Making sense of education.Motivation to learn.Attitude towards learning.
What are the keys to successful learning?
Plan your time wisely.Set up a learning site.Preview the material.Use the study techniques.Answer questions.Reward yourself.
What are the 6 steps in the learning process?
Formative exercises are not scored.
What is the main difference between formative exercises and course exams?
A process that changes the way a person thinks, feels, or behaves.
What is the definition of learning?
It requires you to remember and repeat information you have either heard or read.
How is knowledge described in the level of cognitive learning?
Knowledge.Comprehension.Application.
What are the three levels of COGNITIVE learning?
One higher level of learning than knowledge. It require you to see abstracts, conceptsm and relationships beyond the simple remembering of material.
How is comprehension described in the level of cognitive learning?
Application is the ability to link a concept or principle to a real world situation.
How is Application described in the level of cognitive learning?
Recieving.Responding.
Valuing.
What are the three levels of AFFECTIVE learning?
Learners may pay attention to what is being presented.
How is Recieving described in the level of affective learning?
Involved some sort of action or response, such as complying with an AF directive or performing some voluntary action and obtaining satisfaction from it.
How is Responding described in the level of affective learning?
As a person responds, some worth is added to that action or the concept from which that action originated.
How is Valuing described in the level of affective learning?
A body of theory and specialized knowledge.A public service.A distinct subculture.
What are the three characteristics of Profession of Arms (POA)?
Professional Status.Professional Methods.Professional Character.
Professional Standards.
What are the specific attributes of professionalism?
A supervisor can do this by reinforcing set standards and holding them accountable for any deviations to those standards.
How can you assist your subordinates in the development of discipline?
The United States Air Force Core Values.AFI 36-2618, The Enlisted Force Structure.Air Force Institutional Competencies.
What are the three source documents that form the EPME Pillars?
To ensure that all enlisted Airmen understand what the Air Force expects from them at each rank.
What is the Purpose of AFI 36-2618?
Effectively using your time by setting goals and objectives.
What is the definition of Time Management?
ABC Priority Method.The Pareto Principle.The Covey Time Management Matrix.
What are the three time management principles?
Make a "To Do" list, prioritize all of your tasks as "A", "B", or "C". Perform "A" items first, "B" Items next, and, finally "C" items.
Describe the ABC Priority Method.
20% of items give 80% of the results. List your tasks and focus 80% of your time and effort to the 20% of your work that is most important.
Describe the Pareto Principle.
Place each of your tasks into one of the four quadrants (Quadrant I = Reaction Quadrant, Quadrant II = Quality Quadrant, Quadrant III = Deception Quadrant, and Quadrant IV = Waste Quadrant) Spend most of your time working in Quadrant I. Beware of Quadrants III and IV.
Describe the Covey Time Management Matrix.
Make a "To Do" list and Prioritize tasks.
What two steps are essential to ANY time management plan?
Calendars, Organizers, Personal Planners, PDAs, and Smart Phones.
What are 5 time management tools?
Priority "C" items.
Priority items that are urgent but not difficult.
What types of items should be delegated?
Don't depend solely on messages left, Npo more telephone tag, Call scheduling, Work with others, Voicemail and Answering Machines.
How can you take command of the telephone?
Something that is passed down from a preceding generation; a tradition.
What is the definition of Heritage?
Military Balooning, Air Machines, Aeroplane No.1
What are three examples of early use of air power?
OP Desert Storm, OP Provide Relief, OP Restore Hope, OP Allied Force, and OP Enduring Freedom.
What are the Five (5) operations that the Air Force has participated in since 1990?
Any of the Following:SSgt Henry Erwin, A1C William Pitsenbarger, SSgt Maynard H. Smith, TSgt Forrest Vosler, SSgt Archibald Mathies, A1C John L. Levitow, CMSgt Richard Etchberger.
List Four Air Force Medal of Honor Recipiants.
AFI 36-2903
What AF Manual (AFM) or AF Intruction (AFI) governs Dress and Appearance?
Provides Standardization and teamwork.
How do Dress and Appearance support AF Culture?
1775, When George Washington commanded the Continental Army.
How far back does the origin of Dress and Appearance standards date?
It honors our military heritage and shows an appreciation for freedom.
Why is it important for military members to show respect to the Flag?
AFM 36-2203
What Air Force Manual (AFM) or Air Force Instruction (AFI) governs Drill and Ceremonies?
Wellnes is identified as a complete advancement in treating the mind, body, and spirit as a whole.
