Author: Joe Lawrence
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The Hand You’re Dealt
I find the game of poker interesting. It is a game where you could receive the worst possible hand and still be the winner. The better the hand, the better chance you have to “luck” your way into success. Life is the same way. Some of us are born into better circumstances than others and…
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Be You
We tend to mirror or compare ourselves to others in the world or our workcenters. There are times it is useful to see how we are performing on the team in comparison to others. However, we should not try to become the other person or even think our contributions should be equal to that of…
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Project Management and NCOs
Project Management is an amazing bridge for a NCO or SNCO into the civilian world. There are a lot of military members starting to notice this as well. In fact, questions about Project Management are posed to me at least once a week. It excites me to discuss this because I know the challenges of…
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Do the Small Things Well
This is the piece of advice I give so many NCOs. I used to tell them this after they got in trouble and would try to do HUGE things to overcome their transgressions. More often than not, they would come short and look even worse. So, I would tell them to do NOTHING extra. Do…
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Are You Walking the Walk?
As leaders we tend to create policies. Sometimes they are intended and other times they are not. When we verbally dictate or draft a letter to say how things should be, we are talking the talk. The key moment is and true test is if we walk the walk afterwards. Are we enforcing these policies?…
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Happy New Year!
We are all excited to see a New Year roll around after the world was flipped upside down in 2020. We have survived a global pandemic, lived through one of the strangest election cycles ever, lost people near and dear to our hearts, and so much more. By far the craziest year out of the…
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Free Planner Pages
As the New Year approaches, I was reviewing the weekly planner I have used for awhile now. It is something that has evolved throughout my career as a SNCO and now as a civilian. Take a look and see if it is something that will work for you too. Go here for the Planner Pages.
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Daily Deliberation: 30 December
This is something so few of us will actually try. Two things have stopped me in the past: fear of what lies ahead. Will I fail? What would others think? AND lack of experience. We can’t forge new paths if we don’t have the knowledge and training. The experience and courage to make new paths…
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Daily Deliberation: 28 December
With instant access to any piece of information our heart desires and the ability to order something online and have it at our door in two-days is a great gift of technology. However, this instant access to resources has confused us into thinking everything should be instant. Instead we need to use these gifts to…
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Daily Deliberation: 27 December
Mentorship is an often confused term in the Air Force. It is sometimes a term synonymously confused with ‘career progression grooming’. However, it is important to remember that they are distinctly different things. Being a mentor is more than just showing someone the path to the next grade. Mentorship is about developing abilities. Seeking out…
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