Posted by Vice Admiral Sarah Hemenway (President) in Discussion: Encouraging Fleet Report Submissions

Posted by David Fergusson in Discussion: Encouraging Fleet Report Submissions

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I have no idea of the best way to encourage Fleet Support Submissions, but what I do know is it is NOT to Spam with 3 or 4 reminder emails every month. Send out targeted emails to the actual people who haven’t submitted. It is never right to make the whole class stay behind for detention.

Better still, design a system where the CO knows which of All the reports for his ship are outstanding, and then hold him directly responsible. At present COs only know if their own report has been submitted or not.

As for the form itself, I was told it was being redesigned with the scores removed about five years ago, maybe earlier, but it hasn’t changed at all. It doesn’t make sense that you ask for subjective scores rather than use actual statistics you could pull up. Certainly, if you want specific questions answered by specific people, then the best way to achieve that is by changing form design, however, that can still never guarantee the actual content people will submit. Maybe when you start receiving better submissions then you share some best practise to explain better what you would like to see from everyone.

Dave

Hey Dave,

Thank you for your feedback about the reminders. That’s a really good point that we’ll try to see if there’s a way we can tweak for next month.

I’m going to note down that request about seeing what ship reports are outstanding as we talk about revising the system.

Yes, the scores are definitely not helpful. There is a time and energy cost involved with changing the form, so we wanted to test drive the changes without asking TECH to have to do that (and then change it again if we decide we want further tweaks). What kind of statistics would you think would be helpful?

Sarah

I’ll jump in on this question that isn’t directed to me.

Posts on the ship in a month could be automatically generated. Possibly also the average posts in that month for ships of the same speed. If there’s value in breaking that down further to groups of positions you also could have something generated like number of posts in the month for JO’s, etc.

Adam W.