Get An Appraisal Right On Paper & You’ll Motivate People In Your Team

Get an appraisal right on paper and you’ll motivate people in your team, Teresa Ewington offers advice to managers. A Poor Performance (Ewington, 2014) An analysis of this article is given by Rachel Suff. A Poor Performance (Analysis) (Suff, 2014) Although the article is geared towards ‘civvy street’, military people (both current and ex) will appreciate… Read More

A Human Factors Approach to Analysing Military Command & Control

Research Paper Title A Human Factors Approach to Analysing Military Command and Control. Abstract This paper applies the Event Analysis for Systemic Teamwork (EAST) method to an example of military command and control. EAST offers a way to describe system level ’emergent properties’ that arise from the complex interactions of system components (human and technical). These are described… Read More

ADF: Usability of a Battle Management System Under Simulated Vehicular Motion

Research Paper Title Usability of a Battle Management System Under Simulated Vehicular Motion. Executive Summary Previous research has found that motion has an adverse effect on people’s cognitive and psychomotor abilities. This has implications for military personnel operating computer based equipment in military vehicles. This report covers an experiment into the usability of a Battle… Read More

ADF: A Spoken Dialogue System for Command and Control

Research Paper Title A Spoken Dialogue System for Command and Control. Executive Summary We report on activities undertaken in the research program ‘Smart And Rapid Information Access for Joint Command and Control (C2)’ one of whose goals was to enhance the spoken natural language (SNL) control of technologies and information for Deployable Joint Forces Headquarters… Read More

ADF: 7 Lessons in Leadership & Innovation

Dr Alex Zelinksy’s 7 Lessons in Leadership and Innovation documents the Chief Defence Scientist’s reflections on leadership development and the innovation space. The brochure was distributed as a companion document to Dr Zelinsky’s presentation of the Warren Centre’s 2013 Innovation Lecture. Download: 7 Lessons in Leadership and Innovation.

The Role of the New Army Sergeant Major

The New Army Sergeant Major – or Sergeant Major of the Army as the Americans call it – Warrant Officer Class 1 (WO1) Glenn Haughton has been interviewed about his new role. WO1 Haughton was selected on the 2012 Late Entry Commissioning Board (LECB) for promotion to LE officer, but his promotion was deferred as… Read More

Warrant Officers & the British Armed Forces

“…though the ranks are few, the appointments which may be held by them are many. Indeed, there are, today, over seventy appointments among the Warrant Officers…” (Dawnay, 1949, p.3). The rank of warrant officer has a rather interesting history which is not well known, even amongst those who hold that rank. The military grade of… Read More