Leadership Assessment at Acsc

Although leadership assessment is a major contributor towards Distinguished Graduate (marking a student as the top ten percent of ACSC graduates), the school has yet to formally define what leadership skills or behaviors should be measured. Indeed, the Air Force itself has yet to define what it takes to lead today's airmen. By contrast, the US Army provides detailed guidance and criteria through such leadership doctrinal products as FM 22-100. The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of applying some part of the Army's leadership doctrine to ACSC's leadership assessment program. In conjection, the study also investigated "who" represented the best insight to assess those skills or behaviors.