Reflecting on this semester through the lenses of the operations process and troop leading procedures I have gained insight in how these two can aid in making me a more effective military leader. While learning these two concepts have helped during the execution of tasks like teaching labs and preparing for classes it has also made me more analytical about many other tasks I take on. The most significant event that I could apply these two concepts to and describe would be teaching the weapons familiarization and basic rifle marksmanship lab. Overall I believe the lab was successful. We could have improved some of the material and our approach when beginning to plan the creation of the class needed a change.
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Both of these concepts are used together to conduct plans and improve operations.
At the beginning of the semester we received orders to create a class weapons familiarization and basic rifle marksmanship and present on November 11th. This order was given in the form of an email with a list of the classes to be taught in lab and all of our names next to the classes we will be teaching. After receiving this mission I spoke with who I was going to be teaching the class with. We came to the consensus that the class was far off enough that we would not have to do anything yet and we could talk about it at a later date. According to TLPs and the Operations process this was a mistake that must be learned from. I believed at the time I had a firm enough grasp of the material that I would not need much time to prepare for a class. We should have begun planning “Leaders ensure they understand the commander’s intent for training, the implied and specified collective tasks on which to train”(Department of the Army, 2012) We failed to do this as soon as we received the mission. We skipped the plan portion of the operations process and jumped right into preparing when the time
“Troop leading procedures (TLP) that provide small-unit leaders a framework …show more content…
Both of these concepts are used together to conduct plans and improve operations.
At the beginning of the semester we received orders to create a class weapons familiarization and basic rifle marksmanship and present on November 11th. This order was given in the form of an email with a list of the classes to be taught in lab and all of our names next to the classes we will be teaching. After receiving this mission I spoke with who I was going to be teaching the class with. We came to the consensus that the class was far off enough that we would not have to do anything yet and we could talk about it at a later date. According to TLPs and the Operations process this was a mistake that must be learned from. I believed at the time I had a firm enough grasp of the material that I would not need much time to prepare for a class. We should have begun planning “Leaders ensure they understand the commander’s intent for training, the implied and specified collective tasks on which to train”(Department of the Army, 2012) We failed to do this as soon as we received the mission. We skipped the plan portion of the operations process and jumped right into preparing when the time