If you really want to design a successful, lifelong career, Jim Lara offers these “Success Engineering” tips to get you from start to finish.
Category: Leadership Best Practices
Are You Ready to Be a Mentor? 6 Steps to Get You Started Author
Have you achieved personal or professional success as a result of working with a talented mentor? Has someone helped you get to where you are today by showing you ‘the ropes’? If so, perhaps you’re ready to pay it forward and become an advisor to someone who wants to elevate their career or personal pursuits to a much higher level. Becoming an effective mentor takes a lot of time and energy—and there are do’s and don’ts so take heed (and read on).
Hire Right! Competency-Based Recruiting in Business Aviation Author
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.
Building a Powerhouse Business Aviation Leadership Team Author
Want to integrate your corporate aviation staff into the overall operation of your company? Build a strong and vital business aviation leadership team.
Your Vision, Mission & Values: Touchstones for Change Author
Among the 10 keys to creating transformational change is Key No. 3 … defining your vision, mission and values touchstones.
Leadership Essentials: Creating Relevance Author
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.”
Transformational Change: How to Create a Winning BizAv Organization Author
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.
Leadership Essentials: How to Gain Commitment from your Flight Department Author
Business aviation leaders often need to gain commitment for key decisions. But how do you get a flight department team to follow?
Business Aviation Leadership Development–Are You Committed? Author
When it comes to business aviation leadership development, empower your people and develop the capability of “getting things done through others.”
Leadership Essentials: Trustworthy Communication in Your Aviation Organization Author
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.