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ROTC Fall Midterm

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What opportunities does regular counseling provide leaders?
Demonstrate a genuine interest in subordinates
Evaluate subordinates' potential for development
Identify issues before they become significant problems
Adapting the counseling approach to each subordinate, situation and relationship is the definition of which key characteristic of effective counseling?
Flexibility
Which basic counseling skill implies paying attention thoughtfully and deliberately to capture nuances of the subordinate's language?
Active listening
During the counseling process, effective leaders should avoid which of the following
Improper Follow-up
Personal bias
Which skills are needed for a counselor to be effective?
Active listening
Responding
Appropriate questioning
List three (3) of the seven (7) Event Counseling types
Crisis Counseling
Promotion Counseling
Transition Counseling
The five (5) qualities an Army leader must demonstrate to be effective counselors are
Respect for subordinates
Self- awareness
cultural awareness
empathy
credibility
The US Army uses four stages in the counseling process. These stages are
Identify the need for counseling
Prepare for counseling
Conduct the counseling session
Follow- up
Professional Growth Counseling
Planning for the accomplishment of the individual
Event Counseling
Counseling involving a specific situation
Performance Counseling
The review of the subordinate's duty
Indicate the correct order of the stages of the counseling process
Identify the need for counseling
Prepare for counseling
Conduct the counseling session
Follow-up
What are the purposes of training meetings?
Provides a forum to direct modifications to the Unit Training Plan as needed

Provides a forum to meet periodically to assess past, current, and future training

Provides a forum to track and assess Unit Training Plan progress
How often do company and battalions conduct training meetings?
Weekly
Review of bottom-up feedback and assessment of tasks trained is part of which goal of a training meeting?
Review of past training
Which key leader is responsible for running the training meeting?
Company Commander
Which key leader(s) attend training meetings and advise the commander on the status of specialized training?
Key Staff NCOs
Commanders convey the purpose of the training and the desired end state; however while exercising mission command they leave __________________________ to subordinate leaders.
How to achieve results
Identify the three goals of the training meeting.
Ensure face-to-face cross-communication between leaders to discuss and resolve training issues.

Review past training, training not conducted, and review assessment of tasks.

Review future training events, re-confirm the training focus and training objectives for future events
You will brief your assessment of collective tasks, warrior tasks, and battle drill proficiencies based on training you just recently conducted. You have prepared the recommendation adjusting tasks to train (training focus) for upcoming events based on your assessments. Who is the key leader described?
Platoon Leader
The meeting agenda keyed to the _______________ to make it easy to see, understand, and follow.
T-Week concept
A training short fall occurs when a unit fails to conduct the planned training or
Fails to meet training objectives
Institutional Training Domain
Army centers/schools that provide initial training and
subsequent functional and professional military
education for Soldiers, military leaders, and Army
Civilians. Army schools ensure Soldiers, leaders, and
Army Civilians can perform critical tasks to prescribed
standards throughout their careers, and support units
on a continuous basis.
Operational Training Domain
Training activities that unit leaders schedule, and
individuals, units and organizations undertake. Unit
leaders are responsible for the proficiency of their subordinates (Soldiers and Army Civilians), subordinate
leaders, teams/crews, and the unit as a whole.
Self-development Training Domain
This domain includes planned and goal-oriented
learning that reinforces and expands the depth and
breadth of an individual's knowledge base and self-
awareness. This domain bridges learning gaps between
the other domains and sets conditions for continuous
learning and growth.
As stewards of the Army Profession, Commanders effectively resource training and protect subordinates
training time. They create a sense of stability throughout the organization by protecting approved training plans from training distracters. Commanders are responsible for executing the approved training to standard. Effective commanders provide timely, valuable feedback to all participants by ______________.
Personally engaging in training
By creating a training environment that listens to and rewards subordinates who are bold and innovative while challenging the organization and each individual to train to their full potential a Commander creates __________________?
A positive training climate
True or False. Leader development depends on having clear purpose for what, when and how to develop?
True
Which principle of training is characterized by replicating the complex and uncertain operational environments in training that the unit will likely face in combat?
Train as you fight
The Army's training challenge is to optimize, synchronize, and support training to produce forces and leaders capable of responding across the range of military operations. What type(s) of training is this?
Training in schools
Training in units
Self-development training
Leader development is the deliberate, continuous, sequential, and progressive process founded in Army values, which grows Soldiers and _____________ into competent and confident leaders capable of decisive action.
Civilians
The Army's training and leader development efforts support training in which three domains?
Institutional, Operational, and Self-development
The primary responsibilities of any staff include
Assist subordinate commanders, staffs, and units
Support the Commander
Common staff duties and responsibilities include
Assessing operations
Building and maintaining running estimates
Performing intelligence preparation of the battlefield
A grouping of staff members by area of expertise under a coordinating, special, or personal staff officer is a
Staff Section
Which Staff Officer is the chief of the movement and maneuver warfighting function and the principal staff officer responsible for all matters concerning training, operations and plans, and force development and modernization?
Operations Officer
What are the three types of staff officers?
Coordinating, Special, and Personal
This individual is responsible for coordinating the staff for the commander and serves as the acting commander as required.
Executive Officer (XO)
Which Staff Officer is responsible for manning, personnel services, personnel support, and headquarters management?
S-1
Which Staff Officer has the coordinating responsibility for the S1, transportation officer, and the surgeon?
Logistics Officer
Which planning cell normally focuses its planning efforts on the development of sequels?
Plans Cell
Who is the most important participant in the operations process?
The commander
Which of the Commander's Activities within the Operations Process is fundamental in establishing a situation's context, and is essential to effective decision making?
Understand
Which of the Commander's Activities within the Operations Process involves mentally imagining the endstate of an operation and potential solutions to solve the problem of achieving the endstate?
Visualize
From below, select ways in which a commander can provide staffs and subordinates an expression of his or her visualization:
Commander's Intent
Planning guidance
Which of the following are Army Methodologies for conducting planning?
Select all that apply.
Army Design
Military Decision Making Process
Troop Leading Procedures
Which Army planning methodology extends the MDMP to the small unit level?
Troop Leading Procedures
When do leaders use Troop Leading Procedures?
Alone
In small groups
To solve tactical problems
When do leaders begin Troop Leading Procedures?
Based on their understanding of the situation
When they receive a new mission
When they receive a Warning Order
Who is responsible for driving the operations process?
The commander
Units with a coordinating staff use which planning methodology to conduct planning for unit training?
Military Decision Making Process
Which training leaders require training and certifying? Select all that apply.
OPFOR leaders
Role players
Trainers
What do subordinate commanders receive from their higher commander which enables them to begin the process to determine what tasks to train and how to train their units?
Training guidance
What accompanies the Unit Training Plan to provide a graphic representation of the unit's long-range plan to attain and sustain the required proficiencies?
Training calendar
During the mission analysis following the receipt of the higher commander's training guidance, what does the commander identify and assess as the unit's focus on which to train?
collective tasks
weapon qualification standards
What event allows commanders the opportunity to describe and discuss planned training and discuss changes to the UTP if necessary?
Training Briefing
Which document identifies a specific unit's multiechelon training events crucial to attaining task proficiency?
Unit Training Plan (UTP)
Which of the below provides a flexible and reliable method for planning and managing simple training events?
8-step Training Model
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