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Org staffs are made up of individuals. The better the case shape of each individual staff member, the more viable the org.
If an org is going to prosper, its staff must be getting audited, making case gain and actively progressing on the Grade Chart. Failure to use the tech on one’s own staff is one of the fastest ways to allow the tech to go out or slip into disuse or become alter-ised.
Staff need a reality on the tech they work so hard to deliver — not just those technically trained who do the actual delivery but those working in admin capacities as well.
And quite apart from the fact that inattention to staff cases will result in a failing org and dwindling viability and potential, is the fact that staff members work hard and deserve the benefit of the tech they are handling and making available to others.
How does an org get all its staff audited? Every org should have Staff Staff Auditors as provided on the org board. Not all orgs do have them, but where they do these auditors serve a needed function and are valuable. The truth is, although they should, small orgs often don’t have such an auditor and in a large org such auditors are hard put to handle all staff cases on a regular basis.
So how does an org get all its staff audited? The answer of course is Staff Co-Audits.
We have had co-audit tech since the early days and it’s high time we revitalized it and put it into active use as one of an org’s standard functions.
To create an immediate upsurge in staff morale, activity level and enthusiasm all you have to do is establish a going Staff Co-Audit. It takes only some good planning and a bit of determination. Among staff the need and the want and the interest is there. If you want to prove it just fan that interest a bit and watch what happens!
Qual is responsible for staff cases. A Staff Co-Audit would be organized and set up in Qual, in the Department of Enhancement under the SSO.
The first actions of the Qual Sec and SSO would be to work out the bare bones essentials for a co-audit and get an I/C selected.
An org of any size will require a Co-Audit I/C, and if the I/C is also going to be the Co-Audit Supervisor he had better be someone who knows how to audit and can run good 8-C or he won’t be able to handle the entire scene or individual co-audit teams when they run into trouble.
In a small org where there’s no-one available to be the Co-Audit I/C, the SSO holds the hat from above. And if there’s no SSO posted, it’s the responsibility of the Qual Sec to get a Staff Co-Audit set up and running.
But regardless of who does the initial planning and set up, there’s got to be a trained Co-Audit Supervisor in attendance at all scheduled co-audit times who is actively running the show. And he will need at least some part time help.
A Staff Co-Audit doesn’t eliminate the need for Staff Staff Auditors. Staff Staff Auditors are very much a part of the Qual org board, and even with a staff co-audit running they would still need to handle individual cases and would also be used as Review auditors for the co-audit.
If the org has no staff C/S, C/Ses will need to be set up. These can be assigned from trained staff who volunteer or are selected to help out on this basis after production hours.
Get some space allocated, arrange for any needed furniture, chairs, tables, adequate paper, etc., and most important of all — the needed tech materials. Don’t let lack of equipment be a hug. In one successful co-audit a couple of years ago and in early co-audits as well, staff audited with a meter on one knee and a clipboard on the other! Not ideal but where it’s necessary it can be done and simply adds to the esprit de corps. It’s a matter of what it takes to get the job done.
Set up a schedule that will accommodate the majority oi staff. Two scheduled co-audit periods may have to be arranged so as not to disrupt regular production. This would be done in liaison with other execs.
As soon as the general plan is established, hold a rousing good staff muster and let the entire staff know what’s going to be done. The Staff Co-Audit is for everyone — the trained and the untrained. The original maxim holds true — any two people can do it. The untrained will simply need tighter guidance in order to carry it off. Get some real enthusiasm generated and you’ll find you have no shortage of volunteers to help with the initial set up. The way to get a staff co-audit rolling is to make it an all-hands action.
The rest of the planning and execution takes shape from there. It includes:
1. Review of all staff cases and staff folders made ready for C/Sing. Get the staff cases sorted out as to category, as covered in HCO PL 20 Jul 70, Cases And Morale Of Staff. Where staff cases have been neglected you may need a corps of FESers to begin with to get all the folders FESed so the C/S can operate with full data.
