Hire Right! Competency-Based Recruiting in Business Aviation
For all the great things we do in business aviation, taking the time to define the success criteria for a key position — and then hiring against those needs — is often not one of them. So here’s why it’s vitally important to use competency-based recruiting techniques to fill every position within your flight department.
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Building a Powerhouse Business Aviation Leadership Team
Want to integrate your corporate aviation staff into the overall operation of your company? Build a strong and vital business aviation leadership team.
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Goal Setting: Unleashing the Power of Passion
When your flight department is goal setting for the coming year, take full advantage of the power of passion. Then align those goals with the passions and interests of your people.
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Goal Setting – Why Bother?
Another New Year has dawned. And for many of you, that means it’s time for Human Resources to prod your business aviation staff to start some goal setting and career planning. So, tell me: what’s on your personal and professional horizons? What are your aspirations? And how will you arrive at your desired destination? Why
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Aviation Organizational Transformation Keys 5-7
When aviation organizational transformation is on the docket for your business aviation facility, empowerment, inclusion and consistency are three essential keys to your success.
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Your Vision, Mission & Values: Touchstones for Change
Among the 10 keys to creating transformational change is Key No. 3 … defining your vision, mission and values touchstones.
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Leadership Essentials: Creating Relevance
Creating relevance within your flight department has a learning curve. Following are five important tips to help you make a positive impact “at the table.”
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Transformational Change: How to Create a Winning BizAv Organization
Transformational change is a truly multi-faceted topic. In this fourth blog in the series, we focus on how to create a “winning” bizav organization.
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Leadership Essentials: How to Gain Commitment from your Flight Department
Business aviation leaders often need to gain commitment for key decisions. But how do you get a flight department team to follow?
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Business Aviation Leadership Development–Are You Committed?
When it comes to business aviation leadership development, empower your people and develop the capability of “getting things done through others.”
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Leadership Essentials: Trustworthy Communication in Your Aviation Organization
One of the hallmarks of leadership is the ability to motivate others to achieve the organization’s goals and objectives. It starts with trustworthy communication.
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Business Aviation: Collateral Duties Defined
Many companies don’t have a Business Aircraft Use Policy, leaving them vulnerable to regulatory violations and low usage. Here’s why you need one.
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Leadership Essentials: 5 Proven Ways to Make Tough Calls in Aviation
Why is it so hard to make tough calls, especially when you know the right thing to do? Here are five proven ways to stop agonizing and start leading.
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Survival Change Management: Create Compelling Urgency
Are you ready for significant organizational change? Here’s the first step of effective survival change management that can get everyone focused on what needs to happen.
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Leadership Essentials: What’s Your Personal Brand?
Are you a current or aspiring aviation leader? If so, Steve Brechter shares five ways to create a personal brand that will help you stand out in the crowd.
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Leadership Essentials: How to Gain ‘Followership’ in your Flight Department
What are the qualities of leadership that make your flight department team want to follow you? Here are the 5 keys of “followership.”
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Leadership Essentials: Empowerment
The most impactful leaders are those who “let go.” Here’s how to motivate and encourage your team members to achieve through empowerment.
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How to Run Effective Meetings in Business Aviation
Meeting. We often despise them and consider reasons not to have them, reschedule them, or avoid them entirely. Find out how to run effective meetings.
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