Leadership skills tend to be hierarchical, with different skills required at different levels of responsibility.
Leaders emphasize different behaviors throughout roles in an organization.
This hierarchical behavior holds true in the military environment. The purpose of this investigation is to determine the critical leadership behaviors required at the strategic level of leadership in the U.S. Air Force. It has been widely used in civilian research and is not copyrighted. The AWC students have been pre-selected to attend Professional Military Education. By determining what skills are needed by senior officers at the strategic level, we can further hone those skills and perhaps mentor those skills in up and coming military leaders.