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Performance Improvement Guide 6th Edition 11/2014 Flashcards

1
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What is the CGs definition of you influencing or inspiring others to achieve a goal

A

leadership

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How many leadership competencies does the CG use

A

28

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What are the 4 leadership categories

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leading self
leading others
leading performance and change
leading the CG

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4
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What are 3 leadership roles

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senior leaders
team leader
facilitator

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5
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The commandants performance excellence criteria is based on what other criteria

A

Malcolm Bridge National Performance Excellence Criteria

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6
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How many categories are in the CPEC

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7

leadership
strategic planning
customer focus
measurement, analysis, knowledge management

workforce focus
operations focus
results

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What is the process by which leaders clarify their organizations mission, develop a vision, articulate the values, and establish long, medium, and short term goals and strategies

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strategic planning

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8
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What is the hierarchy of strategic intent

A
  1. strategic (organizational) - strategic plans
  2. operational (area/district)- business plans
  3. tactical (sector/unit/team)- team/action plans

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9
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Situation analysis focuses on the following:

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planning assumptions
environmental factors
future focus
performance metrics
assessments

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10
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Refers to why an organizations exists, its reason for being or purpose

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Mission

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11
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When developing a mission statement how much time should be devoted to refining the statement

A

5-10 minutes

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When developing the ______, the category of intentions that are broad, all inclusive, and forward thinking refers to what

A

vision

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13
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How long should a unit vision span

A

a couple of CO tours or about 5 years

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What are things the organization must absolutely do right, or manage well, if it is to achieve its outcomes

A

critical success factors (CSFs)

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15
Q

What does SWOT stand for

A

strengths
weaknesses
opportunities
threats

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common SWOT methods: silent brainstorming and round robin

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16
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What acronym is a tool used to create goals

A

SMART

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17
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What does SMART stand for

A

specific
measurable
action oriented
realistic
time based

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What are specific, quantifiable, assignable sets of actions or projects that lead to accomplishing a goal over a specific time period

A

strategies

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What are specific tasks within a strategy that can be assigned to an individual or team to accomplish over a short period of time

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tactics

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What is Websters definition to make easy or easier, to lighten the work of, assist, help, to increase the ease of performance of any action

A

facilitate

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21
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In order to manage meetings successfully, apply what technique

A

PACER

purpose
agenda
code of conduct
expectations
roles

p 48

22
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What are the formal roles of a meeting

A

team leader
facilitator
recorder
scribe
timekeeper
expert
participant
co-facilitator

p 48

23
Q

A good rule of thumb for planning a meeting is to spend 1 hour of planning for each _____ of meeting time

A

hour

p 49

24
Q

What are the steps in facilitating a meeting

A

plan a meeting
establish member roles
establish ground rules
establish a parking lot(IDA Boards)
meeting evaluation(plus/Delta)

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25
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What is a tactic for breaking the parking lot into different boards

A

IDA

issues
decisions
actions

p 53

26
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How many boards are used to split a parking lot up for IDA

A

3

p 53

27
Q

How many evaluation methods are there and what are they

A

4

Round Robin
Consensus and discussions
Plus/delta
Meeting surveys

p 54

28
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What is an effective feedback or evaluation method

A

there are 2

plus/delta
meeting survey

p 54

29
Q

A _____ is a constructive criticism that is 95% constructive and 5% criticism

A

delta

p 55

30
Q

What are the CG group technology categories

A

videoconferencing
on-line groupware
audio teleconferencing
audience-response systems

p 57

31
Q

What are the stages of group development

A

forming
storming
norming
performing

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32
Q

What is Websters definition mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or internal demands

A

conflict

p 63

33
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In order for an organization to develop this capability, it must master 5 disciplines

A

personal mastery
mental models
shared vision
team learning
systems thinking

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34
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What is any group of interacting, interdependent, related parts that form a complex and unified whole, that whole having some purpose

A

system

p 66

35
Q

What is the process of systematically disassembling something in order to understand it

A

analytic thinking

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36
Q

Author Peter Senge says _____ means to act, observe the results, reflect, adjust, and act again intentionally seeking a different result

A

learn

p 71

37
Q

Acronym that pertains to the concept of work process

A

SIPOC

supplier
input
process
output
customer

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38
Q

_____ is a measure of the non-value added activities and resources used to meet customer/mission needs

A

waste

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39
Q

How many types of waste are there

A

7

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40
Q

How many types of data are there

A

2

continuous and discrete

p 80

41
Q

What are 3 techniques of data collection

A

surveys
interviews
focus group

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42
Q

What is the DMAIC

A

robust systematic continuous improvement approach

define
measure
analyze
improve
control

p 95

43
Q

CGBI includes what

A

readiness
activity
performance

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44
Q

The My Workspace tab on CGBI provides what information

A

individuals

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45
Q

CGBI extracts data from existing CG systems like what

A

DA
AOPS
ALMIS
TMT

p 101

46
Q

What can be used to organize verbal information into a visual pattern

A

affinity diagram

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47
Q

What are the 3 brainstorming techniques

A

silent
structured
unstructured

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48
Q

What are names of the cause and effect diagram

A

Ishikawa
fishbone

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49
Q

How many consensus card colors are there

A

5

green
yellow
red
orange
blue or purple

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50
Q

Words of note

A

gap analysis
histogram- bar graph
Gantt chart-
kano model- factors, customer satisfaction
Pareto chart- bar chart separates vital from trivial
Pareto principle- rule of thumb states 20% of the problems have 80% of the impact, 20% are the vital few
scatter diagram- graph that can reveal a possible relationship between 2 variables

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