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2024 H2F Symposium Break Out Session: Spiritual Performance An Essential and Measurable Domain for Human Performance Optimization

U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training

May 1, 2024 | 25:59

Spirituality is notoriously difficult to measure and even more difficult to coach/mentor across the pluralistic environment of the U.S. Army within the H2F paradigm. This is mostly because there are limited validated and reliable metrics available to professionals within the spiritual domain. The Spiritual Performance Matrix is a recently validated instrument that is specifically designed for the human performance context. It provides UMTs, commanders, and Soldiers with a short, reliable, valid tool that can be taken, scored, and provide feedback in minutes for the individual with actionable results to improve in this vital H2F domain. The simplicity of the tool requires limited training on how to implement and the supporting spiritual performance categories for training enable the administrator to quickly provide actionable training plans for spiritual performance growth.

This presentation will focus on understanding the spiritual domain from a different perspective, namely from a spiritual performance context, and demonstrate how the Spiritual Performance Matrix can enhance an individual’s spiritual readiness, fitness, and overall human performance. Developing spiritual fitness training is challenging, especially when UMTs do not have clear direction or guidance on gaps in performance. The SPM provides UMTs with greater situational awareness to accompany their qualitative spiritual performance assessments (such as battlefield circulation, counseling statistics, general observation, etc.) to design targeted training to increase the organization’s spiritual performance and overall human performance. When aggregated at the unit level, data from the SPM enables commanders to better understand the spiritual performance of their unit within the H2F and human performance program.