Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities for Military Leader Influence

Abstract

Military leaders must effectively use influence across a variety of contexts and people. This report provides a comprehensive review of leader influence strategies and the factors that impact the influence process and influence outcomes. A detailed description is provided of the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs) related to successful influence, and measures currently available for these KSAOs are presented. This report also discusses the usefulness of different measurement approaches for the 64 identified KSAOs. Finally, training needs and approaches to develop a leader's influence KSAOs are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA540059

Entities

People

  • Hannah Foldes
  • Michael Cullen
  • Michelle R. Zbylut
  • Michelle Wisecarver
  • Rob Schneider

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Human Behavior
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Situational Awareness
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Task Performance And Analysis

Readers

  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Systems Analysis and Design