LEADER DEVELOPMENT FOR AMERICA'S ARMY

Figure 6. Generic Officer Career Development Model
Reserve Component (RC) institutional training and education require careful planning to accomplish the training tasks
while adapting to the time and geographic constraints unique to the RC. RC leaders can attend either the Active Army
course or usually, an RC version configured for a combination of inactive duty training and active duty training
periods. TRADOC has an active affiliation program between its resident schools and US Army Reserve Forces
(USARF) schools. This program is being expanded to include the National Guard academies.
To ensure that we develop confident and competent leaders who can carry out their duties today and meet the demands
of increased responsibility in the future, institutional training and education programs must use the best teaching and
training methods. The increased use of small–group instruction within the Army school system, highly competent
instructions and facilitators, improved developmental leadership assessment techniques, and precise definitions of the
SKBs expected of leaders at each level of development all contribute to leader development.
Chapter 3
OPERATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS
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