CHEERS FOR PEERS
At
Boeing manufacturing locations companywide, employees are turning the
promise of the company's Vision 2016 mission statement-"People working
together as a global enterprise for aerospace leadership"-into a reality
that benefits stakeholders.
Over the past nine years-about as long as Vision 2016 has been around-Boeing
and some of its unions have forged unique working-together relationships
to ensure Boeing's success in an increasingly challenging global market.
These relationships are having lasting impacts on the workers who participate
and on the company's ability to compete.
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'This is what leadership is all about'
Greg
Cotton joined Boeing in 1979 as a utility worker. But for the past eight-plus
years, he's been a High Performance Work Organization team leader and
facilitator in St. Louis. Cotton shared with Boeing Frontiers his experiences
in this role and what it's meant for his career, the teams he's worked
on and the company.
Q: What process did you go through to become a
team leader?
A: Team leaders are selected by the
team members. The group first asks for volunteers to take the team leader
role, and then the group decides who the team leader will be. There must
be a consensus among all team members on who the leader will be. Once
the teams choose their leaders, team leaders go through 28 hours of training
to learn how to perform the role. [Employees in HPWOs get] 16 hours of
basic team-member training, so the training team leaders get is in addition
to that.
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Corporate coalitions
Former
U.S. President John F. Kennedy observed, "Change is the law of life. And
those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the
future."
Boeing and several of its unions have their eyes clearly on the future-changing
what has been a wary relationship into a true partnership, focused on
mutual success.
Several unions across Boeing have written into their contracts special
articles or letters of understanding specifically targeting partnership
opportunities to improve performance at the shop level.
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