Week 5 Facilitator Hand-Outs

Four chat-paste-ready blocks for the Course 5 Supervisor Orientation session. Open this tab in a second window before the session, then copy each block into Microsoft Teams chat at the slide it pairs with.

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How to use this page. Keep it open in a second browser tab. When the deck reaches the slide called out on each block’s gold pill, click Copy, then paste into the Teams chat. Plain text is intentional — it survives the Teams paste cleanly and stays legible on a 13″ laptop.

Print fallback. If you lose your second-screen, this page prints to one or two clean pages with the copy buttons hidden — use Ctrl+P / ⌘+P.

Where these come from. Each block is lifted verbatim from the Supervisor Orientation instructor page and the Supervisor Orientation deck — the two Module 3 evaluation scenarios, the Module 4 apprentice-risk exercise (Exercise C), and the Module 5 quick-reference card.

Exercise A scenario

Drop this in chat as you read the scenario aloud. Supervisors need the text in front of them so they can apply the four questions and write down what they would ask first.

Use on Exercise A scenario slide Exercise A: AI-generated leave policy summary
Cue line for the room: “Scenario A in chat. Read it. Thirty seconds of silence. Then one answer: what do you ask first?” 
Scenario A - AI-generated leave policy summary

  A Marine presents you with a one-page summary of leave policy for Emergency
  Leave Authorization. The summary is clear, well-formatted, and cites
  MCO P1050.3K. The Marine tells you it was generated using ChatGPT and
  reviewed for accuracy. They want to distribute it to the section.

  Your move:
  What do you ask first?
  What gets the green light?
  What earns a "not yet"?

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  The four questions to evaluate AI-assisted output:
    1. Can you demonstrate it? (Live walkthrough, real inputs.)
    2. Can you verify accuracy? (Specific checks - not general trust.)
    3. Who reviewed it? (Peer / SME / security per the SOP.)
    4. What is the update path? (Who refreshes when policy changes?)

Exercise B scenario

Drop this when the deck advances to Scenario B. This one is harder: the time savings are seductive, the failure modes subtle. Hold the room from rushing to "approved."

Use on Exercise B scenario slide Exercise B: automated reporting tool
Cue line for the room: “Scenario B in chat. The savings are real. So is the risk. Which question goes first?” 
Scenario B - Automated reporting tool

  A Marine built a Python script that pulls data from a shared spreadsheet
  and auto-generates the weekly operations summary. It runs in 30 seconds.
  The manual process took 90 minutes. The Marine wants approval to use it
  for official reporting.

  Your move:
  The time savings are real. The risk is also real. Which questions go first?

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  The trap: "It saves 89 minutes" is not a Yes. It is a reason to take the
  four questions MORE seriously, not fewer. The most dangerous AI-assisted
  work is the kind that is obviously valuable.

Exercise C: spot the apprentice risk

Drop this when the deck reaches the apprentice-problem exercise. Long-form scenario about counseling statements - it plants the pattern that developmental tasks deserve a different default than routine ones.

Use on Exercise C slide Exercise C: spot the apprentice risk
Cue line for the room: “Scenario C in chat. Read it. What was lost? What does a permission-culture supervisor do?” 
Scenario C - Spot the apprentice risk (joint discussion)

  A new SgtSec NCO is assigned to draft initial counseling statements for
  three junior Marines. They use ChatGPT to produce all three drafts in
  under five minutes. The drafts are technically correct. They sign and
  submit them. Their supervisor approves them without comment.

  What was lost
    - The new NCO never wrestled with how to characterize a Marine's
      performance.
    - They didn't develop the language a counseling statement actually
      requires.
    - They learned that AI handles people work - and that the supervisor
      doesn't notice.

  What a permission-culture supervisor does
    - Approves AI for the format and structure, not the judgment.
    - Requires the NCO to write the assessment paragraphs from scratch.
    - Reviews together: "What did the AI miss about this Marine?"

  Counseling statements are a developmental task. Name another
  developmental task in your section that AI is currently doing instead
  of being a teaching tool.

Supervisor quick reference card

Drop this in the closing minutes so supervisors can paste the card into a OneNote page or pin it in Teams. It is the screenshot they take from the slide, but in copy-paste form.

Use on Module 5 quick-reference slide Supervisor quick reference: AI-assisted work
Cue line for the room: “Quick reference in chat. Pin it, paste it into your notebook, screenshot the slide - whichever sticks.” 
Supervisor quick reference: AI-assisted work

  3 questions before you approve
    - Demonstrate it.    Live demo with real inputs.
    - Verify accuracy.   Specific checks, not general trust.
    - Who reviewed it?   Peer + SME + security per the SOP.

  3 supervision checks for junior development
    - Explain without AI.   Can the Marine walk through the logic on their own?
    - Periodic without AI.  Preserve baseline competency. Tool may disappear.
    - AI as teaching tool.  "How would you verify this? What if it were wrong?"

  What earns a yes
    - Format and structure (drafts, summaries, formatting).
    - Brainstorming, options analysis, second-set-of-eyes review.
    - Boilerplate generation that the Marine still owns and edits.

  What earns a "not yet"
    - Final policy, counseling, evaluation, or recommendation language
      the Marine cannot defend without the tool.
    - Anything with PII or CUI on a non-approved tool.
    - "AI did it, I haven't read it" - send it back, do not approve.

  Goal: AI-augmented Marines, NOT AI-dependent ones.