Human Capital Management – 2021 Year in Review
2021 saw the people of TMB striving to focus on our collective mission to support U.S. sailors while taking care of ourselves and our families during the ongoing pandemic. We continued to adapt our professional and personal routines and continued to find ways to develop as our company grew – at times by leaps and bounds! In the Human Capital Management realm, this meant continuing to drive our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion mission, restarting our Performance Evaluation Process, updating our personnel-related policies, and preparing to welcome personnel back to the office on a regular schedule in early 2022.
In the past year, several leaders (Elliot Branch of KJM Consulting, Canek Aguirre of the Alexandria (VA) City Council, and TMB’s own Richard Friends) generously shared their insights and experiences to help increase our awareness at TMB of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion issues. Chief Diversity Officer Richard Parker and I will continue to seek engagement from such leaders in 2022. Another focus of ours will be ensuring that all internal promotion and hiring actions across the company serve our DEI mission well. While TMB’s staff is diverse as a whole, we have much room to improve diversity in our senior and leadership ranks.
The 2021 Performance Evaluation Process provided a snapshot of how we performed, and I have two resultant goals for performance evaluations in 2022. First is to use the data gathered in the 2021 performance evaluations to assess our strengths and weaknesses and to identify opportunities for training, development, and advancement. Second is to utilize feedback from managers and non-manager employees to make the 2022 Performance Evaluation Process more efficient, with more valuable results.
Updating our personnel-related policies and making them accessible via ADP WorkforceNow was a necessity in 2021! I hope you have found that policies old and new are well-adapted to be sensible and fair in the “new normal” the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped. We will aim for the same as circumstances change, TMB grows, and new policy updates become necessary in 2022.
More than anything, I am excited to see many of you back at 100M as 2022 begins! Getting to interact with colleagues old and new at our recent 100M Open Houses reminded me of how enjoyable and valuable it is to see each other in person. As long as we may do so safely, I look forward to more such interactions in the New Year!
~ James Hilson
Human Capital Management Director
