{"id":11208,"date":"2023-05-18T15:05:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=11208"},"modified":"2023-05-19T00:05:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T00:05:20","slug":"uss-milius-draws-on-leadership-experience-to-promote-culture-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=11208","title":{"rendered":"USS Milius Draws on Leadership Experience to Promote Culture of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Leaders aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) have developed an intimate approach to achieving a Culture of Excellence through the ship\u2019s Sailor 360 \u201cLeadership in the Spotlight (LITS)\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSailors need to both see and hear what excellence as a Sailor means,\u201d said Lt. Daniel Lubega, Milius\u2019 chaplain, who helped develop LITS. \u201cBy attending LITS training with our command\u2019s best leaders, Sailors learn how to live a successful professional and personal life that applies and exemplifies the Navy\u2019s core values of honor, courage and commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LITS features senior leaders sharing a wide range of professional, personal and life experiences in a forum designed to transcend the boundaries of rank, age and background. Sessions are candid and often involve leaders sharing not only their success stories, but also their failures and shortcomings, and how they have learned from those experiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding connectedness takes a devotion to building trust with our Sailors and is a living, evolutionary process that starts with an effective sponsorship program and continues through active communication up, down and across the command,\u201d said Milius\u2019 Comand Master Chief Troy Bojorquiz. \u201cThe LITS program has helped us, as leaders, to connect with junior Sailors in an open forum, with the benefit of Sailors realizing that we were once young Sailors too, and had many lessons and sacrifices to learn along the continuum of our careers, family planning and personal endeavors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since its implementation in November 2022, LITS has proven to be popular with the crew, drawing an attendance of more than 120 Sailors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the assistance of our chaplain, Lt. Lubega, we launched it with the goal of inspiring Sailors to learn from successful leaders, not just in their professional lives, but also personal experiences,\u201d said Master Chief Aviation Support Equipment Technician Herbert Calilung, Milus\u2019 Sailor 360 program coordinator. \u201cThis campaign is totally voluntary for leaders, who answer a series of questions from our chaplain, followed by questions from an audience of Sailors. The program captures both success stories and failures from great leaders and conveys lessons learned that made them who they are today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Gunner\u2019s Mate 3rd Class Deshonda Williams, from Jacksonville, Florida, LITS\u2019 appeal lies in its deliberately genuine approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re listening to someone who was also a junior Sailor once and you can put yourself in their shoes,\u201d said Williams. \u201cOne of the things I\u2019ve personally taken from the sessions is to care about your Sailors and that includes their personal lives. We\u2019re all human, after all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milius is assigned to Commander, Task Force 71\/DESRON 15, the Navy\u2019s largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet\u2019s principal surface force.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. 7th Fleet is the U.S. Navy\u2019s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) have developed an intimate approach to achieving a Culture of Excellence through the ship\u2019s Sailor 360 \u201cLeadership in the Spotlight (LITS)\u201d campaign. \u201cSailors need to both see and hear what excellence as a Sailor means,\u201d said Lt. 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