Chapter 3-Feik Achievement (Cadet Senior Airman)

Duties and Responsibilities

Element leader-teach drill, relay information to element, ensure that your element tests

More about Followership

-3 major leadership traits to have are loyalty, integrity, and self-discipline

The Job

-know what the job is

-know how to do the job

-do the job

Leader-follower Relationship

-question

-inform

Responsibility

-dynamic followers do not wait

-wise followers learn

-be responsible for yourself

The Role of the NCO

-role of NCO is to make the chain of command work

-chain of command: succession of officers through which command is exercised

-paralleled by NCO support channel, which is 1st sergeant, flight sergeant, element leader

-staff meetings keep support channel informed

First Sergeant

-oversees inspection, training, attendance, and cadet programs

Flight Sergeant

-conduct inspection and teach uniform/custom/courtesy/discipline/drill

Element Leader

-know where cadets are, correct cadets on appearance, know what cadets need

Standards

-standard: measure of what a thing should be/benchmark/principle used in judgment

Communication

Barriers to Communication

-no common core of experience

-confusion between the symbol and the thing being symbolized aka interpretation

-misuse of abstractions

How to Improve Communication

-fact-word relationship: facts of complexity (etc.), fact of change (vocabulary

changes), and fact of differences

-two valued terms: everything is not good or bad, or right or wrong

Demonstration-Performance Teaching Technique

General Henry (Hap) Harley Arnold

-west point, set new speed record, chief of Air Corps

-sent future pilots to civilian training schools

-commanding general of AAF during WWII

-named General of the Air Force in 1949

Boss vs. Leader

A boss knows how. A leader shows how.

Tenets of Leadership

-integrity, discipline, dedication, sensitivity

Wilbur and Orville Wright

-hobbies of bicycling and gliding

-12/17/03: (Kitty Hawk, North Carolina) first powered airplane flight