Ce1 Communication

Functions of communication in organizations are, providing knowledge, motivating the organization’s members, controlling and coordinating group activities, and encouraging the expression of feelings and emotions. In CE1 the function that was served was, “providing knowledge.” I was able to talk to the team about my experiences, when working for the different bosses, I had over the past three years. We also discussed, the many reasons we needed to listen to everything that goes on in other sections of the Joint Operations Center, in order to maintain situation awareness of the mission. The function in CE1 that was not used and should have been is, “expressing feelings”. Because the role in the JOC operations is an additional duty, I later found that team members are overwhelmed with their full time work, and need to be given some time during the weekends to complete some of their normal duties, and the work needed to be split up further among individuals. …show more content…
This was the first of many meetings to discuss, how we should divide the work for accreditation, across the geographically separated, family programs. We discussed the roles of both the Air Guard, and the Army Guard family programs, and set timelines of when we want products completed. The function in CE1 that was not used is “motivating organizational members.” Because the family programs are not only geographically separated, two are from the Air Guard, and the other six programs are from the Army Guard. As a whole the programs do not see the need to go through the accreditation process, and are not motivated to work together in getting this accreditation