Discussion board response

There are several organization assessment tools a command team can use to gauge the climate of their workforce—however, engaging a workforce can happen over several steps.  The first step should assess the current state of workforce planning.  According to The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), workforce planning is the systematic process for identifying and addressing the gaps between the workforce of today and the human capital needs of tomorrow (OPM’s Workforce Planning Model, n.d.).  Since working at the XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg NCOA, the current program of instructions (POI) identifies the workforce gaps.  POI outlines the method instructors must teach classes such as the Basic Leaders Course (BLC) and Master Leaders Course (MLC).  The Structure Manning Decision Review (SMDR) defines the needs of tomorrow.  SMDR gives a number of soldiers that must train for the current fiscal year (FY) using the promotion rate of Specialist (SPC) to Sergeants (SGT) and Sergeant First Class (SFC) to Master Sergeants (MSG) respectably.  Once the workforce is analyzed and constructed from the current POI and SMDR, there are current strategies the NCOA must identify to meet the requirements or maintain what they have.  A method to close the gap would submit for a modification table of organization and equipment (MTOE) and table of distribution and allowances (TDA).  Changing Army organizational designs is the responsibility of the centers of excellence (COEs) and branch or functional area proponents of the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) (Kennedy, 2018).  Suppose the request to change the MTOE and TDA is not approved, the NCOA must develop an action plan to recruit instructors or use borrowed military manpower (BMM) from units on the installation.

 

Reference:

Kennedy, J. (2018). Help is here: How to change equipment authorizations.  Retrieved from

https://www.army.mil/article/203929/help_is_here_how_to_change_equipment_authorizations

 

OPM’s Workforce Planning Model. (n.d.). Retrieved from  

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/human-capital-framework/reference-materials/strategic-alignment/workforceplanning.pdf