Category: Career Success
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Get Promoted Using the MKTS
Are you wasting your study time reading the PDG? I used to read it front to back and take notes as I went. I would finish and reread the PDG at least one more time while spending extra time on my notes. It wasn’t until right before I made MSgt that I discovered the power…
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The Air Force Leadership Model is About to Change…SNCOs Are You Ready?
**Disclaimer: this post is aimed towards SNCOs; however, all can learn from it** Leadership has always come down to the people and the mission. Some leaders gravitate towards caring for the mission; some caring for the people and the great ones can operate somewhere in the middle. I may be way too optimistic or even…
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3 Proven Ways to Succeed
“If he can be a flying crew chief, I know I can because half of the stuff on his last EPR were done with or by me.” This is very similar to a statement that SrA Lawrence said 17 years ago as I was interviewing for a job I really wanted. Thankfully, I had a…
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What the Feedback: Escape the Feedback Famine
In my 19 years in the Air Force, I am one of many who have never really received a “formal” feedback. Usually, all I got was “its feedback time… sign, date and return to me.” Like magic, I had that phantom feedback date on EPR. This phenomenon is what can be referred to as the…
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How to Fail Forward in the Air Force
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat.” These are the words from the former Naval Aviator and best selling author, Denis Waitley. Often times we all look at failure as the end of the road and when we fall down, we do not want to get back up again.…
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6-Part Folder to Support Feedbacks
How many times have you wished that your supervisor had taken the time to develop you better? How many years have you gone wishing that your supervisor had taken expended the energy to truly plan a feedback more than just an hour before you sat down? How many of you honestly believe that your Airmen…
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Targeting Your Feedback
Have you ever wondered how to get that one Airman to do exactly what you want? Ever wanted to find the way to motivate them so they will do what is needed even when you are not around? Picture that one Airman, we all have one, that you know deep in your heart is going…
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Write your own EPR… Seriously.
“My supervisor didn’t do me justice.” “I didn’t even see my EPR until it was time for a signature.” “I submitted bullets and they didn’t even use them.” Any of these sound familiar? It’s pretty common to assume that a performance report is going to be written by your supervisor, in any job, military or…
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What the Feedback?
As supervisors, one of our biggest challenges is guiding and mentoring our people. Without doubt, feedback is our most critical tool, providing us with a broad mechanism that, when used properly, results in substantial gains on many levels. Unfortunately, we do not appropriately utilize this mechanism as often as required. In addition, we as supervisors…
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3 Ways to Answer the Question: Are You Trusted?
General Colin Powell has said “Trust is the essence of leadership.” This is something I think most of us can agree upon. We want leaders that we trust are looking out for our best interests. My last post about inspiring purpose within your team introduced the notion there are two major issues within the military…
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