Section 15D--What We Don't Know

Question 1

Today’s junior members have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to open unlimited opportunities to maximize work center effectiveness. To improve organizational effectiveness, what must leaders encourage Airmen to do?

Answer 1

Develop their capabilities

Question 2

What is best served when leaders help followers develop their own initiatives, encourages them to use their own judgement, and allows them to grow?

Answer 2

Mission

Question 3

What improves dramatically as a result of promoting empowered followership?

Answer 3

Creativity and innovativenss

Question 4

True or False? Delegation is not empowerment. HOwever, effective empowerment does require good delegation.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What must a leader exercise when introducing empowerment?

Answer 5

Flexibility and patience

Question 6

What aims does the USAF want its culture to work toward?

Answer 6

a) Identify Airmen’s needs
b) Champon their solutions
c) Eliminate roadblocks
d) Push back detractors
e) Celebrate the innovative mindset

Question 7

How will Airmen of today, who are already well-versed in innovative technologies, propel us into the USAF tomorrow?

Answer 7

By integrating data-centric processes at the core of our operations

Question 8

By employing what qualities, is the USAF charged with a no-fail mission of providing effective Global Vigilance, Global Reach, and Global Power - Today, tomorrow, and into the future?

Answer 8

Agility and inclusiveness

Question 9

Our diverse and highly educated force brings to the table a wide variety of views, experiences, and abilities; providing the USAF a deep pool of talent from which to draw ideas. What actions do Airmen do to tap into that rich pool of talent?

Answer 9

a) Use the techniques of good decision-making
b) Foster the development of habits of mind necessary to assure we apply critical thought