30 June - entry 1

Today was just an avalanche of work. It started the moment i walked in until the moment I left for class, and I was only able to poke my head out a little bit after I spent 2 hours following class in the office trying to sort through everything that came down. I was able to have the conversations with the SMSgt and A1C that i needed to have, but didn't get too much else actually done. I just can't be in 20 places at once and spend all the time I'd need on the issues at hand. Realistically you have 3-4 people doing that job's that I've gotten yoked with, and try as I might, I can't be an effective leader and an effective worker at the same time. So I spent the time after work, analysing what requirements/taskings came down, and I delegated out what i could delegate, and i still had a heaping load of work left over for me to tackle. I've prioritized given what I currently know of the urgency of all items, busted out some of the smaller, easy wins, and prepped myself to take on the larger ones later i the week.

All this is just basic time management though, and, more importantly, its all very reactionary. I'm not looking forward to see what's comming down the pipe, and I'm not trying to improve my processes. I'm just simply taking the situations as they come and reacting in the manner that will most easily solve the immediate problem. Now, lets make an exercise of trying to decide what i would be doing if i were approaching this from a more proactive stance.

Certification training for the A1C. Yes, the A1C went through her class, in fact she did fairly well, so what happens when she gets back to the workcenter? She works. She doesn't study because, low and behold, the study program does not exist as it was billed to have been availible. While I did give the A1C ample time to study on her own, thats not the real issue here. The real issue here is that the training program doesn't exist. I need to coordinate with the other shops NCOIC and get training times, places, and schedules set up.


While I don't have a lot of time to tackle this given what my workschedule looks like for tomorrow, i think that will be a good place to start with.