Building a Cadet/Senior Team
“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
Overview
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Team and Teamwork Defined
Team Building Techniques
Correcting Inappropriate Behavior
Rewarding Appropriate Behavior
Senior Member Roles, Traits, Principles
Developmental Stages
Communication Skills
Counseling Techniques
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 Accomplishes More
Team Building Techniques
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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.
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Team Building Techniques
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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.
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Correcting Inappropriate
Behavior
• Determine the root cause.
– Attitude
– Training
– Other
• Correction must be immediate, consistent
and tied to the behavior.
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Correcting Inappropriate
Behavior
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• Correcting Inappropriate Behavior:
– Discipline Track
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Verbal counseling, letter of counseling,
admonishment, letter of reprimand, suspension
– Progressive buildup
– Temporarily withholding privileges
Rewarding Appropriate
Behavior
• 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.
Senior Member Roles
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Role model
Coach
Teacher
Counselor
Medic
Driver
Cheerleader
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Senior Member Roles
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Disciplinarian
Surrogate parent
Sounding board
Mediator
Mentor
Leader
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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.
Senior Member Principles
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Know your job
Know yourself
Set the example
Care for your people
Communicate
Educate
Equip
Motivate
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Senior Member Principles
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• 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.
Developmental Stages
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Mental Characteristics
Relationships/Social Experiences
Social Experiences
Values
Experimentation
Comparison of Adolescent
Development
Age 12-16
Mental
Characteristics
Age 16 and Up
reason very concretely
begin to think abstractly like planning for the
most comfortable thinking/talking about future, problem solving, understanding
specific experiences/objects
another’s point of view
Relationship/Social more dependent on adults for guidance growing need for freedom from control of
prefer to be in groups of friends rather others; oriented toward interdependent
Experiences
than one-on-one relation-ships, more
comfortable with same-sex peers
relationships in family, friends, and others
growing need to be treated like an adult and
to take care of themselves
Social Experiences
meet in groups of same sex
loyalty to the group
meet in groups of mixed sex
find more meaning in social relationships
Values
developed from family and immediate
community
begin to look at their values and standards
and begin to develop personal philosophy
see good and bad as relative, not absolute,
more concerned with the needs of others
Experimentation
not as interested in trying new things,
especially new things that make them
different from their peers
need a variety of new experiences
try out new roles and positions
Communication Skills
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Learn to listen.
Keep an open mind.
Be interested.
Talk with them, don’t speak at them.
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.
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Counseling Techniques
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• Nondirective Approach: counselee-centered
– Counselee takes responsibility for, and solving
his/her problem.
– Advantage: the person with the problems
“owns” solutions.
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Counseling Techniques
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• 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.
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Counseling Techniques
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Be prepared
Plan the interview
Open the interview
Identify the problem
Conduct the interview
Document
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Counseling Techniques
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Keep it friendly
Keep door open, another senior present
Ask non-threatening, open-ended questions
Listen, Listen, Listen
Confidentiality--trust and rapport
TEAM
• Together Everyone Accomplishes
More
Summary
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Team and Teamwork Defined
Team Building Techniques
Correcting Inappropriate Behavior
Rewarding Appropriate Behavior
Senior Member Roles, Traits, Principles
Developmental Stages
Communication Skills
Counseling Techniques