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Are We Making Our Team’s Achievements Our Own?
“We rise by lifting others.” – Robert Ingersoll The most important thing a leader can do is to set up their team for success. This means removing obstacles in their paths, obtaining required resources, and preparing them for their next roles. Most of us are so task-saturated with moving the mission that we struggle with…
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Lead With Purpose
“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy We have all worked with “that guy” who constantly complained about everything. He or she had issues with every policy, where things were located and especially how undervalued they are. Most of us start off by listening politely…
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Are You Just Playing ‘Follow the Leader’ with Your Team?
“If you think you’re a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you’re simply out for a walk.” – James M. Kouzes Have you ever played the game, Follow the Leader? It is the one where you designate a leader and everyone mimics what they do. It is fun for…
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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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Open Door Policies are Useless
Every single time I heard a leader tell me over the years that they have an open door policy I have wanted to laugh. I envisioned myself walking past the other three links in my chain of command and right into his or her office to express my thoughts. In my mind, I never 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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