Army Pilots | How To Develop & Design Your Personal Brand: Mindset Shift
By beginning or graduating the Ascension Leadership Certification, you should have a great grasp on your Personal Story and gained confidence in Who You Are. Now it’s time for your Mindset Shift into the Civilian Aviation Community.
The Civilian World is just that, a different world that you haven’t spent much or any time in. They
1. Speak a different language
2. Have different purpose
3. Have a different pace
4. Have different processes
5. Have different expectations &
6. Have different outcomes
They want you to be More Passionate and Less Prideful. They want more of a Relationship with You than to have a history lesson of your life. They want to Connect with You. They want to be able to sit in the aircraft 8 hours a day and have a blast, no matter the mission.
There are 3 main mindsets I’ve seen:
1. All Chest and No Heart – Overconfident
2. Here to be a teammate, connect, learn, teach, and grow. – Relatable and accepting of guidance
3. The “I can’t” or “I don’t know how.” – Not Enough Confidence
Which mindset are You Currently? ___________________________
In your Lifecycles as a Civilian Pilot, you need to prepare yourself for your choices. This is my P[10] formula:
1. Place – What’s your Location?
2. People – Who are you working with?
3. Position – What’s your position?
4. Pay – What’s your salary?
5. Process – Easy, hard, short, long. What’s the process to get the job?
6. Passion – What’s your passion level?
7. Product – What’s the mission?
8. Periphery – What’s the impact on your family life?
9. Perfection – What is perfection for you and how can you best achieve it?
10. Predictable - What's the predictability of your evolving career path? Your work/life balance?
On a scale of 1-10 [1 being least and 10 being greatest] grade the importance of each of the P[10] for yourself.
1. Place: __________________
2. People: _________________
3. Position: ________________
4. Pay: ____________________
5. Process: _________________
6. Passion: _________________
7. Product: _________________
8. Periphery: _______________
9. Perfection: _______________
10. Predictable:_______________
Weighing your options this way, what feelings and/or reactions does this bring you?
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By this point, your Mindset should be shifting but let’s not get ahead of ourselves because there’s much more to happen before you get to Interviews and Job Offers. Keep this up and you’ll get better as you continue the following lessons.
Some questions to get your thoughts on paper:
What do you need to get your mindset to be more Relatable?
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Take 5 Turns at filling in the following preferences for your Aviation Lifecycles:
1. Place: __________________
2. People: _________________
3. Position: ________________
4. Pay: ____________________
5. Process: _________________
6. Passion: _________________
7. Product: _________________
8. Periphery: _______________
9. Perfection: _______________
10. Predictable:_______________
1. Place: __________________
2. People: _________________
3. Position: ________________
4. Pay: ____________________
5. Process: _________________
6. Passion: _________________
7. Product: _________________
8. Periphery: _______________
9. Perfection: _______________
10. Predictable:_______________
1. Place: __________________
2. People: _________________
3. Position: ________________
4. Pay: ____________________
5. Process: _________________
6. Passion: _________________
7. Product: _________________
8. Periphery: _______________
9. Perfection: _______________
10. Predictable:_______________
1. Place: __________________
2. People: _________________
3. Position: ________________
4. Pay: ____________________
5. Process: _________________
6. Passion: _________________
7. Product: _________________
8. Periphery: _______________
9. Perfection: _______________
10. Predictable:_______________
1. Place: __________________
2. People: _________________
3. Position: ________________
4. Pay: ____________________
5. Process: _________________
6. Passion: _________________
7. Product: _________________
8. Periphery: _______________
9. Perfection: _______________
10. Predictable:_______________
What did you learn about yourself?
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What choices were more important to you?
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What choices were less important to you?
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What would help your mindset shift more? Information, Access, Resources, or Time? Why?
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Complete this sentence:
I am a/n ____________________________ here to Help _______________________ by _______________________________________________________________ so that ___________________________________ can have _____________________________________________________.
I am a/n _Expert at Personal Branding____ here to Help __Army Helicopter Pilots Instantly and Ongoingly ____ by __Matchmaking them with Employers___ so that ___they can have Increasingly Fulfilled Lifecycles of Employment within the Aviation Industry___.
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The above information is part of Ascension's Pilot-Employer Matchmaking Curriculum developed by Albert Winks, MS Founder | President of Ascension and former Army MEDEVAC Helicopter Pilot.
Albert Winks is an Agent for Army Pilots where he Matchmakes Pilots and Employers through Training and Relationships.
To schedule a Strategy Session with Albert where you'll gain more Clarity and Traction to Your Vision, click the calendar link below...
Albert is also a recently selected Teacher/Mentor for the Military-to-Civilian Transition Workshop at the Helicopter Association International's (HAI) annual Heli-Expo.
The next HAI Heli-Expo will be held in Atlanta (Mar 4-7 2019)
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