As a Supervisory Immigration Inspector for one of the largest port of entries in the United States, we had over 300 hundred inspectional personal to guide in all the different directions that were under our responsibility. As I stated in the interview, most of our staff was ex-military. There are different leadership styles that work best with military and others that work with any professional experience. With extreme conditions that were present during most of each and every day, officers needed help in coping. The employees needed to know that management had their back so to say.
Los Angeles International airport does not close. Flights are late and realistically a 24 hour operation. An officer could essentially be tasked to work more than 16 hours days. So the stress builds up with anyone. We created a plan that would take one team out of action for more than one day. This team would have a change to relax. The supervisor would
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The training taught us when the best time to be commanding, visionary, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting, and coaching leaders. They broke us away on only task-oriented leadership styles and more for people-oriented leadership ways. The training tried to be more hands on to treat each people as an individual and bring them into a team.
On my team’s time away from normal duties, I tried something new; I gave them beginning supervisor training. I brought them into a management’s point of view. Most were non-commissioned officers in the military and had specialized training according to their particular service. When we returned, I had each one work as an acting supervisor for a period of time. I attempted to give them an introduction to learning and career advancement. Since I had a few prior supervisors at their previous companies, all would be tasked with the responsibilities that a supervisor would
Eventually, every organization faces staffing challenges. However, the difference lies in the manner a company reacts to staffing issues. Staffing issues can be internal, external, or both. In addition, the intensity levels of the issues may vary from company to company. Recently, the Virginia State Police suffered from several staffing issues. This paper will address the specific staffing concerns with the Virginia Police Department, the ineffectiveness of the situation illustrated in the article, and ways the police department could have done differently or prepared itself better.
Each day is a new adventure. The dedication to travelling to new destinations, on a weekly basis, to ensure safe travels for all involved, take a toll on the sleep patters, and functionality of these workers. Still, these officers perform their line of work, seamlessly, for the safety of, we, the Americans. These officials monitor airports and other public venues to ensure history does not repeat itself, and face events such as the Boston Marathon bombing, the attack on the Istanbul airport, and September 11th, 2001- and protects highly populated events- such as the Fourth of July Fireworks display, and those of similar nature. These officers miss family functions including birthdays, graduations, and other milestones to preserve the integrity of our nation, and allow us citizens to fulfill our own American Dreams.
It was summer of 2010. My parents were still married and we went up to Wichita Falls, Wichita to go see my brother Chris who was in the Military on base working. We stayed there for a week. I still remember the car ride up there. We rented a van, we had tvs in the rented van, my sister Rylee, my other brother Garrett (he was in the military too), my mom Traci, and my dad Doug, and my brothers military bag it was like a person. I still remember I had to sit in the back with that bad it was so big. Garrett put the seatbelt around the bag like it was a person. The car trip was so long but it was all worth it in the end. It was in the middle of the week and we were out on the beach. My brother Chris and his pregnant wife Ashley had a boat the water
I came to US during my 8th grade and that was a life changing moment in my life. It was first time traveling aboard and that also not for a trip but for to permanent settlement. I was nervous my whole time been in the plane that how I will cope up with new environment and with bunch of English speakers. I got more. When it came pilot call for, that it's time to land on the Detroit Airport, tighten your seatbelts and be relax. As soon as the plane landed on American soil, I knew that this was the place where I’d to start a new life. Even though I knew America is the “Land of Opportunity”, everything here seemed so strange to me, the streets, the language and the people that was my first time traveling abroad.
With the settlement of first immagrants to America, this has been the phrase in which they preach. I seemed to those from an outside perspective of America, that this was the place to be. This was no exception for my grandfather. His valuable lessons of dedication, persistence and passion have shaped me into the person that I have become.
At the age of fifteen, I could barely speak an English word. As I sat on the plane with a blank head flying across from Vietnam to the United States, I knew completely nothing what’s going to happen in my life. After almost twenty-four hours sitting on an intolerable chair, I arrived, as I looked above my head “Welcome to the United States”. And yes, welcome to my story, and undoubtedly my experience is the author.
