Greetings, in this series of videos we've been talking about excellence in mission
performance with one element being
the relevancy and how we need to stay
out in front of what the needs are for
our customers, and then a key component
to us being at a level of excellence is
professionalism. For this particular
video, I'd like to talk about
self-improvement. What can each one of us
do to help make sure that we're
operating at a higher degree of
excellence, and that falls into the area
of self-improvement. Each one of us has
an individual responsibility to be the
best. It's one of our core values of
excellence, but what can we do? The way I
see it is number one is take a look at
the technical area that you're in. If
you're the squadron admin officer, be the
best squadron admin officer that you can
be. Advance in that technical track from
technician to senior to master. If you're
an operator, look at how you can be the
best scanner, observer or pilot and
advance through those courses that are
available to you to be the best that you
can be. The same for ground team, the same
for incident command staff or whatever
the case may be. On a technical level,
whatever your area of expertise is, be
the subject matter expert that you
can and should be. When it comes to
professional development, take advantage
of the training opportunities that are
out there and go from level one to level
two to level three, and it's not so much
the importance of having rank, that's
really secondary, but what can you learn
from a self-improvement standpoint to
help make you individually a better
performer? If you do that, not only are
you going to improve individually, but
it's going to help your unit to perform
all the better and your wing as well, and
when you go out and you perform your
mission, whether it's helping to develop
our cadets, whether it's helping to serve
in that local community or in a major
disaster response, whatever the case may
be, that level of excellence that you
bring to the table for yourself, your
organization and Civil Air Patrol
over all is going to be that much
greater. So I encourage you to invest of
your own time in improving yourself on
the technical side of the house as well
as as with the professional development so
that you can achieve your full potential,
and you can help your organization, the
wing and CAP get to that level of excellence that we
all hope for. If you do that, one Civil
Air Patrol excelling in mission
accomplishment for our nation and our
members. Thank you very much.
