Unit Training Management I

1. Unit Training Management I

2. Agenda • UTM Overview • Leader’s Role in Training • Mission Analysis (METL Development) • Practical Exercises

3. TLO / ELO • TLO – Prepare a Unit Training Plan • ELO – Develop a Battalion METL • Acting as a battalion staff officer, given readings, group discussions, and practical exercises in a classroom environment; focusing on preparing a battalion for ULO during the Train/Ready phase of the ARFORGEN.

4. Training Experiences • Terrific, great, productive experiences or • Horrible, terrible, time-wasting experiences

5. Unit Training Management (UTM) Overview

6. The Operations Process and Unit Training Management The operations process (see ADRP 3-0)

7. MDMP and Unit Training Management The military decision making process (MDMP) as described by ADRP 5-0 (The Operations Process), is the foundation to planning unit training. The military decision making process (MDMP) for training units

8. Long-Range Planning METL Development Short-Range Planning • Higher Unit Mission • Higher CDR’s Guidance • Higher Unit METL Manage Training Events Training Brief Commander’s Analysis Training Meetings Event: Class Event: STAFFEX • What tasks do I train? • What’s the training end state? • What events do I plan? • How do I sequence events? • Have I planned for leader • development? • Have I left enough ‘white space’ • for subordinates? • Do I have the resources I need? Assess Event: CPX • Current METL Assessment • What collective tasks support • the higher unit? • Feedback from subordinates • How much time is available? • Risks not training all tasks? • Leader development planned? • Resources needed? • Operational environment? • Have I met higher CDR’s intent? • Proposed unit METL Determine Key Collective Tasks Approved Training Calendar Event: FTX Event: MRE/MRX Determine & Sequence Training Events METL Proficiency Commanders’ Dialog Approved METL

9. Leader’s Role in Training

10. Commander’s Training Responsibilities What are the major responsibilities every commander has in unit training? Lead Through purpose, direction and motivation Understand Visualize Describe Direct The mission his unit must execute The training end state: what the unit must be able to perform (tasks) How the training will be accomplished (training guidance and the unit training plan (UTP)) Be present at training; conduct training meetings; plan-prepare- execute the training and assess unit task proficiency Assess Continually Assess to make accurate and timely decisions that affect the quality of unit training Commander activities in unit training

11. Leader Training Responsibilities All unit leaders (officers and NCOs) are responsible to the commander for the training readiness of their area(s) of responsibility. They evaluate training and provide assessments to the commander. What do their responsibilities include?

12. Mission Analysis (METL Development)

13. METL Development What is METL? • BDE and above – Standardized by type and pre-determined by DA • BN and CO – Developed based on: • - The higher units METL • - Guidance provided by the higher commander (the mission / tasks your unit must perform / the training time available / the operational environment) • CDRs ensure their unit METL supports the higher CDR’s METL and guidance

14. METL Definitions & Structure(Battalion and Company Level) A collective task that a unit must be able to perform successfully in order to accomplish it’s mission. Mission EssentialTask (MET) Unit METL A clearly defined, discrete, and measurable activity or action that requires organized team or unit performance and leads to accomplishment of a mission or function. MET Supporting Collective Task Supporting collective task Individual Tasks Individual Tasks Supporting collective task Individual Tasks Individual Tasks Supporting collective task Individual Tasks Individual Tasks A clearly defined, discrete, and measurable action that represents the lowest-level of behavioral action in a job or duty that is performed for its own sake. Supporting collective task Individual Tasks Individual Tasks Supporting collective task Individual Tasks Individual Tasks Supporting collective task Individual Tasks Individual Tasks Individual Task MET

15. Mission & Higher CDR’s Guidance • BNs and COs create their Key Collective Tasks with the higher commander’s guidance and the higher unit METL. • Guidance provided by the higher commander includes: • The unit mission • Tasks your unit must perform • The operational environment to train for • The training time available • The higher commander states the tasks that your unit must accomplish – not how to do it. You must determine the best way to meet the higher commander’s requirements. • All commanders should strive to limit the number of key collective tasks to train. They should seek to train the fewest tasks possible, focusing on the fundamental tasks first. • There are two fundamental questions that each commander must ask as they develop their own Key Collective Tasks: What is the higher unit mission? and What does my higher commander want my unit to do to support that mission? X • What is the Div mission? • What does the Div Cdr • want to do? • What is the Bde mission? • What does the Bde Cdr • want to do? • What is the Bn mission? • What does the Bn Cdr • want to do? • What is the Co mission? • What does the Co Cdr • want to do?

16. Determining the tasks your unit must train • After receiving your higher commander’s guidance and METL, you must determine what tasks your unit must train. The goal is to ID the minimal number of tasks necessary to support accomplishment of the higher units METL. • Look at the supporting collective tasks to your higher units METs • Use CATS viewer to assist identifying tasks at the BN level • Review the Training and Evaluation Outlines (T&EO) • Get input from your subordinate leaders • Select the tasks for the BN METL • Use the training enablers on ATN (Handout) • CATS viewer • DTMS • FSO METL viewer Note: CATS on both ATN and DTMS will allow you to view and print the related Training & Evaluation Outlines (T&EOs) for your collective tasks.

17. Commanders’ Dialogue The unit commander will coordinate a backbrief to the higher commander to discuss these issues in order to obtain his concurrence, guidance and approval of the proposed unit METL (collective tasks to train). This backbrief is called the commanders’ dialog. Formal dialogs occur at company level and above. • What’s discussed • The collective tasks the unit will train (METL). • The unit’s assessment of the proposed unit METL. • When the unit will be proficient in the METL tasks. • Risks involved in not training some collective tasks. • The operational conditions to replicate. • The unique resources needed to train. • Significant changes to unit readiness.

18. Give guidance to your subordinates • Now that you’re unit METL and key collective tasks are approved, your are prepared to: • Publish the METL to your subordinate units. • Issue tasks to subordinate units. This is done in a WARNO to the Unit Training Plan (UTP) OPORD. • Key points to remember: • Reiterate specifically what you want your subordinate units to do • Tell your subordinates what you need done – not how to do it • Explain the conditions they must replicate in training • State the resources available to conduct training

19. Practical Exercise #1 • Given a Brigade METL and the Brigade Training Guidance, each group will develop a Battalion METL and Key Collective Tasks. • One student planning group will brief the class on their BN METL and tasks to subordinate elements.

20. Practical Exercise #2 • Given the Key Collective Tasks developed in the previous exercise each student planning group will determine appropriate supporting collective tasks for one of the BN METs. • One student planning group will brief the SGL on their results.