...HBR AT LARGE Most companies' orientation programs were designed to help new hires hit the ground running. Trilogy's boot camp has a bigger goal: keep the company running. No Ordinary Boot Camp by Noel M.Tichy C ORPORATE BOOT CAMPS. We've all heard about tbem. Many of us have lived through them. In my case, I've even invented a number of them. It's fair to say that, while some achieve their goals better tban others, they're ail pretty mucb the same. They APRIL 2001 typically focus on knowledge transferinforming new hires, for instance, about the company's products and markets and how to access key resources in the organization. The best ones, like those at GE and Ford, do this by having the recruits work on real business problems, where intense teamwork is required to meet tight deadlines (a technique I've described elsewhere as "compressed action learning"). I've studied tbem all. I thought I'd seen it all. But then I saw Trilogy University. It was 1998, and I was traveling around the 63 HBR AT LARGE • No Ordinary Boot Camp country, studying corporate universities as part of a benchmarking research project on action learning. Within days of my arrival, I knew Trilogy University was a breed apart ~ in fact, my definition of best practice shot out to the horizon line. I've spent hundreds of hours since then at TU, documenting its unconventional approach-and its phenomenal results. (It should be stated, by way of...
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...the latest class. That is also where they have named the classroom after Brent and they have the Capt. Brent Morel award. That award is given to a graduate to honor Brent. The thing about this award is that it is voted on by the class members to honor one of their own. We left Martin TN. at about 1400 on Wednesday, spent the night somewhere in VA. Left the next morning and arrived around noon. We had dinner that night with the class instructors and the intel students. We did the graduation the next morning, had lunch and departed again around 1400; about 1700 total miles in a few days. None the less it was well worth it to see that Brent is remembered by the Corps. Two LTs. who were mustangs said that they first heard about Brent during boot camp. One was east coast, the other was west coast. They both heard about him during TBS and officers school and then again during the intelligence school. It was an honor for us to see these bright young men. My daughter and Brent’s wife came with us. They along with several of the guys traded shots at the bar that night. The girls I will add kept up with them until Molly and I told the girls it was time to go. I don’t think anyone was feeling any pain as laughter was filling the bar area. Well I tell you this to get to this point. I want to THANK YOU and the staff for cooperating with me over the years in getting my letters to the families. We heard from a family we had written a letter from 4 years ago, two days ago, they needed to talk...
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...there are many young adults that are starting out in life with the wrong concept. The legal system’s answer to our errant youth was the development of boot camp programs. These camps are designed to make sure the attendees never want to get in trouble again. The young people who are sent to boot camp can look forward to rigorous activities. Our judicial system believes that their hardcore military type punishment will work. Many participants do leave with a new direction in their life. Upon completing the program they come home ready to get a job and earn a honest income. However, once the business find out that they have a criminal record their application is denied. Where are the jobs and educational financing for those who want to attend college? Our government should support those who have successfully completed the program by offering them hope in the form of rehabilitating them back into society. The authors of Youth Justice in America state that these institutions are based on the theory that bad kids need more discipline, physical rigor, and more time outdoors. (Ahranjani 281). According to the National Institute of Justice, boot camps were born in the late 1980s and early 1990s. By 1995 state correctional agencies operated 30 camps. (Ashcroft par. 4). In my opinion somewhere on the boot camp road the judicial system forget about the graduates life after the program. Let us assume that the programs were established to teach the values of...
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...Boot Camps and Shock Treatment Programs Positive Boot camps for juveniles can have pro’s and con’s just like anything else, but do these programs actually benefit these troubled teens? Or is it just another whim that collects tax payer’s money in another form of government despair and abandonment? Some may argue the fact that these unruly children bring it upon themselves to get them there in the first place. This author will first explain about the positives of the boot camp and shock programs. Treatment Centers such as The Academy American Addiction Centers and Wilderness Therapy Treatment Programs (WTTP) is one of the larger treatment operations in the United States, the website states “To help parents, families and professionals seeking help for youth at risk and teenagers with depression, anxiety and oppositional, defiant and conduct disorders, alcohol and other drug and substance abuse, as well as school and academic problems”. (WTTC, 2011) To add to this program statement the website is also listed as a non-profit organization with non-profit interests. The parents that are able to see the trends their children are starting to fall in, can call the above program and set up a meeting time to speak to a counselor for advice or set up an appointment to schedule a time to drop their child off. These in this author’s opinion are the parents and guardians that are responsible, upstanding people who care about their children and their futures. The parents might...
