DLMP
Department of Leadership and Military Pedagogy
NDU's newest department was born on the 1st January 2009. Two departments joined together and formed one of the largest units at the NDU. The department has inherited two main subjects of instruction and research: leadership and military pedagogy. The methodological and scientific background of these subjects is similar, and, focuces on the purposeful action of human beings while learning and leading. As a joint approach, a new concept of leadership, pedagogical leadership is beeing studied.
Management and Leadership
The Department plans and develops officer training in the framework of strategic leadership. Strategic leadership has three distinct areas: deep leadership, logistic management and organizational development. The Department instructs wartime leadership and staff officers' duties while developing information systems that support training at various headquarters. The training takes into account today's rapid technical development as well as the demands it places on the implementation of management and leadership.
At the cadet course students are taught the basics of the management and leadership of a peacetime company and a wartime battalion. The officer's studies aims to create a foundation for an officer's career-long development as a leader.
At the senior staff officer course students are taught the basics of change management and resource management. Students are then asked to draw up a leader's self-development plan.
Trainees are also given the basic knowledge and skills to perform peacetime staff duties and to act as functional chiefs in wartime brigades.
At the general staff officer course students is taught the fundamentals of strategic leadership, the development of the defence system and the management of a major transformation. Students are then asked to draw up a personal development strategy. In addition, they will be given the basic knowledge and skills needed in wartime and peacetime commander tasks.
Military Pedagogy
The aim of the subjects studied at the Department is to ensure that officers master the supervision of training and learning, as well as the planning and command of the training given in the company-level unit of their service branch. Officers must also master the operation and use of a battalion-level unit in the course of studies.
The Department also provides expertise by researching military pedagogy. This research investigates how the action competence required of soldiers may be developed.
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