JUNE 5, 2014 1 THE JUNE 5, 2014 VOL. 71, NO. 22 OINTER IEW® DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY PSERVING THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AND THE COMMUNITY V OF WEST POINT ® Back to Buckner Cadet Summer Training has kicked off at Camp Buckner with more than 1,000 cadets from the Corps conducting Cadet Field Training or Cadet Leader Development Training. Roughly 140 members of the Class of 2017 were selected to complete CFT requirements early and serve as the opposition force against upperclassmen during CLDT this summer. (Above) Rising yearlings rise to the challenge of the Water Confi dence Course May 30. (Left) After completing the Marne Obstacle Course, Class of 2017 Cadet Maxwell Cullinan (front) challenges his squad leader to a race on one of the obstacles. Additionally, the cadre for the Summer Leaders Experience was at the Leader Reaction Course preparing for its detail. See Pages 3, 4 and 7 for Cadet Summer Training stories and photos. PHOTOS BY MIKE STRASSER/PV INSIDE & ONLINE WWW . POINTERVIEW . COM WWW.USMA.EDU Negotiation skills vital to offi cership. SEE PAGE 2 2 JUNE 5, 2014 NEWS & FEATURES POINTER VIEW Negotiation skills critical for Army leaders By Class of 2016 Cadet Zachary Panto land operations (ADP 6-0).” West Point Negotiation Project To effectively implement mission command, ADRP 6-22 states leaders must be collaborative In April, the Army instituted new officer problem solvers, effective communicators and evaluation reports built around leadership able to extend their influence beyond their chain doctrine outlined in the Army’s leadership of command though negotiation and mediation. manual, ADRP 6-22. Another indicator of a shift in the way the Among the changes were format and rating Army expects its leaders to accomplish the procedure, but there has also been a change in missions assigned to them is the implementation evaluation content. The Army is now explicitly of the “engagement” warfighting function. grading officers on their ability to negotiate. U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command The new Periodic Development Report for published guidance regarding the new WFF cadets and OER for company grade officers list in February. Engagement requires leaders who the competency, “extends influence beyond the understand the human aspects of an operational chain of command,” the manual’s definition of environment and can use those aspects to build what includes the ability to negotiate. The field positive relationships with partners, locals grade officers’ evaluation requires that raters and other agencies to generate solutions to the assess proficiency in persuasion, communication increasingly complex problems. and building trust in negotiations. The strategic Given these new expectations, the ability to level OER explicitly states officers must be negotiate is becoming a core leader competency. able to negotiate within and beyond national “Cadets prepare to lead those directly in boundaries to build strategic consensus. their charge, only to graduate and discover that Class of 2015 Cadet Gene Fogh negotiates with the Afghan police captain, role- These changes are nested in the Army’s they use about 25 percent of their influence played by Maj. Steve Flanagan, as part of the final simulation exercise for the emphasis on the mission command philosophy. effort directing people who work for them and Negotiations for Leaders class. COURTESY PHOTOS Mission command is defined as “the exercise of 75 percent of it working things out with people becomes his or her ability to negotiate. The were critical when leading subordinates. authority and direction by the commander using who do not,” Maj. Neil Hollenbeck, West Point more we are asked to work with other military “I think some people in the military may not mission orders to enable disciplined initiative Negotiation Project officer-in-charge, said. services, government agencies, foreign allies, consider negotiating with their subordinates, within the commander’s intent to empower agile “The difference between a merely effective etc., the more true this becomes.” they may just view it as the type of relationship and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified lieutenant and an exceptionally effective one ADRP 6-22 defines negotiation as a where they give orders and expect results,” problem-solving process in which two or more Hilaire said. “But I put just as much thought parties discuss and seek to satisfy their interests into dropping news on my subordinates as I on various issues through joint decisions. Such do to my boss. Especially when you work so a broad definition has lent itself to widespread closely with someone, it is important to hear application. The competency is as relevant to his or her side of the situation and take all sides peer platoon leaders negotiating shared use into consideration before blindly giving orders.” of a rifle range as to commanders conducting Faculty and cadets are leading the way in multinational military operations. First Lt. negotiation education for the Army. Starting in James Oswald, USMA Class of 2012, studied 2006, the Department of Behavioral Sciences negotiation as a cadet. and Leadership began offering a course “Your greatest problems arise as a platoon entitled, “Negotiation for Leaders,” teaching leader when you have to go to someone else theory developed by the Harvard Negotiation for help, advice or resources,” Oswald said. Project. As a response to positive feedback “Knowing the interests and needs of others from graduates who took the course as cadets, makes it easier to coordinate with them. Being the West Point Negotiation Project was founded creative opens up doors.” in 2009, to more broadly impact the Corps of Capt. Sophie Hilaire, USMA Class of 2009, Cadets and serve as a resource for the wider emphasized negotiation as a critical skill set Army. WPNP faculty and assisting cadets run during a recent deployment in Afghanistan. an annual military negotiation workshop, advise “I was the S-4 for a provincial reconstruction proponents of Army doctrine, and send mobile team,” she said. “We were the last rotation for training teams to operational units. In the last that unit and I was responsible for turning in two years, the WPNP has helped train leaders 11 years’ worth of equipment, but I had to from a deploying brigade of the 4th Infantry find a way to do it without compromising the Division, military members of provincial U.S. Military Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr. addresses unit’s mission capabilities ... I had to go to my reconstruction teams who were mobilizing attendees during the West Point Negotiation Workshop. Participants included supervisor several times in order to negotiate for deployment to Afghanistan and U.S. Navy cadets and midshipmen from West Point, the U.S. Naval Academy and local the timeline I needed.” SEALs in the Naval Special Warfare Platoon ROTC chapters. Hilarie said certain negotiation concepts Leaders Course. 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PV Staff Writer, 938-3684 POINTER VIEW JUNE 5, 2014 3 Whether high or low on the obstacles, Class of 2017 cadets were encouraged by squad mates to complete the Marne Obstacle Course during Cadet Field Training. Rising to the challenge of Cadet Field Training Story and photos by Mike Strasser Some cadets would consider this part of CFT as confidence Assistant Editor building—fun and thrilling—and for others, confidence shaking. No where is that more apparent than at the Water Confidence Class of 2017 Cadet Chasen Brown looked at the obstacle Course. This course, under the supervision of Department in front of him, and hesitated. It’s called The Weaver—a series of Physical Education instructors, requires only two tasks to was the ruck march from range to range.” of giant logs in a wicked pyramid formation that cadets have to complete. The cadets were trained on movement shooting, practicing maneuver over and under from the bottom to the top and back First, cadets had to zip-line across Lake Popolopen before in the glass houses on how to clear rooms using live rounds and down. letting go of the handle mid-air. If done right with legs extended learning about improvised explosive devices.