Mission Success in Your Career: How BAMCIS Can Propel Your Professional Journey

The old jarhead is back with great career advice.

• The advice is guaranteed to work and is based on the BAMCIS concept: Begin planning, arrange for the reconnaissance, make the reconnaissance, complete the order, issue the order, and supervise.

• This concept was taught at the beginning of his Marine Corps career and can be applied to any job or situation.

• Begin planning by setting aside time to think about what needs to be done.

• Arrange for the reconnaissance by talking to other people who may be involved.

• Make the reconnaissance by gathering all necessary information.

• Complete the order by delegating responsibilities to team members.

• Issue the order by clearly communicating tasks and expectations.

• Supervise and make yourself available for guidance and help as needed.

• BAMCIS can be helpful in a variety of situations and should be customized to fit your specific circumstances.

• To learn more, check out "Find a Job That Fits Your Life" on Amazon.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

All right, folks. Well, I'm back, the old jar head with that great career advice that's going to propel you to success. That I guarantee works, okay, so here you go. You look at the title of this and a few of the old jar heads out there that listen to me, you're going to go. Okay, I know where he's going. I know what's going on right here. I know, bamsis Well, most of you probably don't, so that's what we're going to talk a little bit about here.

Speaker 1: 0:32

Right, and given that this is the second, I'm in the second hundred of my podcast, I thought it would be good if I went back to something I learned about at the beginning of my time in my beloved Marine Corps and then try to relate that to your outstanding careers. Bamsis, okay, b-a-m-c-i-s. What does it mean? Begin planning, arrange for the reconnaissance, make the reconnaissance, complete the order, issue the order, supervise, right, bamsis? Pretty simple, pretty straightforward, right? This was we learned we're taught in the beginning of your Marine Corps career and leadership. Okay, it's a tactical order. For example, your unit is told to attack and secure a prominent terrain feature like a hill, so you need to tell your subordinates what to do to accomplish that mission. Bamsis, in Marine Corps terms, right, begin planning, arrange for the reconnaissance, make the reconnaissance, complete the order, issue the order and then supervise. So let's put that in terms that can be useful to you, right? Unless you're out there as an early platoon commander getting ready to go down a TBS, you probably never heard of Bamsis before.

Speaker 1: 1:50

So here's the situation I'm going to give you, like a hypothetical situation. You're told by your boss that you and your team need to accomplish something, say arrange for a meeting with another company or another part of your own company. Once you're told to do this, you should set aside some time to think about what in your team have been told to do. That's the B or the begin planning part. Then you think about all the other folks that you need to talk to to make this meeting go row, go well, maybe you need to talk to the IT folks or the facility folks or anybody right, even your boss, right? So you call them and you say hey, it, you have some time this afternoon. I need to talk to you about next week's meeting. That's like the A. Or arrange for the reconnaissance part, okay, only it's not in the military. You get it Now. You have the information you need, right. So you think about what your team will do next.

Speaker 1: 2:51

So well, actually I left out the MC. That's what happens when you get old, right? So then you go and you talk to those IT folks, right, you go and you sit down with the facilities, people. That's the same thing as the M, the make, the reconnaissance. So now you have the information you need, right, you know the IT, you know all the other stuff. Right Now you need to think about who on your team is going to do what.

Speaker 1: 3:18

That's the C or the complete, the plan part. So now you get your team together and you give each of them their jobs and they're going to support that meeting, and that's the I or issue the order part. And finally, there's the most important part supervise. You got to supervise, you got to make yourself available if they need guidance and help, as you and your team make this meeting go great. So there you have it. Very simple BAMSIS for your career. Try it, it works, make it your own. Well, that was another great piece of advice from the old jar heads time in the Marine Corps, and thanks for listening. And if you want even more great advice, get a copy of my book Find a Job that Fits your Life. It's available on Amazon. You won't be disappointed. So thanks and suffer, take care Bye.