AREA OF EXPERTISE


Whereas HRMD used to meet in person on a regular basis with the PEOs and HRC, the division now saves money by conducting business via VTC and telecon. Here, MSG Barrett Taylor, left, U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC), prepares for a VTC of the ACC Noncommissioned Officer of the Year board. The same budget constraints that affect HRMD have led ACC to conduct the formal board virtually from ACC headquarters at Redstone Arsenal, AL. (U.S. Army photo by Edward G. Worley)


relationships in person, even within the Baltimore-Washington area, he noted.


Until a couple of years ago, HRMD civilian and military personnel managers made it a point to visit every PEO on a regular basis, as well as to conduct annual conferences, usually three days long, which both military and civilian PEO HR representatives attended. Tere are no more HRMD staff visits to the PEOs, nor annual


conferences. Instead, “the


telecon business and the VTC business are increasing,” Israel said.


Now, “We meet with HRC AMB on a monthly basis via VTC. What we are


looking at is the ability to maintain that closeness, so that when a problem arises, a unique problem, they know us so well that they call us. We’ve been able to eliminate a lot of problems before they became problems,” Israel said.


For example, the Military HR Branch recently hosted a VTC on the Army regionalization program for cap- tains and majors, said Michael Beans, branch chief.


However, the topic “needs to be some- thing major to derive maximum benefit,” he


said. Also, organizations need to combine efforts where possible. “You


can’t have everybody doing it, because then you hit our customers with five dif- ferent VTCs,” Beans said.


MS. MARGARET C. ROTH is the senior editor


of Army AL&T magazine. She


has more than a decade of experience in writing about the Army and more than three decades’ experience in journalism and public relations. Roth is a MG Keith L. Ware Public Affairs Award winner. She is also a co-author of the book “Operation Just Cause: Te Storming of Panama.” She holds a B.A. in Russian language and linguistics from the University of Virginia.


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