Developing Interpersonal Abilities With Interactive Vignettes

摘要

As COL Jon Moilanen and LTC Donald Craig noted in a Military Review article (May-June 2000, pg. 13), 'Leaders must possess the interpersonal skills necessary to develop and sustain high-performance combined arms teams, as well as work with other services and nations during mission accomplishment.... These teams may routinely deploy as part of a coalition to locations with immature transportation and logistic infrastructures and uncertain political situations- conditions requiring high levels of innovation and cultural awareness.' This paper discussed an innovative training prototype that not only targets the development of interpersonal ability in junior officers, but also incorporates many of the situation elements described in the previous quote. This paper will discuss three studies of the prototype, as well as lessons learned about implementing interactive training software in military settings.