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...The Socialization of Caregivers The socialization of caregivers is a rite of passage into the ability to practice licensed medical care. It can take up to seven years for a doctor to become licensed and able to open a medical practice. During the first stage of socialization the subject experiences a loss of identity. The hierarchy in medical school has been compared to that of military boot camps. The lower levels of the medical school hierarchy are constantly reminded of their placement and status by being given the lower tasks and the most menial labor. As a subject experiences this and works on rising to the higher levels they got a new feeling of their self as the shed off their prior lives and develop a new sense of self-worth. The subject encounters high demands of their time and has to develop excellent time management issues in order to deal with his or her future work experiences. Chains of command are established just like in military institutions in order help the subject learn how to interact and function properly in their medical situations in order to properly address major medical issues or trauma conditions. Subjects develop a sense of companionship and group membership that will carry on through their career. The next stage the subject enters into is the privileged status state. Doctors are entrusted with large amounts of money, sense of power, and the trust of their charges. The subjects are emerging as medical professionals and while not licensed have...
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...Week 4 Financing a Business Student: Christina Riggs Professor: Chad Behnke, MBA KHS394: Sports Business Career goals are in abundance when I ponder what the possibilities of finishing my degree might bring. The main one, which is the accumulation of my 5 year plan, is to own my very own fitness facility, not just own it, and operate it as well. There are many smaller goals that need to be reached in order to get to my BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal). I would like to complete my state certification for personal training along with completing the Group exercise Certification. I would like to train and compete in a Figure Competition, really to prove to myself that I can do it. Another goal of mine is to start up a home boot camp class focusing on families. The more I’ve been exercising with my step son the more I feel I would love working with kids and helping them to understand the importance of healthy eating along with exercising. The business that I will be putting into action in 5 years is a Fitness Facility that is geared towards adults and children. Our goal at is to get local families back in shape through fun, education, hard work, and exercise. Unlike many gimmicks promising a "quick fix" that does not work, we have a different philosophy. Our mission is to promote a well-rounded approach to healthy lifestyle modifications as a family or individually through education and innovation. This means that we will help you develop a fun, comprehensive...
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... C. I believe that most people have to experience something bad in their life to realize change is really good in for the better. For example like spending time in jail. II. Body A. First I’m gone to talk about when Michael Vick went to jail for running an illegal interstate dog fighting ring. B. Michael was sentenced to three years prison time in jail. Team members and football fan had no clue if he would be returning to the game again. C. So Michael decided to plead guilty to felony charges and will serve one year and eight months in prison. III. Next I will be talking about 50 Cent who is known for rapping and real name which is Curtis Jackson III who spends time in jail for drug-related charges. A. So the judge decides to sentence him 3 to 9 year’s prison time in 1994. 50 cent was still an aspiring rapper who was very determined to do something positive with his life once he was released from jail. B. 50 cent did his time and also earned six month boot camp instead of prison so he considered as an early release. C. While he was in boot camp he earned his GED. Right after 50 cent was release from jail, 50 Cent continue to rap and his popularity blew up with the release of his first album in the year of 2000. IV. Last I will talk about a woman who is best known as a business mogul and domestic diva, but of course her image really...
