F3 Northern Alliance Site Q tool chest

This is intended to help Site Q’s be great Site Q’s, and help your Q’s and FNGs. NA has created a “VQ and Q tool chest” also, to guide their workout, please share THAT page with them: VQ and Q Tool Chest

In short, Site Q has 2 responsibilities: Prepare and Show UP

Preparation

Pre-Schedule your AO’s Q (tips/tricks)
Pre-blast coordination on Slack

Show up day of

Post flag
Support your Q
Identify FNG
Watch you 6
Post-blast coordination on Slack

Preparation

Finding Q’s and scheduling them. We have created an entire page with advice, dos and don’ts , and FAQ.

Get into your slack account. Push the purple + button and start a message and use the /F3 prompt to get started. View our instructions for more help.
Make Sure they are going to make it. Slack will remind them a day or two before their Q, but text them a few days before to make sure they are going to show up. If not, find another one, or lead the AO yourself.

Verify YOU can make it (you = site Q). If you can’t, get another Site Q or ask your Q to post the flag. Plan ahead.
Slack Pre-blast

Slack will automatically send out a Pre-Blast for the AO, even if you don’t have a Q signed up. The Pre-Blast is KEY to getting Pax to Hard Commit.
Using /F3 prompt (see instruction above) you can select “Edit Preblast” to put in more info about the workout, or assign a co-Q. However, we encourage your Q to do this for you.
The Pre-blast will automatically show up in 1st F channel.

2. Show Up Day Of AO

Shovel Flag: Get to your AO early enough to post the shovel flag. (15 min early). This allows new people to see that its where the location is. Also, shows proactive activity.

Put it in the same spot every week
That “same spot” should be easily identifiable, especially for visiting PAX from other regions who are likely working off GPS from the F3 website map. They know to look for the flag.
No other adornments - only the American Flag. Do not need divisions in the AO. Proud to be American!

Greet your Q and make it clear they are in charge. If they are a VQ, ask them if they need any help, and reinforce that you are here to help them.
Identify FNG’s

If you identify someone you don’t know, greet them with your hospital name and let them know YOUR F3 name and a fist pump. If they are a guest or rarely-posting PAX just crawling out from under a rock, they will return the pump with their F3 name. Ask them who invited them out, and be genuinely interesting in them. Use FORM to spark conversation. Family, Occupation, Recreation, Message. Message starts with step b below. If they are an FNG, they will look at you with bewilderment, mutter their name, and wonder WTF. Those are your clues to greet them as an FNG.
Explain what FNG is (Friendly New guy) and that they will be greeted by that name through the Post, and that at the end, they will be asked to introduce themselves, at which point the Q will give them a new F3 name. We recommend leaving the explanation at that. Not sure calling them FNG vs just their name is weird??
Assign one of your PAX to shadow them through the Post.

explain the obvious obnoxiousness we all take for granted,
catch them as a 6 if necessary, Never leave them alone.
make them feel at home.
Explain the COT and video - remind them to say “FNG” rather than their F3 name (which they won’t have yet).
More importantly, keep the pace a “convo level” so your FNG guide can get personal information out of them necessary to help shout out names in the COT in the naming ritual.

Manage your Q. Make sure your Q covers the basics of the post:

Mission of F3
CYA “don’t hurt yourself” line
If time allows, always good to remind everyone of the F3 Five Core Principles (this is especially helpful if there are FNG’s in the crowed).

Free of charge
Open to all men
Held outdoors
Peer led
Ends with COT

If FNG’s are present, also handy to explain the 3 F’s: Fitness, Fellowship and Faith, good opportunity to put the FNG at ease so that we aren’t going to break into Gregorian chants and do a rosary in the parking lot.

OMAHA: Make sure the Q calls OMAHA with enough time for COT - remember, not all Q’s will have Mary.
your 6, keep an eye on your 6 or designate someone too - especially if you have FNG’s or PAX who haven't been in a while.
COT procedure: Allow 10 minutes for a good COT, longer if you have FNG or multiple FNG, less if you have small group of PAX who know each other and don’t need the pomp-and-circumstance.

Countdown. It is awesome if the PAX start this themselves, but if they are unsure the post is over, or you beat them up too much, its is recommended the Site Q start this and gesture to the #2.
Name-a-ramma video.

Q should grab their phone and video each pax to record their hospital name, age, and F3 name… linger long enough to capture any gestures (flight attendant’s exit gestures, centerfolds poster un-ravel, hall pass’s hand off, Bobby Knights chair throw … you get the picture), and long enough to “give respect” to the 50+ crowds.
Start with the Site Q and end with the Q.

Announcements.

Self explanatory.
Site Q Remind everyone to join North Alliance Slack account.https://app.slack.com/client/T03NQSDA9PE/C03PC70LLEL
Site Q will announce next week’s Q.
Site Q will remind PAX we are peer lead and new Q’s to sign up. Have your phone ready for this on site if possible too.

3rd F. Q should ask if anyone wants to offer up a “prayer”, or they may do it themselves. If blank stares and crickets are the result, Site Q steps in and makes something up. Ideally, bring the group in to “take a knee” or ball of man.
Depending on AO and Pax attending, encourage 2nd F

FNG - after COT, name your FNG.

Refer to “freed to Lead” and “Q Source” for guidance on this. There is an art to this. This is the Q’s job, but sure Q needs to manage.

Rely on your Pax for help, especially relly on your FNG Shadow Pax for ideas.
Remember, the name should be a bit edgy… it is meant to be a little humiliating, even insulting - it's an inside joke for F3 Pax and should not be offensive to the general public. It may be helpful to explain this to the new PAX after the name is given.
It is meant to remind the PAX of humility moving forward. Jayhawk HATES his F3 name, because he hates the Jayhawks… he’s a KSU Wildcat. But he is humbled by it because the name reminds him daily that he isn’t any better than his terrible F3 name, and to make each day better than the best. Humility.

Get your former FNG’s deets.

AFTER the COT - site Q signs them up if they haven't left already.

Assuming you are already at www.F3na.com, click on “Step #2 FNG”
Recommendation is to do this process with them, in real time, after the post, in the parking lot, BEFORE they leave.
Do it on your phone.

At a minimum, get the necessary deets from them so you can input the information FOR them off site. The failure rate for returning FNG’s is assumed to be VERY HIGH if they do not start receiving Shenanigans and disappear into the ether.

As much of the information as they are willing to give up is great, but at a minimum, we need the first/last name, F3 Name (at this point, you get to determine how it is spelled! Lucky you), email. The only piece of information we really use is the email address for the NA shenanigans. The names just help us remember who they are. Obviously, a cell # would be great to hit them up with a quick text for follow up - more on that later

Note: this will not automatically sign them up for F3 National nor F3 Greensboro. If they want those fishwraps, they can google and figure it out.
The more info we get, the more detailed the roster is.

Recommend “Step #3” … join Slack.
Show them the NA schedule and encourage them to at least show back up to this AO in one week.
Remind them that the name is meant to be humble… if they are upset by it that means we did a good job. Remind them that the name is for F3 reference only, and meant to remind them that they are not first.

FNG follow up. Text or call the FNG sometime in the week and make sure they’re doing OK. Answer any questions, encourage them to post again at the same AO.
Leave no trace: Make sure AO is cleaner than you found it.