Category: Career Success
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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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Why Do I Continue To Serve?
As a 22 year SNCO in the USAF I have been asked the question “Why do you continue to serve” many times. It is usually posed as: Why did I join and why do I continue to serve past 20 years? Simply put it is because I freaking LOVE this career. There is nothing better…
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Priorities Follow Up
Monday’s post: How to Prioritize Your Day (Time Management Series: Part 3) covered how to create a To Do list and prioritize it. I want to add some visuals for you to help drive this home. Here is a basic To Do list: Break up into categories. Now that you have this list, you need to…
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How to Prioritize Your Day (Time Management Series: Part 3)
Have you ever felt like you are running from emergency to emergency all day long? You get home at the end of the day (late of course) wondering what you even accomplished. There is no real solid answer, but you know you have more of it tomorrow. It is time to set some priorities and…
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3 Proven Steps to be More Productive (Time Management: Part 2)
“There is simply not enough time in the day to get everything done!” I remember saying this mixed with many curse words as a new NCOIC. I went from being an expert technician to a leader (or manager really) of people. I was not equipped to handle the myriad of responsibilities that fell my way.…
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Calendar Hack
Last week, I posted the first part of a 3-part series on time management and I had received some questions about what my schedule looks like and how I sync them. Hopefully, this helps. First things first. My phone is my primary calendar source for events or appointments that require me to be at a…
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Time Management Hacks (Part 1)
One of the things I see people struggling with the most is time management. We all have the same 24 hours each day and the same 168 hours per week, but why do some get so much more done in that time than others? It comes down to where you are spending the minutes each…
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Gain a Space Within a 1206 or EPR Bullet
(Updated: 30 December 2020, with ability to copy spaces at the end) Sometimes, when working on an awards package or evaluation, you just need one more space to fit a word that will make a bullet come together…well my awesome admin taught me there is a way to make this happen that feels like magic. In…
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‘Differentiate yourself’…what does that mean?
‘Differentiate’ is an illusive word that no one ever really elaborates on when it comes to the topic of promotions. The reason behind that is as varied as the number of career fields out there—we do so much as a force that it is hard to pinpoint exactly what ‘differentiating yourself’ looks like. As we…
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