Priorities:United States Air Force Academy Student Priorities

STRATEGY #3: BREAKDOWN STUDENT AND PERMANENT PARTY BARRIERS

Tactic #1: Monthly Board Meetings

In the military, like big organizations, it is ran through an extensive chain of command. This makes it very difficult for conversations to be had between the top of the organization and the bottom. It also takes extremely long for changes or recommendations to be passed to the top of the organization to make decisions. Therefore, for change and decisions to happen fast, rank and the chain of command needs to be removed to be able to innovate quickly. This will allow for more free thinking ideas and upper leadership to hear opinions of people throughout the entire chain of command.

The Idea

One solution to fix this problem is to have monthly board meetings, where the board would consist of the upper leadership and then random people throughout the entire chain of command. This would result in diverse backgrounds of age and most importantly, thought. In turn, the specific members who have the ability to make decisions would ultimately have a chance to see different perspectives in order to innovate and make changes to improve the organization as a whole.

-Trey Arnold

STRATEGY #4: SOLIDIFYING CONNECTIONS AND BUILDING A CONSISTENT NETWORK

Tactic #1: Quarterly Dinners

Air Force Academy Cadets rarely get the opportunity to talk and experience how civilian companies become successful. In order to accomplish this goal, we think it would be a wonderful opportunity to bring CEOs and other business leaders to come together and help change the way students think and dream. It will help promote innovative thinking and provide an avenue for students to bounce ideas off of people who have changed their companies in order to succeed. 

Tactic #2: Guest Speakers

 Going along similar lines as above, cadets or students like to hear from an outside perspective. They want to hear from some of the most famous people and hear their story to fame. This brings credibility to innovation and gets people talking about "what could I accomplish?" Students get really excited to talk and listen to people they look up to. Again, it sparks students to dream big and gives them the push they need to actually take action.

-The Team