Reserves Day 2023 celebration fundraiser at East Anglia RFCA HQ

To mark Reserves Day 2023, staff at East Anglia RFCA HQ gathered for a fun and informative fundraiser on 21st June.

Colleague Jo Horn has been a reservist for 18 years. Jo recently joined East Anglia RFCA as our Regional Employer Engagment Director in the Employer Engagement team and she is a Lieutenant Colonel, commanding A Squadron 306 Hospital Support Regiment. Jo initially served 6 years in the Royal Air Force, where she trained as a radiographer, which she continues to practice in her civilian career.

Jo explained that employers will often ask what the benefits are to employing a reservist, and she challenged us to some command tasks illustrating the practical applications of teamwork and communication skills. Everyone took part in the challenges; the first involved remembering lots of information and taught us it’s more effective to have each team member remember a part of the infromation rather than having everyone try to recall all the information. The second task saw us relaying information between team members to practice effective communication and seeing how much of the original information was retained after it had been passed along multiple times.

SSAFA representatives Debbie Skeels and Hugh Toler at our event. Debbie works in our Finance team and Hugh is a member of our Essex RFCA forum

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