Honor Respect Devotion to Duty

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Only one person from a Division at the same table

2011 Flotilla / Division Leadership Course

Honor Respect Devotion to Duty

ESTABLISHING DIVISION GOALS

Garrison Bromwell, DSO-MT, PDCDR

What You Will Learn

• Importance of VISION• Using SWOT• Aligning that vision• Realism & Pragmatism • Execution & Measurement• Feedback & Rewards

2011 DLC – Division Goals

Why have goals?

• We need to know where we are going.

• What are the potential roadblocks – either real or perceived? And how can we remove them?

• How do we know when we get there?

2011 DLC – Division Goals

Why have goals?

• Elected and appointed officers should make sure members know what the Division as a whole is trying to accomplish during the year.

2011 DLC – Division Goals

What’s a Vision Statement?

• Broad mission statement• Ask these questions –

o What do you like about being a part of this organization?

o What do you like about this organization’s mission?

o When its at its best, what do you most like?o What legacy do you want to leave?o What legacy should we collectively leave?

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One definition of Goals….

2011 DLC – Division Goals

Do A SWOT Analysis

o Outline your vision for the yearo Do a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses,

Opportunities and Threats)o Anticipate change and exercise flexible

thinkingo Consult With Staff Officers and memberso Be patient with ambiguityo Analyze the Division’s Resourceso Identify Operational Objectives

2011 DLC – Division Goals

Aligning Goals

• Honor, Respect, Devotion to Duty• What are the Coast Guard goals for the Auxiliary:

o http://cgaux.org/leadership/from_the_adm.php

• Check District and National Goals• Obtain commitment to goals• Prioritize goals according to their importance• Specify the time span involved• Specify how the performance will be

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Develop a plan

• Defining the Division’s objectives• Establishing an overall strategy for achieving those

goals• Developing the means to integrate and coordinate

necessary activitieso What was done in the past?o Were the goals accomplished?o Who was involved; was there a committee?o Resurrect past goals, reviewo Discuss with Vice Commander

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Share Your Ideas

• Goals should be jointly determined by Staff Officers and members to generate commitment and provide control

• Meet with Staff Officers to get ideas• Relate overall department objectives• Explore areas of need• Generate a list; take all ideas• Look at short and long term goals• Get a commitment from Staff Officers

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Review the plan

• Get acceptance from Staff Officers• Review plan at a flotilla meeting• Discuss long and short term objectives• Align members’ commitment with flotilla

goals • Discuss overall desire to improve the

Flotilla and its service to the community and USCG

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Collaborating In Goal Planning

Step Description

I. Define the Goals

Describe Flotilla goals in terms of what needs to accomplished. Then ask Staff Officers to describe their goals and identify conflicts.

II. Find Ways to Collaborate Propose goals that meet the needs of the Flotilla and the FSOs. Make suggestions and ask for their opinions.

III. Define Roles FC and FSOs should contribute equal amounts of effort and receive equal benefit.

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Reward Success

• Review all accomplishments

• Note specific achievements

• Recognize contributors• Formal and informal

awards• Update and modify goals

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End of Division Goals Section

ACHIEVING YOUR GOALS

Here’s a short and great little video about goal-setting with Brian Tracy. This simple but effective goal-setting exercise can be life-changing. Take a minute and a half to watch the video and then do the exercise.o Brian Tracy: If You Could Achieve One Goal i

n 24 Hours• .

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SMART GOALS

SMART Acronym Newly Defined for Goal Setting

• S - In addition to specific, don't stretching, systematic, synergistic, significant and shifting round out the picture?

• M - means measurable, but I also recommend meaningful, memorable, motivating and even, magical.

2011 FDLC - Leadership

SMART GOALS

• A - is an achievable goal but A also needs to stand for action plans, accountability, acumen and agreed-upon.

• R - means relevant, but it also stands for realistic, reasonable, resonating, results-oriented, rewarding, responsible, reliable, rooted in facts and remarkable.

• T - means time-based and it also represents timely, tangible and thoughtful.

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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES• "The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your

goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." --Benjamin Mays

• "By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own." --Mark Victor Hansen

• "The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen." --Robert L. Schwartz

2011 FDLC - Leadership