June at – Voice of Love Cambodia

I had a very satisfying and encouraging visit with the leadership staff of Voice of Love (FEBC) Cambodia in mid- June.  There were a number of action items as part of the visit.  My main goal was to continue in person a review of their progress against strategic plan goals that I had been working on via email with Field Director Makara.  The strategic plan is aggressive and calls for reaching each locality of Cambodia with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  They have made significant progress over the last 18 months.

To reach all of Cambodia a combination of media channels including radio, player boxes, streaming audio, audio on demand, social media and staff visits will be needed.  In the coming months pray as the team seeks to expand their listener base through upgrade of a translator station in Kampong Thom, expanded player box distribution and an experimental effort to recruit new listeners to our on line platforms in several provincial cities.

In addition to the strategic plan review, I took the opportunity to train and work hand in hand with the management team on some basic project management skills in order to encourage deeper planning discipline and a more organized approach.  This kind of short teaching combined with side by side work/coaching provides groundwork and practice in skills along with making progress in planning out areas of strategy that have not yet received a deep review.

Most organizations are able to execute project work and day to day operations but are challenged to do a good job of project definition.  I encourage the question “what will this look like/include when it is done?”  Training in the discipline of creating a work breakdown structure puts a tool for good definition in the hands of the staff.  Teaching, coaching, encouraging and reinforcing all lead to slow steady uptake of business skills. This is one of the ways that I can add value to our project and strategic planning processes and the ability of our field staff to use them.

In addition to the work with strategic planning and coaching in planning methods I was able to work on the details of the Kampong Thom project and also did my part to hold another Amateur Radio Exam Session at National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia.  We had an NPIC teach pass the test as a new technician class ham.