{"id":17923,"date":"2023-07-07T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=17923"},"modified":"2023-07-08T06:42:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T06:42:16","slug":"naval-oceanography-employee-completes-new-information-warfare-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=17923","title":{"rendered":"Naval Oceanography Employee Completes New Information Warfare Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Mr. Kevin LaCroix, Weather Services Technical Lead and Numerical Weather Prediction Models at Naval Oceanography, completed the three-year commitment designed to develop high-performing IWC employees.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>NDLP allows senior-level DOD employees a chance to navigate their individual career journey, realize strengths, and position themselves for future IWC leadership positions.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cI really loved being part the Naval Intelligence (NAVINTEL) NDLP, from the connections made with other NAVINTEL professionals in a similar positions at upper-middle management, to the unique access the program gave,\u201d said LaCroix.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>According to LaCroix, NDLP helped program-participants develop a deeper knowledge and respect for the NAVINTEL Enterprise through peer and senior-leader participation in the program.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cI learned valuable leadership perspectives and gained an appreciation for the hard work and tough decisions that senior leaders make every day,\u201d LaCroix said.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Program-participants, like LaCroix, benefited from one-on-one coaching sessions, teambuilding activities, tours, briefs and opportunities for team projects.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>NDLP was designed around the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs), which are required for advancement to Senior Executive Service positions.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cThe program helped us [NDLP participants] realize what pieces and parts we already mastered in our careers, then how to optimize our learning and experiences to fulfill remaining parts of the ECQs going forward,\u201d LaCroix said.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The program started simultaneously as the COVID-19 global pandemic, but LaCroix\u2019s completion of the program is a true testament the Navy\u2019s spirit of resilience.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cFor most of the first two years, our [NDLP] class was limited to Microsoft Teams meetings; which while more difficult and lacked the in-person interactions and after-work networking, did provide opportunity to show our kids and pets which loved to interrupt our all-day sessions,\u201d said LaCroix.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Naval Oceanography has approximately 2,900 globally distributed military and civilian personnel, who collect, process and exploit environmental information to assist Fleet and Joint Commanders in all warfare areas to guarantee the U.S. Navy\u2019s freedom of action in the physical battlespace from the depths of the ocean to the stars.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-30-<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Kevin LaCroix, Weather Services Technical Lead and Numerical Weather Prediction Models at Naval Oceanography, completed the three-year commitment designed to develop high-performing IWC employees.\u00a0NDLP allows senior-level DOD employees a chance to navigate their individual career journey, realize strengths, and position themselves for future IWC leadership positions.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI really loved being part the Naval Intelligence (NAVINTEL) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17926,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923\/revisions\/17926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}