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Show 2 TIMES COMMENTARY June 7, 2007 why your signature is required. The supervisor, in the case of the examples just mentioned, is saying he/she is the person in control of the organization and the expenditure of government funds was for legitimate Air Force needs. Your signature means you approve of what you sign, and you agree with the contents. Agreeing with the contents may sound a bit challenging if you're not the author. My next bit of advice is to think about why you're asked to sign and it may not seem so intimidating. BY DAN WYNN For instance, sometimes your approval of the content is specific to 526ICBM Systems Wing only a portion of the document, and your approval therefore varies As an Air Force employee, especially management, you are asked with your job and the document. For example, a safety specialist reviewing a test plan is saying the procedures and equipment are to sign many documents. From time cards, purchase requests, safe. The financial analyst is saying the test is charging to the correct reports to memos, you may be putting your name on the line a accounts. The engineer is saying the right test steps are present. Keep hundred times or so per year. What do you think your signature in mind your job function and role in what the document represents means? Is it just a formality, "it's only a block on the form?" Does it as you consider signing and the job will seem more manageable. carry a legal significance and cause you to see visions of lawyers coming after you? I've seen folks in the Air Force who think a My third bit of advice deals with time management. How do you signature means nothing, and I've seen others respond with fright to keep up with the volumes of words you're asked to sign off on? Most a request to sign a hand receipt for their personal computers. I important, don't give in to that urgent request - don't pencil whip it! suggest you should think of your signature on government docuTake the time you need to safeguard your signature; it's your ments somewhere between these extremes. reputation. If you're looking at a large technical document'and I'd like to give a little a.dvice, mostly for those newly promoted to you're one of the managers signing it, you should face the fact you management; on how to give out your signature. Before I give you my can't be an expert on all the technical content. advice, I guess I should discuss what the Air Force has to say about My advice is to ensure the process used to build the document is your signature. What does Tongue and Quill for instance say? You'll correct, and the people involved are those with the appropriate find T&Q and AFMAN 33-326 will tell you how to format a signature expertise and job responsibility. Most of the larger reports you see block, what type of ink to use (black), and where on the page to put it. are required by Air Force guidance. Managers should make sure that You won't find an answer to "what does my signature mean?" the process guidance in those Air Force Instructions is followed. You need to be familiar with the Air Force guidance and the list of who My first bit of advice is to consider your signature as your personal possession. You can't and has already signed off. If the won't be forced to sign anything report was built per Air Force on your job. However, in some guidance and reviewed/approved by the appropriate cases an integral part of your job experts, you should feel comfortincludes signing documents; John Hancock's signature on the Declaration of Independon't expect to keep a job you dence Is one of the most famous signatures In American his- able giving it your signature too. aren't willing to do. For instance, When you sign a personal tory. Mr. Hancock was a supervisor must sign certain president of the Continental check, your signature means you documents like travel vouchers, promise to pay. You should give Congress and thus the first time cards and performance as much care in signing a govto sign the Declaration of plans. If you give it some thought, ernment document as you give -,r~,.F .^Independence In 1776. you should be able to discover signing a personal check. The meaning of the Air Force signature HMES \\eekl\ Since 1048 Hilltop Times Editorial Staff Col. Scott Chambers 75th Air Base Wing commander Marilu Trainor Public Affairs chief 1st Lt. Genieve David Public Affairs internal information chief .Airman 1st Class Clayton Murray Hilltop Times Editor Beth Young Hilltop Times Writer Mitch Shaw Hilltop Times Writer Lesa Wiser Standard Examiner Design and Layout Deadlines: Editorial and news items are due by noon on the Thursday prior to print date. For more information call 777-7321. For advertising call 6254300. 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