2. Get the folders programmed and C/Sed.
3. Arrange that any staff who need medical treatment, PTS handling or Ethics handling are handled on a priority basis so they can get onto the co-audit as soon as possible. This gets done simultaneously with getting the co-audit into operation.
4. While all this is going on, the Co-Audit I/C or the Co-Audit Supervisor or both get themselves trained up and boned up on all the tech on co-audits and how to run them.
5. Set up the necessary admin lines and lines for folders to and from the C/S.
6. Get the staff who can start immediately, twinned up according to comparable training and case level per HCO PL 23 Jul AD19, Auditor Assignment Policies, HCOB 21 Dec 79, C/S Series 107, Auditor Assignment Policies, etc., and HCOB 21 Aug 79 Twinning. Note: It’s not ideal to twin up family members or marital teams, if it can be arranged otherwise. The possibility of mutual out ruds between such teams is greater as well as the possibility of overts or withholds from each other, which may result in unnecessary difficulty on the co-audit. Twin them up with other partners and it will all go more smoothly. Additionally, don’t break up any successful existing co-audit teams when setting up the co-audit. Keep these maintained.
7. START the staff co-audit and keep it rolling.
All programming and C/Sing of cases for a staff co-audit is done against the Grade Chart.
On a staff co-audit you have two main zones of activity — co-auditing for the trained and the untrained.
In the first group you’ll have staff with different levels of training and in both groups you’ll have different levels of cases.
Where twinning is concerned, the two groups are handled separately.
Those in the trained group are twinned with others in the trained group, taking training and processing levels into consideration.
Those in the untrained group are twinned with others in the untrained group, taking case levels and study speed into consideration.
From there it’s a matter of what needs to be run to get the person on or up the Grade Chart.
While the co-auditing is all done in one room it will save wear and tear on the Co-Audit Sup to have the trained staff seated together in one section and the untrained staff together in another section nearby. This way he can more easily keep an eye on the new green auditors and pcs who will require the most attention. But he does not neglect one group for the other. (It is not mandatory for professionally trained co-auditors to be closely supervised in the class room while they are in session. They normally can be trusted to audit in a separate auditing room if the pc prefers this to the classroom co-auditing set up.)
Ideally, all staff would do:
1. The Purification Rundown (not an audited action)
2. The Survival Rundown (which is designed for co-audit purposes for the trained and untrained alike, as well as for use in the HGC) and
3. The Drug Rundown
in that sequence, if they have not already completed those steps. This is a matter for the C/S to determine according to individual cases.
Those who are complete on the above opening steps for all cases would then be programmed for their next Grade Chart action, whatever that might be.
Trained Co-Auditors: Trained personnel are expected to apply the skills of the highest level they were trained in if that’s what is required for the pc. Some of them may need redrilling on certain actions or study of new bulletins that have come out since they were trained.
When a team of trained staff co-auditors have completed all the processes of one Grade on each other at the level of any formal training they’ve had, they can move into auditing at the next higher level, either taking it on a read-it, drill-it, do-it basis or getting fully trained on that level before resuming their co-audit.
Untrained Co-Auditors: Co-auditing on the Survival Rundown provides an excellent starting point for new, beginning co-auditors.
Should you have an untrained staff member who has already had full Objectives as a pc he could still train on the Survival Rundown steps and deliver them to his twin, and his twin would give him any Survival RD steps he hadn’t previously received.
If you have an untrained team where both have had full Objectives, or full Objectives and Drug Rundowns, they’d fill in any new or omitted steps and would be programmed for their next Grade Chart actions. You’d need to give these untrained staff co-auditors some basic definitions to begin with — auditor, preclear, session, etc. Then teach them the comm cycle and get them through Co-Audit TRs. Do not make it a long runway. You want them in there auditing and they can be polished up as they go.
Muzzled auditing is the keynote for the beginning co-auditor. It is covered fully in the HCOBs listed in Co-Audit Series 1 and the various tapes on co-audits given on the Co-Audit Supervisor Course Checksheet (HCO PL 2 Jun 80). It is simple enough for any co-auditor to do and it lends itself perfectly to the early Grade Chart processes as well.
