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Leader-Team Exercise (LTX) Framework

Figure 1
America’s Army—in a nation, state, federal republic,
democracy, and continent. It is the abiding enabler of
the unique global national power of absolute diversity,
personnel utilization wholly based on demonstrated
competent performance to standard—not to particular
race, sex, religion, or sexual practice. There are no
limits to acquiring the best personnel!
Skills, knowledge, and attitudes. SKA are associated with shared purpose (vision), shared trust, shared
competence, and shared confidence combine to generate and sustain high-performing teams of leaders (HP
LTs) “teamed” across all borders of human endeavor.
Diverse leader teams sharing SKA supported by IM
and KM become ToLs supporting “winning” leader
relationships across joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational (JIIM) capabilities—a precondition to fully effective combined arms maneuver
and operations.
After action review The AAR is an individual,
team, and unit review and analysis of the effectiveness
of performance across all levels of responsibility. The
mentored AAR embeds candid professional review
combined with collaborative development of corrective actions. Juniors review mission performance
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interactively, both bottom up—selves, peers and
seniors— and top down—the chain of command.
The AAR is fully institutionalized as a positive,
accepted, corrective “360” for TCS performance.
Leader team exercises. The LTX is the “driver”
that propels and accelerates the team of leaders
though the natural team development stages, helping it achieve the high-performance characteristic
of shared SKA, exhibiting actionable understanding
more quickly. Leader team exercises, grouped or
distributed, independent or coached, are the generator of positive interpersonal relationships. They are
the “lifeblood” of ToL. They are surprisingly simple
iterative discussions conducted by candidate leader
teams and structured shown in figure 1.3
A convergence of major forces. In sum, the
Fourth Revolution is the convergence of two
mutually supporting major forces. They are very
effective for learning to standard and generating
high performing leader teams across borders. Both
combine to promise profoundly positive increases
in U.S. national military readiness. The product is
extraordinary due to the remarkable potential of
“hyper-learning.”
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