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Honor Respect Devotion to Duty
Please be seated….
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?
2011 DLC – Division Goals
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
2011 FLC – Flotilla Goals
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• .
2011 FDLC - Leadership
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.
2011 FDLC - Leadership
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