Performance reports shortened, fitness added Published July 20, 2007 By Kandis West Tinker Air Force Base Public Affairs TINKER AIR FORCE BASE -- Air Force officials want to keep evaluation forms short and sweet and of course, lean. The new officer and enlisted evaluation forms will make its debut this August, starting with senior master sergeants. Air Force deputy chief of staff for manpower and personnel Lt. Gen. Roger Brady said the new forms will reduce the workload associated with preparing officer and enlisted performance reports. "The reality is that we cannot continue to accept cumbersome processes that impact our ability to operate at a high tempo," Gen. Brady said. The forms are now completed electronically and forwarded directly to Air Force Personnel Center, eliminating manual time consuming steps such as filing, transporting and mailing, said. Capt. Maya Green, 72nd Military Support Squadron's military personnel flight commander. "The process has been cut in half. No longer will you have forms sitting on someone's desk waiting to be reviewed," said Capt. Green. Airmen will have the chance to review the report upon its immediate completion and give feedback as opposed to the former process of waiting 30 days. In addition the evaluation process being faster, changes have also been made to the form. Physical fitness documentation has been added to both evaluation and feed back forms. "Fitness has become more and more a part of who we are to ensure we're war ready and deployable," Capt. Green said. The forms were also shortened. "Our OPRs [officer performance reports] and EPRs [enlisted performance reports] have evolved into documents that tend to focus too much on the top and bottom lines of an evaluator's comments rather than the whole of an Airman's performance," Capt. Green said. Officer performance report narrative lines were reduced and unit mission descriptions and impact on mission accomplishment sections were eliminated. Previously, the OPR had six performance factor blocks, including job knowledge, leadership skills, professional qualities, organizational skills, judgment and decisions and communications skills, that were compacted to one block used to indicate all standards are met. If standards are not met, more detailed information can be provided. Enlisted performance report narrative lines were also reduced. The new EPRs will require evaluators to comment on each performance area and what was considered a promotion recommendation was changed to an overall performance assessment. Performance feed back worksheets are now standardized using does not meet, meets, above average, and clearly exceeds criterion. Capt. Green said she anticipates only the addition of the physical fitness section will impact Airmen. "You are now held to a new and higher standard," she said.