Unit readiness is the key for a unit to function or complete the mission. The SMA is very focused on unit readiness, as he should be. I totally agree. Our Soldiers are very paramount to us. I believe our leaders need to focus on three areas of readiness. Soldier and Family Readiness, Training Readiness, Equipment Readiness.
Soldier and Family Readiness: Soldiers and their Families are a valuable asset to the organization. My leaders will Treat them with account and dignity. Listen to them; allocate your time to them; counsel, coach, mentor, and accolade them. Be aware of your Soldiers’ lives. We want Soldiers and Families to have an acceptable quality of life and who are resilient at home or deployed.
Training Readiness: Training Must consistently
I want to help families succeed and focus on what can be done as a whole rather than the individual level. When a child is in trouble the whole family is in trouble. If a child has high-risk behavior, then I want to work with the whole family on how we can all solve the problem instead of focusing on the child. For example, families who have a child or youth is having a hard time with one of their parents being away, my solution would be to focus on the whole family in the transition of deployment rather than help just the
Together, the Master Resilience Trainers, the outside agencies and myself, we will enrich our Soldiers skills and ability to have a strong mind capable of resolving problems, cope with stress, overcome challenges, increase their confidence and reduce their depression and anxiety. We owe it to our Soldiers; we owe it to our Army.
Consistent with this effort, we will foster a culture that enables your professional development. I believe that each soldier, regardless of rank, is a valued asset and can impact positive changes. Therefore, I will do my best to empower
SMA Dailey issued his top priorities they included the following; a) Higher readiness achieved with fewer non-deployable Soldiers, b) Incentive pay for deploying Soldiers c) Right-sizing the Army, d) Expand tuition Assistance for credentialing opportunities, e) Grow Army University, f) Successful integration of women into combat jobs. As the Army continues to transition into 2020 the increase for higher readiness is a must as a Senior Non-Commissioned Officer I’m very aware of the positive impact on a unit’s function, cohesiveness, and overall efficiency when the majority of the formation is fully prepared to execute the days tasking’s. Higher readiness achieved with fewer non-deployable soldiers. The issue has always been a talent issue more
The SgtMaj of a unit typically has a good understanding of the command climate and culture especially as it pertains to the enlisted personnel. After hearing the SgtMaj’s assessment and perspective of the unit, I would then share with him my leadership framework. My goal is twofold, first to attain a solid understanding of where the SgtMaj believes the unit is and second to achieve the SgtMaj’s buy-in on my leadership framework.
Taking care of Soldiers is the quintessential task that we all will strive to excel in. We
The more predictable ARFORGEN has now been replaced by the more flexible Sustainable Readiness Model (SRM). This new force generation readiness concept allows the Army to respond to both known and unknown threats. The biggest threats to our Nation currently is global uncertainty. Relationships with Russia, China, and North Korea are unstable. We have ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. With all this uncertainty, the Army had to allow for more tractability in its readiness model. The Sustainable Readiness Model provides this tractability. The SRM has three descriptive three months modules: Prepare Module, Ready Module, and Mission
As the Battalion Personnel Officer (S1) and Adjutant, I advise the Battalion commander on matters of concerning the personnel management. On behalf of our commander, I manage and supervise all matters concerning human resources support, manning, personnel services, personnel support and headquarters support. This is in support to the over-all operations of our Battalion. I ensure that personnel are properly trained and equipped with the necessary skill set essential for the military activities and operations. Thus, I see to it that the program for promotion, training for specialization, and basic and advance career courses of our officers and personnel are properly charted. One of my accomplishments as the Battalion S1 is the efficient facilitation
There are several factors that can affect student learning readiness. Below pointed out factors readiness to learn from some opinions, as follows:
One way that employees feel appreciated is thru some form of formal counseling. There, they learn what are the expectations required, how are actually performing at the moment and how they can improve in the future. The army uses the army values as a guide to ensure the counseling session cover all the critical points a junior Soldier needs in order to grow and become an effective leader. "The values of honor, integrity and personal courage require both leaders and soldiers to give straightforward feedback and, if possible, goal-oriented tasks or solutions. The Army value of respect requires us all to find the best way to communicate that feedback and goals" (Pike, J. n.d.). Because the military system is standardized and requires everyone to speak the same language while conducting operations, the counseling system provides the room for constant communication between leader and subordinate or in the civilian sector between manager and employee. The counseling session is not restricted to time or subjects. Leaders also use this process to when Soldiers need advice on personal requirements as well; leaders provide guidance for development and family matters using the same process and recording the information between the Soldier and the leader. This is one way to let Soldiers know that their leader cares all
I enjoyed reading your post for this weeks discussion. I too feel that our food and water supply is an honest target when it comes to a biological attack. Many today go without food and water here in America today and as a result they commit crimes to fulfill a fundamental requirement. No excuses here, but wha would you do to feed your family, now think about that on a larger scale if the food supply got cut, destroyed or it was contaminated in some way. The amount of recovery time to recoup could be up to months, but people still need to eat so the wave of fear would be substantial. After taking an emergency management course here through AMU, we had an honest discussion about our personal level of readiness. It was an eye opener. I
The name of the agency I volunteered and shadowed at is the 30th Airman and Family Readiness Center: United States Air Force, usually referred to as the Family Readiness Center. This agency currently does not have a mission statement, however, the purpose of this agency is to provide a one-stop location for necessary family resources. The resources provided by the Airman and Family Readiness Center include, family events and classes in order to promote family advocacy, military and life counseling, personal and work life skills that cover informational health topics like parenting, new mothers and newborn baby, stress management, and marital enrichment. The Airman and Family Readiness Center serves the air force military population, which include active duty military members and their families as well as single military members. Other resources available for military members and their families include, financial advisory, preparation for deployment for both the military member as well as the spouse and children, relocation assistance, employment assistance (for spouses), help with childcare resources and also assists with volunteer opportunities for interested members and spouses (Vandenberg Air Force Base Support Squadron, 2015).
Family Readiness – Provides programs and services to guarantee Marines and their families – spouses, children and parents - are adequately prepared to meet the challenges of the military way of life.
Like most families, the soldiers do not always get along. Their bond is like that of siblings, they fight and argue, but when things get tough they have each other’s back. As Sargent Baker described, “you know, we might argue with each other there might be people in our unit that we might not get along with and stuff. But when it comes, you know, time for that, you know that stuff doesn’t matter anymore.” (Sargent Baker) The attachment that soldiers create is strong and long lasting, but it is made with the knowledge that it could be forcibly ended at any time.
When assessing the readiness for organizations abilities to operate are based upon their over all capability to ensure that the flow of goods from point to point is able to be efficiently accomplished. Through the research and analysis of understanding the overall readiness in organizations is defined in Ocker’s body of work. Along with other concepts this was closely related to the integration management of supply chains. This review was fulfilled by Power, D, in which he explained the necessary measure that management officials muse take in order to effectively format viable solutions during the management of IT project instillations. Returns and recalls management was also a great topic that tackles some effective steps to enhance the ability as far as acquisition of products and materials in efforts to mitigate the risk of loosing a return on investment. Russo, explains the product life-cycle through the recovery and disposal process by using graphs and examples as a breakdown in efforts to give the reader a visible solution to see the pieces where technology through the reverse logistics process holds the highest level of visibility.