'Police Success' YouTube TranscriptsOn my Rank Success YouTube channel is a growing series of FREE UK police promotion videos for police officers in England, Wales, Scotland and PSNI. Here you will find the raw transcripts (under development) for those videos, which may be helpful for those who have a hearing disability or simply prefer reading rather than watching content.
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Video 12 - Taking ACTION Towards Your Promotion
This is another video in a short series of lockdown videos, during the lockdown period, that I've been doing. To support police officers in UK police forces, that are looking to get promoted. That are aspiring to sergeant or inspector positions in the police service. And this video is about taking action.
Now I've lost count of how many individuals have been successful, through picking up the phone to me, sending me an email, coming on a masterclass, downloading a promotion toolkit, but one thing that all of those officers share in common is that they took action. There's a coaching model called GROW, which some of you may be familiar with. Which is, in short, it's what's your goal? What's the reality of that where you are now? What are your options? What options are available to you? But the key part at the end of all of that is what will you do? What action will you commit to take to get yourself nearer to your goal and to work upon achieving it?
Now, good intentions, plans, positive thinking, positivity, they all mean nothing if you don't take action. Now, something that almost every other newly promoted sergeant or inspector shares in common with each other, is that nearly all of them have downloaded a digital promotion sergeant or inspector toolkit from my site. Now, that helps them. I often wonder why they all do it? Hopefully, I make it easy for them to make that choice. I supply lots of free blogs, I write lots of free blogs, and lots of free content, including free downloadable guides, to help people make the decision. So hopefully, the decision to purchase a digital guide is there and easy to make. But it's about supporting. It's a tool. It's a facility. It's a resource to support your thinking, to challenge it, to respectfully provoke it, around the topic of promotion. And the guides cover all the things you would expect them to cover. So promotion frameworks, the role of sergeant, the role of inspector. Attitude, mindset, and lots of detailed examples of evidence at the level of sergeant and inspector. So you can really get your teeth stuck into it.
One of the things I would say to help with that is being old fashioned. So whilst you might download a digital toolkit, and it goes straight to your iPad, or your Kindle, or your laptop, or some other device, your phone, I'm old fashioned. Now, my family might say I'm a little bit more old fashioned in some things than others. But an old-fashioned notebook, a pencil, a old-fashioned eraser, and your best friend a highlighter pen, are just some of the ways in which you can hit the ground running, get stuck into promotion preparation. And to start writing down aha moments or light-bulb moments when you read through a digital toolkit or perhaps some of my free blogs. What was it that you now know that you didn't know before? Because that's the process of starting to fill your gaps and starting to take action, meaningful action, small steps towards achieving your goal of promotion.
And you will go through a transformation process when you do that, you will, from good operational cop to well-prepared promotion candidate. The same animal, but one is emboldened, if you like, by some meaningful work and applying some effort. Everybody's different. So, a digital promotion toolkit might work and does work for many people, but sometimes you sit down and go, well, I've got a whole different set of questions as a result of reading through that, Steve. Could I have a bit of one-to-one support or some further support to help me delve a little bit deeper into some of those areas that I'm uncertain about? Ultimately, action is the only thing that's ever going to get you promoted. Too many people wait until the last minute, and then it's a mad rush to get promoted and to get into the process without doing the work beforehand to arrive in the best position. In the best state of preparation that you can be.
Now, I'm going to be doing some more videos before the end of this lockdown period. In fact, the lockdown period officially ends, certainly in England, in three or four days, and I will look forward to speaking and delivering those videos. But in the meantime, if you like this video, if it triggers some thoughts, if it offers you some options, then, by all means, subscribe to this YouTube video. I'm doing some masterclasses in September, October, and November. You may want to get yourself booked onto. In which case, you get a digital promotion toolkit provided, all the materials, bespoke literature, and even lunch provided. So if you can make that there, I look forward to seeing you, and you can follow me on social media, on Facebook Rank Success, or on Twitter @rank_success. And I look forward to speaking to you next time in the next video. Thank you.
Now I've lost count of how many individuals have been successful, through picking up the phone to me, sending me an email, coming on a masterclass, downloading a promotion toolkit, but one thing that all of those officers share in common is that they took action. There's a coaching model called GROW, which some of you may be familiar with. Which is, in short, it's what's your goal? What's the reality of that where you are now? What are your options? What options are available to you? But the key part at the end of all of that is what will you do? What action will you commit to take to get yourself nearer to your goal and to work upon achieving it?
Now, good intentions, plans, positive thinking, positivity, they all mean nothing if you don't take action. Now, something that almost every other newly promoted sergeant or inspector shares in common with each other, is that nearly all of them have downloaded a digital promotion sergeant or inspector toolkit from my site. Now, that helps them. I often wonder why they all do it? Hopefully, I make it easy for them to make that choice. I supply lots of free blogs, I write lots of free blogs, and lots of free content, including free downloadable guides, to help people make the decision. So hopefully, the decision to purchase a digital guide is there and easy to make. But it's about supporting. It's a tool. It's a facility. It's a resource to support your thinking, to challenge it, to respectfully provoke it, around the topic of promotion. And the guides cover all the things you would expect them to cover. So promotion frameworks, the role of sergeant, the role of inspector. Attitude, mindset, and lots of detailed examples of evidence at the level of sergeant and inspector. So you can really get your teeth stuck into it.
One of the things I would say to help with that is being old fashioned. So whilst you might download a digital toolkit, and it goes straight to your iPad, or your Kindle, or your laptop, or some other device, your phone, I'm old fashioned. Now, my family might say I'm a little bit more old fashioned in some things than others. But an old-fashioned notebook, a pencil, a old-fashioned eraser, and your best friend a highlighter pen, are just some of the ways in which you can hit the ground running, get stuck into promotion preparation. And to start writing down aha moments or light-bulb moments when you read through a digital toolkit or perhaps some of my free blogs. What was it that you now know that you didn't know before? Because that's the process of starting to fill your gaps and starting to take action, meaningful action, small steps towards achieving your goal of promotion.
And you will go through a transformation process when you do that, you will, from good operational cop to well-prepared promotion candidate. The same animal, but one is emboldened, if you like, by some meaningful work and applying some effort. Everybody's different. So, a digital promotion toolkit might work and does work for many people, but sometimes you sit down and go, well, I've got a whole different set of questions as a result of reading through that, Steve. Could I have a bit of one-to-one support or some further support to help me delve a little bit deeper into some of those areas that I'm uncertain about? Ultimately, action is the only thing that's ever going to get you promoted. Too many people wait until the last minute, and then it's a mad rush to get promoted and to get into the process without doing the work beforehand to arrive in the best position. In the best state of preparation that you can be.
Now, I'm going to be doing some more videos before the end of this lockdown period. In fact, the lockdown period officially ends, certainly in England, in three or four days, and I will look forward to speaking and delivering those videos. But in the meantime, if you like this video, if it triggers some thoughts, if it offers you some options, then, by all means, subscribe to this YouTube video. I'm doing some masterclasses in September, October, and November. You may want to get yourself booked onto. In which case, you get a digital promotion toolkit provided, all the materials, bespoke literature, and even lunch provided. So if you can make that there, I look forward to seeing you, and you can follow me on social media, on Facebook Rank Success, or on Twitter @rank_success. And I look forward to speaking to you next time in the next video. Thank you.
