Excellence

Giving your best effort, no matter what challenge is facing you.

• How do you know that you have given your best effort?
• How do you handle your own failure of excellence?

Video 1

VIDEO 1: October Sky

Cadet Small Group Questions

• What was the dream of Homer Hickam who was building the rockets?
• How did he react to failure?
• Did he give it his best effort? How could you tell?
• What are some things, organizations, products, or even people that you would consider excellent?
• Share a time when you used failure as an opportunity to improve and didn’t just give up.

Video 2

VIDEO 2: The Power of Personal Excellence

Cadet Small Group Activity

Hotwash

Each participant should have a blank piece of paper and a pencil/pen.

Instructions:

Consider our CAP meetings in light of the limitations that COVID has placed on them and answer the following questions:

• What went well?
• What could be improved?
• What SMART goals could you set for yourself to bring about improvement?
• What SMART goals could Nighthawk entertain to bring about improvement?

When your group has completed the exercise, have someone in the group send the list of SMART goals to cp@dentoncap.org and the Cadet Commander.

Credit for tonight’s lesson

Send 2d Lt Dave Rosenfeld an email with the following:

• The exact definition of excellence given during the meeting.
• An example of someone you feel has an excellent spirit and why you think that.