Avoiding Leadership Turbulence: Lessons from Aviation’s CRM

About this episode

This episode discusses how aviation's Crew Resource Management principles can enhance leadership and team management in the workplace.

Leadership is about collaboration, not control. In aviation, Crew Resource Management (CRM) training helps keep planes and passengers safe by improving communication and teamwork. But this powerful tool can also be applied to leadership and team management in the workplace. In this episode, we discuss five key components of CRM: respect, managing mistakes constructively, creating a supportive culture, preparation and standard operating procedures (SOPs), and handling rank differences and powe...

People in this episode

Host: Anne Brackett

Topics covered

• leadership
• aviation
• communication
• teamwork
• management
• collaboration

Keywords

• leadership
• Crew Resource Management
• communication
• team management
• supportive culture
• preparation
• standard operating procedures

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Organizations: Crew Resource Management

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