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More about DCLM
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The Department of Command, Leadership, and Management (DCLM) is one of the teaching departments of the U.S. Army War College located at Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
The department is responsible for management of:
- The National Capital Region/Washington D.C. Field Trip.
- The Omar Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership.
- The Omar Bradley Chair Elective.
- The Military Family Program.
- The Transformation Chair and its associated electives.
DCLM also publishes the reference text: "How the Army Runs: A Senior Leader Reference Handbook" and the "Strategic Leadership Primer."
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Courses Provided by DCLM
DCLM provides seminar teaching in three of the six core curriculum courses of the resident program and offers electives in the areas of responsible command, leadership, and management.
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1. Strategic Thinking (ST)
The first course of the academic year, Strategic Thinking, is designed to help you get reacquainted with the skills and habits necessary for success in graduate-level education, and to directly address selected subjects that fall within the cognitive domain of strategic leadership.
The Strategic Thinking course provides a foundation to comprehend and apply thinking needed by senior leaders that will continue throughout this academic year and into future assignments. Strategic thinking includes different lenses and thought processes that are useful in any endeavor, but they are critical for senior leaders in a time of accelerating change that brings both increasing threats and great opportunities.
As national security professionals and graduates of a Senior Service College, you will be expected to translate the goals of national policy into credible military objectives (ends), concepts (ways), and resources (means). The Strategic Thinking course begins the expansion of your understanding of national security and the strategic-leadership environment by examining the cognitive perspectives associated with the development of national military requirements and capabilities which enable warfighting combatant commanders to accomplish their part of the National Military Strategy.
This course is designed to present material in ways that will encourage personal and professional growth through reflection, critical assessment, and consideration of issues that are most often influenced by an environment that has characteristics described by the words of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Issues facing senior leaders in this environment are rarely simple and direct.
An important goal of the course is to begin the process of creating an environment for reflective learning as you examine issues and processes, and explore alternate possibilities and opportunities.
We expect that during this learning you will contribute to free-flowing seminar discussions, classroom practical exercises, mini-case studies, and question-and-answer opportunities with guest lecturers.
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2. Strategic Leadership (SL)
The Strategic Leadership course of the U.S. Army War College (USAWC) resident core curriculum is designed to introduce students to the concepts and skills required of leaders within the strategic environment through an examination of responsible command, leadership, and management practices.
The Strategic Leadership course continues the development of leadership at three levels: Direct (taught at the basic and captain level courses), Organizational (taught at the intermediate-level education course), and Strategic (taught at the USAWC).
Clearly, in this complex and ambiguous world, the levels of leadership have become more blurred; however, there are still unique sets of knowledge, skills, and abilities that are much more prevalent at the strategic level than in the other two levels of leadership. Building on the students' experiences, this course provides the foundation for the application of strategic-level skills and competencies throughout the academic year and into the future.
In this course students will understand the strategic leader"s role as a change agent for his/her organization. In today"s complex and fast-paced environment, strategic leaders need to scan the environment, anticipate change proactively, develop a vision on where they see their organization in 10-20 years, align the organization"s culture and climate with their vision and their current work force, and then create and maintain an ethics and value-based set within their organization that reinforces the organization"s vision.
Students will develop an appreciation that strategic leadership often involves decision-making in a consensus environment requiring negotiation with near equals who have comparable levels of power and influence and thus require a different skill set than was typically used at the direct and indirect levels of leadership.
The Strategic Leadership course is designed to present material in ways that will encourage personal and professional reflection, critical assessment, and consideration of issues that are most often characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
Building on the foundations established in the Strategic Thinking course, our intent is to encourage habits of lifelong learning through increased self-awareness, organizational awareness, and environmental awareness. Our long-term goal for this course is to enable our students to build toward becoming expert and sophisticated stewards of and in the profession of arms.
In that regard, we want our students to be able to challenge personal and organizational assumptions, beliefs, and values to determine their relevancy for the future. A goal of this course is to provide an environment for critically-reflective learning as the students examine issues and processes and explore alternate possibilities and opportunities.
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3. Joint Processes and Land Power Development (JPLD)
JPLD of the U.S. Army War College's core curriculum is devoted to the study of the processes and systems within the Department of Defense (DOD), the Joint Staff, and the military departments that provide for the development of trained and ready forces for employment by the combatant commanders. The course examines how these organizations respond to the strategic environment and develop and resource the force structure resulting in the land power component of the nation's military. The course also
examines DOD organizations, joint issues and processes, current defense re-sourcing issues, readiness, mobilization, Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA), the Service transformations and management of organizational change, fiscal issues, and much more.
This course builds on earlier courses and requires students to analyze, evaluate, and formulate re-sourcing and force structure decisions. It relates to war fighting competence in ways many professional soldiers do not readily acknowledge or understand.
Successful war fighting does not occur without well trained, properly equipped, and doctrinally sound forces. The development, training, re-sourcing, equipping, and sustaining of our forces is directly about war fighting.
JPLD has two primary purposes.
- First, it is designed to provide USAWC students with an understanding of the Army's role in the development of the Land power component of the National Military Strategy.
- Second, it allows for the examination of the concepts, systems, and processes employed by strategic leaders to resource the requirements of that strategy and ultimately to provide forces to the combatant commanders.
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Elective Courses Offered by DCLM
The Department of Command, Leadership, and Management offers elective studies in several areas. Each of these courses are designed to increase the knowledge and effectiveness of the Strategic Leader.
- Executive Overview of Research, Development, and Acquisition Management.
- RDA Management for Acquisition Professionals.
- Industrial Preparedness.
- Defense Resource Management.
- Executive Overview of Research, Development, and Acquisition Management.
- RDA Management for Acquisition Professionals.
- Industrial Preparedness.
- Defense Resource Management.
- Joint Issues and Processes.
- Military Personnel Management.
- Reserve Components: Organization, Roles, and Issues.
- Force Management.
- Human Resources Management for Strategic Leaders.
- Medical Services - A Force Multiplier for Strategic Leaders.
- Defense Support to Civil Authorities.
- Managing Organizational Change.
- Strategic Planning and Management.
- The Strategic Environment and World Religions.
- Creative Thinking.
- Critical Thinking.
- Military and the Media.
- Joint Systems and Processes for International Fellows.
- Material Life Cycle Management.
- Health and Fitness Challenges of Future Military Operations.
- Organizational Behavior.
- Readings on Strategic Leadership.
- Systems Leadership: Organizational Theory & Change.
- Ethics and Warfare.
- Emerging Technologies for Strategic Leaders.
- Research and Development for Transformation.
- Omar Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership.
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122 Forbes Avenue
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717 - 245 - 3131
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717 - 245 - 4612
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