Reference no: EM133091655

Aloha Professor and Class,

The progress on my improvement project is slowly coming together. It's been a hit and miss during the process of creating an improvement plan. I haven't compiled my improvement plan but will start this week, with the feedback provided by Professor Kane on each week homework and the discussions I should be able to produce a solid product.

I am currently a member of the organization that I chose to do an improvement plan on.  I've been with this organization for a little over two years and will be moving on to another organization once my three years are complete.  I have learned that with the right management in place an organization can overcome anything, a good example of overcoming obstacles during the Coronavirus pandemic in Hawaii.  The organization quickly communicated to key staff and management and adjusted operations to meet the restrictions of the pandemic while exceeding standard on accreditation and conducting courses.  Implementing the new process to improve the awards and recognition program will take less coordination, funding, and training.

I think the most difficult part of this project was trying to forecast a budget to implement the new processes. As a member of the Army Reserve, we try to maximize our training time, and we do an annual leader training workshop for forecasting the following year's budget and training.  We cram a lot of training during our one weekend a month, updating policies and SOPs are completed during the weekend training and does not require additional funds.  Since the organization is a Multi-Functional Training Brigade, we train all three Army components in five job specialties.  I've reached out to the budgeting analyst who provided some examples of estimates that I could incorporate into my plan.  Wish me luck!

Response:

• Evaluate their strategy of how they dealt with it.
• Improve upon their strategy and provide feedback.
• Consider how you could have applied that strategy or parts of that strategy to your own challenges.