That’s a statement I hear a lot in my work with the training and staffing team here at Vets2PM as we help thousands of military members become successful veteran project ...
Cognates “are words that are similar in two languages”, like ‘counseling session’ in the language of military leadership and ‘coaching session’ in the language of civilian management‘” (Wright, 2020). ...
Solution Selling. It’s the best kind of selling to government, well, anyone for that matter, and it has application beyond sales. A great analogy is a related one, ...
Over the past nine years of helping thirteen thousand plus military veterans enter fantastic meaningful, lucrative post-Service project management careers in over one thousand companies, I have run into several ...
Yep! As I was leaving the local Boathouse store buying supplies to work on a small project on my sailboat Pegasus, I looked up and saw these colors flying ...
Think about how difficult it is just to survive in a land where you don’t know the language, much less thrive. It’s extremely difficult at best right! Yet ...
“One day, a military member transitioning out of their military Service Branch and back into the civilian workforce, the “CIVDIV”, fell into the Transition Hole, and he couldn’t get out. ...
Like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Or a chocolate peanut butter cup. Or a chocolate syrup drizzled vanilla ice cream sundae. Or glaze and a doughnut. ...
I am sure most of you have heard the popular story of the old man, little boy, and beach full of star fish. But for those that haven’t, essentially ...
That’s a bit of shore fishing wisdom I use on the Atlantic beach a block east of my house when I go fishing. That’s because there about forty or ...
Unlike other sports, in the game of golf, the ball is stationary, and sitting on the ground. When you swing the golf club at it, the club’s arc bottoms ...
In my recent article Using First Principles Thinking to Solve Our Hiring Heroes Problem appearing in the Factory for Innovative Policy Solutions online publication First Principles Thinking Review, I discuss ...
At the risk of oversimplifying, here is the hiring process illustrated. It’s from the perspective of the folks in an organization in Corporate America looking for a candidate to hire, ...
I’ve always felt “unlucky”. I can’t grab stuffed items in claw machines, I don’t win lotteries or Bingo, and I’ve lost hard wrestling and golf matches. That’s how ...
Everyone loves it! And for good reason. We like to make sound decisions. And proof helps us do that empirically. We can be confident in our conclusions and the ...
“Loyalty”. It came up the other day in a collaboration session I was having with my friend and USA veteran, senior HR official, and veteran reintegration researcher James Crook, DBA, ...
The complex challenge of reintegrating our military veterans, i.e., “heroes”, defined as “people admired for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities”, back into the civilian workforce has persisted since Caesar ...
It hangs in the lobby, or in an Executive conference room, and maybe makes it into an All Hands meeting once in a while. Regardless, they can often be anemic ...
