Title: Air Force Leadership Development Model
Headings: 
Tactical Level
Operational Level
Strategic Level
Personal Leadership
Leading People/Teams
Leading the Institution

Content: They achieve a highly developed, insightful understanding of personal and team leadership, while mastering their institutional leadership competencies. The strategic level includes challenges to gain breadth of experience and leadership perspective (e.g., logical pairings of skills; educational opportunities and training focused on the institutional AF; joint, inter-government, business and international views). Enduring Leadership Competencies
Personal Leadership
Exercising Sound Judgment
Developing and applying broad knowledge and expertise in a disciplined manner, when addressing complex issues
Identifying interrelationships among issues and implications for other parts of the Air Force
Taking all critical information into account when making decisions
Adapting
Maintain composure in stressful situations
Work constructively and resourcefully under pressure
Demonstrate flexibility and resilience
Seek and accept constructive criticism
Balance change and continuity
Inspiring Trust
Establishing open, candid, and trusting relationships
Treat all individuals fairly and with respect
Maintain high standards of integrity
Place mission success over personal gain
Demonstrate loyalty to the unit, the mission, and the chain-of-command
Leading Courageously
Display both moral and physical courage
Maintain and project confidence in all situations
Project credibility and poise even when challenged
Show a willingness to take risks and act independently
Take personal responsibility and accountability for actions
Maintain focus, intensity and persistence, even under adversity
Demonstrating Tenacity
Take persistent, repeated action to overcome an obstacle
Keep with a difficult task even after meeting rejection
Be resilient
Leading by Example
Manage and publicly demonstrate personal and professional priorities that are consistent with Air Force Core Values and Competencies
Show subordinates that actions and words support one another
Embrace and demonstrate qualities of excellent followership
Assessing Self
Develop a personal leadership development plan that motivates me to pursue further improvement
Base this development on an increased awareness of personal strengths and weaknesses, values, performance, preferences, and styles
Understand how these impact my decisions and relationships with others
Continually learn
Leading People/Teams
Inspiring, Empowering and Exercising Authority
Create a climate that fosters personal investment and excellence
Nurture commitment to a common vision and shared values
Give people opportunity and latitude to grow and achieve
Set high expectations
Convey confidence in others’ ability to achieve them
Create a work environment that encourages continuous learning and creative thinking
Influencing & Negotiating
Promote ideas and proposals persuasively
Provide compelling rationales for arguments
Build a broad base of support
Adapt in conflict management strategies
Negotiate win/win solutions
Attracting, Developing & Retaining Talent
Identifying the competencies needed in the workforce
Attracting high-caliber people
Accurately appraising strengths and weaknesses of others
Providing constructive feedback , mentoring and coaching
Developing successors and talent pools
Addressing career-development and work-environment issues that affect retention, encourage physical and mental health
Fostering Effective Communication
Promote a free flow of information and communication (upward, downward, and across)
Listen actively
Encourage open expression of ideas and opinions
Express ideas clearly, concisely, and with impact – both orally and written
Fostering Teamwork & Collaboration
Promote collaboration and teamwork across organizational boundaries
Break down polarized perspectives
Collaborate as a team player; understanding systems/processes
Encourage and facilitating cooperation
Foster group identity
Work with others to achieve mutual goals
Share credit for success
Mentoring/Coaching/Counseling
Cultivating relationships in which you guide a less-experienced member in current and long-term aspirations and possibilities
Based this on Air Force requirements and personal knowledge of the talents, skills, and aspirations of the less experienced member
Promote a climate of mutual trust
Provide timely and accurate feedback
Building Relationships
Cultivating an active network of relationships inside and outside the Air Force
Relating to others in an approachable manner
Responding to the needs and concerns of others
Accepting and accommodating a variety of interpersonal styles
Leading the Institution
Shaping Strategy
Understand strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, external developments, and trends
Develop strategies to achieve advantage
Identify critical goals and success factors
Pursue initiatives based on their fit with broader strategies
Translating Strategy
Communicate broad strategies into specific objectives and action plans
Create or modify structures, processes, and systems to support strategic priorities
Integrate efforts across functions and locations
Obtain and allocate needed resources; and assigning clear authority and accountability
Thinking/Working Across Boundaries
Work effectively across internal and external boundaries to provide integrated solutions
Demonstrate political savvy
Leverage cross-disciplinary knowledge
Encourage and facilitate integrity, cooperation, and group identity
Applying Resource Stewardship
Prioritize, acquire and administer human, financial, material, and information resources in a manner that instills public trust and accomplishes the organization's mission
Use new technology to enhance decision making
Understand and apply general management principles
Driving Execution
Monitoring mission performance
Provide resources and support to ensure that key strategies and results are achieved
Improve effectiveness
Hold people accountable for achieving their goals
Tackle problems before they become crises
Resolve them efficiently and effectively
Commanding
Achieve the mission by connecting people, supplies, and equipment
Have responsibility for the mission, people, equipment, and supplies
Model commitment and team spirit
Encourage and facilitate integrity, cooperation, and group identity
Creating and Demonstrating Vision
Clearly define and express a future for the group/organization based on both environmental (external) factors and Air Force institutional (internal) requirements
Driving Transformation
Set and pursue aggressive goals
Drive for results
Demonstrate a strong commitment to organizational success
Work to do what is best for the Air Force mission
Demonstrate entrepreneurship
Pursue both short- and long-term success
Driving Continuous Improvement
Create an environment that supports innovation, continuous improvement, and risk taking
Lead efforts to improve or streamline processes
Investigate and adopt best practices
Integrating Systems
Comprehend doctrinal concepts and procedures necessary to effectively assimil