Leader Challenge

Leader Challenge

Developed at West Point, the Leader Challenge employs a video-based case study approach to developing leaders. Leader Challenge sessions engage participants in difficult leadership decisions in a collaborative and context-based environment  Every package features a unique, real-life scenario as told by the junior leader who experienced it and contains all the materials and guidance required to run a successful leader professional development session

LC — This Round’s on Me
When my platoon leader over the platoon net called me saying "hey FDO we're having some beverages over by my Humvee." I kind of picked up what he was putting …
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LC — Training Shortcut
A member of a 6-Soldier Team is preparing for a deployment.  There's a lot of training to be done in very little time.  You are told to meet at a …
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LC — Friendly Fire
A Platoon Leader is leading his platoon during a company-level live-fire exercise. The rehearsals and day-training iterations go well, however, during the night iteration there's …
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LC — Reporting Loyalty
The company XO discovers that the monthly sensitive items inventory has come up short a few months in a row, however, his commander signs off on the inventories and sends …
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LC — Christmas Day
A medical officer (CPT) is in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.  It is Christmas Day and he and his Soldiers had just finished enjoying their holiday meal and prepping to bed down …
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LC — Head in the Game
A lieutenant takes over as the new platoon leader for a platoon that has just returned from Iraq, at the height of the Iraq Surge.  During that period, Soldiers were …
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LC — Authentic Duty
The commander of a Quartermaster company is faced with one of his Soldiers having committed suicide. He wants to inform his company of the death but is unsure if he …
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LC — Pushing Back
A PL's platoon is carrying out a difficult mortar registration mission which is exacerbated by poor communication and understanding by the company TOC.  Once they arrive back at the TOC, …
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LC — Cohesion or Abuse
The senior drill sergeant for a Basic Combat Training company observes another drill sergeant striking a trainee who is duct-taped to a chair. The drill sergeant says it is part …
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LC — Partners
A lieutenant and his platoon are conducting a joint patrol with the Iraqi National Police (INP) when they stop a vehicle with two Sunni men in it. When the LT …
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LC — Weighty Risk
The Platoon Leader and his cavalry platoon just completed a 22-hour dismounted zone reconnaissance in the mountains of northeast Afghanistan. That action concluded a week …
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LC — New PL
A brand-new platoon leader feels overwhelmed. She has a SGT that is very charismatic and wields great influence within the platoon; influence that leads to an incident that involves the …
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LC – Butting Heads
An infantry platoon leader is having challenges with his platoon sergeant (PSG). When he first takes charge of the platoon, the PSG is reluctant to cede full authority over the …
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