THE ROAD TO RELIABILITY™
IS PAVED BY LEADERSHIP SKILLS
You won't get anywhere on the Road to Reliability™ without Leadership Skills:
And ultimately Leadership is required to know that you are never truly finished on this journey.
And along the way you need to build the right culture - a reliability culture.
The importance of plant leadership in reliability has been long talked about, but Terrence O'Hanlon from www.reliabilityweb.com has really brought this to the forefront in recent years with his work around Reliability Leadership® 1 and the Certified Reliability Leader (CRL) program. My work in developing the Road to Reliability™ has been strongly influenced by Terrence O'Hanlon and other thought leaders of our industry like Winston Ledet and John Moubray.
1. Reliability Leadership® is a registered trademark of NetexpressUSA Inc. DBA Reliabilityweb.com
THE ROAD TO RELIABILITY™ REQUIRES
STRONG BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP SKILLS
The problem is that business and leadership skills are underdeveloped in our maintenance & reliability community.
Most maintenance managers come up through the ranks with strong technical backgrounds. But along the way their leadership and business skills are typically not developed.
Few organisations recognise this. Even fewer organisations do something about it.
But you need leadership skills and basic business skills to succeed on the Road to Reliability™ Framework.
Not the soft and fluffy stuff.
You need tangible, specific leadership and business skills to make the Journey to World Class Reliability. And that's exactly what we focus on here.
LEARN & IMPROVE
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
You do not need to be a CEO to 'lead'. To succeed we need leaders at all levels of an organisation.
And there is a simple, yet highly effective model to improve leadership that we can all learn to apply. 1
It breaks a fluffy subject like Leadership into 4 practical steps that we can apply at all levels of an organisation.
These 4 steps are:
Why Are We So Bad At Maintenance?
Maintenance performance across the world is pretty poor, no matter what industry or country you look at.
What makes this worse is that the principles of modern maintenance management were pretty much defined and documented by the late 1980’s if not earlier.
So why, after knowing what to do for 30 to 50 years, why do so few organisations achieve excellent maintenance performance?
Your People Are Not Your Biggest Asset
There is a classic saying in business literature that your people are your biggest asset. And just about everybody repeats this mantra everywhere you look.
But today I’m telling you that just about everybody is wrong. Your people are not your biggest asset.
Before you start yelling abuse at me, let me explain. It starts with a quote often attributed to the famous management guru Peter Drucker.
The Road to Reliability is Paved with Culture and Leadership
A frequently used saying is that leadership is about doing the right things and management is about doing things right.
But, to succeed on the Road to Reliability™ you need to the right things and you need to do them right.
So when it comes to leadership I prefer to define a leader as someone who provides vision, motivation, accountability and coaching.