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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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Daily Deliberation: 31 December
In March of 2020 I was a little of 2 years into my command and had 3 months left until my retirement ceremony. I’ll admit, the unit was running great and I was ready to put it on cruise control and begin starting my long checklist of retirement items…then the middle of March happened. We…
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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: 29 December
Last week, I typed up a post about leading from the front…and I just couldn’t get it off my mind. The more I thought about it, the more I kept reverting back, to what I think, is a great way to think about it. Now you may have to go back to the days of…
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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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Daily Deliberation: 26 December
What does it mean to have power? I have seen people chase duty titles or rank because of the perceived (or even actual) power. It is curious to see how they act when they are in charge. Do they empower others? Do they demand others to create things for them? We all have worked for…
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Merry Christmas
Christmas is a time for gifts. Giving gifts to our family and watching them light up with joy. The feeling we get when we think enough of others to discern what would make them happy and working to give it to them…no joy greater. I am not simply talking about material gifts. My parents always…
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