Category: Career Success
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To DSD or not to DSD, That is the Question
The Developmental Special Duty (DSD) selection cycle is upon us yet again. There are many fears and hopes associated with the possibilities of being selected. Speaking from someone who held one of these positions in the past and as a current field training detachment chief, I would like to share some of my experiences. Last…
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Read More Books Starting Today
My whole life I have valued the benefits of reading. Although, I am such a slow reader, I never really wanted to invest the time it took me to read a book. I would read maybe a book a year into adulthood and this is something I always “wanted” to overcome, but never placed any…
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What Should be on a TSgt’s EPR?
One of the most frequent questions I get as the senior enlisted leader in my unit is how an EPR should read. I love getting this question because it means people are looking out for their subordinate or doing their best to improve themselves. For this article I will go into how I think a…
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Will Course 15 Make You a Better Leader?
I will start this article with the short answer to avoid the “click-bait” criticism: no, it will not. Recently, I sat on a mentorship panel with a room full of eager NCOs and this topic came up amongst the masses. It should come as no surprise, but not a single person in the room thought…
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If Only I knew then What I Know Now!
‘If I could go back to high school, I would do things a lot differently.’ ‘I would be rich today if I had known how to invest five years ago.’ ‘I wish I would have started working out six months ago!’ Sound familiar? Have you ever thought anything similar to this? I think we all…
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Education Opportunities
Looking for something to expand your mind without jumping into a whole degree plan? Maybe looking for an education bullet on your next EPR? There are some sites out there that allow us to take classes from universities like Wharton, Harvard, MIT and just about any other one you can imagine for free. These allow…
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Bullet Writing Tips (TSgt Jeffrey Henebry)
Here is a really good bullet writing presentation and tracker courtesy of TSgt Jeffrey Henebry: bullet-writing-for-jr-enlisted-final-locked bullet-tracker
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Short-Term Victories vs Long-Term Relationships
“Building bridges is what a leader does” was the advice I received somewhere along the road. This sounded like some common sense advice to me; however, it turns out that not everyone feels the same way. We have all worked with some who will do whatever they have to in order to achieve a short-term…
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Only You get Yourself Promoted
I was asked recently, just after I had moved into a new position; “So, where are you going next? QA Superintendent? I hear that’s promotable.” This question had me perplexed. I had just moved to the new position—not six weeks prior—and was settling in to my new role. Not only that, but I like my…
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Good Enough for Government Work
When you are given a task to complete, are you just checking off the boxes or actually providing the best possible product? We have all experienced that moment when we were technically finished with the assigned task and still had some time leftover. What you do with that time is difference between good and excellent.…
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