Questions and Answers
What is the primary purpose of establishing expectations?
What is a crucial step in the continuous process of establishing expectations?
Why is it essential to understand established expectations before clearly communicating your own?
What is a personal barrier to Wingman and Leader intervention?
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What is one of the 3Ds for Wingman and Leader intervention options?
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What is the purpose of applying the 3Ds to prevent sexual assault and interpersonal violence?
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Why is it essential to seek buy-in when establishing expectations?
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What is an organizational barrier to Wingman and Leader intervention?
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Why is continuous observation necessary when establishing expectations?
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What is the benefit of clearly communicating expectations to subordinates?
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Study Notes
USAF and USSF Core Values
- Integrity First: foundation of trust, consists of honesty, courage, accountability, and humility
- Service Before Self: servant mindset, includes duty, loyalty, and respect
- Excellence in all we do: continually advance craft, includes mission, discipline, and teamwork
- USSF Core Values:
- Character: defend constitution, high moral character, includes integrity, honesty, candor, transparency, and dedication
- Connections: common purpose, seek diversity, stronger together, includes respect, honesty, authenticity, and teamwork
- Commitment: pursuit of mastery, leverage diverse strengths of teammates, includes achieving audacious goals, learning from experience, and seeking feedback
- Courage: do what needs to be done, hold convictions, includes being steadfast, taking smart risks, and sharing thoughts and ideas
Problem Solving
- Problem-solving: purposeful act of observing a problem then deciding to solve it, after considering solutions and deciding upon one
- USAF/USSF Problem-Solving Methods:
- OODA Loop Model: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act (useful when quick action is needed by single player with limited time)
- 8-Step Practical Problem-Solving Method (PPSM):
- Clarify and validate the problem
- Break down the problem and identify performance gap
- Set improvement targets
- Determine root cause
- Develop countermeasures
- See countermeasures through
- Confirm results and process
- Standardize successful processes
Followership
- Five basic styles of followership:
- Sheep: passive participant & uncritical thinker, simply complies, lacks initiative
- Yes People: active participant & uncritical thinker, dependent on leadership direction, dangerous if orders contradict standards of behavior
- Survivors: display qualities of each type of follower, rarely committed, seeks to minimize interpersonal/intellectual risk
- Alienated: passive participant & critical thinker, independent, capable of high performance, focuses on past negative experiences, criticizes but rarely offers constructive input
- Effective: active participant & critical thinker, independent, proactive, works well with others, has characteristics such as support, initiative, responsibility, truth-telling, and selflessness
Military Justice
- Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ): functions as a military justice system, provides a framework for military courts-martial
- Manual for Courts-Martial (MCM): provides guidance on military justice procedures
- Service members' rights within the military justice system:
- Right to representation by counsel
- Right to a fair trial
- Right to appeal
- Functions of Staff Judge Advocate: provides legal advice, represents Air Force in legal matters, and advises on military justice procedures
- Functions of Area Defense Counsel: represents USAF/USSF personnel accused of wrongdoing
- Functions of Special Victims Counsel: advises victims of alleged sexual assault on rights and represents them in certain matters during courts-martial
Professional and Unprofessional Relationships
- Professional relationships: preserve proper respect for authority and focus on mission
- Unprofessional relationships: on or off duty, detract from authority of superiors, and negatively affect morale, good order, and discipline
- Policy: prohibits relationships that negatively affect unit cohesiveness, including command/supervisory, members of different grades/position, contractor personnel, and close friendships or romantic relationships
- General and specific prohibitions:
- Officers: prohibited from engaging in unprofessional relationships with subordinates or those in a subordinate position
- Effects of unprofessional relationships: undermine respect for authority, create conflicts of interest, and negatively impact unit cohesion
Establishing Expectations
- Importance of establishing expectations:
- Identifies objectives/goals
- Provides a roadmap for achieving objectives/goals
- Links to standards and unit mission
- Guidelines for establishing expectations:
- Understand the importance of expectations
- Know when/where needed
- Clearly communicate and understand expectations
- Help subordinates make connections
- Seek buy-in
- Plan to track activities within each task
Wingman Intervention
- Barriers to Wingman and Leader intervention:
- Personal: introverted, fearful, or embarrassed
- Relationship: might upset family/friends, breaks unspoken code, pressured to go along
- Organizational: career impact for self/others, rank/power, retaliation
- 3Ds for Wingman and Leader intervention options:
- Direct: directly interact with the people involved
- Delegate: pull someone else in to help
- Distract: create a distraction to defuse/divert attention
- Applying the 3Ds to prevent sexual assault and interpersonal violence:
- Directly interacting with the people involved to prevent escalation
- Delegating someone to help diffuse the situation
- Creating a distraction to divert attention and prevent harm
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Learn about the core values of the US Air Force and US Space Force, including Integrity, Service, and Excellence, and their importance to Airmen and Guardians.