To junior and mid-level commanders

Leadership and Command Field Games

A challenging group experience for identifying and developing leadership and command skills. Through a series of physical and experiential stations, participants experience different command roles, deal with stressful situations, information gaps, competition, and cooperation, and discuss key dilemmas in the work of leaders and teams, including: What is the added value of management and guidance? How do you manage when there is a change in leadership? How do you deal with differences in perspective between the commander and the field? Differences in priorities – what happens when there is no agreement?

The activity includes processing after each station and a concluding discussion on the roles of the commander, limits of authority, sharing, and leadership in diverse teams.

The HaMeorer Training Center offers workshops for commanders that focus on ethical and educational competence as an integral part of command. The workshops emphasize the understanding that a commander's role includes not only operational leadership but also educational responsibility and ethical professionalism.

During the workshops, we will learn to identify deeper layers of events within the unit—on the ethical, social, and human levels—and turn everyday situations into command and educational opportunities.

Commanders experiment with informal tools for leadership and dialogue, deepening their understanding that values are not only learned as knowledge, but are realized through experience, personal example, and leadership of organizational culture.

You can book a single workshop as needed, or hold a concentrated seminar entitled "The Educating Commander," which includes a discussion of the commander's educational role and a series of workshops selected by the unit.