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69 Cards in this Set
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Group
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an assemblage of persons (or objects) located or gathered together. |
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Team
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a group organized to work together. |
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Mission
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a duty assigned to an individual or unit; a task. |
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Team Dynamics
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an ongoing process involving interaction of individuals within a team to move toward or away from achieving the desired objective. |
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Followership
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one in the service of another; one that follows the opinions or teachings of another; one that imitates another. |
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Feedback
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to offer or suggest information or ideas as a reaction from an inquiry. |
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Position Power
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provides you with the authority to make decisions and requests based on your position within the organization |
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Personal Power
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the extent to which followers respect, feel good about, are committed to their leader; and see their own goals being satisfied by the goals of their leader. |
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Negotiation
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a process involving two or more people or groups who have a degree of difference in positions, interests, goals, values, or beliefs and who are striving to reach agreement on issues or courses of action. |
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Readiness
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the capacity of parties to decide it is in their best interest to negotiate an agreement rather than to continue a dispute |
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Evaluative Mediation |
a subject-matter expert mediator describes the issue, offers an opinion on the strengths and weaknesses of each party’s side, and suggests options to resolve the matter. |
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Facilitative Mediation
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An active third party (mediator) who enhances communication and encourages the parties to discuss matters freely and voluntarily participate in the mediation process. |
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Stakeholders
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other outside parties who have a vested or personal interest in the initiation, processing, and resolution of an existing dispute |
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Caucus
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a confidential and private meeting between each of the parties and the mediator |
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Impasse
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This occurs when there is the failure to make progress toward resolution |
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Reality Checking
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This is a process where the mediator gets the parties to understand, typically through a series of questions, the weaknesses of their case, issue, or demand |
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Resource Stewardship
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the careful and responsible management of resources under one’s control. |
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Appropriation
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a term that means setting aside money for a specific purpose. |
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Antideficiency Act (ADA
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a law that prohibits agencies from involving the government in a contract or obligation for the payment of money before an appropriation is made unless authorized by law. The act prohibits against over obligating or overspending an appropriation. |
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Budget Allocation
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Funding document that represents cash for commitment or obligation that is issued by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Budget (SAF/FMB) to a major command or field operating agency. |
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Budget Allotment
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Funding document that represents cash for commitment or obligation that is issued by MAJCOMs or FOAs to subordinate units. |
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Continuing Resolution Authority (CRA) |
Fiscal law authority that allows the government to continue operations at a minimum level for a specific amount of time, usually a few days to a few weeks. |
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Cost Center (CC)
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The organization that gathers and distributes cost data. The cost center refers to the basic production flight or work center. |
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Cost Center Manager (CCM)
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Regulates the daily use of work hours, supplies, equipment, and services in producing or doing things. |
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Financial Management Board (FMB) |
The senior advisory committee chaired by the Commander or Deputy Commander and includes group commander level members and the Comptroller (at installations), Directors, and special staffs (at commands). The FMB approves budgets, financial plans, and revisions. The FMB also distributes the annual funding, establishes priorities, and ensures consistency with programs and missions. |
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Financial Working Group (FWG) |
Reviews program and cost factors, compares actual with prior year costs, reviews justifications, periodically evaluates performance against estimates, and submits a recommended financial plan to the FMB. |
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Obligation
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A legal binding agreement between the government and another party. The Air Force has entered a contractual obligation; however, no goods or services have yet been received. |
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Program Objective Memorandum (POM) |
Biennial memorandum submitted to the Secretary of Defense from each Military Department and Defense agency. It proposes total program requirements for the next six years. It includes rationale for planned changes from the approved Future Years Defense Program baseline within the Fiscal Guidance issued by the Secretary of Defense |
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Resource Advisors (RA)
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Budget representative for an organization. The RA participates actively in resource management, including the planning, programming, budgeting, acquiring, consuming, storing, and disposing of resources. The RA is directly responsible to the RCM. |
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Responsibility Center Manager (RCM) |
The RCM normally heads an organization that plans, organizes, directs, and coordinates activities of subordinate organizations and functions. |
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Budget Execution Review (BER)
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a two-part process that occurs twice within each budget cycle to identify and redistribute funds to meet unfunded requirements such as unforeseen or initially unanticipated mission-related expenses. |
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Financial Execution Plan (FEP)
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a product formally called the Financial Plan or Fin Plan. The FEP ensures an equitable distribution of the President's Budget (PB) for the next fiscal year (budget year) consistent with accomplishing Air Force program objectives and is the main vehicle for distributing anticipated funding (direct & reimbursable) in an equitable manner. |
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Standards
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morals, ethics, or habits established by an authority, custom, or an individual as acceptable behavior |
