You are the supervisor of SPC Smith and they are preparing to attend the Brigade (BDE) Soldier of the Quarter board. SPC Smith has consistently scored 270 plus on all of their APFT’s. At the last minute BDE request a DA Form 705 with 30 days of the board. You know that SPC Smith has been battling the flu for the past week but you administer the APFT as directed so you do not miss a deadline from BDE.…
COMMUNICATIONS EFFECT ON OPERATION ANACONDA In any team effort communication will always be the most important factor towards success. During Operation Anaconda there were many hurdles faced in regards to communication. Multiple units and allied forces with different methods and command chains had to work in cohesion on short notice and in an extremely stressful situation.…
Candidate Quarta stated each paragraph of the 5-paragraph order, however his delivery was poor and lacked enthusiasm and assertion. SNC read directly from his notepad and made no effort to make eye contact with his fire team members despite them looking at him. SNC stumbled through the execution paragraph, telling one of his fire team members to "disregard" his previous tasking statement. This caused confusion amongst his fire team and delayed the execution of the problem, as his fire team still had questions following the brief. SNC's lethargic delivery of his plan was evident on his fire team as they displayed no sense of urgency in their movement towards recovering the casualty.…
9… Candidate Allison lacked command presence when she issued her order to her fire team. SNC was visibly uncomfortable with the five paragraph order and stumbled through the order. SNC did not brief the Admin and Logistics paragraph nor the Command and Signal paragraph. SNC made references that alluded to sections within the five paragraph order, but there was no connection as to the five paragraph order itself.…
Candidate Bills delivered a very thorough and in depth five paragraph order. SNC was very diligent in ensuring that all information and additional information was passed to the fire team, at one point causing SNC to stumble over his thought process, and pause for a length of time to recoup his thoughts before moving on. This visibly flustered SNC. SNC lacked a sense of urgency by taking up a substantial amount of time to deliver the order. Upon completing the brief SNC took more time to square himself away failing to give any guidance to the fire team resulting in zero productivity.…
8. SNC provided the bare minimum information required for his five paragraph order. He lacked in confidence and when he was not sure of his azimuth he guessed a number and gave it to his fire team member responsible for the navigation. This decision would have gotten his fire team lost, but his fire team member corrected him. SNC was able to generate a plan and make decisions but they were not confident and well thought out decisions.…
7. SNC gave a great five paragraph order it was very detailed and straight to the point. SNC clearly articulated what he expected from each member of his fire team and assigned each member a task. SNC did lack a sense of urgency throughout the entire evolution that slowed down the progression of the mission. SNC was able to maintain great control of his fire team through decisive decision making during the execution.…
I was handing out food with Herb at the closed down grocery store. The power outage was really taking its toll. Then in somewhat of a flash we both found ourselves on the first episode of season 19, on my favorite show Survivor! “Umm… is it just me or did we not sign up for this?” exclaimed Herb in a shocked voice. I wasn’t really sure either.…
Looking back a week later, the Young Democrats High School Leadership Academy was nowhere near what I imagined. And I mean that in a good way. I had an idea going into the conference of what I expected out of it: marketing, social media branding, touring, and networking. And yet, in hindsight, YDA HSLA was all of that, but immensely more.…
MSgt Abbott’s influence and leadership in her civilian career have resulted in promotion into the position of Project Manager at the Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas). Her position relays heavily on each team member correctly assessing and recommending what avenues to take for each project, while the final product that she sends forward is budgeted from anywhere from one to 12 million dollar contracts. She manages her team’s expertise, identifies steps over looked, and motivates the team to send up sound products to ensure the possess runs smoothly. Despite not having the technical knowledge of each person within a certain expertise, she is able to successfully rally her team to do their job and to objectively get the big win for…
Recommendations for Struggling Managers Identifying the difficulties that managers may be having in establishing self-directed, high-performing teams, first you have to look at the basics that include team building, having a clear purpose, problem solving, decision making, negotiation, setting goals, conflict, effective leaders, and proactive planning. All of these together help create a self-directed high preforming team, so you need to look at each of these to find out what problems you are experiencing in your teams and then assess what steps you need to take. We will look at the ineffective issues we find and look at what will make them effective, with the team. We found that the team was not a cohesive team, using ineffective work methods…
Every team has a universal goal for success. Every team desires to operate at optimum performance. Through a fictional account, Patrick Lencioni illustrates how talented teams fail to be successful. Lencioni identifies five defective traits of that will impede upon the achievement of teams. Additionally, Lencioni offers ways to remedy the situation.…
3.4 Discussion of Results The evidence is clear; large cable conglomerates like TWC, now called Charter Spectrum since its latest merger, act with monopoly power to increase prices and no one is stepping in to regulate them. With only one cable provider in most areas due to prohibitive capital-intensive entry barriers, the government has allowed the cable industry to function as natural monopolies, with limited government restrictions. With free reign on price increases, TWC camouflages many increases by burying them in equipment charges and add-on service fees. In addition, they bundle their services so that the price of selecting individual services versus the bundled service is cost prohibitive for the consumer, increases revenue for…
Globalization of the telecommunication industry has revolutionized the current industry especially with the widespread of use of technology. These technological developments have further created new markets and systems for handling multi national corporations. Some of the key forms of these advanced technologies are computers, satellites, fiber optics, digital signals, and wireless communications. These rapidly changing technologies are also transforming the policies as well as regulations related to local, national, and global communications.…
This Political Science journey has been something else. This semester alone has been one for the books. The one and only Political Science class I took this semester was Intro to Public Policy. There was a multitude of things I took away from this class. In this essay, I am going to explore the entire semester of being in Public Policy.…