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| What level of strategic planning involves leaders with responsibility for large organizations or systems |
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| the primary focus of which level of strategic planning is the strategic leadership and management of the force to best meet current and future mission requirements? |
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| Which level of strategic planning normally applies to the CMSgt and sometimes SMSgt at higher headquarters? |
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| which level of strategic planning involves tasks tat become more complex and sophisticated? |
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| operational competence level |
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| which level of strategic planning applies to Master Sergeant through Chief Master Sergeant |
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| Operational Competence Level |
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| At what level of strategic planning do SNCOs transition from being expert technicians and first line supervisors to leaders who have broader operational leadership, supervisory, and managerial responsibilities? |
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| At the operational competence level |
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| which level of the force converts direction from their superiors into mission accomplishment |
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| operational competence level |
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| The systematic process of envisioning a desired future, and translating this vision into broadly defined goals or objectives and a sequence of steps to achieve them |
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| during strategic planning, a certain period would be set aside to analyze the situation and _______. |
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| decide on a course of action |
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| After the formulation of doctrine, then ______ could begin |
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| An organizations ablility to succeed has more to do with its ability to transform itself, continuously, than whether it has the right strategy. |
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| Being ______ enables organizations to transform their strategy depending on the changes in their environment |
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| What must be understood, valued, and implemented correctly by SNCOs? |
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| Strategic Alignment & deployment |
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| What is the method used to ensure everyone in AF organizations is working effectively towards the same goals identified by senior leadership |
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| Strategic Alignment & deployment |
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| Provides a common/standard methodology to deploy metrics and action plans throughout the enterprise; communicates the commander's intent relative to goals, objectives, metrics, and action plans; and assigns accountability and responsibility at all levels |
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| What program is meant to align the enterprise to achieve the priorities, goals, objectives, metrics, and tasks impacting the entire organization |
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| What program concentrates the organization on high-leverage outputs and ensures alignment throughout the organization? |
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| SA&D (Strategic Alignment & deployment) |
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| What is participative approach to decision-making that promotes workforce feedback and continuous dialogue |
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| SNCOs are key in this process: |
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| What part of the strategic planning process ensure everyone is on board with the Priorities and Goals from the top down and ensures the work done from the bottom up is completing these Goals? |
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| What part of the strategic process includes translation of the vision into measurable results? |
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| What piece of the strategic planning process is the communication link for the organization and enables improvement at every level? |
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| What must be developed to allow cascading alignment of SA&D? |
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| A statement of an ideal state of being or existence in the future that is inspiring and empowering |
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| What creates unity and purpose, and helps determine priorities and objectives |
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| What does SWOT analysis stand for? |
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| Strengths Weakness, Opportunities and Threats |
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| Is similar to a mini vision statement. "Where you are today, versus where you want to be tomorrow" |
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| When working with your strategy map, it is important to start with... |
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| strategic action that must be accomplished to realize the intent of Priority and provide strategic direction on how to execute tasks, initiatives, and process improvements. |
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| _______ are inspirational, motivate the workforce to a higher level of performance, and drive operational change. |
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| Communicate intent of the objective statement and reflect how the objective will be achieved |
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| Metrics; They drive behavior |
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| A concise, simple, and understandable action statement consisting of specific deliverables: |
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| TAsks support the objectives at a level where primes and target completion dates can be established. How many tasks are recommended per strategic objective? |
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| One to three per objective |
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| What should be time allotted to finish tasks for a strategic objective? |
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| short term; twelve months or less |
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| A strategy management system, establishing and communicating an organization's mission, vision , and strategy map to customers, stakeholders and employees and for aligning day to day work to the strategy |
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| The BSC (balanced score card) |
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| A dressed up version of a strategy map; normally displays measurement, such as metrics identifying whether or not objectives are being met; it is a strategy execution tool, not a creation tool |
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| The BSC (balanced score card) |
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| leadership is trying to get all Majcoms on board with this tool, since thousands of organizations have proven its success. |
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| BSC (Balanced Score Card) |
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| The intent of a ______ is to have an organization see how Balanced it is, or not, in the key perspectives it has chosen to align its strategies. |
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| BSC (balanced score card) |
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| This is a component of Air Force strategic planning that must be understood, valued, and implemented correctly by Senior NCOs |
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| This process develops a strategic line of sigh between commanders's strategic priorities and Airmen's responsibilities and accoutabilites |
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| This is the systematic process of envisioning a desired future and translating this vision into broadly defined goals or objectives and a sequence of steps to achieve them |
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| This piece of the SA&D process is the communication link for the organization and enables improvement at every level |
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This is the science of planning and directing large scale military
operations, of maneuvering forces into the most advantageous position prior to actual engagement with the enemy |
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| This is a statement of an ideal state of being or existence in the future that is inspiring and empowering |
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| This identifies the purpose of the organization or the reason it exists |
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| To achieve line of sight alignment, try a ________ approach |
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| "top down, bottoms up approach"; such as before locking in your goals, flow them down throughout the organization and ask your unit to recommend changes to your goals and own aligning goals. |
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| After you've flowed your ideas to the bottom of the organization, in order to negotiate your organizational goals, then you should flow them back to the top. This flow back to the top is called |
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| Catchball; This is called incorporating changes. |
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| What is the backbone of SA&D? |
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| Accountability; it must be clear and unabiguous |
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| What can be used to increase employee buy-in? |
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| Personal objectives and incentives that align with the strategy. For example, time off, leading the next objective |
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| The 10 steps in a strategy map: |
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| 1 align; 2 flow; 3 incorporate; 4 accountability; 5 increase; 6 Communicate; 7 understand; 8 walk around; 9 train; 10 visibility |
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| Allows members to develop a clear line of sight between the strategic objectives and the work they do every day. |
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| Aligning; airmen want to know how their work contributes to the value creating activities |
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| How would you go about expanding you circle of influence? |
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| This step in NCO utilization includes both taking and using good ideas generated throughout the organization |
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| In this step of the SNCO utilization process, use your personnal training program to provide all airmen in the organization the skills required to execute your strategy. |
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| The training step; don't let airmen fall behind and assume the others will pick up the slack. |
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| Means focusing on only your piece of the organization: |
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| stovepipe leadership. (It leads to constraints and waste) |
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