Title: How to do Leader Professional Development - The Field Grade Leader
Headings: How to do Leader Professional Development
How to do Leader Professional Development
By Josh Powers
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Content: This, along with the 8-step training model, will demonstrate that units have effectively planned the training and maximized leader development opportunities throughout. Every training event in the BCT has leadership development opportunities – units must capitalize on them wherever possible. Additionally, the guidance defined Brigade-level programs that we conducted throughout the year, to include The Company Commander’s LPD Series, senior-rater counseling sessions, and professional reading programs. The Annual Training Guidance solidified these events through inclusion into our organization’s battle rhythm. Another example is Quarterly Training Guidance, where the organization translates priorities into tangible actions over the subsequent 12 weeks. While Annual Training Guidance is broad in nature, quarterly guidance provided subordinate units a more detailed understanding of objectives, specified tasks, and quarterly endstates. In the context of professional development, this is where the rubber meets the road. Successful organizations operationalize previously provided focus areas by assigning topics to sessions and assuming responsibility for content and administrative support. Effective programs are then paired up with other training activities and corresponding focus areas. As an example, our Brigade rehashed live fire fundamentals, created group live fire plans, conducted a terrain walk, and then fought in simulation.