Chapter 4- Rickenbacker

Duties and Responsibilities:
guides-set the direction and cadence of the march and can also be guidon bearer

ABC’s of leadership:
Abilities-mental alertness, high level of abstract thought, knowledge, communication
Behavior-responsibilities
Characteristics-respect, discipline, integrity, patriotism, and loyalty
Dynamics-have respect and utilize followership
Enthusiasm and Flexibility

**Two factors that influence leadership are the UNIT and the MISSION**

The NCO’s jobs:
-conducts routine business within orders and CAP policies
-focuses on individual training the enable unit to complete job
-trains individual cadets
-develops officers and NCO’s
-completes job

The Officer’s jobs:
-commands and establishes policies
-unit training
-mainly concerned about operations, training, and related activities
-pays attention to standards of performance
-set conditions for NCO to complete job

The NCO as a supervisor:
supervising-directing, inspecting, and evaluating others
-must look at abilities, training, and experience of everyone

Factors of supervising:
-ability to understand duties
-ability to state directives clearly and concisely
-training and experience with your cadets on the job
-training and experience with your assigned job or activity
-cadet’s discipline
-your knowledge of your cadets

Put the right People to the right job
-interview
-interview again
-apply appropriate abilities
-homogeneous assignment

Stimulate will to work
-show enthusiasm, sincerity, and importance
-make everyone welcome

Increasing the ability to produce
-TRAIN through instructions, conferences, seminars, re-affirm proficiency, teach new skills
Increasing the availability to work
-check attendance
-know the people in your flight
-avoid shifting duties

Using individuals fully on essential tasks
-fully means no slack or free time
-essential mean what necessary to the mission of the organization
-individuals need to be busy and grow
-don’t make cadets frustrated, anxious, or stressed

Scheduling subordinate tasks efficiently
-be where you are needed
-span of control -how many people can you supervise at once
-delegation of authority-holding other people accountable to see the job gets done

Need for tasks
-Is this task important?
-eliminate unneeded tasks and condense

Listening
-hearing-being aware of sounds
-listening-attending, comprehending and remember

Getting ready to listen
-think about common core of experience

Taking responsibility to comprehend
-leads to good manners
-think about your own experience
-rephrase in your minds
-attending- be mentally alert
-no physical distractions
-helps with verbal and nonverbal

Comprehending: understand what is said
-receptive-you understand literal meaning
-reflective-catch full meaning
-check with “I” messages

Withhold judgement
-get all facts and be fair
-listen to understand rather than to argue
-controlling emotions
-listen for main ideas and create mental pictures
-be mentally agile and review

Take notes
-helps use another sense beside listening and give you a record

Counseling: counsel to develop potential, help make decisions, resolve problems, improve efficiency
performance counseling-improving or maintaining (ie. Promotions, training)
career counseling
personal counseling
-council to motivate and guide cadet’s welfare is most important
-feedback-share ideas with cadets and listen to their reactions

SPECIAL READINGS

USAF duty concept
-Duty is understanding what ought to be done without being directly told to do so
-A system of values which sets the unit’s mission and the interests of the country above personal convenience

Responsibility and Authority
-a follower must possess competence to complete task and have knowledge of leaders

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
-interest in internal-combustion engines and engine-power vehicles
-received medal of honor for attack on 7 German planes
-Got involved in Eastern Airlines

Bessie Coleman
-she was from African American/ Native American descent
-Learned French and obtained license
-After she passed away the first school for black aviators opened