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Job Safety, Safety And Safety Of Others

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During my course of employment with the military and in a supervisor position there are definitely issues and situations that arise where I need to take action with employees. Recently, I had a member of our unit that was not keeping up their mandatory requirements to maintain their military duty. As the supervisor of this individual it was my duty to figure out why they were not keeping up with the requirements and see what I could do to help get the requirements up to date before any further action would be taken.
In order to determine why he was lacking in his requirements I needed to sit down with him and talk to him one on one. There could be a number of issues, personal or work, that could be influencing the discrepancy so I needed to make sure that he felt comfortable with me and felt like he could speak to me no matter what the issue was. I also needed to convey the importance of these requirements in relation to his job, safety and the safety of others. This decision to not keep his requirements up to date will not only affect him but his job, his family and others that he works with both financially and emotionally. I needed to make sure as the supervisor that I put myself in his shoes and keep an open mind and that I must stress the importance of maintaining all mandatory requirements.
When we sat down, I started with “small talk” to find out what he likes to do, a little about his home life and what he likes to do in his spare time and what he likes/dislikes

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