The People, Process, & Progress Podcast - People - Our Most Valuable Resource | FF32

Episode Date: August 27, 2021

Reminders of the concepts of resource Kinds, Types and CSALTT for resource ordering. Resources to help U.S. Military families and our Afghan allies. Taps to honor the fallen.

Welcome to Foundations Friday 32, People, the most valuable resource. Welcome everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in again. Today, I just want to remind everybody of some of the key concepts from People Process Progress 84, Foundation 4, Request and Coordinate Resources

from earlier this week. And those are the KIND and TYPE and then the C-SALT acronym. And then I want to provide some resources to help our people in the U.S. military, people in Afghanistan, and speak to that horrible tragedy where 11 U.S. Marines, a hospital corpsman, and dozens of Afghan civilians were murdered by terrorists this week. And a reminder of the importance of our planning together. So if you remember from episode 84, if not, go back and check that out, please. These are just some ways to help us when we're going to request resources is to remember the kind, right? What is this resource? And then the type is what is its capability? So we need to know

what's the resource, what is it, and then what can it do? And as we actually order a resource or request it, and you may have a different way you do this in your organization, the CSALT or C-S-A-L-T-T, which is capability, size, amount, location, time, and type is a great acronym to help us make sure we're requesting well. So capability, what can it do? Size, what size of equipment is it? Amount, how many of those things do we need or people? The location they report to and we'll be working at. The time and meaning how long and when do we need it by? And then the type, right, which has to do again with kind of the capability. Or if we have kind of a catalog of resources, you know, do we have it typed and reference numbered and all that kind of stuff? So some quick hit reminders for the resource coordination. And then a reminder, which hopefully, and I think, you know, as listeners of the show,

you all know this, that people are our number one resource, right? And whether we're tired, frustrated, don't know what to do, a myriad of things that could be going on in our minds and the minds of leaders. If you're the leader of a team, if you're the coordinator of resources, the requester, the one who's tracking those people, the one in charge of taking care of them, is that when we skip steps in the planning process, that can have a negative impact on our people. The quote, failure to plan is planning to fail comes to mind. And when we cut corners, particularly let's use public safety as an example, and we don't have a good medical unit or resources on standby just for our people, and we don't plan our communication well together, and we don't coordinate because of our egos,

or we've never done it before. And then that active shooter happens or someone drives through a crowd or, God forbid, detonates something in an airport, then we won't be ready and we won't be able to respond correctly and we won't save our people as much as we can or the public or anybody else. And unfortunately, we've seen that. We've seen failure to plan. On projects, we need to consider probably not as much life and limb, right, depending on the project you're doing, but in the business world, are we planning as much as we know about the product? That's one thing, right? Let's get this thing ready, this device, this software, this process, whatever. But then also for our people that have been for months or however long your project's

been going, then supporting this and building it. But then also for when we're going to put this out in public and we're going to go live and folks are going to call and they're going to complain and it's not going to be perfect and this and that, are we stretching our people too thin to where we're burning them out and we're asking them to do too much and then they won't be with us, right? They leave, they go somewhere else, they start calling out more. We need to watch those kind of things, right? That mental health. So I would say, and one lesson I've learned for sure is don't push your people so much and pay attention to them and listen to them and talk to them when you can. Because they are, in fact, no doubt, our most important resource.

So I want to provide some resources for, and I got this from wearethemighty.com, on ways we can help military veterans, those in Afghanistan, and Gold Star families of those that are lost, which unfortunately we have more of this week. The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund helps severely injured receive care and return to military service or civilian life. So check out the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. And again, this is a short list of some that I grabbed. There are many more. Check these out on wearethemighty.com for and I'll link this in the show notes. The Fisher House Foundation. This I'm familiar with from when I was a corpsman working at Bethesda Naval Hospital. We had a Fisher House there. It was great for folks to

be able to stay when their patient was in the intensive care unit, like where I took care of patients or anywhere else in the hospital. But the Fish and House Foundation builds homes at medical centers for families to stay out near their wounded, which is outstanding. Another great one and timely with the loss of these Marines and their corpsmen at Semper Fi and America's Fund takes care of wound and ill and severely injured vets and their families. Plus, which is neat, they have adaptive fitness and sports programs, right? So not only will they help folks get better, and as we know, you know, for the past couple decades, this war has really ramped up medicine overall, particularly trauma and particularly prosthetics, right, from explosives and other injuries that have had people lose limbs.

So they have the Semper Fi and America's Fund has adaptive fitness, which is outstanding. If you want to do something, if you want to help the chaos in Afghanistan to help get people out that now, right, are hunted by folks that know they helped us, America, or just want to get to a better place like many of us in America did, our ancestors did when they left whatever home country we came from, if we weren't from America for, you know, however long America has been. Some folks just want a better life. So No One Left Behind is a charity that's a nonprofit to help ensure that America keeps its promise to the folks that helped us when we were over there, when we responded after 9-11, when we stayed there to help try and build something and do something and build up afghanistan and so no one left behind it's good there and and the last charity unfortunately that has to exist

is america's gold star families and it's a 501c that provides honor and hope and healing for those experiencing military loss like we experienced this week with the U.S. Marines, the U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsmen. I'm going to close out this Foundations Friday with taps. I wish you all to stay safe. Please wash your hands and Godspeed. © transcriptF-WATCH TV 2021 © transcript Emily Beynon