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...2010 Sean Reeves Problem Analysis Hard sentencing laws, drug offences are causing the prison population to rise at alarmingly high rates. This is one of the reasons why the United States (US) prisons are the highest populated in the world (Vicini, 2006). According to statistics, the US shows that in 2006 seven million people were in prison or on probation or parole. Of this amount, over two million were physically in jail or prison (Vicini, 2006). According to Ethan Nadelmann the US has five percent of the world’s population, and also has 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated population (Vicini, 2006). The United States also imprisons more people on drug charges than all of Western Europe combined (Vicini, 2006). Like every other county jail, DuPage County jail is overcrowded due to the backlog of the court dockets. Alleged offenders must wait for their day in court and then be sentenced and transported to various prisons. Many of these offenders are non violent offenders, or are first time drug offenders (Vicini, 2006). In Cook County jail many inmates are tried and sentenced, but depending on the crime the sentencing could be one year or less in the county jail, prison time, probation, periodic imprisonment, or conditional discharge. There is however, another choice for first time drug offenders and non-violent offenders and that is Boot Camp. Boot Camp Boot Camp is an 18 week long program that is very structured (Cook County Sheriff, 2010). The days are all...
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...committed by an individual and has a number of objectives. Primarily, it is intended to keep persons who have committed a crime under secure control and to punish them by depriving them of their liberty. Imprisonment keeps them from committing further crimes while they are incarcerated “and, in theory, allows them to be rehabilitated during their period of imprisonment. The goal of rehabilitation is to address the underlying factors that led to criminal behavior and by so doing, reducing the likelihood of re-offending. However, it is precisely this objective that is generally not being met by imprisonment. On the contrary, evidence shows that prisons not only rarely rehabilitate, but they tend to further criminalize individuals, leading to re-offending and a cycle of release and imprisonment, which does nothing to reduce overcrowding in prisons or to build safer communities.” (United Nations, 2006) One effective alternative to incarceration is the use of GPS monitoring and it is becoming an increasingly important topic of consideration by state rehabilitation and correction agencies. Location tracking systems, such as GPS, have customarily been used solely to track higher-risk offenders. However, many states are beginning to consider using the technology as a primary sentencing option for select groups of nonviolent offenders. GPS monitoring can effectively enforce many of the very same restrictions on the liberty of a nonviolent criminals. By monitoring via GPS it provides unparalleled...
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...home zip codes—allowing us to control for the non-random assignment of individuals to facilities far better than any previous study. Relative to all other management types, for-profit management leads to a statistically significant increase in recidivism, but, relative to nonprofit and state-operated facilities, for-profit facilities operate at a lower cost to the government per comparable individual released. Cost- benefit analysis implies that the short-run savings offered by for-profit over nonprofit management are negated in the long run due to increased recidivism rates, even if one measures the benefits of reducing criminal activity as only the avoided costs of additional confinement. Since its beginnings in the mid-1980s, prison privatization in the United States has provoked several rounds of congressional hearings and hundreds of articles discussing its philosophical, organizational, economic, and legal implications. At year-end 2001, privately operated facilities held over 6.5 percent of America’s total adult correctional facility population, representing more than 90,000 adult offenders. And in late 1999, privately operated facilities held almost 30 percent of all juveniles in residential placement, representing more than...
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...It was not so long ago that prisoners were fed bread and water and chained up together during the day to perform hard labor. Some even say that we need a return to those days! Nowadays prisons are very different and a variety of programs (some rather strange) have been implemented as jail time moves away from punishment to rehabilitation. This is a selection of ten of those new programs.10 Children in prison 2251494641 8Df45A2F96In the early 1990s the Mexico City government decided it was better for children born in prison to stay with their mothers until they were 6 rather than to be turned over to relatives or foster parents. The children are allowed to leave on weekends and holidays to visit relatives. A debate continues among Mexican academics over whether spending one’s early years in a jail causes mental problems later in life, but for the moment the law says babies must stay with their mothers. In Ohio they are trying a program called The Achieving Baby Care Success program. It began in June 2001. The 12 mothers currently participating live in a special wing of the prison. The babies sleep in identical cribs in their mothers’ cells. Between prison roll calls, mothers take their children to the in-house nursery for scheduled activities.9 Victim Offender Mediation Img 0013 600Victim-offender mediation, or VOM (also called victim-offender dialogue, victim-offender conferencing, victim-offender reconciliation, or restorative justice dialogue), is usually a face-to-face...
