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I'm Lauren Rucker and I am the command

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master chief at NAV War . My

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responsibility is to provide leadership

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guidance to the admiral and to the ,

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the most junior person here to the most

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senior person here .

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My goal with this is to get to know

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other leaders throughout and a war and

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see what they have to offer so that

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others feel comfortable coming into

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their space and seeing them and talking

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to them . So we wanna help them ,

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provide us tools to put it in our tool

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bag and maybe provide them some tools

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to put in their tool bag . So let's go .

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Hey Mr Wilder . Well , hello C MC .

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Welcome . How are you on this ? Great

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Navy Day ? I doing outstanding . I love

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hearing that from an army veteran .

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Thank you for this opportunity for

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letting me come down and chat with you

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about what's in Rutgers Rucksack . My

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question is , is as a leader here in ,

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what do you see as one of your biggest

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leadership struggles not unique to me ,

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but a big leadership struggle we're all

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going through is the ongoing telework

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environment . I'm not a spring chicken

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and like you , uh I did not grow up in

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this environment . And so it's , it's

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new , I'm not a Luddite and I do

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appreciate and understand to a degree

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that technology . So in a Telework

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environment , we often struggle

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learning how to lead our people . How

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have you overcome the Telework

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leadership model ? How have you been

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able to break through and get people to

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follow lead and guide ? Make sure

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that I'm regularly on site when uh when

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my team members are here so that we can

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have that together time and interact in

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person and get to see a little bit more

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than the Hello ? Great meeting . Let's

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uh let's start and yeah , it was fun .

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Let's end and get the water cooler talk

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that uh or the I for the

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bubbler , the uh the scuttle butt , the

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scuttle . But the , the navy term , you

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get the butt talk that uh that you're

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missing in the telework environment and

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get to know people better and , you

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know , go in and talk about , hey ,

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what's uh , what's that on your desk ?

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What's the story behind that knick

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knack ? You've got there and give them

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a chance to , to share more of who they

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are . How do you in your

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organization in 8.0 get leaders to

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lead . I've done some research . Nobody

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was born a leader . Uh We all had to

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learn how to do it and , you know ,

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just by being in an organization , you

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learn something . Uh I definitely am of

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the opinion that you can learn

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something from everyone . Some things

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you want to put in your rucksack and

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other things you , uh , you wanna leave

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on the side of the path there . Some

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people , it seems like it , it's

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effortless for them to leave . But I

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like that . You say that , you know ,

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no , it's , it's built , line upon line .

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Precept upon precept . You have to

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teach people how to lead and yes , you

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learn from the things that people did

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do good and the things that people

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didn't do very good . I love that you

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talk about different ways of , of

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actually bridging the communication

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gaps . And sometimes you're just not

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gonna get those people into the office .

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But some of the things I've seen

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recently that people are utilizing are

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picnics , you know , and they give them

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an opportunity to get together at a

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picnic . They do a little bit of

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training , they do some maybe award

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ceremony there and present some things

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to folks . But it gets people to come

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out . They have a little barbecue ,

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they chat , they do all those things

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that you talk about . Get around the

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scuttle butt , the bubbler and have

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that opportunity to actually

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communicate outside the space . So I

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love that you , you talk about trying

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to find different ways to bridge that

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communication gap . That's awesome . A

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lot of people say , you know , I'm an

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introvert and I just , I can't make it

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in this organization as an introvert .

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I'm not like C MC Rucker who can get up

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in front of people and just start

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talking and , and have full on

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conversations with people I've never

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met before in your career , especially

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recently here at 8.0 how have you

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helped those people ? See that you

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don't have to be an extrovert to be a

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leader in this organization . Well ,

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that hits very close to home . I am

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absolutely an introvert in , in real

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life and there is no one ,

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you know , one template for what a

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leader is . Some leaders are , are very

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outgoing and others are not and has

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no impact on the effectiveness .

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Everybody's gonna have a leadership

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style and if you try to use somebody

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else's leadership style , uh sooner or

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later , it is not gonna work . You

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gotta be you Mr Milder . Thank you so

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much for giving me the opportunity to

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come down and meet with you and sharing

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your leadership insights with the NAV

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team . Uh Any time we can put another

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little tool in our rucksack , I think

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it's , it's great for the entire team .

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Thank you . Thank you . See you again

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soon . Yes , sir .