Building a Cadet/Senior Team

1. Building a Cadet/Senior Team

2. “BONES” Someone said the membership of every organization is made up of four kinds of Bones: • There are the Wishbones who spend their time wishing someone else would do the work! • There are Jawbones who do all talking, but very little else! • Next, there are Knucklebones who knock everything else everybody tries to do! • Finally, there are the Backbones who get under the load and do the work! What kind of Bone are you???Mr. Wilburt Hill

3. Overview • Team and Teamwork Defined • Team Building Techniques • Correcting Inappropriate Behavior • Rewarding Appropriate Behavior • Senior Member Roles, Traits, Principles • Developmental Stages • Communication Skills • Counseling Techniques

4. Team and Teamwork Defined • Team: A group on the same side. A group organized to work together. • Teamwork: Cooperative effort by the members of a group or team to achieve a common goal. • Together Everyone AccomplishesMore

5. Team Building Techniques • Treat Cadets with dignity/mutual respect. • Avoid sarcasm. • Get to know your cadets. • Learn their strengths/weaknesses. • Communicate expectations/standards. • Provide support and encouragement. • Praise in public…correct in private. (cont)

6. Team Building Techniques (cont) • Never belittle their ideas. • Establish behavioral expectations. • Sell them ownership in the Code. • Emphasize Safety, Safety, Safety. • Encourage positive, motivational, and effective training. • Accentuate the positive.

7. Correcting Inappropriate Behavior • Determine the root cause. • Attitude • Training • Other • Correction must be immediate, consistent and tied to the behavior. (cont)

8. Correcting Inappropriate Behavior (cont) • Correcting Inappropriate Behavior: • Discipline Track • Verbal counseling, letter of counseling, admonishment, letter of reprimand, suspension • Progressive buildup • Temporarily withholding privileges

9. Rewarding AppropriateBehavior • Recognize accomplishments. • Initiate Swearing-in, NCO Appointment, Mitchell, Earhart, and Eaker Award special ceremonies. • Involve the parents. • Develop a merit system. • Praise in public. • Create certificates/awards. • Communicate your appreciation. • Nominate for Cadet of the Year.

10. Senior Member Roles • Role model • Coach • Teacher • Counselor • Medic • Driver • Cheerleader (cont)

11. Senior Member Roles (cont) • Disciplinarian • Surrogate parent • Sounding board • Mediator • Mentor • Leader

12. Senior Member Traits • Integrity: Total commitment to the highest personal and professional standards. • Loyalty: Three-dimensional trait which includes faithfulness to superiors, peers and subordinates. • Commitment: Complete devotion to duty. • Energy: An enthusiasm and drive to take the initiative. • Decisiveness: A willingness to act. • Selflessness: Sacrificing personal needs.

13. Senior Member Principles • Know your job • Know yourself • Set the example • Care for your people • Communicate • Educate • Equip • Motivate (cont)

14. Senior Member Principles (cont) • Establish goals. • Accept your responsibility. • Develop teamwork. • Leaders must mold a collection of individual performers into a cohesive team which works together to accomplish the mission. Teamwork results when people are willing to put the mission before all else.

15. Developmental Stages • Mental Characteristics • Relationships/Social Experiences • Social Experiences • Values • Experimentation

16. Comparison of Adolescent Development

17. Communication Skills • Learn to listen. • Keep an open mind. • Be interested. • Talk with them, don’t speak at them.

18. Counseling Techniques • Directive Approach: counselor-centered • Informational or advice giving • Disciplinary or rule setting • Support giving • Must have all the facts and know the right solution to the problem.(cont)

19. Counseling Techniques (cont) • Nondirective Approach: counselee-centered • Counselee takes responsibility for, and solving his/her problem. • Advantage: the person with the problems “owns” solutions.(cont)

20. Counseling Techniques (cont) • Problem-Oriented Approach: Elements of both the Directive and Nondirective. • Moves the focus away from both the supervisor and subordinate and attempts to define the problem using both of their inputs. (cont)

21. Counseling Techniques (cont) • Be prepared • Plan the interview • Open the interview • Identify the problem • Conduct the interview • Document (cont)

22. Counseling Techniques (cont) • Keep it friendly • Keep door open, another senior present • Ask non-threatening, open-ended questions • Listen, Listen, Listen • Confidentiality--trust and rapport

23. TEAM • Together Everyone Accomplishes More

24. Summary • Team and Teamwork Defined • Team Building Techniques • Correcting Inappropriate Behavior • Rewarding Appropriate Behavior • Senior Member Roles, Traits, Principles • Developmental Stages • Communication Skills • Counseling Techniques