Nick Bare

It felt like a burden.

It was just like, hey, we got to do this annually.

Let's just get through it, do them.

Now, as I reflect back on the importance and value of the OER and NCOER, I wish then I would have valued it more than I did.

As we were talking when we were working out how important it is for...

people under you when you're in a leadership position to know what success looks like.

How do you measure success?

And if someone who's working for you and you're leading someone doesn't know or understand what success looks like, it's really hard for them to work towards a vision or a metric or a data point

And I'm thinking back as we're talking, man, I wish I would have really understood how valuable those NCOERs were.

Sure.

Because it would have allowed me to develop subordinate leaders in a more effective way.

Absolutely.

Do you think that the army or the military as a whole is effective at the evaluation report process?

And let me add some context to that.

Sure.

Feedback is hard.

It is.

Candid conversations, hard conversations are really hard.

Yes.

And it's much easier to avoid them than to confront them.