If the untrained co-auditor remains muzzled there’s very little trouble he can get into. But he will hit some trouble spots somewhere along the line and he’ll need to be bailed out by the Co-Audit Supervisor, set straight and given a boost to keep going. The attitude is always that he can do it, because the truth of the matter is that he can and he will make it, taken up on the right gradient approach.
Untrained staff co-audit teams who are kept at it can get each other through the Survival Rundown, Drug Rundown, NED and the Grades, training and auditing on a read-it, drill-it, do-it basis as they go. They won’t be fully classed auditors but the experience will be invaluable and the gains tremendous and it wouldn’t take much to get them classified after that.
Expanded Dianetics and power processing would only be co-audited by auditors fully trained and classed to deliver the tech of those processes.
Responsibility Of Co-Auditors: The entirety of the Twinning HCOB (HCOB 21 Aug 79) applies to co-audit teams. That and The Auditor’s Code make up the co-auditor’s Bible. Co-auditors are responsible for getting each other through. They do twin checkouts, find and handle each other’s misunderstoods, drill their materials until they’re confident, and deliver the tech to each other. For the untrained, it’s a read-it, drill-it, do-it operation and it makes auditors. A co-auditor is responsible for the quality of the auditing he gives and gets. You’ll find most staff eager to meet the challenge.
All the tech on how to run a co-audit in HCOB 29 May 80, Co-Audit Series 2, and other Co-Audit HCOBs applies to a Staff Co-Audit.
The I/C and any Staff Co-Audit Supervisor must know this tech well and keep it fully applied.
Put a good auditor onto handling the Staff Co-Audit because he’ll need to be able to handle all levels of cases, bail any of them out at any time, and run good 8-C on the entire room.
He’s got to be able to jump in and handle ruds if needed, spot bad indicators, find and indicate bypassed charge, assess lists, give D of P interviews, correct co-auditors and keep all the sessions moving. He’s alert and on the move, with an eye on every session in progress:
For a co-audit of any size (and most staff co-audits will be large) he’ll need an assistant. The assistant can be assigned to the post or arranged for on a volunteer basis, but the Co-Audit Supervisor should be given back-up he can rely on.
Running a large co-audit in a common room can be a noisy business, and there will be distraction for pc and auditor alike. But it can be done, preclears become used to it, auditing does get delivered, and it makes a far better auditor when one learns his trade under co-audit circumstances.
Don’t expect it all to go smoothly, because it won’t. There’s plenty of randomity on any co-audit but there’s apt to be more of it on a staff co-audit because of the different case and training levels involved. The Co-Audit Supervisor holds it all together and keeps the co-auditors auditing.
Staff Co-Audits are tightly scheduled and tightly controlled. There’s a roll book kept, with a roll call for each scheduled period, graphs are kept, and all points of What Is A Course must be well in.
With the twinning system firmly established it’s not likely a Co-Audit MAA would be needed, but one can be assigned if it becomes necessary.
Correction is done by pink sheets which are handled in the Co-Audit room. Should that not always be workable, the person could be sent to the Cramming Officer. But he must be handled swiftly so co-auditing is not held up.
If a staff member simply is not making gains on the co-audit, even with debugging from the Co-Audit Supervisor, he would be turned over to a Staff Staff Auditor, an Intern or a Review auditor for auditing and returned to the co-audit when he could make it.
Red tags on a staff co-audit, as in any other auditing, must be handled within 24 hours.
The Co-Audit Supervisor rolls up his sleeves and makes sure it all gets done. And his job is made easier as it goes along by an enthusiastic and winning staff.
Let’s pump some new life into org staffs everywhere with Staff Co-Audits that get people up the Grade Chart. You have all the tech you need to do it. Everybody wins, and the boost in staff morale, in staff spirit and staff effectiveness will be quite astounding.
It’s the way to make fully qualified staff members. And you’ll be making auditors at the same time!