Effective Leadership
Abstract
Carl and Fred share their experiences and advices about leadership, and why it is essential to accomplishing reliability objectives.
Key Points
Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the subject of developing leadership skills.
Topics include:
- Difference between manager and leader
- What is the essence of leadership?
- Leadership is involved in all aspects of reliability engineering
- What are the objectives? What are the barriers? What is the path to success?
- Good leadership skills can influence all levels of engineering
- Management is involved with administration, personnel, pay, and workload, etc.
- Don’t just show up to work, lead and influence people to get results
- Identifying and removing barriers is one aspect of leadership
- Communicating objectives in a way that inspires is an aspect of leadership
- Feeling personal responsibility for the outcome is an aspect of leadership
- Reliability engineers cannot create a reliable product all by themselves
- Your role is to help the engineers do a better job, and achieve reliability objectives
- Don’t merely wait for people to ask for your services
- Advocating for the customer is part of leadership
- Keep in mind the big picture, where are we headed? Where *should* we be headed?
- If you are a group leader, make sure they know the objectives of the group crystal clear, and how their jobs line up to the overall effort, and remove roadblocks
- What gets you up in the morning about your work, what is your passion, keep that in mind and bring it to work
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