Photo By Maj. Bryant Wine | Georgia Army National Guard career counselors receive a brief Nov. 4, 2021, at Clay...... read more read more
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The Georgia Army National Guard’s Recruiting and Retention Battalion hosted battalion career counselor noncommissioned officers for a retention workshop Nov. 3-4, 2021, at Clay National Guard Center in Marietta, Georgia.
The two-day workshop armed career counselors in attendance with knowledge about opportunities and incentives in the Georgia Army National Guard to inform Soldiers as they consider staying in service at the end of their contracts.
As a result, the workshop serves as the tip of the spear in retaining the Georgia Army National Guard’s best talent and maintaining a ready, resilient and relevant force.
“They [the career counselors] are getting exposure to a lot of information that they didn’t necessarily have before,” said U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Marcel Nalls, the noncommissioned officer in charge of the Recruiting, Retention and Attrition Management team. “A lot of questions they tend to call us about are getting addressed here.”
The workshop began with a briefing on updates in standard operating procedures and how to utilize the Integrated Personnel and Pay System- Army platform to manage service contracts. The second day of the workshop showed attendees how to manually process extensions in the event of downed systems.
The RRAM team covered interviews and counselings frequently throughout the workshop. Interviews are vital in the retention process because that is the most direct way for commands to inform Soldiers of available opportunities and incentives and for Soldiers to express their likes and dislikes about their service in the Georgia Army National Guard.
RRAM determined that manual inputs and interviews were so important that the workshop devoted hours into practical exercises of both processes.
Career counselors received numerous briefs about incentives throughout the workshop. This included information of education benefits, entitlements and services available to Georgia Army National Guard Soldiers such as Soldier and Family readiness groups and Work for Warriors Georgia.
Retention is an important enough topic in the Georgia Army National Guard that several key leaders visited the workshop to personally give their input. These visits included U.S. Army Brig Gen. Dwayne Wilson, commanding general of the Georgia Army National Guard, and Command Sgt. Maj. Jeff Logan, state command sergeant major of the Georgia Army National Guard.
“One thing we cannot do is out-recruit our losses. There are more variations of exit than there is entrance,” said Nalls. “Retention retains our knowledge base, retains our NCO base, retains our officer base, and gives us a better chance of filling personnel gaps.”
| Date Taken: | 11.04.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 11.04.2021 14:26 |
| Story ID: | 408705 |
| Location: | MARIETTA, GEORGIA, US |
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