OHU LEAD Update: Session One
Contributed by: Kerry Millikin, Learning and Development Manager
What a year.
After years of discussion and 15 months of planning, we are nearing the end of our inaugural LEAD course! Not only are we about to graduate our first four Leadership Students this June, we’re also about to launch our second annual class this September.
These four students present their business plans to a small group of Corporate Leaders on June 1st. Each of them identified a large organizational need, put together a business case to support it, and will share their strategy with the group. Really, really, really, exciting time.
On top of that, three of our students are placed into their next roles!
- Robert Salinas (formerly from Montebello) accepted the IB Supervisor role at Chino;
- Tyler Baird (from Medford) the IB Supervisor role at North Bay;
- Kyle Dolman (Auburn) the Phoenix Terminal Manager assignment.
These four students have spent nine months traveling our footprint, networking with a couple hundred coworkers each, learning how each part of the business affects the others. They’ve been learning how inefficient processes and ineffective leadership cause operational and administrative problems throughout our entire network. These leaders have learned how to manage their own self-awareness, how to be more aware of others’ needs, and how to effectively communicate, especially in public speaking, with different teams and across the organizational hierarchy; they’ve learned how to lead not just themselves and their direct reports, but their leaders as well.
Just an outstanding effort by our first group of Leadership Students as well as by our 52-person project team that has supported them!
Kyle, Robert, Adam, & Tyler: allow me to share a massive congratulations! I’m very proud of your efforts, your chosen growth, and excited to see where you take yourselves.
