WORLD-CLASS, FAIR AND CONSISTENT
GS-14 and GS-15 levels as well. As ALAP integrates our civilian leaders, there will be some minor modifications to ensure that we have a fair and consistent assessment for all of our leaders.
Te assessments from the inaugural ALAP included:
• Peer and subordinate assessment. Peers and subordinates of the candidates chosen by the Army provided assessments of the candidates using observed behavior scales to assess the candidate’s leadership effectiveness and frequency of counter- productive leader behaviors.
• Height and weight assessment. Failure to meet the Army’s standards was a screening event.
• Physical fitness. The candidate is scored on the Army’s Phys- ical Fitness Test.
• Testing cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. These inform how well leaders will be able to handle the complex missions they are assigned.
• Writing assessment. Two writing assessments help determine the candidate’s written communication skills. The candidate is first required to provide a persuasive argument to a strategic article, which tests the candidate’s analytical and communi- cation abilities. The second writing test is strictly on style and grammar.
• Psychometric assessment. These assessments measure cogni- tive and non-cognitive abilities, as well.
• A panel interview with senior Army leaders. It is a double- blind interview with a screen preventing the leader and panel members, the majority of whom are acquisition general offi- cers and members of the Senior Executive Service (SES), from seeing one another. This mitigates potential biases and focuses the candidates on responding to the question and the panel members on assessing the response.
CONCLUSION Te legacy process of selecting leaders for command in the Army Acquisition Workforce has served us well. But ALAP will add more data points, providing a more holistic picture of an acqui- sition leader’s leadership and potential, to help us make better selection decisions for these critical positions that will lead our military and civilians in our most important acquisition efforts. We owe them, the AAW and the Army no less.
TAKE ALAP
Lt. Col. (P) Kenneth Darnall, from the Defense Contract Management Agency, participates in the Army Physical Fitness Test, one of the comprehensive ALAP assessments that help determine participants’ potential for command, at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in November. (Photo by Army Talent Management Task Force)
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