SFC Private RallyPoint Member 7121348 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I am new to the PSG position and am working to build a Platoon Sergeants Leaders Book. For those of you more experienced in the role than I, what do you keep in your Leaders book? What works for you, what doesn&#39;t work? Any and all advice would be helpful and we just might be able to help out some others along the way with idea sharing. Thanks all for your help! 2021-07-20T15:56:00-04:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 7121348

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I am new to the PSG position and am working to build a Platoon Sergeants Leaders Book. For those of you more experienced in the role than I, what do you keep in your Leaders book? What works for you, what doesn&#39;t work? Any and all advice would be helpful and we just might be able to help out some others along the way with idea sharing. Thanks all for your help!

2021-07-20T15:56:00-04:00 2021-07-20T15:56:00-04:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 7121416

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Not a PSG but have been in a similar role many times. For each Soldier:<br />DOD ID#<br />DOR/Eval due dates<br />Blood type<br />Next NCOES <br />DL atatus for grade<br /><br /><br />I also keep my 50m targets and 100m targets tracked on there as well as my sections OML for schools.

2021-07-20T16:29:08-04:00 2021-07-20T16:29:08-04:00 SGT Private RallyPoint Member 7121572

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I kept a book of important forms that were frequently used. I kept my company and platoon SOPs. I made sure that each infantry squad and each individual KNEW their platoon and company SOPs. Of course I would have platoon training guides especially on different kinds of patrolling to include before, during, and after action reports where EVERYTHING could be done together by memory. I also had an alphabetical copy of every TM and FM for quick reference, profiles both permanent and temporary, fitness and PT scores, and a notebook where I could write special training needs for individuals; for example, I would keep a journal each soldier&#39;s non confidential info like birthdays, interests, hobbies, and where each person was from, promotion lists, and especially the training needs for every soldier. I had quick training book for every team and squad leader leader to develop their skills and overall training needs (We had yearly Skill Qualification Tests so those skills were constantly assess proficiency and to develop the training regimen). We also had no down time. Whenever we were waiting, NCOs were expected to be training; for example, we would give mini lessons on radio procedures using proper call signs and using daily radio frequencies from the battalion.<br /><br />Our primary concerns as NCOs is mission, welfare of soldiers, and maintenance and care for equipment. I briefly mentioned the first two. Most importantly, I had a copy of every soldier&#39;s personal list of uniforms, gear and equipment, and especially the record of every soldier&#39;s serial number of every weapon, NVD, radio, and vehicle, and who was responsible that vehicle (every driver and track commander mech and light infantry vehicles). I was not an E-7, but every platoon sergeant I ever had trained me to take charge of the platoon when I was a squad leader. I hope I was able to help. <br /> <br />By the way, the missing equipment and weapons at certain military posts is the direct fault of the laziness of NCOs who are not securing weapons and ammunition. No soldier should ever be dismissed from training exercises until every piece of equipment is cleaned and accounted for. That is the reason for daily inpections by every NCO. Our first sergeants and COs did not dismiss the company until everything was accounted for.

2021-07-20T17:33:52-04:00 2021-07-20T17:33:52-04:00 SPC Private RallyPoint Member 7121613

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>A bit above my pay grade, but I would imagine at least the following.<br />- Company SOP<br />- Platoon SOP<br />- Additional guidance or important memos from 1SG on up.<br />- NCOER due dates<br />- Hip pocket training guides and references: AR&#39;s TM&#39;s and the like.<br />- Counseling template&#39;s with the JAG magic bullet.<br />- Company training schedule.<br />- Federal and State awards tracker - ARCAM and State awards are commonly missed.<br />- Soldier of the quarter/year<br />- Updated list of available orders, missions, and deployments that your Soldiers may be able to jump on.<br /><br />Good luck in your new position.

2021-07-20T17:53:54-04:00 2021-07-20T17:53:54-04:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 7121638

