Category: Developing Others
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Daily Deliberation: 22 April 2020
Listening is one of the things I am working on as a leader. I have the tendency to offer advice when someone brings me an issue. This is typically what they want, but I find I am not listening for the true root of the issue and only solving a surface symptom and not the…
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Daily Deliberation: 18 April 2020
We as military members often fail to tell others how well they are doing and how important they are to the team. The slightest notion that we care about others goes such a long way. I have told so many when they make a mistake and so few how important they are to the overall…
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Daily Deliberation: 27 March 2020
The moment I stopped worrying about what others thought of me and focused on helping young NCOs build confidence in their own abilities is the moment I realized I could have an impact.
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Daily Deliberation: 11 March 2020
Bottom line: Are you investing in people? We spend so much time checking the boxes and teaching our team to check the boxes, that we hardly spend the time truly developing our team. We set them up to win awards and to get better forced distro rankings, but are we setting them up to lead?…
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Daily Deliberation: 9 March 2020
Are we trying to make things around us better or simply repeating the same motions? Leaders need to stand up and silence those who are just echoing issues. We need to take ownership of the problems surrounding us and make things better.
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Daily Deliberation: 3 March 2020
I find it amazing all of the things I was told that I could not do when I was younger. When we are young Airmen and NCOs, we are so filled with passion and motivated to fix things. However, their ideas are shut down before the first step is taken. I know I have re-attacked…
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Daily Deliberation: 2 March 2020
I completely believe we need to define what it is that makes us successful. For me, making rank is not my measuring stick for success. It is a external symbol. These external symbols of ranks, awards, etc. do not define success, they are the fruits of our labors. However, these are what people look at…
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Daily Deliberation: 28 February 2020
I have learned we can be the smartest person in the room and have all of the right answers and still not make a difference. Until people realize we have their best interests in mind, they will never listen to what we are saying. If you want to make a difference, stop worrying about proving…
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