Chief Petty Officer Academy (CPOA)

Sending a member to the Chief Petty Officer Academy (CPOA) will benefit you. CPOA support and attendance is beneficial to the member and to the unit. The additional skills and self improvement training will make anyone better rounded Coastie. I personally will take away several important process improvements but most importantly I want to implement what I learned in values, stress management and group structured physical fitness. The most class I’ll take away from the CPOA is values. That specific class to me was most important and I will integrate daily a better perception of others values. Not just my own values but to take into consideration the values of our junior members. Even though I have numerous one on one conversation’s and I know a lot about their personal lives and they know a lot of details about mine, I have to find what motivates them and drives them to execute the …show more content…
You and I both look out for our people but often take the burden of the workload and the stress on our shoulders and live with it. Both of us feel and know every mission and task is important and for various reasons, neither one of us wants to accept failure for it is a sign of weakness. However, I heard a shipmate pass some good advice that he was given when he made Chief. He was told that tasks are like objects and to think of those objects as a ball, an apple and an egg. You may not want to drop the ball but it is ok to do from time to time because it will bounce back. Try not to drop an apple because it will bruise but is still edible. However, if you drop the egg you have real mess, so don’t drop the egg. Not everything is an egg so don’t make mountains out of mole hills and most tasking are balls that will bounce back so focus mainly on the tasks that cannot be

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