By actual test and practical experience, a fully trained, on-policy executive will raise the stats of an org.

An untrained executive will depress the stats.

An officer trained on the Flag Executive Briefing Course will send stats up where an equivalent officer not so trained will send them down.

This appears so obvious that it can be missed.

It means that it costs an org thousands upon thousands to use an untrained executive who has not done an FEBC. It costs personnel their pay, their facilities and their security.

If an FEBC cost $30,000 (which it does not), the org would make it back in a few weeks.

If an untrained executive is placed in charge of an org, it can prepare for losses and can succumb.

This is a very simple lesson. It is a matter of actual fact, not of PR.

This is shown up well when a fully trained executive is placed in charge of a whole

org.It is less visible but just as decisive regarding ANY post.

An untrained person on a post will be at best somebody not too destructive and at worst a camouflaged hole.

These facts are facts.

When you do not know this, be prepared to have lots of trouble, losses and dev-t.

It costs money not to spend money pretraining for a post. It also costs money not to train a person on a post to familiarize him with it.

Training is of course a relative word. The materials taught must be practical and useful and must apply to the job to be held.

Given this, a personnel officer who does not advise or provide for full prepost training will be found to be very costly.

One who insists on full pretraining and on-post training will be found to be a very valuable asset.

This data is not theoretical. It is the living truth.