[Article & Audio] How Can Ham Radio Improve Your Leadership?
How Ham Radio Can Improve Your Leadership
Ever wonder how the National Weather Service (NWS) is able to stay on top of fast-changing weather conditions around the USA?
In no small part, it's down to the nearly 400,000 volunteer Amateur Radio operators who keep their eyes on the skies and relay that information to the NWS as part of the Skywarn Storm Spotter Program.
And in honor of those intrepid volunteers, Skywarn Recognition Day was established in 1999 by the NWS and the American Radio Relay League to celebrate the contributions that these radio operators make to public safety.
Get boots on the ground.
If you're wondering what this has to do with you and your role as a leader, here it is: no matter how sophisticated your data- and information-gathering systems are, nothing beats a boots-on-the-ground network for giving you real-time knowledge of what's going on in your own business ecosystem.
So pay attention to what both your employees—from the mailroom to the boardroom—and your customers are telling you, and you'll be able to make the up-to-date, informed decisions that will steer your company safely through rough weather.
Check out Skywarn: https://www.weather.gov/SKYWARN
About the Author
✈✈ Gina Longo is a former airline captain and flight instructor who flew as pilot in command on 3000+ flights and carried more than 75,000 people (and many pets) safely to their destinations. She then moved to Great Britain to instruct corporate pilots, later spending three years as an international solo traveller.
As a leadership development trainer and the creator of The Calmfident Leadership® System, Gina specializes in helping businesses reduce employee turnover by improving leadership skills, so bad bosses don't drive away good employees.
Her great love is German Shepherds, and as a proud U.S. Air Force brat, she tends to answer the question "Where are you from?" with an enigmatic "It depends."
As a leadership development trainer and the creator of The Calmfident Leadership® System, Gina specializes in helping businesses reduce employee turnover by improving leadership skills, so bad bosses don't drive away good employees.
Her great love is German Shepherds, and as a proud U.S. Air Force brat, she tends to answer the question "Where are you from?" with an enigmatic "It depends."
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