ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT & COLLABORATION Organizational success requires seamless collaboration across departments and jurisdictions. with intentional focus on internal and external relationships to elicit cooperation, achieve unity of effort, maintain situational awareness, and collaborate on common interests. Human Resources provides an opportunity for OEM staff to address each new hire orientation session. Throughout FY25 OEM staff engaged 139 newly hired city staff to call attention to the threats and hazards confronting the city, encourage personal and professional preparedness and highlight expectations of staff when disaster threatens. Early engagement with staff, at the outset of their tenure, provides situational awareness, aligns expectations, and promotes unity of effort when disaster threatens. OEM presents ‘the why’ behind why preparedness matters. Heraclitus of Ephesus, the Greek philosopher, is credited with the timeless observation that, “change is the only constant”, and this certainly applies to emergency management. Federal, state, and local laws and policies evolve, best practices emerge, and new threats and hazards arise. OEM participates in a variety of interagency organizational meetings to preserve situational awareness regarding consequential developments in the world around us. External Engagement New Employee Engagement
The following list identifies recurring OEM engagements:
Brazoria and Fort Bend County emergency management coordination meetings South County EM Partner Meetings
Pearland ISD Safety and Security Committee Meetings
Harris County EMC Meetings Cities of Harris County Meetings Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council South Corridor Meetings
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