When you have a 2-year-old not listening, a large part (like 90 percent) is because their behavior is driven by the emotional brain, not the logical brain. I was asking logical questions with the mindset that my 2-year-old’s thoughts were logical, when in fact, they were not. Me: What? Why? What’s wrong with the toast?Īnd right there is where I had it all wrong. Him: I don’t want toast ( falls to the floor ) I used to get in all these non-sensical arguments with my 2-year old, and it would go something like this… With 700 new neural connections every second, is it really a wonder why teaching toddlers to listen is such a common struggle among parents? There is something to help. Because when I first read that I about sprayed coffee all over my laptop. Simply put, from age birth to three, your child’s brain produces 700 new neural connections every second. Teaching a two-year-old to listen is hard because children are experiencing the greatest brain development of their life. Just to be clear, a two-year-old not listening is not because a two-year-old is terrible. Parenting a strong willed toddler was far harder than my hardest day in the ICU. Then I had a 2-year-old not listening.Īnd I learned something profound. We outline why both industry and government care about acquisition planning and what both sides can/would/should do to focus on making acquisition plans as simple as possible, but no simpler.I used to code patients, do CPR, push drugs, shock people, and simultaneously run multiple medications and machines while never breaking one bead of sweat. In this episode, we break down the 4 basic elements required in an acquisition plan, along with the factors that impact that planning. The Acquisition Plan is how the government will actually buy something. In GovCon, that path is referred to as the Acquisition Plan. The government team still needs a path to actually buy the product or service. Even when there is funding to meet that requirement, that’s still not enough. Even when the government customer clearly knows what they need, just knowing that something is needed is not enough. The government needs to acquire goods and services. Wanting to award a contract and having a path to make award are two different things. Looking to get the Podcast 2.0 subscription for your whole organization? Reach out to us at #govconpodcast Level up your GovCon skills.go to to start listening today. AND, you can request topics for us to cover in future episodes. You get access to the Podcast 2.0 Forum where I post the notes, links and FAR references for each episode…including this one.and where YOU can post follow up questions about a particular episode.Ĥ. We’ve curated our 400+ episodes by topic so you can learn more about a specific area of GovCon.ģ. You get access to all the 2.0 episodes (437 so far, a new one weekly) that you can listen to on your favorite podcast app, plus,Ģ. You can listen to this episode and all other Contracting Officer Podcast 2.0 episodes for just $20/month by subscribing to our private podcast.Īs a Podcast 2.0 subscriber, you get 4 key benefitsġ. The Contracting Officer Podcast is brought to you by Skyway Acquisition. In this episode, Shelley Hall helps me review 4 free government sources to find those contracts, as well as the the pros and cons to consider when using an existing contract versus awarding a new one. But how do we find them in the sea of contracts?įor government, knowing where and how to find those contracts can streamline your process to award.įor industry, knowing where and how to find those contracts is another avenue to support you current and future government customers. The FAR gives direction to contracting officers to consider using "pre-existing contracts" before awarding new ones. In this #newepisode we talk about finding contract awards. In this #newepisode, we review 6 key “conventions” in the FAR that help us understand how the pieces move.įor $20 a month start listening today! Access here: #governmentcontracting #professionaldevelopment If we don’t know how the elements interact, then government contracting can be like playing chess without knowing how the chess pieces move. Now imagine trying to navigate GovCon without knowing how these pieces interact? However, it can get complicated fast once the pieces start moving. Once you understand the basics: buyer, seller, contract type, 3 Deciders, Acquisition and Execution Time Zones, building acquisition plans, targeting, writing and evaluating proposals, etc), then you can generally understand it. GovCon is not overly complex at its base. Now imagine playing chess without knowing how the pieces move… However, the game gets complicated fast once we start moving the pieces. Chess is a game in which it’s easy to get the basics: there are only 6 types of pieces.
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