全球智库信息集成服务系统

Students Felt They Benefited from the Program

• Students were extremely satisfied with the course structure, content, and delivery of the Asymmetric Warfare Adaptive Leader Program (AWALP).
• Students not only sensed a change in their own capabilities and interests about adaptive performance but appeared to see their work contexts in a different light.
• Results show substantial improvement in attitudes about adaptive performance even after accounting for students' characteristics that are associated with adaptiveness.

AWALP Was Successful at Fostering Knowledge Gain for a Wide Range of Students

• Students demonstrated increased knowledge of adaptive performance concepts.
• Students showed improved knowledge regardless of other characteristics associated with test performance, including general cognitive ability and level of education.

Team Adaptiveness Was Favorable Overall, but There Were Discrepancies Between Guides' and Students' Ratings

• In general, both students and guides (instructors) gave favorable ratings of team adaptive performance.
• However, students consistently gave higher ratings of team performance than guides did and appeared to become more confident about the level of adaptiveness in their teams as the course progressed.

Graduates Reported Applying What They Learned After Returning to Their Units

• Graduates reported substantial application of AWALP principles on the job, especially in the areas of coaching, training, delegating to subordinates, and seeking subordinate input.
• Graduates reported more successful dissemination of AWALP principles to subordinates than to peers and commanders.
• Graduates remained positive about AWALP training but found command climate and entrenched leadership the biggest obstacles to applying adaptive performance principles.