This United States Army manual, Army Techniques Publication ATP 6-22.1 Providing Feedback: Counseling - Coaching - Mentoring February 2024, provides doctrinal guidance for all leaders, military and civilian, responsible for providing feedback through counseling, coaching, or mentoring and explains how to effectively plan, prepare, execute, and assess feedback actions. ATP 6-22.1 provides knowledge, skills, processes, guidelines, and techniques to develop Army leaders through effective feedback. Such knowledge, skills, and behaviors increase the effectiveness of Army missions while improving its individual leaders. The knowledge, skills, and behaviors discussed in ATP 6-22.1 are developed through the regular practice of giving and receiving feedback to enable team cohesion and mission success. From 5 U.S. Code § 1103, feedback is a requirement that ensures the continuity of effective leadership through implementing recruitment, development, and succession plans, thus sustaining a culture that cultivates and develops a high performing workforce. The Army's culture of learning provides leaders with information for feedback, assessment, and self-development. Assessments effectively bring change when they are coupled with the interpersonal and trusted interactions through counseling, coaching, or mentoring.
