More than 70 Sailor from Training Support Center (TSC) Great Lakes gathered at the USS Cole Barracks for a Sailor 360 training event, Feb. 13.

TSC Great Lakes Navy Military Training Instructors Master Chief Gunner’s Mate Michael Jaeger, operations staff leading chief petty officer, Navy Counselor 1st Class Keri L. Childs, command career counselor, and Personnel Specialist 1st Class Jennifer Johnston, leading petty officer of USS North Carolina barracks, led a Learning and Development Roadmap (LaDR) training session.

"I hope today’s training will help reinforce the usage of the LaDR and give insight on qualifications and certification's available here locally to take advantage of attaining while on shore duty,” Childs said. “Also, our training will cover the importance of the career path for future selection boards.”

LaDR is an annually-updated document that outlines training and education milestones for each rating at each pay grade. Sailors use the LaDR tool to optimize their Navy career paths and provide guidance toward advanced educational opportunities and professional certifications.

“LaDR is an important tool because it's your roadmap for your career,” Childs said. “Following the LaDR will set you up for success in your personal and professional life.”

The Sailor 360 program is the Navy’s newest leadership training program designed to enrich the professional development of its enlisted Sailors. The program brings significant changes to how the Navy has traditionally trained enlisted leaders since 2011 and empowers commands to continue the leadership conversation through command-developed trainings.

“The new program starts chief petty officer development at the E-5 level, which will better prepare them for the challenges we face as chiefs,” Jaeger said. “Over the last 10 years, we saw that Sailors were getting advanced fairly quickly, some of our rates only took 6 to 7 years to advance to chief and ended up having growing pains due to lack of deckplate leadership, depth of rating knowledge and fleet experience.”

According to Jaeger, in the past, training focused on the development of petty officers first class in their transition to chief petty officer - providing them with facilitated group discussions with the Chiefs Mess. It also aided them in getting to know the chiefs from around the command and their personal philosophies when put into leadership scenarios.

“The positive aspect to this new program is twofold; we start developing our junior Sailors in preparation for advancement, and we learn how this new generation of Sailors react to situations in relation to leadership, personal development and discipline,” he said. “With a better understanding of these two things we, as senior leaders, can figure out and adapt our own leaderships styles and strengthen our communications skills to the new age of junior Sailor.”

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