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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'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
- 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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Jason Richardson
- Mar 11, 2022
- 1 min
You want a leadership manual? Read this.
This will have to be a particularly short blog, as I will spend today flying a few hundred passengers to Chengdu and back. But I have to...
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Jason Richardson
- Mar 9, 2022
- 2 min
How do YOU assess your leadership performance?
Ask 10 leaders, and you’ll probably get 11 different answers. For me, I would go back to basics; to the definition of leadership....
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Jason Richardson
- Mar 7, 2022
- 3 min
Performance Hack - Daydreaming your way into a $40 million fighter
I grew up in a very small country town in South Australia. No movie theatre, no traffic lights, not even a McDonalds! In 1987, a close...
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Jason Richardson
- Mar 4, 2022
- 3 min
‘Stuck in a rut’, and finding your next big thing.
For many of us, we are in a place that we want to escape. The ‘place’ might be a job, a relationship, or any number of other situations...
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Jason Richardson
- Mar 2, 2022
- 2 min
Leadership Analysis. What we can learn from President Zelenskyy (Part 2). ‘Authenticity'
Our staff are incredibly good at sniffing out liars, and they don’t like them. They’d much rather a boss who is technically mediocre but...
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Jason Richardson
- Feb 28, 2022
- 2 min
Leadership Analysis. What we can learn from Zelenskyy (Part 1)
There has been an explosion (no pun intended) of comment, tweets, videos, memes etc on President Zelenskyy recently. For a politician,...
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Jason Richardson
- Feb 25, 2022
- 2 min
To reduce staff turnover, make life more difficult.
This is Larry. He was a Spartan warrior; a member of an elite military unit. Every Monday morning, Larry would jump out of bed eager for...
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Jason Richardson
- Feb 22, 2022
- 2 min
Lessons from the Special Air Service Regiment
*"At the core of every special forces soldier is a desire to do their best, whether someone is watching or not, and whether there is...
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Jason Richardson
- Feb 21, 2022
- 3 min
Performance Hack - Air to Air Refuelling (and other routine tasks).
I’m strapped into my F/A-18. It’s a very dark night in Northern Australia, and I’m waiting to start the jet at the pre-briefed time. I...
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Jason Richardson
- Feb 17, 2022
- 2 min
Leadership Clichés Debunked - “It’s lonely at the top.”
If you are lonely when you’re leading, you’re probably not. (Chew on that for a while!) “It’s lonely at the top”, or what some industries...
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Jason Richardson
- Feb 16, 2022
- 2 min
Performance Hack - How Fighter Pilots Debrief the Boss!
Your boss makes a mistake…what do you do? In a fighter mission, often junior pilots will be leading their superiors. In the debrief, it...
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Jason Richardson
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
Performance Hack - Fighter Pilots Debrief EVERYTHING
If you are serious about improving your business every day, you need to be analysing everything you do. “Everything?” you ask…...
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Jason Richardson
- Feb 11, 2022
- 2 min
Performance Hack - Visualising like a military pilot.
Flying the 'cardboard bomber'. When we initially perform a new task, it absorbs much of our conscious thought and we are unable to do...
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Jason Richardson
- Feb 9, 2022
- 2 min
Leadership Hack - Don't Hesitate to Delegate!
I’ve got some uncomfortable news for you…if you are working significantly longer hours than others in your team, you probably aren’t...
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Jason Richardson
- Feb 7, 2022
- 1 min
Leadership Hack - Leaders Go Last!
When a leader expends effort to show genuine care for their team, it creates a very strong signal that 'this group is safe'...something...
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Jason Richardson
- Feb 4, 2022
- 1 min
Performance Hack - The Hall of Mirrors
A very important part of an Australian fighter squadron is the ‘Hall of Mirrors’. It was a fictional place where you would go for...
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