How do you think the lessons you learned in the military can be applied to other fields, such as healthcare or non-profit?

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Mike Ergo · Answer

How do you think the lessons you learn in the military can be applied to other fields such as healthcare or nonprofit? Well, leadership can be applied in any situation and a big part of my experience in the Marine Corps was learning about leadership, how to lead, and what it means to lead is to be out in front, the one rallying everybody, but also participating, serving the people who are supposed to be under you. And so that act of service translates into healthy work environments. So that can be applied to healthcare, nonprofit, really anywhere, because if you're working with a team, you have other people who depend and trust in you and they need you to step up and make difficult decisions. They need you to shift the direction of a culture, of a workplace, and give your vision, your intent, so other people can follow it and be able to follow through and treat people fairly so everybody knows they have a place on the team.

Jason Redman · Answer

Hey, what's up guys? Jason Redman. Question right here is how do you think the lessons you learn in the military can be applied to other fields such as healthcare or non-profit? You know, it's pretty interesting guys. I retired in 2013, so I'm coming up on 10 years in August. And what I've come to learn, and so many guys and businesses are very unilateral in their thinking. They think, oh, well this guy was an infantryman, or this guy was a radioman, or this guy fired mortars, or whatever it is. And they only think specifically about that job, so that doesn't translate in their mind to the civilian world. And even a lot of veterans think the same thing. Well, if I was a shooter, how could I work in business, or how can I work in this? And guys, it is the intangible skills in the military that make you incredibly successful and wanted in the civilian world. We learn how to lead. We learn how to build teams. We learn how to deal with adversity. We learn how to set goals and accomplish those goals. We learn to look at metrics, and the numbers, and find out are we on track with this. And then we know how to problem solve to figure out how to get back on course, guys. So many intangible skills. Those are the skills that you need to focus on when you're heading out into the civilian world. Those are the skills that businesses need to be focused on when we're looking at hiring. If you work in HR, you should be hiring veterans. If you're a veteran, you should be looking at your intangible skills. All right. Get out there and crush it. I'm out.

Adam Kinakin · Answer

So the question is, how do you think the lessons you learned in the military can be applied to other fields, such as healthcare or nonprofits? So it really comes down to what your trade was, what your job was in the military. Myself, I started as an infantry officer. So there wasn't really that much lateral movement unless I wanted to get into public safety or get into law enforcement or things like that. But I ended up shifting into a role as a training officer for our regiment. I took all those skills and I turned it into a career after my time in service, where I now train and get to do training with some of the top instructors and trainers in the world. And so that's really, really cool. You'll see this across the board with the military. The military creates specialists. That's what they're good at. And that's why, so for example, up here with the Canadian forces, if you're in the Air Force and you're like a technician that works on our airplanes, when you release, when you finish your 25, 30 years, you literally get a job offer as you're releasing that says, come back, we're gonna pay you three times as much to be a civilian and do this as a contractor because their skillset is so valuable. And so you get all that, you get the trades training, you get all those cool things, but you also learn leadership, you learn accountability, you learn punctuality, all of things that are very, very necessity or a big necessity for the public space and business, so.

Travis Kiser · Answer

You know, one of the main lessons I learned while being in the Marines was to take care of three important things, mind, body, and weapon. Now, to apply that to civilian life, the mind is still the same, the body is still the same, then instead of a weapon, you have tools. You know, if you're in the healthcare field, it's making sure that all the tools that you have in your office are, you know, up to snuff, they're working. But mind and body are very important. You have to take care of yourself before you can take care of others. If you're not in the right mental state, you're not going to be effective at work. If you're not getting enough sleep, if you're not feeding yourself the right food, if you're not, you know, exercising and staying healthy, you're not going to be able to help others. So that's one thing that I try to continue to take, to use on a daily basis here at my job. And, you know, in nonprofits, I want to help veterans and others, you know, reconnect with their mind and their body so that they can take care of themselves once they leave that program or activity. So definitely, definitely take care of yourself and your mind and your body.

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How do you think the lessons you learned in the military can be applied to other fields, such as healthcare or non-profit?

Mike Ergo

Mike Ergo

Jason Redman

Adam Kinakin

Travis Kiser