"
MCDP-1
Believing in Potential: Soft Leadership skill - ANSWER: Coaching is not a short-term
fix; it is a long-term solution to help a person unlock their true potential and
maximize their own performance through instilling confidence.
Coaching involves a skill set that can only be developed with practice and requires an
investment in time, energy, and resources to maximize performance.
Four facets of coaching: - ANSWER: As a leader there are four facets of coaching to
keep in mind. You want to develop yourself to:
Coach as a guide—to keep individuals on target with performance.
Coach as an instructor—to focus on objectives.
Coach as a motivator—to enhance performance.
Coach as a mentor—so that your subordinate leaders have the desire to emulate you
Developing Self-Belief: Soft leadership skill - ANSWER: The key to reaching the
established S.M.A.R.T. goals is to continuously create and maintain an inspiring
shared vision.
Developing self-belief is essential and the most powerful instrument a leader can
cultivate. Useful tactics include coaching on:
The "golden hour": Your thoughts in the first hour of the morning, the "golden hour,"
have a strong influence on how you think, feel, and act for the rest of the day. Take
advantage of the "golden hour" and start every day in a thoughtful, productive way
that sets you up for greater success in the hours ahead.
Improving habits of personal development: Investing in your mind by reading
something motivational, positive, and consistent with reaching your goal.
Engaging in productive behaviors: Plan every day in advance—make a list of
everything you have to do; prioritize your list by value and importance.
, Methodolgy of Coaching - ANSWER: As a model of peak performance and emotional
intelligence, the Performance Pyramid provides a simple framework that effectively
guides the coaching process and employment of coaching skills. In this way, the
methodology of coaching can be described as helping a person to develop their
emotional intelligence alongside their technical competence. Coaching is a three
stage process where the coach employs three core coaching skills. Attitude,
Knowledge, and Skills.
The coaching process - ANSWER: - Facilitate Performance
- Generate Responsibility
-Raise Awareness
Core coaching skills - ANSWER: - Empathetic response
- Active Listening
- Effective Questioning
Attitude, Knowledge, Skills - ANSWER: While coaching may very well be knowledge-
and skill-based, it is first and foremost an attitude—your attitude as a coach will
fundamentally determine the results.
- It has long been acknowledged that a leader's attitude and emotions are contagious
and they must convey energy and enthusiasm if their organization is to survive and
thrive.
- If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got. If you want
different results for yourself or your people, you'll invariably need to change how
you think and feel, but ultimately you'll need do something different.
Coaching process: Stage One - ANSWER: Stage one of the three-stage coaching
process is: raise awareness. During this stage, the coach helps the Marine create a
vision of their goal in terms of what they want to achieve, why they might want to
achieve it, and how they intend achieve it. Throughout the process, the emphasis is
on guiding the person towards finding their own solutions to their own performance
problems. Raising awareness is about encouraging the person to think for
themselves for the purpose of self-education.
Coaching process (process) - ANSWER: - Raise Awareness
- Generate Responsibility
- Facilitate Performance
Core Coaching skills (How) - ANSWER: - Effective Questioning
