NCO Common Core Competencies

Authoritative, Affiliative, Democratic, Coaching, Pacesetting, and Coercive.

Mobilizes people toward a common vision and says, Come with me.

People come first.

Builds consensus through participation and asks, what do you think.

Develops people for the future and is characterized by the phrase, Try this.

Sets very high standards of performance and says, Do as I do and do it now.

Demands immediate compliance and can be described by the phrase, Do what I tell you.

Leads squads and sections and is a critical link in the NCO support channel.

Leads teams as part of a squad, crew, or section and is the first line of the NCO Support Channel.

Serves as leader of the smallest Army units, principally team leaders.

Readiness, Leadership, Training Management, Communication, Operations, and Program Management.

Ensuring soldiers are ready to fight and win wars.

The Army defines leadership as the activity of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation, to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.

NCOs are directly responsible for training individual Soldiers, crews, and small teams.

Ensuring soldiers have the info needed to best accomplish the mission.

Mission command is the Army’s approach to command and control that empowers subordinate decision-making and decentralized execution appropriate to the situation.

Assisting officer counterparts in managing Army programs that help Soldiers and Families.

Direct, Organizational, and Strategic.

The senior enlisted advisor to the commander at the company, troop, or battery level.

Serves as a key enlisted member of staff elements at battalion or higher levels.

Serves as Platoon Sergeant or NCOIC and is primarily responsible for the health, welfare, training, and development of Soldiers.

Specified, Directed, and Implied duties.

Those related to jobs and positions, mainly military occupational specialty related duties.