TL training continued

I want to start by saying I m aiming for one of these on every other weekend. Might not lay out that way though.

the theme of the week is more training everything from how to write briefs to supervisory skills. 

Id say the team of Team leaders is meshing pretty well and everyone is getting to know each other. It really is a great group of people that all in all I'm happy to be a part of. It is a very accommodating group that even when faced with the difficult choice of our FQS roles. The FQS role is a role within FEMA basically what our team will be tasked with doing during a larger scale event.

Mountain Unit will have the following 

DSA Disaster survivor assistance

RTF Recovery Task Force (multiple FQS)

EA External Affairs 

FTF Field Task Force (multiple FQS)

IAA Individual Application assistance 

some teams will have multiple FQS roles for different corp members and some will be only trained in a single FQS as a whole team. 

Because I don't want to Sway people from one team to the other as this is prior to CTI or Corp member Training Institute starting next week I wont give away who's in charge of what team other than I have been tasked with the Field Task Force FQS team. This team didn't exist last year so there really isn't much that we know about the teams role or expected steady state projects.

Each of the TL's have been tasked with calling a group of the incoming corp members to make sure we are still on track to have them come and some general reminders. 

So one of the things I enjoy in the training is scenarios basically different situations we might encounter and running them through on what we have to do with different people playing the roles of team leader and either unfortunate or corp member with a really bad behavior. 

The other part of things is I am noticing more and more that the Team leader position is about delegation of tasks as well as managing and making sure our corp members are alive at the end of their service and adhere to the NCCC policies. 

Really the TL position is a catch all to make sure a team gets where they need to go, has food, lodging for travel, manages the gas cards for the vans, budgets for the teams expenses, ensures safety, records hours in the quest for the 1700, delegates work from FEMA to corp members, insures consistent policy, reports infractions of policy, initial discipline, promotes independent service projects, reports team updates to campus bi weekly or more, promotes team building, is the main point of contact to FEMA from the team, and seeks out additional work for the team if they complete their project early. in a nutshell that is most of it.

I'm pretty happy with how things are going despite getting sick and taking a day off due to a cold that ha been making its way around the staff and TL's. we ate out at a awesome breakfast place called breakfast on Broadway only a few minutes from campus and the weather was cooperating so it was 50 degrees and sunny so we ate outside... then again a couple nights ago it snowed about 4 or so inches so really the weather is all over the place. but its nice to be able to get outside here vs Wisconsin with the depressing sub zero temps constantly. 

Well Im looking forward to finishing TLT team leader Training and getting the Corp here it should be a good time.