{"id":3205,"date":"2021-05-04T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2021-05-04T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:12:09","slug":"we-cant-all-fly-jets-but-we-can-put-ourselves-in-that-frame-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/we-cant-all-fly-jets-but-we-can-put-ourselves-in-that-frame-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"We can&#8217;t all fly jets, but we can put ourselves in that frame of mind!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"fff31b069dab2d4baa9938924ee8e97c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8586106947150931\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4223625083\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"font-style: italic;\">SUCCESS IS A MINDSET, PURE AND SIMPLE<\/h3>\n<p>When you look at a jet, three things stand out: the cockpit, the fuselage that houses the engine, and the wings. The smooth things off to the side that stays quiet and hardly gets a mention, want to try flying without them? \u00a0Not only do wings keep us airborne, but they also keep us steady at speed and through turbulence. As basic as they seem, we don\u2019t get far without our wings, so we invest in making them strong. Strong wings are essential. Besides keeping you in the air, which is nice, they keep you steady when there\u2019s turbulence. They also set boundaries for what you try out in the cockpit: you can\u2019t do anything that the wings can\u2019t handle. The whole machine may fall apart.<\/p>\n<p>Standards we set in business for our processes and culture are like the wings of a jet. The training we undertake helps us understand how we\u00a0meet these standards and the systems we use to access them. \u00a0A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afterburner.com.au\/flex\/\">high-performance way of thinking<\/a>\u00a0allows you to rely on your wings, the simple certainty of your standards, so that you can take on complex uncertainties. Keep your mind free for the hard stuff. Albert Einstein was famous for saying, \u2018Never memorize something that you can look up,\u2019 when he couldn\u2019t tell a colleague his own phone number.With all the time in the world, that was sound advice when you were living in the 1920s. You could tackle the hardest problem known to humanity, working by yourself, surrounded by the few reference books you need.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not we\u2019re in a jet fighter, our reality today is a little different. We work in teams, under time pressure, with infinite data available. If we stopped to look everything up, we would slow down the team and most likely embarrass ourselves.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-style: italic;\">THE LAYERS OF STANDARDS AND LEARNING<\/h3>\n<p>To understand how a company can best build and use standards, we need to make a few distinctions:<\/p>\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"fff31b069dab2d4baa9938924ee8e97c\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n    style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n    data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n    data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n    data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8586106947150931\"\r\n    data-ad-slot=\"5455236699\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n    (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<ul>\n<li>There are organizational standards that have to be memorized, and training is essential to help them sink in. Training equals habits, and new habits equal\u00a0new behaviours. Essential for the continuous change we see in the world today.<\/li>\n<li>There are organizational standards and knowledge that you can look up, as long as there\u2019s some way to look them up in a hurry. This includes all the lessons learned and situational awareness that your company can draw on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There are personal standards\u2014habits and techniques\u2014that we rely on individually, but that can\u2019t interfere with the organizational standards.<\/li>\n<li>There are personal initiative and creativity, all that goes on in the cockpit, which is what everything else is there to support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>High performance is built that way. We layer one set of abilities on top of the other and keep learning.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-style: italic;\">WHY HAVE STANDARDS?<\/h3>\n<p>Standards ensure that each person on the team knows the process and relies on the others to know the process. They cut about two-thirds of the time needed for any discussion and two-thirds of the mission&#8217;s risks.<\/p>\n<p>Working to standards\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afterburner.com.au\/team-building\/\">gives a team enormous confidence<\/a>\u00a0in facing new situations. When those standards are known and trained across an organization, they are powerful. They don\u2019t have to be complicated: their power comes from being able to rely on them, absolutely, any time. As fighter pilots, our common standards allow us to work with pilots from other squadrons, bases, and Air Forces if need be at a moment\u2019s notice. We can trust the other pilots with our lives because they know the standards.<\/p>\n<p>This commitment to standards is generally not as common in business as it is in the military, but that only makes it more powerful when it\u2019s used. It can be used everyday in every business as a competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re able to \u201cFollow the bouncing ball\u201d when it comes to your day to day, aka follow the procedures, then you improve the likelihood of quality innovation and meaningful engagement within your team!<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUCCESS IS A MINDSET, PURE AND SIMPLE When you look at a jet, three things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":4223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,1251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building-skills","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}