Title
Handbook of Research on Character and Leadership Development in Military Schools
Campus
Dahlonega
Publication date
1-21-2021
Publisher
IGI Global: Publisher of Timely Knowledge
Book or Journal Information
Antonia, K. P. (2021). Soft Skills and Leader Development at a Senior Military College: Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders for the Good of American Society. In M. P. Ryan & T. L. Weeks (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Character and Leadership Development in Military Schools. (pp. 218-239). IGI Global. DOI 10.4018/978-1-7998-6636-7.ch010
Abstract
Hiring managers in organizations seek college graduates who possess certain “soft skills” that enable them to be of value immediately upon entering the workforce. In response, many institutions of higher education are using and expanding high impact educational practices to not only improve knowledge acquisition and retention, but also to develop the soft skills that help make students “employable” after college. In U.S. senior military college corps of cadets, soft skills development is nothing new: it has always been part and parcel of their intensive and highly effective leader development programs. Although these programs exist primarily to produce leaders for the military—a public good—graduates contribute to the public good in other sectors of American society as well. This chapter depicts how cadets are transformed into highly effective leaders for the military, and how they contribute in other ways to the good of American society.
Handbook of Research on Character and Leadership Development in Military Schools
Hiring managers in organizations seek college graduates who possess certain “soft skills” that enable them to be of value immediately upon entering the workforce. In response, many institutions of higher education are using and expanding high impact educational practices to not only improve knowledge acquisition and retention, but also to develop the soft skills that help make students “employable” after college. In U.S. senior military college corps of cadets, soft skills development is nothing new: it has always been part and parcel of their intensive and highly effective leader development programs. Although these programs exist primarily to produce leaders for the military—a public good—graduates contribute to the public good in other sectors of American society as well. This chapter depicts how cadets are transformed into highly effective leaders for the military, and how they contribute in other ways to the good of American society.