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SENIOR ENLISTED HONE SKILLS — Students from the July 2009 class at the Senior Enlisted Academy tune in on a lecture in Tomich Hall about naval leadership. The 82 chiefs, senior chiefs, and master chief petty officers will spend six weeks learning the ins and outs of mid-level management positions.By TYLER WILLNaval War College Public Affairs officepositions. The increased responsibility was welcome, but after the policy was enacted in 1979, some Chiefs needed supplemental The Senior Enlisted Academy (SEA) on training to adequately complete their new June 1 welcomed 82 chief, senior chief and duties.master chief petty officers to prepare themWe take a three-dimensional approach,to he effective leaders to subordinate Sailors so that when they graduate from here, theyin the U.S. Fleet.become a more rounded, more confidentThe SEA is a six-week leadership course tool...wherever they go to meet their mis-administered seven times a year. The mis- sion,” said SEA Deputy Director Master sion of the SEA is to strengthen enlisted Chief Petty Officer Tom Whitney, commitment to professional excellence and While the SEA course includes classroom mission accomplishment through educa- style lectures, Whitney said the most effec-tion. To achieve the mission, instructors tive learning style and what students most focus on communication, organizational enjoy is when the students hold joint dis-development, physical fitness, speaking, cussions. The variety of chiefs brings differ-writing, problem solving, leadership and ent scenarios, decisions, and results to the other areas. Military case studies and war discussion. The range of viewpoints progaming exercises are also part of the cur- vides the senior enlisted personnel with a riculum. broader understanding of problem solving.The SEA opened in 1981 in response to a While the academy was initially exclusive two-year-old policy that provided Navy to E-8s and E-9s, chief petty officers weresenior enlisted personnel with more responsibility at mid-level managementSEA, Page 9
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Newport, Rhode Island, US
Fri, Jun 19, 2009
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