One person can have the power to change a community’s perspective or sharpen it. As a Latina and an immigrant, my family’s experience has taught me about the process of entering the United States and the complications that follow. Still, my comprehension of social issues developed further the day I met my brother’s friend and classmate, who followed my brother home, unannounced, on the bus. I will call him Eric, my brother’s friend and his family are Salvadorian undocumented immigrants who seek political asylum. Eric’s family consists of a younger and an older sibling, and his mother. The only source of income is what his mother, who does not speak English very well, makes. Lately, this is what keeps me up at night. Thoughts of this child and his family consume my mind while I brainstorm ways of helping. At a young age when their biggest concerns
I am the first generation of my family members that has been raised at and attended school in the United States. My siblings were raised and educated in Mexico later transitioning to the U.S. when I was 4. My family from a young age to now has only been made up of my mom, two sisters, nephews, and niece slowly growing as time passes.
It all started on one sunny day on the month of July, I was done with my service to protect my country the United States of America. Man it was nice to experience the smell of freedom once again. Due to my deployments in many countries I never had the opportunity to step forth in the land of the free, my home, it felt nostalgic to experience it all again. During my time in the military I was twenty-one and was first a designated marksman or Scout Sniper in the Marine Corp for a year or two, then I decided to join a special operations team and joined the 75th Ranger Regiment and continued my role as a sniper. Then finally through months of hard work and combat deployments my skills as a sniper was finally recognized. I was hand selected to
The training and development that is part of building leaders is important, but there is a distinct difference between "training" and "development," and the authors make that clear. Training in this context means ""¦creating proficiency through specialized instruction" (Mensch, et al, 2008, p. 263). Moreover, training focuses on the "measurable aspects of technical and tactical proficiency," Mensch explains. On the other hand "development" is much broader in scope; it's a "deep, fundamental, and irreversible process," and it stretches out over an extended period of time, Mensch explain (264).
My alarm blasted its sound in my ear, waking me up. I desperately wanted to go back to sleep, but it was another dreaded school day. Fighting my desire to continue sleeping, I walked over to the bathroom and splashed cold water from the sink on my face to wake myself up. Unfortunately, even that couldn’t completely shake my tiredness. “Oh well…” I sighed as I began stroking my hairbrush through the length of my chestnut-colored hair.
Becoming a supervisor in any position is a big responsibility. The former way to reach a management position was to perform the duties of the job and climb the ladder so to speak. As attending management college classes, I have learned that just being proficient in all the task is no longer the only requirement needed. Many leadership positions require one to understand motivating employees to enjoy their position and thus perform better. You read in the paper how a new CEO of a different business can just jump into a position and the next company. The new articles show that the right person can find that right direction and all of a sudden, you read that IBM is on top again.
Home is where your heart is. For my mother and I our hearts were left with my beloved sister in Shiraz, Iran. We were departing our country and culture for my dad in America, who we had not seen for two years. However, this came with a miserable price. The U.S. immigration system is not so permissive in whom they allow to enter, with one of their determining factors being age. My sister, Azadeh, had become too “old” for her to be dependent on our parents. At that age, I was four and she was twenty-one with a caring heart like my mom’s. I loved her. I had not only fled my homeland but had left a piece of my heart in its soil. I had lost my big sister, and my mother had lost her
We started off with a bang. We started with me thinking of what to do how to do it and what were my ideas. Then, a little later we actually started it and not gonna lie, it was scary. I didn’t know that much about my family, yeah i've heard stories but they're stories. Later on we went home i didn’t tell my family anything just unsuspiciously getting all the information and I learned a lot yes. I learned about my names and why they're my names, I learned about my dad getting lost a lot, I learned about my mom moving here to america when she was 14 and how her life was before she moved and why she moved. I learned about my uncle going to jail for crossing the border illegally which is kinda funny. All those I learned but i couldn’t find anything
Moreover, this course assisted me in learning how to create a team charter in which it has showed me my strength and weakness. A Team Charter helps “team members recognize their complementary skills, their common purpose, common goals, and mutual accountability” (Byrd & Luthy, 2010, p. 14). It made me understand how to be prepared for any arising conflicts and how to manage it. ”Conflict management works best when the parties involved in a disagreement are equipped to managing it themselves” (Weiss & Hughes, 2005). I also learnt the importance of feedback and feed forward. "Feedforward helps people envision and focus on a positive future, not a failed past" (Goldsmith, 2002). How it puts the employees in a check list in order to spot where they are wrong and perform better. “Effective feedback helps the coachee see the gap between intended performance and actual performance" (Payne, V. 2007). The requirements needed to excel and improve in their workforce. ”Employees can provide useful input on the effective of procedures