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DR. ABRAHAM MORRALL ’78 Dr. Abraham Morrall is the CEO of Advance Training and Learning LLC, of Fayetteville, Georgia. He served in the U.S. Air Force for 26 years, retiring as a colonel. He holds two master’s degrees from Abilene Christian and University of Phoenix, a doctorate from Nova Southeastern University and leadership and management certificates from Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education program. He served an additional 14 years working for the Federal Government.
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AFROTC Program and Service in the Air Force The Air Force was always attractive because of my interest in career and academic growth, and AFROTC provided an opportunity to start a career as an officer/professional, serve America, and seek career promotion opportunities. Career Highlights: • As Assistant Director Military Awards Policy for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, June 1996 – Aug 1998, drafted special congressional legislation to correct military history that allowed seven African Americans to receive the highest military award, Medal of Honor, correcting WWII wrong with awards presentation by President William J. Clinton. • In August 1998 – August 2000, served as Commander 18th Mission Support Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, leading approximately 570 assigned and attached personnel providing “Outstanding” support services for a Department of Defense population of 32,000 personnel and family members.
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Teaching Individuals to Serve During an Emergency • Most importantly, individuals working in an emergency management capacity must be adaptive to changing situations and have excellent communication skills to work across different (local community, county, state, military, and federal) cultures. • Ensure emergency policies, and standard operating procedures (specific procedures for type of emergency incidents) are current. • Teams should exercise, exercise, exercise with various emergency scenarios and procedures, and conduct an after-action feedback session with lessons learned and draft a final report. Very grateful for having an opportunity to serve as Chief Domestic Response Operations, Air Force National Security Emergency Preparedness Office coordinating national domestic support during a major crisis, 9-11. Clients Want to Better Themselves and Teams As CEO of Advance Training and Learning (ATL) Group LLC, I work with clients to identify and solve business process and leadership problems providing training on leadership development and business process tools to improve performance. Clients focus on improving their leadership skills and obtaining promotions by meeting organization goals and creating value for their customers.
Tips for Managing a Remote Team • Basically, companies must emphasize and highlight the importance of their organizational performance goals and objectives; and continue to operate as if team members were in the office with regular staff meetings and check-ins focused on assigned task(s) and status updates. • Have a remote work site (Telework) agreement approved by management and union(s) that allows employees to work from remote sites with emphasis on completing portable work. • Organization should have SMART (Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Time-based) goals that can be drafted into employee performance goals. • Conduct a monthly business meeting specifically to obtain/discuss business goals/ objectives status. • Manager/supervisor must have relevant performance measurements in place that ensure the mission and organizational goals are met – data driven system. Learn more about the Morrall siblings and the scholarship they created in their parents’ memory on page 40.
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