Tired of carrying around that bulky leader's book? Now you can have all of your leader information literally in the palm of your hand and on your desktop PC! The WSI Leader’s eBook is a leader's digital book that saves small unit leaders valuable time by helping them with daily administrative tasks.

The WSI Leader’s eBook resides on both desktop computers (PCs) and on hand-held PDAs (Palm OS or Pocket PC devices). It provides a rich structure for capturing the information that every leader must have about their soldiers. It also contains many reports that leaders need about their soldiers, for example, a listing of weapons qualifications, APFT scores, assigned equipment, plus much more.  The Leader’s eBook also contains 4 customizable categories that you can name and track dates and various comments.  Additionally, the Leader’s eBook contains a report writer allowing the user to create custom reports.  Microsoft Access is required to edit standard reports or create new reports. 

There are four components to the WSI Leader’s eBook:

1. The first is Leader's Personnel. This component tracks information about the individuals for whom you are responsible, including military specific information, personal, family, medical, uniform sizes, APFT, CTT, education, certifications, qualifications, licenses, awards, equipment, and personally owned vehicles and weapons. You can add other miscellaneous data as needed. Information on your soldiers can be entered and maintained in the Leader’s eBook either on your PC or PDA. Synching the two on a regular basis will ensure both of your systems have complete information all of the time.

2. The second component is the Leader’s Guide. The Guide resides only on the PDA. The Leader’s Guide is a basic table of instructions for war fighting, based on the Army’s Combat Leader’s Guide. It contains checklists and memory aids for those things that are routine in the field and in training. Examples include rules for leading in combat, combat in a built up area, planning an attack, risk management, and more!

3. The third component is the Leadership module that resides on both the PC and PDA.  Within this module are a list of common Army Acronyms and Leadership documents.  Leadership documents include the Army’s Core Values, the NCO Creed and the SGT Morales Story.  You can add other text documents to the Leadership module and new definitions can be added to Acronyms. 

4. The fourth component is the Leader's Tools module.  The Tools module includes a number of calculators commonly used by small unit leaders including APFT scoring, percentage fat calculations, US-to-metric conversion, risk calculations, and more.

The Leader’s eBook can be used on a PC alone as a powerful and useful database tool to help you manage and update the personnel administrative information you need as a military leader.  From the Leader’s eBook PC database, you can view, update, add, delete, and print information as you need it. 

While you do not need to own or use a hand-held device (PDA) in order to use Leader’s eBook on your desktop PC, its power is maximized when used with a PDA!  By integrating with a PDA, you maximize the capabilities and usefulness of the Leader’s eBook software.  On your Palm OS or Pocket PC PDA, you can enter, change, and delete information in the field. By synchronizing (syncing) your PDA to your PC, you can easily access and update information in your office or in the field without duplicating your work.

With the Leader’s eBook, you no longer have to carry large binders of paper documents wherever you go and then later enter information into your office computer - everything is electronically coordinated!