Purpose: To train selected Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) to perform duties as Detachment Sergeants or comparable positions at Skill Level 4. The graduate will be able to teach, evaluate, counsel junior leaders, conduct training, and to lead within the Career Management Field. Soldiers will participate in a field training exercise.
Phase Scope: This course is designed to train SFCs and selected promotable SSGs in leadership skills, NCO duties, responsibilities and authority, and on how to conduct performance-oriented training. The two major areas of instruction consist of Combat Survivability and Technical Training designed to prepare Senior NCOs to support operations in the Operational Environment. This course produces battle competent NCOs who are qualified detachment sergeants; evaluators; counselors; conductors or participants in individual and collective training; and teachers of leader skills, knowledge, and attitudes. Cadre personnel assess the students’ leadership potential and evaluate their ability to apply lessons learned to effectively lead their classmates in a tactical environment. SLC provides an opportunity for education, to learn warfighting skills, and to gain experience.
Module A: NCO Common Core Competencies
Active and Reserve Component Capabilities
The Rapid Decision and Synchronization Process (RDSP)
The Command and Control Warfighting Functions
Feedback, Coaching, and Mentoring
Basic Principles of Negotiations
Inform and Influence Audiences
Conventional Nuclear Integration
Module B: G8/S8 Functions
Identify Financial Roles of the Department of Defense (DoD)
Identify the PPBE Process within the DOD
Identify the Research, Develop, and Acquisition (RDA) System
Identify Military Construction Appropriations
Conduct Activity Based Costing (ABC)
Identify Reserve Component Appropriations
Identify the Commercial Activities Program
Manage Obligation Management Procedures
Identify the Principles of the Management Internal Control Program
Identify Key Elements of Auditing in the Federal Government
Identify the Principles of Fiscal Law
Identify Government Purchase Card Procedures
Process a Government Purchase Card (GPC) Transaction
Manage Finance BN Internal Control Review Program
Review Elements of Fiscal Stewardship
Manage Government Travel Charge Card Procedures
Apply the Funding Economy Act Goods or Services
Process Miscellaneous Pay Not Subject to PPA
Apply Advanced Data Analytics to FC Operations
Module C: Banking and Disbursing
Identify the Safeguard of Public Fund Procedures
Prepare Disbursing Statements of Accountability
Perform Finance BN Disbursing Manager Function
Perform Deputy Disbursing Officer Functions
Module D: Staff Exercise
Supporting Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO) Overview for Sustainers
Introduction to Department of Defense (DoD) Resource Management Process