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This is what I would suggest - you want the things that will be asked for, and the things you will want to know. Ignore those fancy &quot;baseball cards&quot; and other nonsense that people make for presenting their leadership books for inspections. Your leadership book needs to be the things you will need to look up quickly, but exempt any PII or other protected information.<br /> <br />The things you&#39;ll want will be an ERB, a very very basic personal data sheet with DODI, SSN, family and family birthdays, anniversary, current home address, and permanent profiles. You&#39;ll use this for writing awards, NCOER&#39;s, and (hopefully) giving Soldiers the day off for anniversaries and birthdays.<br /><br />The things you&#39;ll be asked for that you will want to have in your leader book are schools attended, blood type (not all are on the SRB), blood type (completely worthless because the CSH will retype them if they need blood), battle roster numbers, MIL drivers license numbers, mask sizes, uniform sizes, boot sizes, hat sizes, spouse or emergency POC. <br /><br />All that is hard data and that&#39;s what should go in hard format of a PSG leader book. But you have moving data as well and that should go onto an Excel spreadsheet tracker. Things you want to track on excel are weapons serials, optics serials, mask serials, really any serial for any property whatsoever, DLC dates, NCOER thru dates, PCS dates, YMAV dates, DEROS dates, ETS dates, DOR/TIG dates for promotion, anything related to promotion eligibility, an entire separate tab for MEDPROS/PRR/Admin readiness (including cyber awareness, and whatever additional classes your unit requires), PT/weapons/ACFT scores and dates. <br /><br />Things not to have - Don&#39;t keep SSN&#39;s in a leader book you carry with you, it&#39;s too much PII. You are not allowed to request previous NCOER&#39;s from your Soldier, that is protected by regulation. Don&#39;t ask for previous GOMORs, Article 15s, or anything protected under Unfavorable Information. Don&#39;t ask for spouse emails they will already by bombarded by FRG. Don&#39;t use some old personnel data sheet that asks too much info, make your own that only asks what you need; some of those have crazy info that you don&#39;t need or shouldn&#39;t be on a sheet of paper that is left around like mothers maiden name or Soldier location of birth.

2021-07-20T18:08:50-04:00 2021-07-20T18:08:50-04:00 1SG Private RallyPoint Member 7121704

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I didn&#39;t have one book, just too much info. I had a book for ERBs and personal data sheets, book for weapon quals by wpn system, book for 705s and 5500/5501s, book for POV inspections, book for military licenses, and a flight crew book for field mals, ops graphics and Soldier data.<br />This was all just the analog for the digital trackers and DTMS updates but it was enough to complete any admin task that was thrown at me.<br />One of my short comings though was maintaining a good troop to task.

2021-07-20T18:32:35-04:00 2021-07-20T18:32:35-04:00 MSG Kevin Elliott 7121737

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>There are a lot of good answers on this thread. To put it in one sentence, your book should provide you with answer to questions from your PL, 1SG, Cdr, and possibly the CSM.<br />Back in the old pen and paper days, I had a page for each soldier with their information. After that it will depend on your unit, MOS, and job. I tracked NCOER dates and rating/counseling schemes, APFT and Weapons Qual by individual, squad, and platoon, equipment by individual/vehicle by serial number and rack number, a page for schools completed and an order of merit list. An old 1SG told me to have at least two soldiers qualified in NBC, Armorer&#39;s Course, Load Planner, etc., and we had as many CLS qualifications as possible.<br />Anything and everything you want to or need to track. Copies of pending PCS orders, list of additional duties, etc. I don&#39;t know that you need to include SOPs in the book you are going to carry around, but again, up to the individual, the unit, and the SOP.<br />Best of luck!!

2021-07-20T18:49:40-04:00 2021-07-20T18:49:40-04:00 CWO3 Private RallyPoint Member 7121851

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Name, rank, and SSN for a task-organized unit. Counselling jackets for a longer term assignment in garrison. I used the little green monster notepad for chronology, relying on memory to fill in the blanks. Minutes from meetings in brevity fashion for daily continuity and establishing priorities. Pocket sized deployed. No crayons.

2021-07-20T19:45:22-04:00 2021-07-20T19:45:22-04:00 SFC Rick Brooks 7121922

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>i kept names of wife and children birthdays and sent cards my soldiers knew i would look out for them and they knew the training was for more then for the Army it was to make sure I did my best to take cake care of the

