"Required
Knowledge "
-essays, lists, and bullets to guide life and leadership.
DEFINITIONS:
a. Discipline: The state of an individuals mind,
developed through training, that leads to self and unit
pride, and which results in a willing response to authority,
or personal initiative where a lack of authority exists.
b. Schofields Definition of Discipline: The discipline
that makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in
battle is not to be gained by harsh or tyrannical treatment,
on the contrary, such treatment is far more likely to
destroy than to make an army. It is possible to impart
insructions and to give commands in such manner and such
a tone of voice to inspire in the soldier no feeling but
an intense desire to obey, while the opposite manner and
tone of voice cannot fail to excite strong resentment
and a desire to disobey. The one mode or the other of
dealing with subordinates springs from a corresponding
spirit in the breast of the commander. He who feels the
respect which is due to others cannot fail to inspire
in them regard for himself, while one who feels, and hence
manifests disrespect toward others, especially his inferiors,
cannot fail to inspire hatred toward himself."
- MG John M. Schofield,
in an address to the Corps of Cadets, 11 August 1879
c. Leadership: The process of influencing others to accomplish
the mission by providing purpose, direction, and motivation.
EIGHT TROOP LEADING PROCEDURES:
(1) Receive the mission
(2) Issue a warning order
(3) Make a tentative plan
(4) Start necessary movement
(5) Reconnoiter
(6) Complete the plan
(7) Issue the complete order
(8) Supervise and refine.
PROBLEM SOLVING STEPS:
1. Identify and clarify the problem
2. Gather information
3. Evaluate the evidence
4. Consider alternatives and implications
5. Choose and implement the best alternative
NINE LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:
(1) Communication
(2) Supervision
(3) Teaching and counseling
(4) Management techniques
(5) Soldier/Team development
(6) Technical/Tactical proficiency
(7) Decision making
(8) Planning
(9) Professional Ethics
SIXTEEN LEADERSHIP DIMENSIONS:
(1) Oral communication
(2) Oral Presentations
(3) Written communications
(4) Initiative
(5) Sensitivity
(6) Influence
(7) Planning and organizing
(8) Delegation
(9) Administrative control
(10) Problem analysis
(11) Judgment
(12) Decisiveness
(13) Physical stamina
(14) Technical competency
(15) Mission accomplishment
(16) Followership
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