I recommend that you keep a Journal for your Command preparation and during your Command Course.
What Is A Journal?
It is simply a note book, notepad, loose sheaf paper in a ring binder – anything that you can jot notes down about anything that you determine is important or interesting about your Command preparation or Command Course
Your thoughts, feelings, emotions, debrief points (both good and bad), questions to ask your Trainer, observations (especially of other Captains, both good and bad), reflections on how you can improve, your Command strengths and weaknesses, notes to yourself or to-do lists.
What’s Its Purpose?
It has the potential to become a powerful learning tool if you are disciplined and diligent enough to regularly complete it and review it
You may be amazed at how much you have improved or learned when you read past entries. You can refresh yourself about difficult or weak areas of your Command or Leadership skills, so that you work on these weak areas. You can remind yourself about the good things that you have done – and increasing your self-confidence and self-esteem is incredibly important when undertaking a Command Course. You may be able to identify situations that you handle well or not so well and as a result target skills that are good or need improving.
Don’t just use it as a diary or a de facto logbook and just enter dry, boring daily details. Use it to not only enter the daily details but also to examine why, how and when you do things and reflections on the situations and environments that you encountered.
Keep a journal as an F/O prior to commencing your Command Course. Note the good and bad skills and traits that other Captains display so that you can either incorporate the good into your Command style or eliminate the bad. Discuss with other Command Trainees the aspects of their upgrade Course that they found easy and that they found difficult (and why, and what they did to improve themselves).
You will get a much better understanding of yourself and of how you will act as the future Commander. You will get a pretty good idea of the skills, traits, values and beliefs that you will bring into the Command Course and know what type of Command style you will likely employ.
Keep a journal while actually on Course and note your reactions to events and situations, your thoughts, feelings and emotions. It is useful to put debrief notes in your journal so that you can reflect on the good and bad things that happened to you and what you’ll do about them. Your memory may not be so reliable, especially if you are doing many sectors in a short period of time. Reviewing your journal regularly can refresh your memory about subjects or be used as a guide for study.
You are responsible for your learning and using a journal is one way to increase the value of lessons presented and learnt as an airline Commander – so that you become the best Captain that you can be.
What Is A Journal?
It is simply a note book, notepad, loose sheaf paper in a ring binder – anything that you can jot notes down about anything that you determine is important or interesting about your Command preparation or Command Course
Your thoughts, feelings, emotions, debrief points (both good and bad), questions to ask your Trainer, observations (especially of other Captains, both good and bad), reflections on how you can improve, your Command strengths and weaknesses, notes to yourself or to-do lists.
What’s Its Purpose?
It has the potential to become a powerful learning tool if you are disciplined and diligent enough to regularly complete it and review it
You may be amazed at how much you have improved or learned when you read past entries. You can refresh yourself about difficult or weak areas of your Command or Leadership skills, so that you work on these weak areas. You can remind yourself about the good things that you have done – and increasing your self-confidence and self-esteem is incredibly important when undertaking a Command Course. You may be able to identify situations that you handle well or not so well and as a result target skills that are good or need improving.
Don’t just use it as a diary or a de facto logbook and just enter dry, boring daily details. Use it to not only enter the daily details but also to examine why, how and when you do things and reflections on the situations and environments that you encountered.
Keep a journal as an F/O prior to commencing your Command Course. Note the good and bad skills and traits that other Captains display so that you can either incorporate the good into your Command style or eliminate the bad. Discuss with other Command Trainees the aspects of their upgrade Course that they found easy and that they found difficult (and why, and what they did to improve themselves).
You will get a much better understanding of yourself and of how you will act as the future Commander. You will get a pretty good idea of the skills, traits, values and beliefs that you will bring into the Command Course and know what type of Command style you will likely employ.
Keep a journal while actually on Course and note your reactions to events and situations, your thoughts, feelings and emotions. It is useful to put debrief notes in your journal so that you can reflect on the good and bad things that happened to you and what you’ll do about them. Your memory may not be so reliable, especially if you are doing many sectors in a short period of time. Reviewing your journal regularly can refresh your memory about subjects or be used as a guide for study.
You are responsible for your learning and using a journal is one way to increase the value of lessons presented and learnt as an airline Commander – so that you become the best Captain that you can be.
1 comments:
this is very good suggest.. keeping a tab on your daily mistakes and omission can help you identifying the area where you are weak... I use MS POWERPOINT and make slides about flying tips etc.. later I can run the file as a presentation on my computer and revise everything one by one...
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