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Human Performance Engineering
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20d •
The Integrated Leader
Where The Integrated Leader Came From I spent over 30 years around some of the most rigorous systems in the world: avionics, government quality assurance with DCMA, third party aerospace auditing, executive quality leadership. In those environments, a missed step doesn't just cost money. So everything gets documented. Everything gets standardized. Leadership itself is written into the requirements. And here's what I kept seeing, over and over, for three decades: the standard says leadership matters. Nobody actually teaches it. I watched brilliant people get promoted into leadership because they were good at the technical work, not because anyone taught them how to lead. I lived some of that gap myself, learning leadership the hard way instead of the deliberate way. So I built a set of tools out of that experience. One helps you verify what you actually know before you act, instead of jumping to conclusions, pulled from the same discipline used to isolate faults in complex systems. Another helps you diagnose what's really driving a team problem, instead of mistaking it for a skill issue when it's something else entirely. A third is about building leadership on purpose, the same way you'd build any system that has to hold up under pressure, instead of leaving it to chance. One belief sits underneath all of it. Leadership isn't a soft skill you either have or don't. It's a discipline. That's what this space is. A place to actually apply this, together. I'll be walking through each of these in the classroom as we go. I want to hear from you. What's the moment you realized nobody had actually taught you how to lead, you just had to figure it out? Drop it below.
1 like • 20d
I definitely developed my own style of leadership that closely follows a servant leader, but my defining movement was when I was 22. I was promoted into a leadership position because I was a hard worker and really good with customers. Within a couple months, no one on my team wanted to work with me. I lead how I was raised. You work hard because that’s what expected of you, no matter how much you’re getting paid. You work with a sense of urgency while still being efficient because that’s what a responsible worker does. You don’t complain about your work, that’s just not allowed. I harped on my team for not working as fast as I did, not coming in five minutes early so they could start their shift right when scheduled, and for complaining about simple tasks they were expected to complete. I didn’t care about my team. I cared about getting the work done. The biggest mentor of my professional career was the store manager that promoted me. He pulled me to the back one day and told me no one wanted to work with me. I was crushed. When I was an associate, those same people loved working with me. Now they couldn’t stand to see they were working the same shift as me and would either try to switch shifts with someone else or call out of their shift completely. I wasn’t the classic definition of a “military brat.” I was fortunate enough not to be moved around, but I had military baring instilled in me at an early age, went into the military, and transitioned into a civilian job thinking I could “lead” how I was lead growing up and in the military. That clearly wasn’t the way to lead. I was dictating and criticizing, not leading. I took it upon myself to change. My mentor helped me. He gave me my first self help book, “Who Moved My Cheese.” That was my defining point as a leader. I read it and applied it. I hungered for more. I read more. I developed as a leader more. I grew up being a leader. I was always the captain on any team I was on. I was a natural motivator and supporter, so once I learned how I wanted to lead people in the professional world, it came quickly and I excelled.
Jul 16 •
What's your favorite book 📚, movie 🎞️, and travel destination 🏝️?
Let's get to know each other! Comment below sharing your favorite movie, book, or travel destination!
1 like • Jul 18
“The Energy Bus” is the book that’s driving me right now (see what I did there), Nightmare Before Christmas has always been my favorite movie, and my favorite travel destination so far is Aruba 🇦🇼
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Turning potential into performance through engaging training and talent development.
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