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Show HILLTOP TIMES Maintain your weight, gain a prize TIMES November 26, 2008 BY ROGER BRANER 75th Force Support Squadron Fitness director T he holiday season may bring gifts and good tidings, but it also delivers high calorie feasts and decreased activity due to changes in the weath- er. Numerous reports suggest the average person gains between seven and 10 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's. According to surveys, on average, people report a five pound gain during this time of year. However, recent studies now indicate the average weight gain during the winter holidays is just one pound. Although a one pound gain is certainly better news than the 10 pounds previously reported, the problem is most people don't ever lose the pound of weight they put on during the holidays, according to The New England Journal of Medicine. To curb the potential for Airmen to adopt unhealthy habits during the holiday season, the Fitness Center and the Health and Wellness Center have teamed up with corporate sponsors Gatorade and Life Fitness to create the inaugural Holiday Maintain campaign. The main goals of the campaign are to give incentives for Team Hill to not put on any weight, and perhaps encourage members to lose weight if necessary, while giving the participants weekly opportunities to give themselves a better understanding of health topics. The Warrior Health and Fitness Center will provide many classes each week which range on subject matter from interactive aerobics to learning about keeping one's cholesterol levels intact. Each participant who successfully maintains his or her weight throughout the one month campaign period will be eligible for a drawing to be held Jan. 9. The top two prizes to be given away at the drawing include a Life Fitness Cross Trainer elliptical machine and a Snowbasin Ski Resort annual ski pass. To increase one's chances of being selected in the drawing, attending each campaign-sponsored class gives the participants an opportunity to place their names one or two additional times in the drawing. Additionally, those who sign up as a team receive one additional chance based on the number of team members, as long as all members maintain their weight. Sign-ups and initial weigh-ins will end after Nov. 27. Pick up a brochure that lists all classes and events for the Holiday Maintain campaign at the Warrior Health and Fitness Center front desk. said in recalling some of the information presented by Ritter and Gen. Posner. "I can't improve upon green. Red is From page 1 interesting. If there's a problem. I can tory, it is easiest to defend or not bring resolve it. I can make it better. You need to bring those things forward. forward information that desired customer outcomes have not been met That's what we're going to push here from the SAF/SO Office, " Ritter an— whether that customer is an Air Force industry, depot level production nounced. process or Air Force management. "That sparked a lot of discussion Borrowing heavily from a success- among the senior leaders," Dynes recalled. ful and revolutionary business over"Can we use you as a backdrop haul at Toyota, AFSO21 includes the crucial idea that knowing what went for these things when we bring these wrong and more importantly — what things forward," Ritter was asked. the cause was — helps improve the Ritter's directive was "That's the whole process. culture we need to instill. We need "Our culture is that red is bad. And them to bring all the problems forit's not - green is boring. Green doesn't ward." tell me anything," Dr. Ritter is report"Having no problems is a problem," ed to have conveyed at the course. Ritter quoted from the Toyota model. "That's a huge cultural shock," Doug "Cost cutting is a lazy man's way of Dynes, AFSO director for Team Hill, improving an organization," he also AFSO21 was important to develop good ideas and disseminate them quickly. Gen. Posner is hoping to make the ideas more available in a timely matter, perhaps keep the ideas in some kind of repository, so to speak, but available for release to applicable parties as soon as possible. Gen. Posner sent the message following the course that the ALCs are Current Situation leading the way and in the forefront of AFSO development and that he is looking forward to Hill AFB hosting pointed out as part of the motivation a General Office Course on the same to the steps and re-evaluation necesconcepts for even higher level personsary to instilling the AFSO systemic nel. approach. Gen. Posner recalled an incident Dynes reports that Hill AFB is fowhere he and Dr. Ritter went to a su^ cusing on a component of the AFSO perior's office as part of Posner's new concepts especially the application of duties when he took over for Lt. Gen. an eight-step model taken from the Paul Selva in a new assignment. Toyota process, with Gen. Close's backing. This model in brief is as follows: He reported that his new superior was livid and reviewed the need to go AFSO21 8-Step Problem Solving over the recapitalization of the force. Process The superior was questioning Posner 1. Clarify and Validate the Problem and Ritter on how the Air Force was ' ir" "'"^fereakdown the Problem/Identify going to recapitalize and keep things^ (; r Performance Gaps going forward with the aging of tnV'w""" ^3. Set Improvement Target aircraft. 4. Determine the Root Cause 5. Develop Countermeasures Posner reports they received a real raking over the coals. 6. See Countermeasures Through 7. Confirm Results and Processes After they were leaving Posner was upset because his boss was mad. And 8. Standardize Successful Processes he looked over at Ritter and Ritter had The Air Force is seeking men and this big smile on his face. And Posner women whose vision includes the abilquestioned him, "Why are you smility to re-evaluate the way they look at ing?" what they are "working" on. He replied, " Now we know what to The improvements especially infix. The boss told us. We're good." clude the shop level or at the level of: Gen. Posner said, "How can that be the lowest interactions in the workgood." force. For example, "This part right here is broken and there's a better Ritter re-emphasized, "Now we way," Dynes said. "And management know what to fix. This isn't a bad needs to 'own' the process." thing." This was a cultural sea change for "We need to improve. We need to be him. willing to engage with them and find As Dynes points out, "You get to out what they have to say. As long as look at things differently and that's they stay within the boundaries of statgood. That is the definition of transfor- utory and regulatory requirements," . mation." then the goal is to improve customer satisfaction and close the gap between "AFSO is all about doing your job what the customer wants and what the faster, better, more safely and smarter," points out the Air Force Journal of current work-place result is, Dynes said. Logistics in its summer edition in an article introducing a series of studies The AFSO model cannot fail to concerning the model. "It is important increase the effectiveness of those to understand that AFSO doesn't make whose vision expands to include its apdecisions to cut or constrain resources. plications. When vision and motivation Quite the contrary, AFSO helps Airmen change and improvements are made deal effectively in an environment the Air Force mission itself cannot but where those limitations already exist." be helped by those who understand Part of the focus that developed out and implement these important concepts. of the educational meeting was that it Ideal Situation <p»i€J' Preschool 5420 S 1,900 RQ& UT 8406 •. ''-K 8:0 a 0 H ; ^ ^ 5** •'.**' Childcare for Newborn ~ " .../ up to School Age tocated jusfSutside No registration Monday thru Friday the Roy gate fee for Military Extended hours, weekend and overnight care available. Register before the new year and receive a discount for 2 months |
