Diversity And The Military
by Joel Martin ~ October 9th, 2007. Filed under: Business, Diversity, Education, Personal Development, Tipping Points, Training.I
just came back from one our of military bases teaching interpersonal skills critical to managers dealing with change. These men and women are managers of civilian employees. One of the participants has been in the service since she was 17 and is about to leave to join the civilian workforce. What a talented and smart person she is. It occurred to me that given the large numbers of Baby Boomers who will be leaving the workforce from among the the demographic behemoth total boomer population of 82,826,479, the men and women who will be “retiring” from our services make for a ready pool of skilled, dedicated and young employees. Do you agree?
From another training assignment, this one not on a military base but in a public training room where participants are expressive and open with their feelings, soldiers in attendance let loose and gave me a sense of the chaos and feelings that they had swirling inside. Not to divulge any confidentiality but suffice it to say that we must create safe havens and supportive workplaces for them when they return to us. Regardless of ones belief about where they are and why there are there, they are our sons and daughters. To do otherwise is to do a dismservice..
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