Status Quo
2. Evaluate your organization in terms of risk taking and maintaining the status quo?
Status quo when it comes to the Marines is something that changes every three to four years because the Marines change. Many times leadership is staggered so that their continuity within the command leadership. Maintaining a status quo will change every time a new leader takes command or becomes the new leader of a section.
The status quo for an Administrative section does not start to evolve until the section stabilizes with moving members. The change every three to four years is hard for all involved because of the changes that come with the change in leadership and personnel. As a section leader, I rotate my administrators every six months to different parts of the section. This does disrupt the status quo but as administrators, it is a necessity.
3. How does your organization/leaders deal with change and communicate change?
The senior leadership positions are slated by official message other personnel receives official orders to the next duty station. There is no doubt that change can be a rough road especially for the younger personnel because they do not …show more content…
There was some talk of homesteading which means remaining in a location more than the average three to four years but I have not heard any more about that in a very long time. Due to the change that occurs every three to four years my recommendation of the change would be to make sure that each individual has been in different command structure positions rather than staying in the same. An example would be if a Marine was at an infantry Battalion for the first three years and then reenlists they should go a different command structure like an air wing command. This allows diversity in the job, experience, and it allows others to rotate into those positions. I have seen many Marines get passed over due to not being competitive amongst their
Status quo when it comes to the Marines is something that changes every three to four years because the Marines change. Many times leadership is staggered so that their continuity within the command leadership. Maintaining a status quo will change every time a new leader takes command or becomes the new leader of a section.
The status quo for an Administrative section does not start to evolve until the section stabilizes with moving members. The change every three to four years is hard for all involved because of the changes that come with the change in leadership and personnel. As a section leader, I rotate my administrators every six months to different parts of the section. This does disrupt the status quo but as administrators, it is a necessity.
3. How does your organization/leaders deal with change and communicate change?
The senior leadership positions are slated by official message other personnel receives official orders to the next duty station. There is no doubt that change can be a rough road especially for the younger personnel because they do not …show more content…
There was some talk of homesteading which means remaining in a location more than the average three to four years but I have not heard any more about that in a very long time. Due to the change that occurs every three to four years my recommendation of the change would be to make sure that each individual has been in different command structure positions rather than staying in the same. An example would be if a Marine was at an infantry Battalion for the first three years and then reenlists they should go a different command structure like an air wing command. This allows diversity in the job, experience, and it allows others to rotate into those positions. I have seen many Marines get passed over due to not being competitive amongst their