As a young Boy Scout sitting in a junior leadership training class, I
was taught something that sticks with me to do this day. The subject
was the Seven Ps: Proper prior planning prevents pitifully poor
performance. This phrase ties in very well with our day-to-day mission
here.
Being deployed to the desert puts us in the spotlight; we are the lead
element of our Air Force. The Seven Ps should be utilized while
deployed more than ever, because if we fail to properly plan here then
the poor performance to follow could be the loss of life or
multimillion dollar aircraft.
But the Seven Ps aren’t just useful for the big things: they are useful
in everyday operations and can make your job much easier. When any
project comes to you, you should immediately set a plan in motion to
not only get it accomplished, but to get it accomplished the right way.
We never should just slap something together and call it good.
Field-expedient fixes are fine, but as soon as we get that fix in place
we need to start planning to do it right and not just put it off. This
goes back to our core value of “Excellence in all we do;” it is
something that sets us apart.
This also applies to procedures and plans that were in place before we
arrived. If you see something you know is not working well and causes
problems, don’t just shrug it off and say, “That is how we do it here,”
do something to change it.
As a Boy Scout, I was taught to leave a place better than I found it.
That can mean simply cleaning up after yourself and what others may
have left behind, or it could mean improving the place by making things
work better.
You can create a plan that makes your shop more efficient or solves a problem others have left behind.
Do you really want to deal with a field-expedient fix for some extended
period of time? Do you want to just meet the minimum requirement of the
mission without really accomplishing much?
Take advantage of your time to make your shop and your base better for you and those who will follow you by using the Seven Ps.
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As a young Boy Scout sitting in a junior leadership training class, I
was taught something that sticks with me to do this day. The subject
was the Seven Ps: Proper prior planning prevents pitifully poor
performance. This phrase ties in very well with our day-to-day mission
here.
Being deployed to the desert puts us in the spotlight; we are the lead
element of our Air Force. The Seven Ps should be utilized while
deployed more than ever, because if we fail to properly plan here then
the poor performance to follow could be the loss of life or
multimillion dollar aircraft.
But the Seven Ps aren’t just useful for the big things: they are useful
in everyday operations and can make your job much easier. When any
project comes to you, you should immediately set a plan in motion to
not only get it accomplished, but to get it accomplished the right way.
We never should just slap something together and call it good.
Field-expedient fixes are fine, but as soon as we get that fix in place
we need to start planning to do it right and not just put it off. This
goes back to our core value of “Excellence in all we do;” it is
something that sets us apart.
This also applies to procedures and plans that were in place before we
arrived. If you see something you know is not working well and causes
problems, don’t just shrug it off and say, “That is how we do it here,”
do something to change it.
As a Boy Scout, I was taught to leave a place better than I found it.
That can mean simply cleaning up after yourself and what others may
have left behind, or it could mean improving the place by making things
work better.
You can create a plan that makes your shop more efficient or solves a problem others have left behind.
Do you really want to deal with a field-expedient fix for some extended
period of time? Do you want to just meet the minimum requirement of the
mission without really accomplishing much?
Take advantage of your time to make your shop and your base better for you and those who will follow you by using the Seven Ps.