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Welcome and Overview
Enabling Objectives
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• DEFINE honor.
• EXPLAIN how a Petty Officer demonstrates
Honor, Courage and Commitment.
Welcome and Overview
The Navy’s Core Value of Honor
I will bear true faith and allegiance…
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Accordingly, we will: Conduct ourselves in the highest ethical manner in all
relationships with peers, superiors, and subordinates;
Be honest and truthful in our dealings with each other, and with those outside the
Navy;
Be willing to make honest recommendations, and accept those of junior
personnel;
Encourage new ideas and deliver the bad news, even when it is unpopular;
Abide by an uncompromising code of integrity, taking responsibility for our actions
and keeping our word;
Fulfill or exceed our legal and ethical responsibility in our public and personal lives
twenty-four hours a day.
Illegal or improper behavior or even the appearance of such behavior will not be
tolerated.
We are accountable for our professional and personal behavior. We will be mindful
of the privilege to serve our fellow Americans.
Lesson 1
Enabling Objectives
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• DETERMINE the responsibility, authority, and accountability of
a Petty Officer Third Class.
• DEFINE responsibility.
• DEFINE authority
• IDENTIFY sources of authority.
• DEFINE accountability.
• DIFFERENTIATE between responsibility, accountability and
authority.
• EXPLAIN the role of a Petty Officer.
Lesson 1
Responsibility is:
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1) The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a
successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct
and take the necessary action to ensure success and…
2) The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping
of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision
of an individual.
DOD Terminology Program website
3) Power to influence or command thought, opinion, or
behavior; freedom granted by one in authority: Right.
Webster’s Dictionary
Lesson 1
AUTHORITY
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• Ch 1, para 1.2, subpara a. Authority
• Ch 1, para 1.2, subpara a. (1) Delegation of
Authority
• Ch 1, para 1.2, subpara a. (2) Limitations of
Authority
SORN OPNAVINST 3120.32 series
• Exercise of Authority
Navy Regulations: Chapter 10 Section 2 Article 1020
Lesson 1
From: Commanding Officer
To: Rate, Name, USN, SSN
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Subj: AUTHORITY TO ASSUME THE TITLE AND WEAR THE
UNIFORM OF A PETTY OFFICER THIRD CLASS
Ref: (a) MILPERSMAN 1420-060
1. Under reference (a), you are hereby authorized to assume the title and
wear the uniform of a Petty Officer Third Class effective immediately.
2. Your appointment carries with it the obligation that you exercise increased
authority and willingly accept greater responsibility. Occupying now a position
of greater authority, you must strive with a renewed dedication toward the
valued ideal of service with honor.
3. Under reference (a), you will not be entitled to pay and other monetary
allowances of a Petty Officer Third Class until actually advanced to the
paygrade for which you have been selected.
4. Congratulations!
(Signature)
Lesson 1
ACCOUNTABILITY
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– In connection with general and organizational authority, the principles
of accountability include:
a) Each Sailor, regardless of rank or position, is fully accountable for
their actions, or failure to act when required.
b) Leaders and supervisors have a duty to assign clear lines of authority
and responsibility, reaching to the deckplate level, for all activity within
their organization.
c) Leaders and supervisors have a duty to provide their subordinates the
resources and supervision necessary to enable them to meet their
prescribed responsibilities.
d) Leaders and supervisors have a duty to hold their subordinates
accountable, and to initiate appropriate corrective, administrative,
disciplinary, or judicial action when sailors fail to meet their
responsibilities.
SORN OPNAVINST 3120.32 series
Lesson 2
Enabling Objectives
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• IDENTIFY methods of communication.
• ANALYZE environmental, personal and cultural barriers to
effective communication.
• IDENTIFY methods of reducing barriers to effective
communication.
• EXPLAIN process of communication.
• IDENTIFY components of the communication process.
• EVALUATE oral and written communication.
• IDENTIFY written communication methods.
• EXPLAIN components of the writer’s triangle.
Lesson 2
3 Step Communication Process
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SENDER
RECEIVER
FORMULATE MESSAGE
MESSAGE RECEIVED
INTERNAL BARRIERS
INTERNAL BARRIERS
ENCODE MESSAGE
DECODE MESSAGE
TRANSMIT MESSAGE
INTERPRET MESSAGE
Lesson 2
Writer’s Triangle
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Writer
Audience
Subject
Lesson 3
Enabling Objectives
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• DETERMINE the responsibility, authority and
accountability of a Petty Officer Third Class.
• DIFFERENTIATE between responsibility,
accountability and authority.
• EVALUATE interactions between Petty Officers,
junior and senior shipmates and peers.
• IDENTIFY the responsibility, accountability and
authority of each member of the chain of command.