Holistic Worker Comm

The leaders at the Defense Logistic Agency's Disposition Services outfit, which sells or finds a way to reuse surplus or outmoded military property, has such poor employee communications that it decided it needed some outside help to develop a management transformation thingy.

Employee surveys have shown poor and/or misleading communication is the root cause in the failure of the organization to improve rapidly, Disposition Services said, even though its management has tried mightily to improve.

Past efforts have included directing supervisors to speak with their employees more openly and effectively, and use contractors to provide short one-time inspirational speeches on the importance of communication. (If DLA wants an inspirational speech, I'd be happy to do it gratis - and throw in some humor too.)

Now Disposition Services has decided it "needs to holistically address the communications shortcomings of the organization" and wants an outfit to help it with communications seminar training, group facilitation, coaching, teaching, mentoring and printed material.

Disposition Services hopes this will help "foster honest, open effective communications processes coupled with leadership and management strategies focused on developing a consistent enterprisewide leadership environment that embodies the principles and core values of the organization, reflective of the performance-based leadership system."

If nothing else, the above sentence should win a Buzzword Bingo prize.

I think the whole Disposition Services gang should go bowling together one night a week.