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Airmen Communicate Differently Now!
“I would have written you a shorter letter, but I didn’t have the time.” – Ben Franklin Interactions with your Airmen who might be more prone to text you rather than call you or stop you in the hallway to have a conversation make interpreting written messages complicated. The new generation of Airmen serving today are…
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Targeting Your Feedback
Have you ever wondered how to get that one Airman to do exactly what you want? Ever wanted to find the way to motivate them so they will do what is needed even when you are not around? Picture that one Airman, we all have one, that you know deep in your heart is going…
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Write your own EPR… Seriously.
“My supervisor didn’t do me justice.” “I didn’t even see my EPR until it was time for a signature.” “I submitted bullets and they didn’t even use them.” Any of these sound familiar? It’s pretty common to assume that a performance report is going to be written by your supervisor, in any job, military or…
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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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How to Inspire Purpose with Your Team
The Air Force has experienced an exodus of the NCO tier over the past couple of years. Many have stated several different reasons from PME (non-issue now), to forced distribution, to changes in the retirement, to disengaged leadership. After much reflection and discussion with some other SNCOs who want to make a difference, there were…
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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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Forced Distribution works… kinda.
There are a number of ways to increase your chances of advancement in today’s Air Force. Taking the time and memorizing the Professional Development Guide is one way, maxing out decoration points is another and finally; being selected as a “Must Promote or Promote Now” via Forced Distribution increases your chances as well. This is…
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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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