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An officer directing soldiers in the bush.
Defence Mastery
Social Mastery
Edition 9 Junior Officer PME – Leadership vs Likership
This is a PME activity that encourages junior officers to understand the trappings of likership over leadership.
> 30 mins
Several young cadets in full dress uniform raising swords in celebration.
Defence Mastery
Edition 8 Junior Officer PME – Adolescent Learning
This is a PME resource for encouraging junior officers to think about how adolescent and adult levels of brain development can affect both themselves and the people they lead.
> 30 mins
Australian soldiers with their Afghan National Security Force partners in Afghanistan.
Defence Mastery
Edition 7 Junior Officer PME – Commanding Officer's Observations from Mentoring Task Force 3
This is a PME resource for encouraging junior officers to think about various issues brought up by a commanding officer’s observations in Afghanistan.
> 30 mins
An officer giving directions to soldiers in the bush.
Defence Mastery
Social Mastery
Edition 6 Junior Officer PME – Behavioural Psychology, Human Performance and Brain Warfare
This is a PME resource for encouraging junior officers to think about how to achieve high performance through understanding and harnessing the mind and body.
> 30 mins
Plaques depicting 3 people fought on the Kokoda Trail.
Defence Mastery
Social Mastery
Edition 5 Junior Officer PME – Understanding Mythmaking – The Kokoda Campaign, 1942
Following on from our history article last week; edition 6 of the Junior Officer PME Sessions encourages us to think about the role of history and mythmaking in both the military and our society. The Kokoda Campaign is used as a case study to examine historical myths.
> 30 mins
One Army officer addressing another.
Defence Mastery
Social Mastery
Edition 4 Junior Officer PME – Fifty Shades of Grey: Officer Culture in the Australian Army
In one of the few modern pieces written about the Australian Army's officer corps; James Brown is quite critical of officer culture in his 2013 article 'Fifty Shades of Grey: Officer Culture in the Australian Army'. In the fourth edition of our series of PME activities for junior officers, we encourage some self-reflection of officer culture.
> 30 mins
A member of Army being awarded with a medal.
Social Mastery
Edition 3 Junior Officer PME – On the Folly of Rewarding 'A', While Hoping for 'B'
This is a PME resource for encouraging junior officers to think about how to best incentivise desired behaviour.
> 30 mins
2 soldiers in a desert.
Defence Mastery
Edition 2 Junior Officer PME – The Battle of Wanat
The second edition of our ten-part series designed for unit level PME for junior officers. This activity encourages discussion around issues of The Battle of Wanat in Afghanistan in 2008.
> 30 mins
A shadowy soldier.
Defence Mastery
Social Mastery
Edition 1 Junior Officer PME – The Crimes of Seal Team 6
This is a PME resource for encouraging junior officers to think about the issues raised by the crimes of SEAL Team 6.
> 30 mins
A lieutenant presenting.
Defence Mastery
Social Mastery
Junior Officer PME Sessions
PME resources designed to aid the development of junior officers. A new 'field tested' edition is released each week and available 'off-the-shelf'.
> 30 mins