A time that I improved in operational process was when I was working at the Kent County Detention Center as a field training officer. When new individuals were hired, they would come in prior to attending the in-person academy. The academy may not be for three, four months after they start. Our FTO program was three weeks. The way that I structured my training of newly hired individuals was during the first week I had them more in a watching phase to where I would complete the task and have them give me feedback on what they witnessed me do. Week two, I would kind of take a little step back and I would work hands-on with the individual. That way they would have an understanding on how the process worked. Then in the third week, I would be pretty much hands-off and I only intervened as necessary to refine the decisions that they would make in accordance with the departmental policies and procedures. By doing this, when they would report for their first day by themselves and outside of the field training officer program, they would feel comfortable in decisions that they would make.