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Article: Mentorship: growing company grade officers.(Mental Preparedness)
- Article from:
- Military Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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IN 1985, CHIEF OF STAFF of the Army (CSA) General John A. Wickham, Jr., designated "leadership" as that year's Army theme and addressed a framework designed to produce more effective Army leaders. The benchmark for the framework revolved around senior leaders challenging all leaders within the Army to be mentors to their subordinates. Mentoring immediately became an Army paradigm.
Wickham quickly generated tremendous support for the concept of mentoring, and "[m]entoring emerged as a primary concept in all leadership courses throughout the Army's professional education system." (1) The term "mentoring" began to appear in official Army publications, and most ...