ELRG

The Enlisted Leader Research Group (ELRG) was formed as a think tank when Topsarge Business Solutions (TBS) entered into a three-year Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral Social Sciences (ARI) in July 2019 to conduct in-depth, long-term research in support of professional development of junior noncommissioned officers (NCO). Research that focuses on the value of experience, tenure, and productivity of junior NCOs and how that affects performance as a leader and a soldier includes leadership challenges for junior NCOs in Multi-Domain Operations (MDO); recommendations to leverage findings from ecological systems theory research; recommendations to reduce impact of requirements and taskings on the ability of NCOs to lead; train, and take care of soldiers and develop their own training and leadership skills; recommendations for design and development of exemplar training, training resources, and job aids; and findings from evaluation of exemplar..

Also known as: Enlisted Leader Research Group