ROTC Paper 2

ADP 6-22

Col. Robert Helvey - OTPOR

Community building

Establishing communication network

Leads Other, Builds trust, extends influence beyond chain of command, leads by example, communication

An Army leader is anyone who by virtue of assumed role or assigned responsibility inspires and influences people to accomplish organizational goals. Army leaders motivate people both inside and outside the chain of command to pursue actions, focus thinking and shape decisions for the greater good of the organization.

Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.

Leaders operate to improve or sustain high performance in their organization. They do so by focusing on the four develops competencies. Create a positive environment inspires an organization’s climate and culture. Prepares self encourages improvement in leading and other areas of leader responsibility.

Inspires and influences people to accomplish organizational goals. Influencing by providing guidance and direction

Create positive environment

Developed others to assume greater responsibilities

It’s a form of warfare. And you’ve got to think of it in terms of a war. So the principles of war that apply to a military struggle have a tremendous overlap into strategic nonviolent struggle.

Unity

Organizing

Discipline

Create positive environment

Build Community

Provides purpose, direction, and motivation

he objective has to be clear. You can’t plan a strategy, or you can’t even have a strategy, until you have a clear objective. What is it that I want to accomplish? And then how do I want to accomplish it?

The Foreword - "Soldiers trust their leaders. Leaders must never break that trust, as trust is the bedrock of our profession"

And one of them is don’t be alone. So if you’re going to have demonstrations, if you’re going to take actions, get people closer together, so they touch each other, in fact.

Helvey on OTPOR - "you’re fighting a war and wars can only be fought successfully if you have a very clear objective and just defeating your opponent, getting him out of power, is just an intermediate objective if you want to go to democracy."

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Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.

Developing others to assume greater responsibility

Leaders develop others to assume greater responsibility or achieve higher expertise.

The question did come up about the fear. And, of course, these people in Otpor, just like most young people, they are very, very courageous. But how do you get others to overcome the effects of fear? Well, the first thing is that you must not ever call people cowards who are afraid. Because once you identify them as cowards, then it has an effect up here. “Yeah, I am a coward.” So, you tell the people: “fear is normal and fear is something that everybody experiences.

Builds trust is an important competency to establish conditions of effective influence and for creating a positive environment
Create a positive environment inspires an organization’s climate and culture.