It's condition resulting from incorporating a system of individual programs into your life.
Define Wellness.
Social.Emotional.
Spiritual.Physical.
List the four demensions of wellness.
Deals with your network of friends and your personal relationships
Define the Social Demension of wellness.
Refers to building an awareness of and accepting your feelings and moods.
Define the Emotional Demension of wellness.
That within us that motivates us in life and gives of strength and resiliency
Define the Spiritual Demension of wellness.
Refers to weight control, a balanced and healthy diet, appearance, self image, and exercise.
Define the Physical Demension of wellness.
Having a well-rounded perspective of fitness socially, spiritually, emotionally, and physically increases your ability to influence and lead your subordinates.
Why does being fit impact mission accomplishment?
To motivate all memeber to participate in a year-round physical conditioning program that emphasizes total fitness to include proper aerobic conditioning, strength/flexibility training, and healthy eating.
Describe the purpose of the Air Force Fitness Program.
Fitness Assessment Cell.Unit Fitness Program Manager. (UFPM)Immediate Supervisor.Physical Training Leader.
(PTL)Individual.
List 5 key players of the AF Fitness Program
A Unit-Based or fitness center-based program that all memebers recieveing an "Unsatisfactory" fitness score are required to attend.
Define the Air Force Improvement Program.
Target nutritional and exercise behavior changes to improve the member's health and fitness.
Define the Healthy Living Program.
Aerobic Fitness.Muscular Fitness.Flexibility.
Body Composition.
List the factors of proper Weight Management.
Eat small, frequent meals.Eat every 3-4 hours.Eat as soon as possible after exercise.
Consume a variety of foods.
List the four basic eating rules.
Any of the following are accepted:Slow metabolism.Over eating.Reduce physical performance (ex.
slow run time, decrease situp/pushup repititions)Reduce mental performance (ex. reduce attentiveness to task accomplishment, attention to detail, and concentration levels)
Give an example of how not eating frequently throughout the day may affect you.
You shouldn't:Weigh yourself dailyUse diuretics or laxatives.Spend and excessive amount of time in saunas
Give an example of a behavior not recommended to achieve optimal fitness.
It is defined by the American College of Sports Medicine as any activity using the large muscle groups for a prolonged period and is rhythmic in nature.
How is aerobic fitness defined?
Any circumstance that places special physical and/or psychological demands on an organism leading to psychological, physiological, and behavioral outcomes
Define Stress
Eustress is the positve consequence of stress and distress is the negative consequence of stress.
What is the difference between eustress and distress?
Job, Role, Enviroment, Interpersonal, Leadership, Organizational Structure, and Change.
What are the subcategories of organizational stressors?
Family Problems, Marital Issues, and Financial Issues
What are the major types of extra-organizational stressors?
Physical, Psychological, Behavioral, and Cognitive.
What are the 4 stress reaction/condition types?
Accept the fact of being military and prepare for the worst.Understand the fear is normal.
Try to prevent fear that is so intense that it controls you (training to survive).
List three ways to intervene and adapt to combat and operational stress to prevent PTSD.
Killing oneself voluntarily and intentionally.
Define Suicide.
Suicidal GestureAttempted SuicideCompleted Suicide
List the three behaviors associated with suicide.
Keeping open communication with the subordinates and family.
Ensuring new members and family attend budget, parenting, and stress courses.
List ways a supervisor can keep suicide prevention a continuous process within the workcenter.
Causing Copy Cat attempts.Division in the workcenter.
Low morale.
List three ways an attempted or completed suicide affects the workcenter and family.
People who self refer have positive outcomes, they may be rehabilitated and returned to normal routines.
What are the actual impacts of going to Mental Health for assistance?
Leadership.First Sergeant.Commander.
Mental Health Services.Chaplain.
Name additional referrals you could use to provide assistance in stressful situations.
To Provide and enlisted force structure that best meets
What is the Purpose of AFI 36-2618, The enlisted Force Structure?
Junior Enlisted Tier responsibilities include:Adapting to the requirements of military profession.Achieve technical proficiency.
Grow into becoming a highly effective member of the Air Force.NCO Tier responsibilities:Become expert hands-on technicians.Serve as Supervisors.Ensure team members work together.Train and develop Airmen.
What is the difference between the expectations to the Junior Enlisted Airman Tier and the NCO Tier of AFI 38-2618?
Perfect Primary occupational skills. Complete PME. Earn the 5 and 7 skill levels. Complete the Community College of the Air Force degree.
Define the expectation of responsibilities at the tactical level.
