US Army- Leadership

In the US Army, the Leadership Development Division is 100% committed to developing their civilians and soldiers. Looking at it from the civilian aspect, there has not been a huge investment -- for many years -- in funding to support the necessary development of the civilian core.




Recently General Schumacher, Chief of Army Staff, and Secretary Harvey took a big spin on the importance of investing in the civilian core. When leaders step in and say, "it's important to develop our civilian leaders", they set the stage and environment to make this happen, and that alone sets the stage for the future of leadership development.




Currently, the US Army is in the pilot year. While in FY07, they are issuing a 'first come, first serve' basis. For FY08, the Leadership Development Division modeled the system after a regular military system to designate the requirements, and to fill the seats using a quota system. Exactly like the military seats, it's a system that assigns quotas to the commands and from that, the training managers will determine who goes to the training; some commands may board while other may simply have an order of merit list.




From that list, training managers target out the top candidates for the courses -- there are not enough seats to fill out the entire civilian core of 300,000 in one year. Right now, there is backlog with a great need for participation in the courses. In the long-term, there will still be a need, but those who have been on the waiting list will be taken care of first.




For example, if you join the Army ranks as an intern, there are five levels of courses to go through:

Foundation Course: comprised of 57 hours of online learning. Once an individual becomes a first-time supervisor after the Foundation course, he/she would then attend the Basic course.

Basic Course: 2 weeks in resident with several hours of distributed learning. After several years, the hope is the civilian will have gained some experiences to be ready for the intermediate course,

Intermediate Course: 3 weeks in length as a resident, and is about 90 hours of distributed learning. This is one of the longest distributed learning.

Advanced Course: 4 weeks in resident and 50 hours in distributed learning.
Apex Course: The Senior Service Schools is a 10-month course at the Carlisle Army War College. Individuals can also attend the Apex course in the distributed learning mode for 2 years, which results in a choice of going resident or non-resident. This course is highly competitive and board selected. Unlike the other courses, the Apex Course is strictly quota-based.

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