Creating Value with Aviation Maintenance Metrics
When it comes to your aviation maintenance metrics, “What gets measured gets improved.” But what should you measure and how should you measure it?
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Hiring the Right Business Aviation Professional: Part I
Hiring the most ideal, best-suited business aviation professional is no easy task. It requires merging a great cultural fit with superior skills and an attitude focused upon the organization’s success. Here are our bizav recruiting tips.
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Four Steps to Strategic Planning for Business Aviation Flight Departments
Strategic planning for business aviation flight departments require laying where a flight department is going over the next visible time frame. If you’ve not yet introduced strategic planning into your routine, read more.
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How to Create your Vision, Mission and Values
Would your flight department team benefit from improved communication with your parent company? Learn how to get aligned by creating your vision, mission and values.
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Factors That Affect Business Aviation Safety and Culture
We’ve all heard the expression ‘safety culture’ thrown around in the business aviation industry. But, do we really know what it is? Learn the factors that affect business aviation safety and culture.
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Corporate Flight Department Fleet Planning
Is your aircraft fleet meeting the needs of your organization? In this video, Jim Lara and Steve Brechter explains how to conduct corporate flight department fleet planning.
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Overseeing the Flight Department Part II: Know The Numbers
In one of our latest blog posts, we talked about the first four steps to becoming an effective Business Aviation Reporting Executive, and how the role doesn’t have to be viewed as a “death sentence.” Now, when it comes to overseeing the flight department, the next big step is to “Know the Numbers.”
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Gray Stone Advisors’ NBAA Recap
The business aviation consulting firm, Gray Stone Advisors, recaps the 65th National Business Aviation Association Annual Meeting & Convention in Orlando.
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How to Be an Effective Business Aviation Director
The first three months of any job can be challenging. Learn how to be an effective business aviation director in the first 100 days.
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Aviation Maintenance Safety Management Systems
There’s been ‘much ado’ about aviation maintenance Safety Management Systems since their debut over a decade ago. How has SMS impacted in Maintenance?
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Aviation Mentoring 101: Are You Building Your Bench?
To achieve leadership success, seek out a mentor who can help you grow, develop and contribute to the ongoing success of your organization. To learn more, read our Mentoring 101 blog.
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How to Improve Business Performance
What’s the best way to ensure long-lasting business performance for your business aviation organization? By getting focused on *why* you exist, *why* you’re in business. This means your department leaders–and the entire team–must truly know and understand the vision, mission and values of your organization.
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How to Find an Executive Mentor and Commit to your Long-term Success in Aviation
Are you ready to become a Transformational Leader? That is, someone who guides and directs others to success? If so, great! One of the best ways to ensure your long-term success is to invest your time and energy in an Executive Mentor who’s just as committed as you are to your long-term success.
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Aviation Training vs. Development: What’s the Difference?
We spend lot of time and money training. But how much effort do we put into ‘developing’ our people? And just what is training vs development?
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Managing Aviation Financial Surprises & Earning Executives’ Trust
In aviation, financial surprises are common. As Rick Stone shares, here’s how to go about managing aviation financial surprises and how to think like a CFO.
Read More...What are Metrics and Why Do I Need Them?
The first question that we often get is: “What are metrics and why do I need them?” Learn more.
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How to Overcome 10 Lethal Organizational Threats in Aviation
As current or aspiring business aviation leaders, it’s important to be able to overcome these 10 lethal organizational threats. Read our 10 tips.
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Knowing Where You Rank in the ‘Best Of’ Category: A simple guide to performance benchmarking
To demonstrate your business aviation team’s performance, here’s a simple guide to starting a benchmarking process.
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Doug Schwartz Manager, Global Aviation Services, ConocoPhillips
"The Advisor newsletters have been great. They always contain useful and thought provoking material, are short easy reads and well constructed. I get about 200 emails a day and delete many without reading them. I always read these. Good work."
Joe Loccisano (formerly Director of Maintenance, CSC Transport)
"Your aviation maintenance metrics article is spot on. We tend to focus on getting the job done, focusing on speed and quality. You have taught us that the measurement and documentation of the accomplishments are VERY important downtown [at corporate]. They (executives) need to be shown the value we provide in terms they can understand. It truly is the only way for them to justify our existence and appreciate the service we provide. Your entire site should be required reading for all flight departments in my opinion."