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...Treatment or Punishment what works In our Juvenile Justice System. By Tina Grinnell Juvenile Justice July 20,2013 While prisons can be an eye opener for someone who has committed a serious crime,is it our responsibility to help our juveniles to be reformed or should they pay for their crimes in adult prisons. Putting our juveniles in adult prisons says that we believe they can’t be helped. In most cases are our juveniles really aware of their actions and the consequence that they have. Should they be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Should the age of a juvenile differ from state to state on the way that they are punished. These are a couple of the issues that surround our juvenile system today. I will be looking at both sides to get a better understanding of why the laws today are the way that they are and could they be changed to help our younger generation. Juvenile delinquent’s have been around for decades and the way that our justice system has tried and helped our juveniles get on the right path and stay there has changed dramatically since the early nineteenth century ,Juvenile matters were handled by a variety of civil courts and non- legal institutions such as Welfare offices. The doctrine was referred to as the parens patriae. Which means parent of the country (Black,1990)...
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...THE BUDGET COST AND EFFECTS OF PRISONS IN THE UNITED STATES Christina Adonia Turner June 15, 2013 Introduction to Public Administration TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Table Of Contents…………………………………………………………2 2. Executive Summary………………………………………………………..3 3. Scope and Statement of the Problem………………………………………4 4. Literature Review………………………………………………………….5 5. Methodology………………………………………………………………7 6. Analytical Results………………………………………………………....8 7. Discussion………………………………………………………………...10 8. Bibliography………………………………………………………………16 9. Appendix………………………………………………………………....17 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In summary, the cost of housing an incarcerated inmate does affect the budget of the United States. Whether, the inmate is sentenced to life imprisonment or the death penalty. The facts in this research paper leans heavily in favor of life imprisonment as a cheaper form of punishment verses an inmate being sentenced to death row. The judicial system and politicians have formed several alternatives to assist our country with the ability to lower the cost of housing an inmate in our prison system. For example, the United States detaining systems are concentrating more on issuing a fair sentence to nonviolent offenders, such as, substance abusers and prostitutes. They realize that the majority of the inmates are in need of drug rehabilitation and have a mental illness. Also, the research shows that women offenders are the most affected with drug addiction...
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...need more strict supervision that what regular community programs are able to provide. Intensive probation programs impose on the offender strict conditions when it comes to reporting to the probations officer. This probation officer in turn has a limited caseload. There are two types of intensive probation supervision. Probation diversion is intensive surveillance and is used on high-risk offenders. Institutional diversion is used for low-risk offenders and is supervision in the community. Weaknesses: This program may have a limited benefit on offenders who have many problems, such as unemployment, lack of support, and drug and alcohol problems. Some argue this program actually increases the number of probationers sent back to prison. This is because probation officers have closer contact with the offender and will discover more rule violations than regular probation. Strengths: Intensive probation programs have been shown to decrease the chances of reoffending if non-criminal behavior is rewarded (Cole et al., 2013). 2. Day Reporting Centers - A day reporting center is where an offender must report to each day to fulfill parts of the sentence. These centers offer a variety of programs. Some centers do drug tests or hold an offender for the entire day. Centers that have rehabilitation programs have drug and alcohol rehabilitation, employment, and literacy programs. Still other centers provide increased supervision for offenders...
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...There are many different purposes for jails in our society. Depending on the person you talk to prison can be for rehabilitation, protect us from evil doers, and away to punish criminals for their bad deeds. Either way I think the current jail system is fair effective at its job. Within the system you have different tiers of incarceration. You have probation, jail, prison, and parole. Probation I think is effective form of incarceration because it keeps the jails from overcrowding. Jail is effective because it protects us from criminals. Prison is effective because it protects us from criminals and punishes them for a predetermined amount of time. Parole is effective because it keeps the people released from prison under a watchful eye. All in all, I think the system works. However, I feel the system is severely underfunded and could use an overhaul. I think the states need to spend a little time figuring out to make the system more effective instead of building more prisons. All they are doing is costing John Q tax payer more money. If they made the system more efficient, they could reduce the amount incarcerated and increase funding to current jails instead of building prisons. I would think like a program like boot camp. When the inmate graduates, he or she is required to get a job and pay monthly payment back to the state or go to prison. The time in boot camp did not count. They start their time over. I think it would be a very effective way to reduce numbers and become more...
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