Never been in an emotional or heated meeting at work? Senior and not so senior management should be able to take it and do so in the context of the situation. In the mid to late 00s we had meetings at work where retirement / redundancies voluntary and forced were in the offing and things were said on both sides that couldn’t be unsaid. But after the meetings people went back to work and got on with it and each other, having said their piece. I can imagine there will be a number of these across the country as restrictions ease and people get told they don’t have jobs anymore, even if they have been getting 80% of their pay.
I’m not sure why there is any surprise of lack of tact/diplomacy as CFAV put a lot of emotional energy into their ‘hobby’ only to be or feel let down by those they expect to be able to make things happen, so things will be said that some don’t like. I suppose our ‘leaders’ won’t be going into politics, as the public and media are not known for keeping their gloves on, ask your local councillor and MP.
Just because someone wears some badges on their proscribed form of corporate dress, doesn’t mean they should be immune or afforded more respect because they do. If they don’t like the tone of some people’s remarks, they know where the door is. it seems ironic that CFAV can be submitted to some really scathing and personal comments about them and how they do things, yet those commenting are above reproach and similar comments.
Am I going mad? That link takes me to an old discussion, I can’t see a response? - sorry, I’m not great on Sharepoint at the best of times!
It’s over 2 pages. make sure you’re looking at the second page.
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Results have been announced on sharepoint
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To save the Luddites… 
Commandants’ Letter
Survey Results
EDIT - first speed read - some of the areas are not a surprise, but might give leverage to the new Cmdt to push for essential changes.
Interesting:
The author is an Organisational Psychologist with experience working across the private and
public sector. A specialist within Selection & Assessment, she also has experience of
understanding employee attitudes and issues within organisations and making evidence
based recommendations.
She was a cadet within the RAF section of the CCF and a member of the University Officer
Training Corps. She has been a CFAV within CCF (RAF) and then ATC since 2014.
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I’m intrigued by next step “review the need of the CI role”. That one needs to be handled carefully if action is taken
mhmm that was an odd one.
Administration is cited as a key reason for why individuals are considering leaving.
A.The DYER recommended that across the Cadet Forces unnecessary administration must be removed. It is recommended a working group is created to review the current administrative processes and policies.
Don’t we have an Admin Reduction Working Group?
I’m slightly shocked that (at the time of writing the report) the organisation does not know how many Service Instructors or Chaplain’s we have . . .
I’ve always preferred the ACF PI route but if this is revisited and removed I’d suggest current CIs should remain and new staff members join as uniformed whatever we call them.
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Yes I suspect if current CI’s were told they needed to transition into uniform, a fair number would walk.
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I suspect, based on the date of the information, that data is from the publicly available MOD data, not from HQAC.
Having skimmed through the summary and start of the report, it looks like a good piece of work. The author has clearly put a lot of effort into it and produced something that could be very valuable for staff throughout RAFAC and especially to HQAC. Great job!!
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SIs are not populated in Universe, but should be identifiable via SMS.
Padres there is no excuse as they are in both Universe & SMS
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however there are loads of formatting issues which have resulted in missing text or repeated text. . .
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I’ve only skim read it so far, (saving it for the 3am baby feed) but it looks like the author has put a lot of time and effort into this. Hopefully it can give a good snapshot of the organisation for the new CAC to use to get started.
Would be really interesting to re-run it maybe 6 months post return from face to face ban/12 months after the new guy takes over (whichever comes first)
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It seems the data of split has been taken from public sources and not internal data.
Out of interest, can an ACF PI remain as such for as long as they wish? Or is there a set time limit?
I want to say it’s a great idea for those who prefer to be CIs to be in a uniformed role, but without the uniform agro. However, if the person doesn’t wish to progress; that detracts from the point of a uniformed PI.
