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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