dapaterson said:
My eternal comment: It's "Leading Change" when it should be "Leading Effective Change".
But what about when you have to implement an ineffective change that flows down from the Big Giant Head Collective (TM)? That usually takes real leadership.
As a guy that kept getting tagged with PERMON, that one always bugged me. It's not about creating a change, it's about managing the implementation of something in flux so that it's not a cluster. Doesn't really take much to apply that to any of the million things in our normal day to day work as we go about doing our jobs, and pretty easy to see why looking at something, understanding the impact it will have, and working with other people to get it sorted out is an important skill set you want senior people to have.
Think people that push new ideas to get the mastered on 'leading change' should also lose points on their 'reading' score, as well as the attention to detail related scores! ;D ;D
Really looking forward to see the new system, hopefully it's actual meaningful change instead of window dressing. Not a big fan of the lack of a writeup for current PERs that aren't immediate; that's really not helpful for the member. Even if you do regular feedback, putting something in writing is a helpful exercise for everyone, and useful to read over afterwards. With the effort that saved on the PER, would have been really easy to give someone a PDR as well. Bit of work, but think the informal feedback is a lot more useful than what is actually put into a PER.
But seriously, did drill in basic, did a bit more on phase 2, then there is some minor practice before some kind of parade or whatever. Aside from being able to throw a high five, don't need any more than that on the day to day, so it's a pretty front loaded training at a time when you are at your cheapest, and they need to keep you busy anyway.
Like going to the range once in a while, I see drill as a reminder that, even when I'm basically a cubicle jockey doing civil servant work, I've signed my name to be part of something much bigger than just pushing paper. I find that helpful when I'm staring down the barrel of yet another pointless working group/oversight review/bureaucratic meeting flavour of the day to keep a project rolling. I also think (like general dress an deportment) it's a pretty easy, low hanging fruit to get right and not look like a soup sandwhich. Rather than fight a losing and pointless battle, figure I may as well make the (really minimal) effort required to do it properly.
There are many hills to die on, this one's not mine. People expect the military to do drill, it's not going away, so why get frustrated about it? my :2c: