24.4. Results

Eight months after the first revised Boot Camp, we polled participants to see what impact it had on their subsequent experience in the organization. All were extremely pleased with the way the program helped them to integrate into the new environment. For example, one person echoed many similar comments in the following:

"I really enjoyed the Boot Camp. It is definitely a GREAT way to get familiar with the organization as a whole and understand the other divisions. It was also a great way to network and find answers to questions ... I did communicate with people who were in the Boot Camp afterwards ... For me, I thought all of the basics were covered ... I would have felt overwhelmed if it had more ..."

In the future, we are considering bringing back one of the "road trips" that were so popular in the past, taking the group to the headquarters building for a briefing in the operations center and a meeting with one of the organization's senior leaders. In the white government van. With doughnuts.