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The Unfavorable Information File (UIF)
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provides commanders with an official repository of substantiated derogatory data concerning an Air Force member’s personal conduct and duty performance. |
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Control Roster
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a tool used by commanders to set up a six month observation period for individuals whose duty performance is substandard or who fail to meet or maintain Air Force standards of conduct, bearing, and integrity, on or off duty. Commanders are required to inform the members that if their performance and behavior do not improve, they will face more severe administrative action or punishment. |
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Eustress
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positive or healthy stress |
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Distress
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negative stress. |
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Human Relations
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the relations between two or more people. |
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Unlawful Discrimination
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includes discrimination based on color, national origin, race, religion, or sex. |
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Adaptability
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the ability to adjust to changed, unexpected, or ambiguous situations by actively seeking information and by demonstrating openness and support of different and innovative change ideas |
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Change Sponsors
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the people responsible for initiating change within an organization |
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Change Agents
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responsible for implementation of change in an organization |
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Change Targets
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those individuals or groups who actually undergo the change |
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Directive Change
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change that’s implemented by an authority figure (i.e., commander, superintendent, or supervisor). |
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Participative Change
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change that’s implemented when new knowledge is made available to the group |
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Unfreezing
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intended to motivate your subordinates and help get them ready for change. |
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Changing
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the movement from the old way of doing things to the new way of doing business |
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Refreezing
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the locking in of the new procedures until they’re a permanent part of daily operations. |
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Continuous Improvement (CI)
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the strategic, never-ending, incremental refinement of the way you perform tasks. CI employs a collection of methodologies including Lean, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, and Business Process. |
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AFSO 21
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about constantly finding efficiencies to channel saved monies toward improving combat capabilities across the Air Force. |
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Decision-making
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the mental (cognitive) process that results in the selection of a course of action from among several alternative scenarios. |
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OODA Loop
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provides NCOs with a systematic and deliberate method for looking at the current situation, determining what problems exists, and then deciding an appropriate and/or effective action. |
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Eight-Step Problem Solving Process |
a team-centered, systematic, common-sense problem solving approach aimed at increasing combat capability, making Air Force units more effective and efficient, and enhancing and enabling the Warfighter. |
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Analyze
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making sure you separate the reading into parts or elements. Ask yourself why you are reading the material and what question are you trying to answer? |
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Interpret
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determine the meaning or understand the significance of the elements and how the elements fit into the whole. To interpret means to make assumptions, to form opinions or beliefs. |
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Synthesize
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to put different elements together to form a new whole; to draw conclusions about the relationships and implication. |
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Evaluate
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you make judgments about your work or you judge a piece of work as it stands and as it seems to you against your own unique bundle of experiences, observations, and attitudes. |
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Strategic Communication
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a focused United States Government effort to understand and engage key audiences to create, strengthen, or preserve conditions favorable for the advancement of United States Government interests, policies, and objectives through the use of coordinated programs, plans, themes, messages, and products synchronized with the actions of all instruments of national power. |
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Stay in your lane
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discussing only issues related to your AFSC or personal experiences |
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Outside your lane
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it is outside of your responsibility. It’s meant to tell others to mind your own business. |
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New media
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the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies. |
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Online Battlespace
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includes the environmental factors and conditions that must be understood to successfully apply combat power, protect the force, or complete the mission, including the enemy and friendly forces. |
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Web 2.0
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refers to user-centered, dynamic Internet based services that emphasize collaboration and sharing. |
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Blog
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a website containing the writer’s frequently updated personal journal with images and links to other web sites. |
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Microblogging
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a short broadcast in the form of a blog |
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Social networking
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a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes", which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship. |
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Social Media
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the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos, and audio. |
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Photo Sharing
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uploading images to a website like Flickr or Picasa, adding tags, and offering people the chance to comment or re-use your photos |
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Social Bookmarking
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helps Internet users reference, organize, store, manage, and search for bookmarks of resources online and allows users to save links to other web pages that they want to remember or share. |
