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Community Staffing Initiative

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An initiative I have been involved in has been the changing of the guard here at the KCCC. The goal of this initiative is to provide quality service to external clients with minimum staffing and a depleting budget for the year.
From this week’s reading, I can say it has been a combination of working with a “sense of urgency” mixed with anger and complacency along with no motivation. Before the changing of leadership, employees worked as described in the first paragraph, in a “successful change effort" atmosphere. Colleagues worked with a sense of urgency, energy and on their toes.” (Kotter 15)
As described in the first story, “Getting the Bosses Approval” we have different departments that are to work together to accomplish show preparation …show more content…

Unfortunately after the meeting the agenda becomes every person for himself. This causes mass confusion, double work for employees and last but least urgency in trying to complete show preparations with limited staff support. As stated in the reading the department encounters “a wall” and has to continuously start over for the second time.”(Kotter 17)
The area of the initiative that was the least effective was the underestimation of how much complacency, fear and anger can exist, even in good organizations. This is an area that is crucial and should be monitored on an ongoing basis. Reason being a lot of staff are stressed and dealing with many personal issues that sometimes carry over into the work environment. The idea of doing some of the exercises mentioned might to help reduce anxiety in certain areas.
A way of improving some of the areas would be to lead and show tangible goals and recognition items that can be obtained by seeing and touching. Having testimonies from customers and visitors can also have a powerful message that would let staff know that their hard work being …show more content…

These components are seeing, feeling, changing and seeing. When you do not have the necessary resources, man power and if there is an aroma of lack of motivation in the air you cannot produce an active and productive environment. Therefore, individuals are subject not to change.
A way to improve and decrease the warning signs is to approach each scenario in a positive fashion. Create pods that would address specific issues and help to make important decisions.
After pods have been established and mission and vision data has been given to the company for direction, the pod leader should meet with a member of executive team for an immediate or long term approval of operational processes.
These areas can be improved with “strong and influential leaders.”(Kotter 49) Every company has departments that are led by assistant mangers and department leads. If done correctly and if properly trained, these individuals can be very motivational to staff. Thus helping them to not only meet personal goals but organizational goals.
Feedback is also crucial. When viewed and taken serious, corrective action based on dialogue from others can prove to be very successful and remove a sense of

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