Mentoring

Mentoring is a relationship in which knowledge and skills are shared between members in a way in which everyone benefits. Often a more senior person is mentoring a junior person, but mentorship can happen between any two individuals. Mentoring will help Airmen and Guardians discover their strengths by achieving their full potential through a structured, trusting mentoring relationship.

Find a mentor and become a mentor! It’s easy to do both by registering in MyVector. In 2021, we completely redesigned the Mentoring platform in MyVector based on your feedback. New features include:

Ability to self-identify as someone seeking a mentor or someone who wants to be a mentor
Track the status of their mentoring requests
Updated Resources page
Enhanced messaging capability that allows users to send messages to mentors
Additional search filters:
ethnicity, race, disability, Exceptional Family Members Program (EFMP), MAJCOM, organizations, and ranks
Ability for mentees to share documents with mentor
Sister Service mentor/mentee enabled capability
CFM ability to assign mentors to mentees (Spring 2022)

Log into MyVector, check out the new capabilities, and find your mentor today at https://myvector.us.af.mil!

TAC Talks EP06: The Decision Support Matrix

Fort Irwin Operations Group

Video by Annette Pritt

Aug. 21, 2023 | 11:25

Operations Group TAC Talks is a “How-to” video series discussing best practices from the experts in combined arms maneuver, the Observer, Coach/Trainers at the National Training Center/Fort Irwin (NTC).

In the Episode, MAJ Robert Rose, Lizard Team, discusses developing a Decision Support Matrix (DSM) to provide flexibility to a plan. Plans rarely survive contact with the enemy, but by building a DSM, you can anticipate potential branch plans to respond to changes in the situation. Those branch plans should identify actions across warfighting functions to ensure they are complete. You should rehearse branch plans at your combined arms rehearsal to ensure subordinate units understand their role in the branch plan and identify any potential friction in execution. Using a well-developed DSM, you can fight with the flexibility shown in the "Decision Point Tactics" publication (CTC Quarterly Bulletin No. 97-4, Center for Army Lessons Learned) used by the Opposing Forces at the National Training Center. Anticipating decisions and creating a shared understanding of potential actions ensures you can achieve decision dominance.

References:

Access the example DSM on the NTC, Operation Group MilSuite here:
https://www.milsuite.mil/book/groups/ntc-operations-group

To hear more from the Operations Group Observer, Coach / Trainers at the NTC subscribe to our podcast, Thinking Inside the Box on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Amazon and more. More

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