Lessons Learned and Taught

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Lessons Learned and Taught

• For Large-Scale Training Programs

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Occeumetrics Military to Civilian Technology
Transfer

• Johnny J. Weissmuller
• Executive Director
• The Innovation Center for Occupational Data
  Applications and Practices (ICODAP)

San Antonio ISPI Presentation 22 Sept 2005
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Lessons Learned How to get Ahead

• Right Place
• Right Time
• Right Skill Set
• Right Attitude
• Right People Around
• Right Environment
• Out-Live Competition
• -- i.e. Lucky to Max

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Weissmuller Who Am I?

• Tarzans Cousin http//www.codap.com/jjw/WhoAmI.
  htm
• BA in Mathematics, PhD Work in Ed Psych
• 34-Years Occupation Analysis (OA) Experience
• Military 4 Years
• Programmer/Analyst
• Civil Service 7 Years
• Systems Analyst /Principal Investigator
• Private Contractor 21 Years
• Senior Scientist
• Program Manager
• Civil Service 2 Years
• Personnel Research Psychologist
• Resume http//www.codap.com/jjw

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Worked Where?

• Air Force Human Resources Laboratory (AFHRL
  1971-1982)
• Contracts Supporting AFHRL (1982-1998)
• OAO (1982-1984)
• Maxima (1984-1989)
• Metrica (1989-2002)
• IJOA (1993-2001)
• Sensible Systems, Inc. (1982-?)
• ICODAP (2002-Present)
• HQ Air Force Personnel Center USAF Military
  Testing Section (Nov 2003-)

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Consulting Clients (1971-2005)

• --- Non-Commercial Clients ---
•          Internal Revenue Service,
•          Federal Aviation Administration,
•          Federal Bureau of Investigation,
•          National Security Agency,
•          USAF (200 Military Job Families, 2
  Civilian Job Families), 
•          U.S. Coast Guard (12 Job Families),
•          U.S. Army (3 Civilian Job Families, 2
  Military Job Families),
•          City of Minneapolis (Clerical),
•          City of Fort Worth (Police Officers),
• .         San Antonio City Public Service (a
  utility).
•         

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Consulting Clients (1971-2005)

• --- Australian Clients ----
• Australian Department of Defence (Army/AF)
• REXTON Consulting
• Australian National Furniture Industry Survey,
• CC Snack Foods,
• South Coast Employment Development Project
  (SCEDP)
• BHP Steel Industry in Wollongong Australia,
• Australian Industry Council (Sydney)
•         

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Consulting Clients (1971-2005)

• --    Commercial Clients
• .       HumRRO (Basic Job Skills),
•          Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC),
•          Booz-Allen Hamilton, Inc.,
•          Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), 
•          Ford Motor Company (US, Great Britain,
  Belgium, Germany),
•          ATT,
•          McDonnell Douglas Missile Systems
  Company,
•          Ontario Hydro Electric
•          British Petroleum (BP)

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Consulting Clients (1971-2005)

• -- Universities Non-Profit Institutes
•          The Maryland Center for Productivity
  and Quality of Working Life,
•          The Center for Educational
  Technology/Learning Systems Institute (FSU)
•          The Adult Vocational-Educational Center
  at the Ohio State University,
•          The Systems Engineering Department at
  the Ohio State University
•          North Carolina State University, 
•          The Law Enforcement Management
  Institute at Sam Houston State University 
•          The Center for Cybernetic Studies at
  University of Texas at Austin,
•          The Graduate School for Business at
  University of Texas at Austin
•          Institute for Nuclear Power Operations
• . Institute for Job Occupational
  Analysis (IJOA-Co-Founder/Vice Director)
• . Personnel Decisions Research Institute
  (PDRI)
•          Atomic Energy Inspection Agency (AEIA)
•          UN Asia Regional Office
•          HQ UN Worldwide Project Managers/Pay
  Equity

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Know the Environment!

• How Broad is your mandate/backing?
• Assume the highest vantage point possible
• Long-term organizational effectiveness is the
  best perspective
• Org life-cycle v Occ life-cycle
• Joe H. Ward, Jrs Person-Job-Match (PJM)
• Re-use Employee Experience Assets People
  are our most strategic investment.

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Person-Job-Match

• Two Possible People Use policies
• Use and Lose
• Grow Together
• Four Different Approaches to PAYOFF
• Crisis/Happenstance Driven
• Organization Driven
• Applicant/Employee Driven
• Long-Term System Driven

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Proven Technologies?
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CODAP 1960s-Present
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Task Based Approach

• AF Occupational Research Project (1957)
• Task Inventory approach (Morsh, 1964)
• Comprehensive Occupational Data Analysis programs
  (CODAP)
• Operational Program in Training (1967)
• Continuing RD (Christal, 1974)
• Transfer of Technology (1967 - present)

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Non-Military Goals
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Mechanics
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Technology Transfer (1958-1982)
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