2021-07-20T20:37:51-04:00 2021-07-20T20:37:51-04:00 SFC Casey O'Mally 7121923

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This is the worst possible answer you can hear, but.... It depends on you and on your unit.<br /><br />What are the Commander&#39;s (and 1SG&#39;s) priorities? If they are SERIOUS about monthly counseling, it would be good to have a record of the last time each Soldier was counseled. If they are big on PT, maybe a copy of their last scorecard, or at least a break down of raw/calculated scores. Etc.<br /><br />Either way, you are going to want a data sheet on each Soldier. I loved to have mine in document protectors with non-changing data (name, SSN, DOB, etc.) typed on the actual paper, and changing data (last counseling, PT data, etc.) written in alcohol marker on the document protector. I also recommend a free form area at the bottom for &quot;pending issues&quot; where you can note the most important things you need to be tracking / running down for that Soldier: Pay issues, promotion, UCMJ, missing equipment, profiles MOS qualification, whatever.<br />IN FRONT of that data sheet, you want a consent document from each Soldier saying they consent to you keeping their information in your book.<br />Behind that data sheet, supporting documents (PT Card, weapons card, language test for FLPP, whatever is important for your specific platoon in your specific unit).<br /><br />I was also a big fan of tabbed dividers. Label the tabs, and you can quickly navigate your book to each Soldier.<br /><br />Beyond the individual Soldier data, I also recommend Company METL / Platoon Collective Tasks that support that METL, the current assessment (T/P/U) of those tasks, and the training plan to support those collective tasks. Depending on the unit, having the Company weekly training schedule may also be exceptionally helpful. Also have AT LEAST one Task/Condition/Standard for a hip-pocket training to take advantage of unplanned white space / standing-around-doing-nothing time.<br /><br />Ultimately, the Leader&#39;s Book is YOUR tool, so you put in it what will help you do your job. As time goes on, you will realize more and more that there simply is not enough time in the day/week/month/year to accomplish all of the required training. So having a book that allows you to maximize training time and minimize &quot;dead time&quot; will help you and your Platoon stand out from the pack. Your Soldiers may curse your name behind your back because you drive them hard, but they will also talk shit to every other platoon, because they know they have gone above and beyond what everyone else is doing.<br /><br />(That being said, take care of your troops, and give them time off when you can. Work hard, play hard. If you don&#39;t have to be at work, don&#39;t. But if you have to be there, be productive!)

2021-07-20T20:38:08-04:00 2021-07-20T20:38:08-04:00 SGM Private RallyPoint Member 7121960

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>What you should know about your people:<br />All:<br />full name line, DODID and contact info<br />ETS date<br />DOR<br />level of PME complete<br />DLC enrolled, or not<br />promotion eligibility current FY: Y or N and reason: PME, TIS, TIG.<br />IWQ score and date<br />ACFT score and date<br /><br />NCOs:<br />last NCOER thru date<br />next NCOER due and rating chain names, DODID and contact info<br /><br />If you have that much info, up to date, you can solve the majority of PSG problems thrown at you at home station drills.<br /><br />If you use that up to date info to take initiative every home station drill to talk to your own troops about their ETS date and extending, getting enrolled in DLC or submitting an app for BLC or ALC, chasing down raters, sr raters and rateds for signatures, and how to correctly complete their 4100s during EPS cycle, you&#39;ll find that the company isn&#39;t throwing quite as many PSG problems at you.<br /><br />And then you&#39;ll be infantry training with no distractions, while other PSGs are getting reeled in from training to fix these easy problems.

2021-07-20T20:53:12-04:00 2021-07-20T20:53:12-04:00 1SG Private RallyPoint Member 7122625

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I actually have an excell spreadsheet that tracks pt, ht/wt, iwq, emergency contact, etc. My section chiefs also have a copy as well that they can update.

2021-07-21T07:40:12-04:00 2021-07-21T07:40:12-04:00 1SG Bill Farmerie 7123769

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I just kept a quick spreadsheet with any data I knew needed to be tracked. I could usually answer anything about my soldiers personal (wife kids and ages/BDs) or professional (weapon qual and date, CTT, PT etc). Then if I found a question being asked, would add to the spreadsheet. Also you may wish to check within you BN or BDE to see if they have a &quot;standardized&quot; on one

2021-07-21T16:10:25-04:00 2021-07-21T16:10:25-04:00 SSG Cam Prince 7230745

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My basic PSGT taught me this and it stood me in good stead, &quot; praise in public, criticize in private.&quot; Put your standards of conduct in writing and always follow them (also be willingg to ad on, delete or change as the situation requires).

2021-08-30T20:00:41-04:00 2021-08-30T20:00:41-04:00 SPC Robert Hendrickson 7237320

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>To P. Sgt. or to any other leader in Military and/or civilian leadership<br />1. common sense --<br />2. listen to your lower team member(s) and/or higher echelon/leaders with some sense of how to get things done or training to do better .. remember if time permits .. listen, because the team-member might can help .. do not discourage their/his/her advice it will help and possibly save life/lives, even if they/he/she is a lower rank/echelon/grade etc.<br />3. be a friend to the others don&#39;t bully them, nor discourage them because of their proclivities, leader(s) have them , too .. train with them ,, not against them, do different scenarios to break the monotony/mundane of the sameness<br />4. make it rewarding .. make the training/classes/real situations different .. <br />5. do not hover over t/m all the time but be close enough to help if the need calls for it<br />6. have soldier(s)/ member(s) take turns on an off day to let t/m get a feel of sorts/as such<br />7. in closing .. look, learn, listen watch, study, be tactful .. be blessed by this/these lesson(s)

2021-09-01T21:11:29-04:00 2021-09-01T21:11:29-04:00 Theodore Lindberg 7985993

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I used as a kind of database by type of personal information, hobbies, etc. It was just like a directory where you could quickly find the data you needed. The same workouts, schedules, and time off also went into such a list.

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