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Show 2 Hilltop Times Oct. 31, 1996 News Briefs DChild I.D. program I The Beehive Chapter of the Noncommissioned Officers' Association will be photographing and fingerprinting children at the Hill Base Exchange, Bldg. 430, Saturday, 10 a.m.-- 4 p.m. Photos, fingerprinting and composite profiles are provided free of charge. For more information call the NCOA Service Center, wijii:aw;AviJ.i.w?i.ivii:iffwctr.m4w;i:i:n i2 DCharity luncheon set The Federal Women's Club charity luncheon is Nov. 16, 12:30 p.m., at the Roy Elks Lodge, 5200 S. 1900 W. The cost for members is $8 and guests are $8.75. Reservations must be received by Nov. 11 and cancellations by Nov. 12. For more information and reservations call Ruth Carper, or Lavonne Sekelik, in the Og-de-n area. In the Salt Lake City area, call Charlotte 4 or Myrtle Lester, Roundy. (evenings). 773-026- t 52 544-812- 1. in J?- - - 3 a .2 r 0-- u IS 3 a 3 3 u -3 O53 825-893- 968-207- 966-087- DTravel meeting A travel meeting hosted by the Passenger Travel Transportation Division for all coordinators and interested frequent flyers is Nov. 13 at the Poe Conference Center, Bldg. 1295, 1 a.m. Information will be provided by Passenger Travel, Travel Pay and the base airline ticket office. There will also be a question and answer period. To ensure a seat call Passenger Travel, Ext. 75th Air Base Wing makes a pledge by Col. Carl L. Critchlow 75th Air Base Wing commander Makeup flu shot clinic The makeup flu shot clinic is Nov. 7:30 a.m.-l:3- 0 p.m. at the Occupational Health Clinic, Bldg. 249. The cost is $5 per shot. Shots are available for all civilian employees 18 years of age or older. Consult your doctor if you are allergic to eggs, chicken feathers or chicken dander. The vaccine is Trivalcnt A and B. People are at high risk for influenza if they are 65 years of age or older and have chronic bronchitis, asthma, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, chronic severe anemia or heart disease. For more information call Ext. 5-- B Road closure . ... , Due to the installation of an industrial waste line, "A" Lane and South Gate Avenue north of 1st Street will be closed until Friday. For more in, EL 1. . formation call David Murray, 75th Civil Engineer- ing Group, Ext. BUCDPP guidelines The Uniform Clothing Deferred Payment Plan (UCDPP) is provided by the Military Clothing Sales and should only be used for the sale of uniforms, uniform accessories and footwear. The following items are authorized for purchase using the UCDPP account: Army and Air Force Exchange Service commercial uniform clothing, undergarments and footwear items to be worn with the uniforms, AAFES commercial uniform accessories and insignia, Defense Personnel Support Center military clothing items and footwear and DPSC organizational items. For more information call . Military Clothing Sales, Ext. OAF AS education grant The Air Force Aid Society encourages students from Hill to fill out an application for an education grant. The AFAS hopes to award 5,000 grants for the next academic year, including a large number of grants to spouses enrolled in stateside programs. For more information or an application, stop by the AFAS office at the Family Support Center, Bldg. 308N, or call Ext. college-boun- Brief "We like what we do and we are going to get even better!" When was the last time you heard someone say they really liked their job? Well, you're hearing it from the 2,500 men and women of the 75th Air Base Wing. We are committed to continuous improvement and, Col. Carl L. in this article, I'd like to share Critchlow with you our tactical plan for im provement. This matters to our base customers because they will be the beneficiaries of our improvements. Now, how do we plan to get better? Like a lot of other organizations, we have a strategic plan our flexible, living document that provides e a constancy of purpose for guidance. It contains our vision to become the model community of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command and Utah as well as goals and objectives which provide targets for our efforts over the next few years. These goals and objectives shouldn't change dramatically from year to year. They reflect a commitment for the long haul. e But, how do we pursue those goals? IntheABW , we've chosen to develop a tactical plan which supports our strategic plan a tactical plan is a shorter-rang- e plan which provides major components of our plan to improve over the next six months. If we execute our plan for the next six months, then we'll be e pursuing our goals. A wise man once said, "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." Unfortunately, this may be your impression of exactly what has happened with some of the quality programs you were required to implement and some of the metrics you were required to track. We want to fix that problem. The ABW Quality Council has identified six "pillars," specific initiatives or programs which get to the heart of what is important to this wing. These pillars are shown in the graphic. They spring from the Air Force core values of "integrity, service before self and excellence in all we do." And, they support our wing motto, "We like what we do and we are going to get even better!" Each of these pillars are specific programs we plan to execute over the next six months, all in support of continuous d continue en page) 5. long-rang- long-rang- long-rang- Hilltop Times Published by MorMedia, Inc., a private firm in no way connected with the VS. Air Force, under exclusive written contract with Hill AFB. This commercial enterprise Air Force newspaper is an authorized publication for members of the U.S. military services. Contents of the Hilltop Times are not necessarily the official views TO PLACE Pillar Ml Civilian Performance Plans At the end of September, I sent a letter to all ABW review and update supervisors directing a of civilian work plans for all ABW civilian employees by Oct. 25. But the point of the tactical plan is that we're not reviewing performance plans just to review plans; reviewing and updating performance plans is a part of our plan to get better. The reasons for the review were: To accurately document performance. It's time to make sure that 100 percent of our "contracts" with our employees are reviewed.. They need to know what it takes to get the job done and what it takes to be successful. They deserve it and so do the supervisors. If I checked all the performance plans out there, I'd a probably find about a third correct and third which were prepared five years ago and "rubber-stamped- " every year since and a third that haven't been signed in five years. That adds up to about two-thirwhich do not accurately document the agreement between employee and supervisor as to what's expected. To improve performance. I attached a briefing to the tasking letter which empowers the employee. The employee gets a chance, during periodic feedback sessions with his or her supervisor, to demonstrate where the employee has done something in each performance element that is smarter, faster, cheaper or better. This means the employee has a reason to improve every day because their appraisal score is in their hands. The new, improved performance plan puts the burden for success squarely on the employee. To improve morale. No one likes the current system of appraisals. Many supervisors see it as a once-a-yepain; and many employees see it as a guessing game, wondering how they'll fare this year. Since I can't find anybody who likes the current system, we're going to change it. I don't mean that we're going to change the form or the rating categories, but we are going to change our procedures. By reviewing performance plans, and better yet, by implementing the "new-style- " performance plan, we can put in place a system which means that the ap- 100-perce- . ar MSee "Air Force people building the world's most respected Air and Space Force 2SULTLJVU Quality Systems for America's Air Force Rather than explain what we mean in each of these pillars, I'd like to discuss the first in some detail because we've already started our efforts on that pillar and I can use it to illustrate the method. - of, or endorsed by, the VS. government, the Department of LreieiizK; ur uc Lsepartment 01 UK AIT r OTCe. The appearance of advertisements in this publication, including inserts or supplements, does not constitute endorsement by the Department of the Air Force or MorMedia, Inc., of the products or services advertised. 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