I’ve been leading a professional development program in my battalion since I took over as XO a few months ago. Once a month we go through vignettes on decision-making and ethics. Instead of taking them from existing sites like the previous XO I’ve been producing them myself. I was hoping to use this forum to get feedback and ideas for making them better and extending the narrative in a realistic way that will still generate good discussion amongst the company command teams. If you like anything in any of the vignettes feel free to use them yourself, nothing proprietary – just trying to build good training.
My BN is a Division Headquarters BN, so all the company command teams are HQs Company Commanders – and they’re the training audience. So, with the vignettes I tried to come up with a scenario that would put them in plausible situations similar to where they are now, yet still have the ability to challenge them with ethical and decision-making challenges.
The way they’re laid out is chronological. The first scenario sets the narrative stage, then the vignettes follow. Right now we’re on the second step in the scenario but haven’t gotten to the vignettes in the 2nd stage. I give the company command teams the top portion of the vignette (above the line) – the part below the line I use, along with the BN CDR and BN CSM, to help guide the discussion.
Really appreciate any ideas for making the vignettes better and especially expanding the scenario and vignettes going forward.
My BN is a Division Headquarters BN, so all the company command teams are HQs Company Commanders – and they’re the training audience. So, with the vignettes I tried to come up with a scenario that would put them in plausible situations similar to where they are now, yet still have the ability to challenge them with ethical and decision-making challenges.
The way they’re laid out is chronological. The first scenario sets the narrative stage, then the vignettes follow. Right now we’re on the second step in the scenario but haven’t gotten to the vignettes in the 2nd stage. I give the company command teams the top portion of the vignette (above the line) – the part below the line I use, along with the BN CDR and BN CSM, to help guide the discussion.
Really appreciate any ideas for making the vignettes better and especially expanding the scenario and vignettes going forward.