It challenges you to take care of your airmen.
It means you can be counted on when needed.
What is the Wingman concept?
By enthusiastically supporting and enforcing leadership decisions. By developing innovative ways to improve processes and provide suggestions up the chain of command that will directly contribute to the mission success
What are some ways you can demonstrate effective followership?
Accept and execute all duties, instructions, responsibilities, and lawful orders in a timely and efficient manner.
What the ways you will be expected to demonstrate leadership as an NCO?
Meet all pre-deployment requirements and ensure you educate and assist your airman to do the same. Correct and counsel subordinates who do not meet the standard.
As an NCO, what are your general responsibilities in regard to pre-deployment?
A principle of right or good behavior, a system of moral principles or values, a study of moral philosophy, or the rules and standards of conduct governing the members of a profession.
Define Ethics
Honesty, Honor, Integrity, Service before Self, Discipline.
What are some principles we value as military professionals?
Don't lie, cheat, or steal. Follow the rules, Adhere to the standards. Always do your best. Always conduct yourself professionally.
Don't discriminate. Treat People with Mentoring, Proper Leadership.
What are some things expected of our daily conduct as military professionals?
AFIs, The Air Force Core Values, The UCMJ, Know the expected standars of conduct, mentoring and leadership.
What resources or methods can you use to guide your ethical conduct and help your subordinates do the same?
I could bring shame to myself, the unit, my service, and my country. I'd set a bad example for others.
I'd face corrective action for breeches of discipline.
What are examples of consequences if you fail to conduct yourself in an ethical manner?
Integrity helps our subordinates, coworkers, and supervisors trust what we say and do. Integrity builds trust and trust is the foundation of all good relationships.
Considering all the traits you learned about, why is integrity important?
By being able to be worldwide deployable and ready to go.
By working long hours when needed. By being prepared for deployments. Performing any duties needed to accomplish the mission.
How could you, or do you, demonstrate Service Before Self in your daily actions?
Internal excellence is how we do business in the AF. Extrenal excellence relates to how we treat the world around us, like enviroment issues.
There are two categories of operations excellence: internal and external. What is the difference between the two?
Know your ablilities and seek self improvement.Be technically proficient.Obey Orders Initiate Appropriate actions in the absense of ordersDevelop a sense of responsibilities .Take responsibility for you actions.
Make sounds and timely decisions and recommendations.Live and set the examples for others.
List the ten guidelines of being a good follower
CompetenceIntegrityLoyaltyInititive
List the followership traits known as CILI.
To accomplish assigned tasks
Define Conpetence as it is described in the CILI traits.
For a follower it means basically the same as a leader.
BE HONEST.
Define Integrity as it is described in the CILI traits.
Supports and enhances the effectiveness of leaders through faithfulness, obedience, and respectfulness.
Define Loyalty as it is described in the CILI and SLICED traits.
Motivation, determination, perseverence, and risk taking.
Define Inititive as it is described in the CILI traits.
SelflessnessLoyaltyIntegrityCommitmentEnergyDecisiveness
What are the leadership traits known as SLICED
The art of influencing and directing people to accomplish the mission with the ability to inspire confidence and support from the prople who are needed to achieve organizational goals by accepting authority and responsibility creating an enviroment where people want to do a job.
Define Leadership
The capacity to follow a leader by being competent at doing their jobs and commited to mission accomplishment
Define Followership.
Meeting Unit goals with less cost and maximizing personnel participation.
Define Unit Effectiveness
Mission.People.
To be an effective leader, what two fundamently concepts must you always keep in mind?
Referent PowerExpert PowerInformation Power
List the Three types of Personal Power.
Sacrificing personal wants and needs for the greater cause which reflects the core value "Service Before Self"
Define Selflessness as it is described in the SLICED traits.
For a leader is basically the same as a follower, BE HONEST.
Define Integrity as it is described in the SLICED traits.
Complete devotion to duty; total dedication to the United States Air Force, the unit, and our comrades.
Define Commitment as it is described in the SLICED traits.
The enthusiasm and motivation to take the inititive
Define Energy as it is described in the SLICED traits.
A willingness to make decisions, act on them, and accept responsibility for those decisions.
Define Decisiveness as it is described in the SLICED traits.
Personal Charisma or likeability charateristics (trust, confidence, etc.)
Define Referent Power
His/Her special knowledge or skill related to a job.
Define Expert Power
His/Her percieved access to important data and useful information like reenlistment information or promotion statistics.
Define Information Power
