Weekly Briefs

If it’s @JustCallMeFlight then they wouldn’t :rofl: But most people it would be fine.

There is a way of doing it, but I don’t know how. I’m in L&SER and have received a few all-region emails to my 100 account. For day to day stuff, I just monito the squadron generic account. As the all-Wing emails should go there too, not just to exec accounts.

It was supposed to be delivered in Q1 of 2024, according to the digital roadmap, and indeed was built and feedback requested from Bader PoC’s and IT Officers back in August last year.

Q1 2024 to me would be April - June 2024. Is that not what’s meant here?

I’d assumed they’d be talking about actual years, not financial years, so Jan - Mar.

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I would also interpret Q1 2024 as January to March. April to June would be Q1 of 2024-25.

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There should be a vacancy portal for all WHQ, RHQ and national CFAV vacancies, and have an area for externalvvacancies (eg RFCA) too

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I think that is the plan. It was suggested as an idea on the ASTRA hub, and I think it said it was already being worked on.

Already exists, just not launched yet.

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New ACP19 has word on advertising roles so maybe its being set up for this

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i like the weekly briefs, they have an openness about them, and going to all does help avoid rumours.

I think it could go a little further, the document updates only links to the document, with no context on what has changed.

But i do like it. its a bit “newsletter-y” than a “brief” - it doesn’t replace CRO which I still feel are missing, but it does a good job.

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This would be good to see. When documents are updated there is version control built in, with comments. These are already available within key docs, but would be good to see that added to the brief too!

Weirdly, I noticed that “Repeat Orders” - which historically formed part of CROs - are still being put out on a monthly basis by HQAC. I stumbled upon them purely by accident - but it did make me wonder if these and CROs are still being churned out because there’s a Civil Servant at HQAC with it in their job spec; irrespective of whether anybody uses them!

Where!?

I see them pop up in key docs sometimes!

Yeap - I found them in key docs… I think it was linked as a recently updated doc from a Weekly brief a few weeks back!

https://rafac.sharepoint.com/sites/interim/QM/Controlled%20Documents/Forms/Cadet%20Routine%20Order.aspx?viewpath=%2Fsites%2Finterim%2FQM%2FControlled%20Documents%2FForms%2FCadet%20Routine%20Order.aspx

Any chance of a summary for us under 20s ?

Thought I’d reply to this here as to not drag that other thread off topic.

To be fair to the team, the weekly briefs have been by far the most successful brief/newsletter/comms thing I’ve seen since becoming staff. Normally, these ideas last a month at best, then just stop.

What we’ve had is nearly every week, for a year now, a decent brief of what’s happening with some announcements, feel good stories etc. I still think the whole-org comms strategy is lacking, but these briefs have been great.

Sometimes late, but that’s just life? Sometimes missed entirely, again, that’s just life. And to be fair, the times I’ve not seen it in an email, and gone to check, there has been a “Nothing to report, see you next week” post, rather than it just being forgotten.

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Thanks @JoeBloggs, for the positive words and support.

Yeah. Very simply they’re sometimes delayed because of none of us being available to get it done for the Monday, its simply volunteer capacity.

Other times we might hold a day to share something that needs to go sooner rather than later (and can’t wait the week), or we’ll have already posted the article on the Monday night (but late) and send the email the following day.

Our aim is always the Monday night, and we’ll always do our best to be consistent (and as you say, when we don’t post it, we do an article saying that, we just don’t want to send an email saying no news).

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I find the weekly updates a great help, so thanks to the team that puts them out. Personally, I would rather that they are right and possibly out on Tuesday/Wednesday instead of Monday, rushed and missing important ponts/needing corrections.

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