Leader Development Continuum: Nurturing Navy's Future Leaders

1. ECC BRIEF 20 July 2012 Educating Leaders Since 1884 www.usnwc.edu www.facebook.com/NavalWarCollege http://www.twitter.com/NavalWarCollege http://www.usnwc.edu/OnlineDiscussion

2. Leader Development Continuum (LDC) VCNO Tasker for NWC Lead: “Develop and provide oversight for a leader development continuum from accession through the entire career of our Sailors, officer and enlisted, that focuses on the attributes, behaviors, and ethos of the Naval profession.”

3. Leader Development Continuum (LDC) Status • LDC Council established – draft charter completed • Includes a LDC Working Group with TYCOM representation • Develop Navy Leader Development Strategy • Draft outline completed • First draft by 10 Aug • Submit final draft to Oct AERB • Create a set of Developmental Outcomes • NETC reviewing current mandates • Determine gaps, redundancies, and inconsistencies • Draft outcomes embedded in the published strategy • Develop LDC assessment process • Assessment process embedded in the strategy

4. Leader Development Continuum Goals (Draft): Guiding principle: develop leaders with a strong, abiding sense of responsibility, authority, and accountability, committed to Navy Core Values and the Navy Ethos. • Progressive process for leader development guided by a career-long learning continuum. • Continuum aligns and links education, training, experience, and self-development opportunities across the Navy. • Continuum based upon an approved set of phased development outcomes to ensure consistency and eliminate gaps.

5. Joint Education White Paper • 16 July 2012 “… we must review our joint education objectives and institutions to ensure that we are developing agile and adaptive leaders with the requisite values, strategic vision and critical thinking skills necessary to keep pace with the changing strategic environment.” “Our professional military education (PME) programs must ensure our leaders have: • the ability to understand the security environment and the contributions of all the elements of national power • the ability to deal with surprise and uncertainty • The ability to anticipate and recognize change and lead transitions • The ability to operate on intent through trust, empowerment, and understanding “The enduring purpose of PME is to develop leaders by conveying a broad body of professional knowledge and developing habits of mind essential to our profession.”

6. CJCS Intent “Education and not ‘just training’” for officers and enlisted. Develop life-long learners. We need the best and the brightest teaching our rising generation. Adapt institutionally to our e-savvy learners with collaborative, context-based problem-solving events. I expressly desire that joint education: • Lead the renewal of our commitment to the Profession of Arms • Prepare adaptive, innovative critical thinking leaders capable of operating in complex & unstructured environments • Provide the foundation for leaders to understand the security environment, change, and transitions • Provide the foundation to design and execute operational-level campaigns in pursuit of strategic objectives • Establish and sustain mission command throughout the force • Enable jointness through integration of diverse service cultures and approaches • Attract and maintain civilian and military faculty members who are among the very best and brightest of their contemporaries • Expand access and opportunity to populations outside of the conventional classrooms

7. Joint Education White Paper • CJCS Intent I expressly desire that joint education maintain our competitive learning advantage through : • Mastery of fundamentals of art and science of war • Intellectual curiosity, coupled with openness to new ideas • Operational adaptability – fundamentally the ability to deal with the unexpected by making sound choices based on measured risk • Ability to balance the art of command with the science of control including creating trust relationships with seniors, subordinates, and partners • Skills in negotiations, culture and language • An understanding of intelligence – both its capabilities and limitations • Ability to process information into knowledge, then share the knowledge, and act on it

8. Campus expanded to 14 buildings. • Navy Facilities Survey identified shortage of 165,000 sq. ft. of office/classroom/admin space. • CJCS accreditations since 2003 noted deficiency in student research & learning space • Military Construction Project P-103 submitted to address CJCS noted deficiency • Tentatively scheduled for FY 14