These trainings, along side operational medical coaching, work in direction of fulfilling the mission of NR NMFSC which is to produce and improve Navy Drugs’s personnel by management, and thru operational, skilled, and occupational training and coaching options.
Two Sailors who’ve been invaluable to this effort are Capt. Marie Gannon and Capt. Janet Wessels.
Gannon has served because the director of this system since its inception in 2018 and developed this system from the bottom up. Utilizing current management improvement initiatives Gannon and her crew have been in a position to work with subject material specialists to develop related, up-to-date programs for Navy Drugs leaders.
“The objective is to supply sources and methods for profitable transition into their management roles whereas being aware of character and offering alternatives for connections throughout the enterprise,” mentioned Gannon.
Her ardour for management improvement attracted esteemed leaders from throughout the spectrum of army medication who’ve enthusiastically contributed their time and experience.
“It has been an honor and a privilege to have the ability to collaborate with Navy’s most interesting leaders to develop packages to assist Sailors excel and meet crucial management and positional duties,” mentioned Gannon.
One of many Sailors Gannon has collaborated with is Wessels. Wessels joined the Skilled Improvement Program in March 2021 and labored collaboratively with Gannon to develop a number of extremely profitable coaching packages previous to assuming the position of Program Director in August 2021.
Gannon, Wessels, and their crew have developed various programs and occasions in help of their management improvement objective just like the Transition to Senior Chief (TTSL) symposium. TTSL is a 2-day symposium designed to offer coaching in management abilities that are usually not lined in different management programs, corresponding to teaching, holding essential conversations, emotional intelligence, resiliency, and crew constructing.
The success of those two symposiums, prompted Gannon and Wessels to hunt out and seize data from senior officer and enlisted leaders within the type of a “Management Pearls” video library. To this point, six video recordings of retired Flag Officers and Senior Enlisted Leaders have been generated with every speaker providing pearls of knowledge from their experiences to foster management progress.
The skilled improvement crew is at present growing a 2-day NRM Orientation course which can change into required coaching for all new direct commissioned officers and new enlisted accessions. This digital course will orient new members to NRM and canopy subjects corresponding to numerous NRM platforms (NMRTC, EMF, ASU, RSU, T-AH) and their missions, International Well being Engagement, Reserve Applications: description, mission, billet necessities, and extra.