Supplemental Publications

Leader Development Improvement Guide (LDIG)This Leader Development Improvement Guide (LDI Guide) provides Army leaders at all levels with ideas and activities for professional growth, development, and continuous learning that can be incorporated into an Individual Leadership Development Plan (ILDP) or used informally when a leader wants to improve in a particular area. Leaders at all levels can use this guide to jump start their ideas for self development.

Virtual Improvement Center (VIC) Catalog

As part of its mission CAL has produced numerous developmental materials and a Virtual Improvement Center (VIC) to easily deliver high quality leader development training to all Army leaders. This document describes the VIC and the leader development materials located therein.

Army Leader Development Strategy (ALDS)The Army Leader Development Strategy, or ALDS, outlines the Army senior leaders’ vision and strategy for leader development of all Army professionals through lifelong training, education and experiences acquired through opportunities in the operational, institutional and self-development domains.

Army Handbook for Self-Development

This handbook draws on lessons from the field, educational and leadership research, and applicable Army regulations and doctrine to provide you with state-of-the-art guidance on designing and implementing your own program of self-development.

Commander’s Handbook For Unit Leader Development This handbook is designed to provide commanders with an efficient and effective way to develop leaders. The handbook supports this goal by:
• Translating Army leader feedback for developing leaders into quick applications
• Prioritizing leader development activities under conditions of limited resources
• Integrating unit leader development into already occurring day-to-day activities
• Integrating FM 6-22 leader attributes and competencies consistently across Army leader development doctrine.

Developing Leadership During Unit Training ExercisesThis handbook is designed to provide O/T’s and leaders in the chain of the commandthe tools and techniques needed to identify and feed back to leaders what their leadership looks like and how it impacts Soldier performance and mission accomplishment.

Exercises For Improving Judgment

This resource is intended for junior leaders who encounter situations requiring careful judgment, to include company grade officers as well as junior and mid-level non-commissioned officers who must exercise good judgment.

Producing Alignment and Leading Collectively
This workbook contains a set of stories developed to facilitate critical thinking about the types of leadership practices that produce alignment and how the presence or absence of alignment affects mission success and goal achievement. The intent is to raise leaders’ awareness of ways and reasons for increasing alignment and to familiarize leaders with skills for producing alignment and potential benefits this brings to mission accomplishment.

U.S. Army Performance Evaluation Guide

This Guide is intended as a concise description of different levels of Army leadership competencies and attributes.

NCOER Performance Measures Supplement

This supplement assists NCOER preparation by provoking and stimulating thought for specific thoughts and comments.

Army Handbook For Leadership Transitions

The Army Leader Transitions Handbook provides leaders with a step-by-step process for assuming a new leadership role starting from the time the leader is notified of the new leadership position to first day actions and considerations for the first 90 days and beyond.