Step 3 - Identify Duty Areas cont'd

Once all ideas have been written on the flipchart, read each duty area

aloud. Restate that any duty area that cannot be subdivided into six or

more specific tasks should not remain as a separate duty area. Similarly,

a single duty area should not be so broadly stated that it might contain an

Briefly combine or

excessive number of tasks (more than 20). Remind the team to ensure

modify duty areas if

tasks performed under emergency/abnormal situations will be

needed

encompassed under the duty areas they select. Use the consensus

decision-making techniques to ask the team if they would like to discuss,

clarify, or explain any of the answers. The team should identify any

answers they feel can be combined or eliminated because of duplication.

Technique: As the team comes to consensus on what to keep as duty

area statements and what to delete, CIRCLE the duty area statement

Use the "circles and

and, with the same color marker, CROSS THROUGH the items that

color-coding"

technique to track

were deleted because of the circled item. For the next statement they

which items were

choose to keep as a duty area, circle it with a DIFFERENT COLOR

"folded" into the

marker and cross through the applicable items with that SAME marker.

chosen statement

This way, in the end, it will show a clear link of where each suggestion

was "folded into" the final choices. [If you run out of different marker

colors, try drawing "clouds" around the final choice (rather than a circle)

and then drawing a squiggly line through the crossed out items (rather

than a straight line).] It will be even more important to use this

technique during Step 4, because that input will be valuable during the

"design" phase of SAT when determining training program content.

W rite each duty area horizontally on a

Co-Facilitator: As the team

yellow 8-1/2" x 11" page and post the

reaches consensus on each duty

pages in two vertical columns down the

center of the wall

area, print each duty area

Follow these

statement (the "circled" items)

guidelines when

writing the duty area

Reactor

horizontally on a separate piece

Operator

pages

of yellow 8-1/2" x 11" paper.

Use a wide-tip, black, permanent

marker that does not bleed

Fuel Storage

Cooling

Post the duty area

Tank System

W ater System

through the paper. Write legibly

statements in two

and make the letters at least 1"

vertical columns

Heating and

Electrical

down the center of

tall so all team members can

Ventilation

System

the TTJA wall

easily read the page once it is

System

posted on the wall. After writing

a duty area on a page, prepare

the page so it can hang it on the wall, using the guidelines described in

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