CONOPS Elements

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AFOATS Training Manual
C/Col Dan Wright
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AFOATS Training Manual Briefing Cadet Daniel
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• Overview
• General Overview of ATM
• 5 Basic Principles of Training
• Inappropriate Training
• Earning Respect

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• General Overview of the Manual (T-700)
• Mutual Respect
• Respect for position vs person
• Personal respect breeds excellence
• Officer and a leader first, specialist second
• Keeps all training standardized
• YOU will be a product/user of this training
• 5 Basic Training Principles
• Expectations
• Skills
• Feedback
• Consequences
• Growth

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• Expectations
• Introduce yourself
• Lay out all expectations / obligations
• Compliance with standards
• Recognize / respect authority (ex.
  Professionalism)
• Provide maximum effort
• Relevance
• Importance of Tasks
• Overview of future

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• Skills
• Role model / lead by example!
• Rehearsals
• Imaginary
• Demonstrated
• Skills can increase, but effort should always be
  pinnacle

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• Feedback
• Open Communication (show you care)
• Praise in public, discipline in private
• Dont pit peers against each other
• Game plan for improvement and projects
• INPUT
• I Immediate
• N No labeling
• P Proper person, not the group
• U Uniquely specific, dont use generalities
• T Talk about behavior, not the person
• End on positive note

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• Consequences
• Page 30 excerpt (hot-stove principle)
• Now, consistently, avoid resentment / target
  behavior
• Progressive build-up
• Fit consequences to subordinate
• Teaching tool
• Scrubbing floors vs reflecting
• Do it!

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• Growth
• Leadership styles (Directing, Coaching,
  Supporting, Delegating)
• Set fundamental goal of project, but allow
  flexibility
• Keeps interest
• Increases performance
• Require approval
• No micromanaging
• Support subordinates

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• Inappropriate Training
• Verbal Maltreatment
• Physical Maltreatment
• Maltraining
• Physical Contact
• Exception?

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• Conclusion
• The ATM is the manual for developing leaders in
  the Air Force
• Mutual respect is the linchpin that holds
  training together
• Five Basic Principles
• Expectations
• Skills
• Feedback
• Consequences
• Growth
• Inappropriate training is unacceptable

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