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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
TLog GRADUATES TO RECEIVE
“P1” SKILL IDENTIFIER
The Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G–1, has
approved a proposal from the Army Combined
Arms Support Command to create a skill identifier
for personnel who have attended the Theater
Logistics Studies Program (TLog) and to code
positions in the force structure for those graduates.
Logistics officers who receive the new
skill identifier, P1, will be slotted into logistics
positions in operational logistics units, such as
theater sustainment commands, expeditionary
sustainment commands, and sustainment brigades,
or on joint and multinational staffs.
Establishment of the skill identifier will allow
effective tracking of graduates and position
requirements, ensuring career-long use of the
graduates’ knowledge, skills, and abilities.
The Army Logistics Management College
at Fort Lee, Virginia, offers TLog to logistics
officers in the ranks of O–3 and above who have
at least 7 years of service and civilians in the
grades of GS–13 and above with at least 5 years
of logistics experience. Warrant officers can
attend TLog by exception. For more information,
view the ALMC course catalog online at
www.almc.army.mil/ALMC_CATALOG.PDF.
ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK PROGRAM
TO IMPROVE LEADERSHIP TRAINING
The Multi-Source Assessment and Feedback
(MSAF) Program is a new Army tool that assesses
individual and organizational leadership strengths
and weaknesses through a 360-degree assessment.
The program gives peers, subordinates, and supervisors
(at all levels) the opportunity to honestly
assess each other’s performance without fear of
reprisal because the information in MSAF is confidential.
MSAF also provides individual feedback
related to the eight leader competencies described
in Field Manual 6–22, Army Leadership.
MSAF started as a pilot program in 2004 to
raise self-awareness and guide skill improvement
for Army leaders. MSAF will continue this
mission by assessing the training and education
of officers, warrant officers, noncommissioned
officers, and Army civilians in all components.
Individuals may use MSAF at any time for
self-development. Professional Military Education
(PME) and Civilian Education System
(CES) courses now require participants to initiate
a self-assessment before attending class.
PME students will receive notification through
the Army Training Requirements and Resources
System. CES students will be notified through
the Civilian Human Resources Training Application
System.
Students will select individuals they served
with at their last assignments to evaluate their
leadership skills. Once the assessment is complete,
students will receive an individual feedback
report. Students can then meet with an instructor
and use the results to construct an individual
development plan.
Only the person who initiated the assessment
will have access to the feedback it provides.
Commanders will not have access to individual
feedback reports for their subordinate leaders,
but they will receive a cumulative report for their
organizations that contains no information identifying
individuals.
The Officer Education System (OES) Intermediate
Level Education (ILE) was the first to use
MSAF. The Sergeants Major Course is next. The
other PME schools will follow in the first half of
fiscal year 2009. The CES will phase in MSAF,
starting with the Advanced Course in the first
quarter of fiscal year 2009 and ending with the
Basic Course in the third quarter of fiscal year
2009.
MSAF assessment tools and feedback are
available through the My Leader Development
section of Army Knowledge Online or by logging
onto https://msaf.army.mil.
COUNSELING CLASS AVAILABLE ON LINE
A new online developmental counseling course
is available to Army leaders. The Center for Army
Leadership at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, released
the course, which covers types of counseling, leaders
as counselors, and the counseling process. The
11 hours of instruction are based on the Army’s
newest leadership doctrine, Field Manual (FM)
6–22, Army Leadership. The course and its accompanying
FM are available on the Combined Arms
Center website at http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/
digitalpublications.asp.
NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2008