The People, Process, & Progress Podcast - How to Provide Leader's Intent by Providing the Task, Purpose, and End State | FF29

Episode Date: August 6, 2021

Pulling out three key elements of Leaders Intent from NWCG discussed in PPP81.

Welcome to Foundations Friday 29, Task, Purpose, End State. This is one of the key concepts of Leaders' Intent from Episode 81, Foundation 1, Leaders' Intent of the Foundational 5. And again, that's Leaders' Intent, Objectives, Organization, Resources, and Communication, which we'll break out further over future episodes. But the Task, Purpose, end state is really a focus that the National Wildfire Coordinating Center uses to describe how we can deliver leaders intent. And as a reminder, the task is the objective or goal of the assignment. The purpose is the why the assignment needs to be done. And the end state is how the situation should look when the assignment is successfully completed. So really good elements to give a succinct

leader's intent to let folks know, you know, here's the objective that we're trying to accomplish or the goal of what we're doing here. Same thing for projects, right? Not just field assignments. The purpose, what's the why, right? Why do we need to do this? Why are we putting this new process in place? Why are we, you know, replacing this piece of gear or something? And a response or incident management. It's kind of straightforward. We're trying to find the missing person as quickly as possible, those kind of things. And the end state, how should this situation look when it's successfully completed?

So before we are done here, we will have accomplished this. We will have, if you remember going back to commander's intent, we will have retaken this ground and a project. We will have implemented this new process, made sure everybody's trained and handed off support, things like that. So just a quick reminder this Friday of one of the key elements of leaders intent or what you can use if you're a leader or, or helping shore up leaders intent with your organization, task, purpose,

and state. I hope you all have a great Friday, a great weekend. Thank you so much for helping the show. We actually just broke 25,000 downloads. So that's all because of you, all the listeners. So please feel free to reach out again at people process progress at gmail.com. Go to the website, people process progress.com. Also have a YouTube channel and just added the episode about going hiking the five things that I learned from episode 80 from climbing a mile high mountain. So it's audio only with kind of a background

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