My name Charles Glover and I am completing my Practicum requirements through an internship at the Elkton (Stonewall) Merck manufacturing site. I am working on creating and sustaining a Recognition Program for the site as well as several other smaller endeavors. I am currently enrolled in the University of Baltimore’s Applied Psychology Master’s program.

This is my third posting. So far I have been working building a program which recognizes employees based on their hard work tied to desired behaviors and innovative ideas to hopefully drive a safety, right first time, and business goal oriented culture. To reward these individuals, two avenues have been established through my meetings with the site leadership team : the leadership card and the success story card. Without getting into too much detail, these are used to recognize employees, on any level, and share their successes on an across site level to share and build a more unified community. I am close to completing the business standard for each card, and will soon work on a communication across site in different Tier meetings to promote and provide information about the upcoming recognition program. Implementation should begin in the 3^rd quarter of this year. This week will be the last week for several interns and this program involves completing and displaying an individual poster of the achievements and projects completed during our time here. I have completed my poster and PowerPoint presentation which will be conducted with the other interns, our supervisors, the site leadership team and plant manager.

Aside from the recognition program, I have been involved in several other projects most notably the town hall discussion and leadership forum meetings where I developed separate surveys for each meeting and assisted in constructing the PowerPoint’s that would be used by the site leaders.