The staff leader continually evaluates his or her students and provides feedback to them on a daily basis. Twice during the course, each student meets in a formal session with the staff leader for professional growth and performance counseling. At the end of the course, each student receives a completion certificate and a diploma. The Staff Techniques lessons provide students with opportunities to practice and apply staff officer skills, techniques, and procedures, including problem solving, military writing, briefing, and meeting management. These lessons emphasize the preparation of products commonly used by all staff officers.
Students routinely use computers to prepare documents, solve decision matrices, etc.
This lesson provides an overview of the Army's role in joint operations and organizations. Students are exposed to the organization, missions, and concerns of the unified commands, as well as the organization, missions, and functions of joint task forces. The Leadership lessons afford students opportunities to explore and discuss timely leadership issues, such as emerging leadership doctrine, consideration of others, ethical decision making, and stress management. Students develop assessments of themselves and their peers during briefings and group work sessions. Students learn techniques of professional growth and performance counseling during actual counseling sessions with their staff leader.