NAVS 2241 - Leadership & Management

1. Comprehend the relationship of the Naval Services Core Values to the roles and responsibilities of a Naval leader.
2. Comprehend the following personal qualities and be able to relate them to a leader’s effectiveness:

• Honor
• Judgment
• Justice
• Dedication
• Initiative
• Decisiveness
• Tact
• Integrity
• Endurance
• Bearing
• Unselfishness
• Courage
• moral and physical
•  Knowledge
• Loyalty
• Enthusiasm

3. Comprehend the major principle of the Code of Conduct and be able to apply it to a leaders role in a prisoner of war situation.
4. Comprehend the relationship between authority, responsibility, and accountability within a task-oriented organization.
5. Apply leadership and management skills to prioritize among competing demands.
6. Demonstrate the ability to establish meaningful goals and objectives.
7. Apply techniques of prioritization and time management to resources and personnel.
8. Apply leadership skills to achieve objectives:

• Comprehend different leadership styles and how they apply to different situations and groups.
• Comprehend basic principles of human behavior and group dynamics.
• Comprehend the difference between informal and formal groups.
• Comprehend the contribution of the formal group organization and standard procedures to mission accomplishment.
• Apply leadership and management skills to design work groups based on task requirements, group capability, and available resources.
• Apply techniques and skills to measure organizational effectiveness by establishing qualitative and quantitative performance standards. 

9. Comprehend the importance of planning and supervision to mission accomplishment:

• Comprehend the importance of planning and forecasting.
• Comprehend the relationship between goal setting and feedback and apply this understanding to establishment of control systems.
• Know the important reasons for development of and constant re-evaluation of alternatives in decision making.
• Comprehend major reasons why change is resisted in organizations.
• Comprehend specific change management techniques.

10. Demonstrate an understanding of the influence of the following on a leader’s ability to achieve organizational goals:

• Use of authority: Definition of a legal order; Process for challenging illegal orders.
• Prioritization of Constitution, mission, service, command, shipmate and self.
• Conveyance of clear, concise Commanders Intent -Degree of delegation and decentralization -Officer-enlisted professional relationship -Chain of command, including ship/squadron organization -Morale and esprit de corps -Supervision and follow-up.