ADP 6-22

Question 0

What does FM 7-0 cover?

Answer 0

Training the force

Question 1

What does ADP 6-22 cover?

Answer 1

Army leadership

Question 2

Define Leadership.

Answer 2

Leadership is influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization.

Question 3

What is purpose?

Answer 3

Purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in order to achieve a desired outcome

Question 4

What is direction?

Answer 4

Providing clear direction involves communicating how to accomplish a mission: prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibility for completion, and ensuring subordinates understand the standard

Question 5

What is motivation?

Answer 5

Motivation supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a mission.

Question 6

Describe the “Be, Know and Do”.

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop others through which they provide knowledge and feedback?

Answer 7

Counseling
Coaching
Mentoring

Question 8

A leader’s effectiveness is dramatically enhanced by understanding and developing what areas?

Answer 8

Military Bearing
Physical Fitness
Confidence
Resilience

Question 9

What is military bearing?

Answer 9

Projecting a commanding presence, a professional image of authority.

Question 10

What is physical fitness?

Answer 10

Having sound health, strength, and endurance, which sustain emotional health and conceptual abilities under prolonged stress.

Question 11

What is confidence?

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

What is resilience?

Answer 12

Showing a tendency to recover quickly from setbacks, shock, injuries, adversity, and stress while maintaining a mission and organizational focus.

Question 13

What are the three core domains that shape the critical learning experiences throughout Soldiers’ and leaders’ careers?

Answer 13

-Institutional training.
-Training, education, and job
experience gained during operational
assignments.
-Self-development.

Question 14

What are the Leader Actions?

Answer 14

-Influencing - getting people (Soldiers, 
 Army civilians, and multinational 
 partners) to do what is necessary.
-Operating - the actions taken to 
 influence others to accomplish 
 missions and to set the stage for 
 future operations.
-Improving - capturing and acting on 
 important lessons of ongoing and 
 completed projects and missions.

Question 15

What are the three levels of leadership?

Answer 15

-Direct - Direct leadership is face-to-
 face, first-line leadership.
-Organizational - Organizational 
 leaders influence several hundred to 
 several thousand people. They do this 
 indirectly, generally through more 
 levels of subordinates than do direct 
 leaders.
-Strategic - Strategic leaders include 
 military and DA civilian leaders at the 
 major command through Department 
 of Defense levels. Strategic leaders 
 are responsible for large organizations 
 and influence several thousand to 
 hundreds of thousands of people.

Question 16

What are the Army Values?

Answer 16

Loyalty
Duty
Respect
Selfless Service
Honor
Integrity
Personal Courage

Question 17

Attributes of an Army leader can best be defined as what an Army leader is. What are the attributes of an Army leader?

Answer 17

A leader of character
A leader with presence
A leader with intellectual capacity

Question 18

Core leader competencies are what an Army leader does. What are the core leader competencies?

Answer 18

An Army leader leads
An Army leader develops
An Army leader achieves.

Question 19

Why must leaders introduce stress into training?

Answer 19

Using scenarios that closely resemble the stresses and effects of the real battlefield is essential to victory and survival in combat.

Question 20

What are intended and unintended consequences?

Answer 20

Intended consequences are the anticipated results of a leader’s decisions and actions.
Unintended consequences arise from unplanned events that affect the organization or accomplishment of the mission.

Question 21

What is communication?

Answer 21

A process of providing information

Question 22

Name the two barriers of communications

Answer 22

Physical

Psychological

Question 23

Name some physical barriers of communication

Answer 23

Noise of battle

Distance

Question 24

Character is essential to successful leadership. What are the three major factors that determine a leader's character?

Answer 24

Army Values Empathy Warrior Ethos

Question 25

What are the 7 steps to problem solving?

Answer 25

``` ID the problem Gather information Develop criteria Generate possible solutions Analyze possible solutions Compare possible solutions Make and implement the decision ```

Question 26

What is reverse planning?

Answer 26

Reverse planning is a specific technique used to ensure that a concept leads to the intended end state.

Question 27

To assess subordinates, leaders you must-

Answer 27

``` -Observe and record subordinates' performance in the core leader competencies. -Determine if the performances meet, exceed, or fall below expected standards. -Tell subordinates what was observed and give an opportunity to comment. -Help subordinates develop an individual development plan (IDP) to improve performance. ```

Question 28

What are the team building stages?

Answer 28

Formation Enrichment Sustainment

Question 29

Name some things in a unit that affect morale

Answer 29

``` Mess Military justice Mail Supply Billets ```

Question 30

What are beliefs?

Answer 30

Beliefs derive from upbringing, culture, religious backgrounds and traditions.

Question 31

What is toxic leadership?

Answer 31

Toxic leadership is a combination of self-centered attitudes, motivations, and behaviors that have adverse effects on subordinates, the organization, and mission performance.

Question 32

What do Toxic Leaders consistently use dysfunctional behaviors to do?

Answer 32

deceive, intimidate, coerce, or unfairly punish others to get what they want for themselves

Question 33

Can a Toxic Leader still achieve results?

Answer 33

Yes, but only Short Term results where followers respond to the positional power of their leader to fulfill requests

Question 34

Which Leader competency categories does a Toxic Leader ignore when getting short term results?

Answer 34

Leading and Developing Soldiers

Question 35

What will Toxic or Negative Leadership effect in Followers?

Answer 35

undermines the followers’ will, initiative, and potential and destroys unit morale

Question 36

What are the two Characteristics of a Toxic Leader?

Answer 36

operates with an inflated sense of self-worth and from acute self-interest