Police Dog Training Paper
Company Overview
The military police dog organization is an organization of military police dog handlers who are trained Military Police Officers who are assigned to handle and employ military police dogs. The organization consists of one department leader, four mid-level managers and about 25 personnel. The organization uses a chain of command structure. There are a lot of demands required by the organization with very limited resources. The department leader is in charge of planning, budgeting, employing military police dog teams and maintaining a ready force to support the local law enforcement mission, as well as worldwide contingency operations. There is a lead dog trainer who is responsible for setting-up and supervising dog training …show more content…
I would start with the lead dog trainer finding new, more complex training areas to use and develop an organizational dog training plan. This plan would include a concurrent training schedule for dog teams to train on while they are waiting to run the scenario. This will maximize their time and allow the mid-level managers to works with the dog teams. For the mid-level managers, I would have them create individual 3-month training plans with all of their dog teams. These plans would outline the gradual progression of learning and demonstrating specific tasks as they work toward becoming certified. These training plans would have benchmarks every three weeks in order to evaluate the team’s progress. These evaluations will be done by the managers and allow the managers to address training issues. This will reduce some of the work load off of the lead dog trainer while building upon the managers dog training skills (who eventually become lead dog trainers). Lastly, evaluations for certification will be scheduled 2-3 weeks prior to certification, to allow teams to receive their evaluations and attempt to correct issues prior to the real certification. These organization changes would be implemented by using Kotter’s 8-step process to implement change.
Step 1: Establish a Sense of Urgency I would establish a sense of urgency within the organization by using quantifiable data that portrays the current success rate of the organization. I would have meeting where I would use the current certification levels of 60%, the certification success rates 35%, and the 130 day average time it takes to certify a team in order to convey that our organization is performing before the regulation and is in need of a training process overhaul.
Step 2: Form a Powerful
The military police dog organization is an organization of military police dog handlers who are trained Military Police Officers who are assigned to handle and employ military police dogs. The organization consists of one department leader, four mid-level managers and about 25 personnel. The organization uses a chain of command structure. There are a lot of demands required by the organization with very limited resources. The department leader is in charge of planning, budgeting, employing military police dog teams and maintaining a ready force to support the local law enforcement mission, as well as worldwide contingency operations. There is a lead dog trainer who is responsible for setting-up and supervising dog training …show more content…
I would start with the lead dog trainer finding new, more complex training areas to use and develop an organizational dog training plan. This plan would include a concurrent training schedule for dog teams to train on while they are waiting to run the scenario. This will maximize their time and allow the mid-level managers to works with the dog teams. For the mid-level managers, I would have them create individual 3-month training plans with all of their dog teams. These plans would outline the gradual progression of learning and demonstrating specific tasks as they work toward becoming certified. These training plans would have benchmarks every three weeks in order to evaluate the team’s progress. These evaluations will be done by the managers and allow the managers to address training issues. This will reduce some of the work load off of the lead dog trainer while building upon the managers dog training skills (who eventually become lead dog trainers). Lastly, evaluations for certification will be scheduled 2-3 weeks prior to certification, to allow teams to receive their evaluations and attempt to correct issues prior to the real certification. These organization changes would be implemented by using Kotter’s 8-step process to implement change.
Step 1: Establish a Sense of Urgency I would establish a sense of urgency within the organization by using quantifiable data that portrays the current success rate of the organization. I would have meeting where I would use the current certification levels of 60%, the certification success rates 35%, and the 130 day average time it takes to certify a team in order to convey that our organization is performing before the regulation and is in need of a training process overhaul.
Step 2: Form a Powerful