Been getting a lot of questions regarding the new NCOER, so I thought Id share what the SMA recently sent out: Leaders – As we have discussed before, the current NCOER is highly inflated and does not provide selection boards or assignment officials with clear and concise information to help identify best candidates. With your help over the last two years, we have worked with leaders from across the Army to examine how we can best evaluate our noncommissioned officers, eliminate inflation, provide better and more useful information to selection boards, and support a more transparent leader development process for the NCO Corps. Recently, the Secretary of the Army and Chief of Staff of the Army approved changes to our NCOER. The new NCOER will have a significant and positive impact on leadership. We are targeting September 2015 as its implementation date. Our challenge during the transition over the next year will be to ensure that NCO leaders at all levels clearly understand the new report and its role in evaluations. We must also ensure the new NCOER is perceived as a tool that delivers the best measures available to review and evaluate performance. NCO leaders must understand the process to effectively manage their ratings and Soldiers must view the Army as an institution that is identifying its premier leaders in a highly competitive environment. The Adjutant General has already sent materials to your G1s covering the new NCOER. They can be used to inform your leaders about the new NCOER. The key changes to the NCOER are: • Three NCOER forms aligned with Army Leadership Doctrine (ADP 6-22): SGT: A developmental report, used to establish an understanding of standards and the roles and responsibilities of an NCO at a direct level. SSG-1SG/MSG: A report used to assess NCOs at an organizational level CSM/SGM: A report used to assess NCOs at a Strategic level. • A clear delineation of rating responsibilities. Raters will assess performance and Senior Raters will assess potential. This will support rater accountability and eliminate inconsistent ratings. Raters will still use the bullet comment format, Senior Raters will use narrative format. Senior Raters will be required to counsel at least two times during the rating period. • We will implement a Rater Tendency (rating history) for Raters of SSG-CSM/SGM. This is not a restricted or constrained profile, but HRC will track all ratings rendered by raters and will place that information on completed NCOERs. This information will be visible to the Rater’s rater during counseling sessions to encourage discussion about how to rate. • A Senior Rater Profile will be established for Senior Raters of SSG-CSM/SGM; this will be managed at
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:42:53 +0000
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