Equal Opportunity Program News Fort Leonard Wood, MO Working together to achieve more Volume 1-07 EO HOTLINE /EEO HOTLINE Jan 2007 POSH starting January 07, All training will be held each Wednesday PVT-SSG , SFC & Above hrs. Located in Bldg 315, Room 227. Equal Opportunity Representative Course Training for the 2nd quarter, FY 07 will be held 5 th thru 23rd March Contact your Brigade S3 schools or your branch specific EO representative for more information. Consideration of Others (CO2) training for the 2nd quarter, FY 07 will be held 16 th thru 18 th January Contact your Brigade S3 schools or your branch specific detachment EO representative for more information. Questions or recommendations regarding the EO portion of this newsletter can be directed to: MSG Kibler or MSG Thompson Equal Opportunity Training and Education Equal Opportunity On behalf of the FLW & MANSCEN EOP, we would like to welcome everyone back from the Holiday season. We hope that your time spent with family and friends was everything you had hoped for. As we enter a new year, we would ask that those of you who plan on making new years resolutions, keep the EOP in your minds. For the ones who support aspects of the program, we hope that you decide to continue. Those of you whom have never offered your talents or commitment please re-consider. What you bring to the program could make the difference for the multitude or that one individual. Again, welcome back we look forward to working with you in the year to come. Martin Luther King Birthday: January 2007, 3 rd Monday. Committee, will be held each Monday at 1500hrs in Bldg 832. Contact 1 st Engineer Bde EOA SFC Calvetti for more National African-American/Black History Month 1-28/29 Feb. Committee meetings began on the 15 th August, meetings are held at Building 315, RM 227. Contact 3 rd Chem Bde EOA SFC Custard for dates and Days of Remembrance (Victims of the Holocaust) Apr. 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Equal Opportunity Program News Fort Leonard Wood, MO Working together to achieve more Volume 1-07 EO HOTLINE /EEO HOTLINE Jan 2007 EO Food for thought The MANSCEN and FLW Equal Opportunity office would like to discuss Ethics. As we enter the New Year and make resolutions for positive change, please consider the following. Terms associated with Ethics: Values: Socially shared conceptions of what is good, desirable, and proper or bad, undesirable, and improper. Morality: Collective body of beliefs about right or wrong conduct accumulated by social consensus over a period of time. Personal Moral values: Persons concept of right and wrong, formed through the influence of family, culture, and society. There are generally five ways to test for wrong doing. 1.The legal test: Although you may break a law on purpose or by mistake, in our society, we say it is wrong to break the law. 2.The standards of conduct test: If you were to make this choice in the presents of your colleagues, what they say or do? 3.The Gut feeling test: Often our intuition can select right from wrong even before our brains can think it through. If a decision causes you to have a bad gut reaction, then perhaps you should re-think before taking action. 4.The front page test: How would you feel if your decision were headlined on the news or the local newspaper? What would your family & friends think? 5.The role model test: How would the most ethical person you know and respect solve this problem? How would those whom respect you perceive your actions? And what could the impact be on your family and unit? Sources of Command support available: 1.Commander/ Directorate head 2.Command Senior enlisted advisor/First Sergeant 3.Judge Advocate General (JAG) 4.Your unit EOA Remember your Service core values and apply them What you do today may impact many for years…. EEO Advanced Mediation: Skills, Techniques and Approaches, being conducted by the Justice Center of Atlanta. The training is for those mediators who have completed the Basic Mediation Skills course. Dates of the training have not yet been determined. Reasonable Accommodation: This training will be conducted by an Administrative Judge from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The target audience for this training will be managers and supervisors. Dates of the training have not yet been determined. The first Special Emphasis Program Committee The first Special Emphasis Program Committee (SEPC) meeting for the new year will convene on 24 January 2007, at Building 315 in Room 227; 2pm. Please make every effort to be there, even if you're not a member. If you have questions regarding the SEPC, please give Geoff Garner a call at