Category: EPRs, Bullets
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What the Feedback: Escape the Feedback Famine
In my 19 years in the Air Force, I am one of many who have never really received a “formal” feedback. Usually, all I got was “its feedback time… sign, date and return to me.” Like magic, I had that phantom feedback date on EPR. This phenomenon is what can be referred to as the…
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6-Part Folder to Support Feedbacks
How many times have you wished that your supervisor had taken the time to develop you better? How many years have you gone wishing that your supervisor had taken expended the energy to truly plan a feedback more than just an hour before you sat down? How many of you honestly believe that your Airmen…
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Write your own EPR… Seriously.
“My supervisor didn’t do me justice.” “I didn’t even see my EPR until it was time for a signature.” “I submitted bullets and they didn’t even use them.” Any of these sound familiar? It’s pretty common to assume that a performance report is going to be written by your supervisor, in any job, military or…
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What the Feedback?
As supervisors, one of our biggest challenges is guiding and mentoring our people. Without doubt, feedback is our most critical tool, providing us with a broad mechanism that, when used properly, results in substantial gains on many levels. Unfortunately, we do not appropriately utilize this mechanism as often as required. In addition, we as supervisors…
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Gain a Space Within a 1206 or EPR Bullet
(Updated: 30 December 2020, with ability to copy spaces at the end) Sometimes, when working on an awards package or evaluation, you just need one more space to fit a word that will make a bullet come together…well my awesome admin taught me there is a way to make this happen that feels like magic. In…
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Bullet Writing… For Dummies (like me)
Ah, the art of bullet writing. From the very first Air Force evaluation in the wonder years of the late 1940’s to today’s latest EPR form, many have been bested by the arduous task of taking life itself, amplifying it’s quintessence, whittling large narratives and compartmentalizing facts into… A single; three part bullet–with an impact…
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What Should be on a TSgt’s EPR?
One of the most frequent questions I get as the senior enlisted leader in my unit is how an EPR should read. I love getting this question because it means people are looking out for their subordinate or doing their best to improve themselves. For this article I will go into how I think a…
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Bullet Writing Tips (TSgt Jeffrey Henebry)
Here is a really good bullet writing presentation and tracker courtesy of TSgt Jeffrey Henebry: bullet-writing-for-jr-enlisted-final-locked bullet-tracker
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