Items, Descriptions, and Example of Additional Available Guidance for the PDR
| Item Name | Item Description |
|---|---|
| Army values | Lives, acts, and teaches loyalty, duty, respect, selfless services honor integrity. and personal courage |
| Empathy | Able to see something from another person’s point of view, identifies with and enters into another person’s feelings and emotions |
| Warrior/service ethos | Shares attitudes and beliefs that embody the spirit of the Army profession for soldiers and Army civilians alike. |
| Discipline | Controls own behavior according to Army values, obeys and enforces orderly practices, does what is morally, legally, and ethically right |
| Military/professional bearing | Projects a commanding presence and professional image of authority |
| Physical fitness | Has sound health, strength, and endurance that supports one’s emotional health and conceptual abilities under stress |
| Confidence | Projects self-confidence and certainty, demonstrates composure and poise, calm and collected, possesses self control of emotions |
| Resilience | Shows a tendency to recovery quickly from setbacks, shock, adversity, stress or injury while maintaining a mission and organizational focus |
| Mental agility | Flexible of mind, anticipates or adapts to ever-changing conditions, improvises, able to apply multiple perspectives&approaches |
| Innovation | Able to introduce new ideas based on opportunity or challenging circumstances, original in thoughts ideas, creative |
| Expertise | Possesses facts, beliefs, and logical assumptions in relevant areas, technical, tactical, cultural, and geopolitical knowledge |
| Sound judgment | Assesses situations and draws feasible conclusions, makes sound and timely decisions |
| Interpersonal tact | Has capacity to understand interactions with others, aware of how others see you and how to interact with them effectively |
| Leads by example | Provides the example to others, serves as a role model, maintains high standards in all aspects of behavior and character |
| Leads Others | Motivates, inspires, and influences others to take initiative, work toward a common goal, and accomplish critical tasks and missions |
| Builds trust | Empowers subordinates, encourages initiative, reinforce accountability and allows open communication |
| Extends influence | Influences others outside change of command, involves indirect means of influence: diplomacy, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coordination |
| Communicates | Clearly expresses ideas to ensure understanding, actively listens to others, and employs effective communication techniques |
| Creates a positive environment | Establishes and maintains positive expectations/attitudes to support effective work behaviors, relationships, and organizations |
| Prepares self | Conducts self-study, aware of their limitations and strengths, and seek self-development, continues to improve and prepare |
| Develops others | Encourages and supports others to grow as individuals and teams, prepares others for success, makes the organization versatile and productive |
| Stewards the profession | Acts to improve the organization beyond their own tenure and supports developmental opportunities for subordinates |
| Gets results | Consistently produces results, develops and executes plans while providing direction, and clear priorities toward mission accomplishment |
| Item Name | Item Description |
|---|---|
| Army values | Lives, acts, and teaches loyalty, duty, respect, selfless services honor integrity. and personal courage |
| Empathy | Able to see something from another person’s point of view, identifies with and enters into another person’s feelings and emotions |
| Warrior/service ethos | Shares attitudes and beliefs that embody the spirit of the Army profession for soldiers and Army civilians alike. |
| Discipline | Controls own behavior according to Army values, obeys and enforces orderly practices, does what is morally, legally, and ethically right |
| Military/professional bearing | Projects a commanding presence and professional image of authority |
| Physical fitness | Has sound health, strength, and endurance that supports one’s emotional health and conceptual abilities under stress |
| Confidence | Projects self-confidence and certainty, demonstrates composure and poise, calm and collected, possesses self control of emotions |
| Resilience | Shows a tendency to recovery quickly from setbacks, shock, adversity, stress or injury while maintaining a mission and organizational focus |
| Mental agility | Flexible of mind, anticipates or adapts to ever-changing conditions, improvises, able to apply multiple perspectives&approaches |
| Innovation | Able to introduce new ideas based on opportunity or challenging circumstances, original in thoughts ideas, creative |
| Expertise | Possesses facts, beliefs, and logical assumptions in relevant areas, technical, tactical, cultural, and geopolitical knowledge |
| Sound judgment | Assesses situations and draws feasible conclusions, makes sound and timely decisions |
| Interpersonal tact | Has capacity to understand interactions with others, aware of how others see you and how to interact with them effectively |
| Leads by example | Provides the example to others, serves as a role model, maintains high standards in all aspects of behavior and character |
| Leads Others | Motivates, inspires, and influences others to take initiative, work toward a common goal, and accomplish critical tasks and missions |
| Builds trust | Empowers subordinates, encourages initiative, reinforce accountability and allows open communication |
| Extends influence | Influences others outside change of command, involves indirect means of influence: diplomacy, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coordination |
| Communicates | Clearly expresses ideas to ensure understanding, actively listens to others, and employs effective communication techniques |
| Creates a positive environment | Establishes and maintains positive expectations/attitudes to support effective work behaviors, relationships, and organizations |
| Prepares self | Conducts self-study, aware of their limitations and strengths, and seek self-development, continues to improve and prepare |
| Develops others | Encourages and supports others to grow as individuals and teams, prepares others for success, makes the organization versatile and productive |
| Stewards the profession | Acts to improve the organization beyond their own tenure and supports developmental opportunities for subordinates |
| Gets results | Consistently produces results, develops and executes plans while providing direction, and clear priorities toward mission accomplishment |
| Example Item Guidance for Discipline | ||||
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| Unsatisfactory (Score of 1) | Developing (Score of 2) | Effective (Score of 3) | Exceptional (Score of 4) | |
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| Behavioral examples of the category | Unable to control their behavior and ignores what is right. Blames others for substandard outcomes. Verbally critiques or criticizes the importance and role of standards while blaming others when tasks fall below the established standards. Follows unclear principles and is questionable in word and deed Does the wrong thing for no reason and for the wrong goal. | Inconsistent behavior requiring heav influence by others to do what is right. Does not see the need to take responsibility for substandard outcomes. Takes no verbal stance on the importance and role of standards and feels unable to take action when tasks fall below standards. Unsure which principles to follow and is sometimes unsure in word and deed. Does the right thing but is uncertain of the reason or goal. | Able to control one’s own behavior and is compliant to do what is right Takes responsibility for substandard outcomes. Acknowledges the importance and role of standards and takes action when tasks fall below established standards. Follows clear principles and are honest in word and deed. Does the right thing for the right reason. | Behavior is always in accordance with Army values and never waivers from doing what is right. Takes ownership of all substandard outcomes and seeks improvement. Reinforces the importance and role of standards throughout the unit and ensures that tasks do not fall below established standards. A role model for all that follows clear principles and is honest in word and deed. Does the right thing for the right reason and with the right goal in mind “when no one is looking” |
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