3. Chapter 2 - Capacity to Care
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Item *Capacity to Care(2025) Bill CarrOLD – A mental capability of giving serious attention, heed, caution, concern or watchfulness even to the extent of having charge, oversight or management. A burdensome sense of responsibility. Serious attention of mind. Charge or oversight implying a responsibility for safety and prosperity. To watch, foster or guard. Building and maintaining a healthy working environment. (Compassion – Fellowship in feeling; hence, sorrow or pity excited by the distress or misfortune of another). ((Support – Assistance; aid; to encourage; to furnish with funds or means for maintenance; to enable to continue; to verify; to vindicate; to defend successfully)). MID –The mental ability, aptitude or potentiality to watch over or give someone close attention, careful heed or regard. To be responsible for; attend to; close attention or careful heed; charge; protection; custody; something to watch over; to feel concern or interest; to look after. (Compassion – Sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another, with the urge to help; pity). (((Support – To give courage or faith to; help; comfort; to provide for with money or subsistence; help prove or vindicate))). NEW - Having the mental presence and anticipation to meet the needs of fellow officers, enlisted and those related in mission and service-oriented endeavors with the public through a process of paying attention, teaching, advising and emotional support and maintaining a relationship that may extend over time. (Compassion – The sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it). (((Support - give assistance to, especially financially; enable to function or act)). A. Recognition (Merit-Based) B. Discipline (Fairness)/Training (Indoctrination) ((Teaching)) C. Example/Expectations D. Followership (Fraternization)/Team-Building (Alliances) ((Coaching)) (((Relationships))) Caring For Your People Must Be a Practice (2:37) - https://youtu.be/OkWqpPp1Br4 Chief Mentor (3:53) - https://youtu.be/VcJz18-W5uY Coast Guard People (2:20) - https://youtu.be/RQdDh1Fj4es Consoling the Grieving (2:50) - https://youtu.be/Dx4deoYkmiE People Importance (1:21) - https://youtu.be/NO4-9qY4liA Strong But Measured Career Advice (1:58) - https://youtu.be/LTXuvhKZAFEItem Risks From Fraternization(Class of 1965) Hebert, RussRuss Hebert '65 proudly relates a risky heavy weather rescue on board USCGC OWASCO while on Ocean Station Charlie with the same aft damage control team some time after their bilge fire experience (see 'Risks from Fraternization (3:26)' vignette). While on Ocean Station Charlie, these same men recovered the crew of a sinking fishing boat - requiring quick thinking and concerted action to pull them from heavy seas into a rubber raft and then up a scramble net - a highly successful rescue.Item Friendly Aloofness(Class of 1965) High, LesMaintaining the proper distance between working and social interpersonal relationships within a command is a key element of leadership. While social friendliness may be appropriate in most cases, it must yield to the accomplishment of the Coast Guard's military purposes which require that proper military demeanor be maintained.Item The Report - Walking For Health(Class of 1965) High, LesSometime around 1988 when Carol High turned sixty-five, she proposed to Les they begin walking to maintain good health. And, like Forrest Gump, they took off - one step at a time. Unlike Gump, Les has never stopped, not even with the loss of his beloved Carol in 2012. One key to success in leadership and life may be good health and well being. At ninety-four (now one hundred and one) Les High is the poster "child" for walking for good health and longevity. Can you keep up?Item Good Followership(Class of 1965) High, LesLes describes the characteristics of his view of a good follower.