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Maybe it's because I've worked around the joint world for 8 of my 19 years on Active Duty but I've come to believe that the word counseling has too many negative connotations associated with it. If an NCO uses the word people automatically expect the worst. If you had a chance what do you thin could be done to erase the connotation and show folks that "counseling" can be used in a positive manner.
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Counselling in and of itself is not bad. We start off with Quarterly Counselling Sessions, and FitReps are Annual Counselling Sessions. Any time we talk to a subordinate about positive or negative progress it is a Counselling Session (on the spot). The issue is that we equate counselling with Corrective Action, and avoid using the word when speaking of the positive.
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Counseling... is for many applications... and many should be positive... But, in the Army too, it generally connotes a bad thing...
This might help from a couple months back...
https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/do-army-leaders-military-leaders-really-understand-counseling-and-leader-development--2
This might help from a couple months back...
https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/do-army-leaders-military-leaders-really-understand-counseling-and-leader-development--2
Do Army Leaders (Military Leaders) really understand counseling and leader development? |...
I am interested in your thoughts on how you think we are we are doing, as an Army, (Navy, Air Force, Marines) with performance and professional growth counseling, and hence leader development. The latest Army definition of Leadership added "improve the organization," which I interpret to mean improving both the unit and the individuals serving there. The latter requires a concerted counseling and leader development focus. This is the latest:...
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Bryce Englin
COL Williams, sir thank you for sharing, I appreciate it and I wish there was a way to remove the negative connotations with this word. It just surprises me that what we refer to as a Feedback in the Air Force is called a counseling in the Army. They are both given by supervisors usually within 60-90 days to arrival with the names and forms used being the only difference.
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COL Charles Williams
Bryce Englin - I think all four branches have different names for everything....
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Bryce Englin
COL Williams yes sir I agree they do, it also makes it fun to discover these things as well.
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Use 'development' instead...counseling does have a historically negative connotation.
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Bryce Englin
SGM thank you for the feedback and will take it into consideration, however I know for many of the Army supervisors I've worked for, I really like the "old school" application that comes with how counseling is viewed. "Development" though does sound more neutral.
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