Performance Hack: Never give up.
RAAF Base Newcastle; Australia's Fightertown. A warm, sunny Friday afternoon in the spring of 1999. The smell of fresh cut grass,...
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'Raise The Bar' is a half day workshop introducing the characteristics and behaviour required in high-performance organisations.
RICHARDSON HPS
HUMAN PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS
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Jason Richardson
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
How agile is your business?
One of the keys to increasing agility in operations, whether your core business is warfare or running a chain of restaurants, is...
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Jason Richardson
- May 2, 2022
- 3 min
How micromanagers are killing your business...
Find your micromanagers. Limit their potential INSIDE your organisation, or they will limit the potential OF your organisation. What’s...
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Jason Richardson
- Apr 25, 2022
- 3 min
ANZAC Day, and what teenage soldiers can teach us.
I’m just starting to thaw out after a very moving dawn service on a chilly Melbourne morning. Walking away from the Shrine of...
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Jason Richardson
- Apr 22, 2022
- 2 min
Performance Hack: In an emergency, ‘sit on your hands’.
How impulsive are you? How impulsive is the organization you lead? Think back to the times where you have made ‘snap decisions’…did you...
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Jason Richardson
- Apr 20, 2022
- 2 min
F/A-18 patches and how to build your culture.
My F/A-18 patch was given to me at the end of my operational conversion. At face value, it can be viewed as a reward for surviving the...
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Jason Richardson
- Apr 18, 2022
- 2 min
Does your boss 'fake' delegation?
Confident leaders delegate. Under confident micromanagers don’t. But, there is another more surreptitious type of boss…one who PRETENDS...
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Jason Richardson
- Apr 14, 2022
- 1 min
Leadership Hack: Give your staff a family, not a workplace.
How: Allow your staff to see your own vulnerability. (Builds trust) Don't fire them if they initially underperform. Nurture them. (we...
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Jason Richardson
- Apr 12, 2022
- 3 min
Performance Hack: Decision Making Under Stress…
How would you rate the quality of the decisions you and your team make under stress? Right from the start of military flying training,...
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Jason Richardson
- Apr 7, 2022
- 1 min
Do you see the same errors over and over again…
Workplace ER: Diagnosing workplace ailments. Symptoms: The same execution errors are made over and over again. Diagnosis: Two main...
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Jason Richardson
- Apr 6, 2022
- 1 min
Your team isn’t listening to you?
Workplace ER: Diagnosing Workplace Ailments. (Short blogs while I’m on vacation!) Symptoms: Your team seemed to ‘hear’ you, but it’s...
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Jason Richardson
- Apr 5, 2022
- 2 min
They're all lying to you! Here's why...
Workplace ER: treating workplace ailments. Symptoms: You ask your staff how things are going. Smiles, gentle nodding of heads, and...
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Jason Richardson
- Apr 1, 2022
- 2 min
Confused about leadership? Use this model...
As a teenager at the Australian Defence Force Academy, I was taught a very simple leadership model which is very useful in helping us...
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Jason Richardson
- Mar 30, 2022
- 3 min
Leadership Hack; Talking to Aussies vs Koreans
Dealing with inherent authority gradients. As an airline captain in Asia, I deal with two very different communication landscapes. The...
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Jason Richardson
- Mar 28, 2022
- 2 min
Performance Hack: Strike Eagle wisdom for your business.
In 1999, one of my F/A-18 instructors was Major Mark ‘Grace’ Kelly, on exchange from the United States Air Force. Back then, he was a...
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Jason Richardson
- Mar 25, 2022
- 2 min
Military vs Civilian Leadership
In this short, (incredibly poor quality) clip, we see me handing over the ‘Corps of Officer Cadets’ to Andrew Hawke, the Academy Cadet...
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Jason Richardson
- Mar 23, 2022
- 2 min
The Power of SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures)
I stand in front of a room full of fighter pilots. Today I am 'Shogun 1', and I'm briefing 'Shogun Warlock Viking'; a 12 aircraft strike...
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Jason Richardson
- Mar 21, 2022
- 2 min
Performance Hack: Being non-reactive when your jet catches fire.
How do you react in extreme situations? Perhaps more importantly, how do your staff see you react under stress. As a leader, your...
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Jason Richardson
- Mar 16, 2022
- 2 min
Leadership Clichés Debunked - “Leadership is not a popularity contest!”
Let me begin by saying ALL the best leaders I have worked for were popular. Popular in so much as…I liked working for them. They were...
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Jason Richardson
- Mar 14, 2022
- 2 min
Sir doesn't run. It makes the troops nervous.
Three characteristics your staff are looking for in you. Courage, Confidence, Calmness. Regarding calmness... "Sir, I wish you wouldn't...
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