Taking leadthe Employees learn what it takes to be tomorrow’s leaders By Ann Beach This is the second in a three-part series That management job opened about about their motives; like mine, I assume that focuses on graduates of Boeing’s 18 months after Wells went to work for they want to better the team. So I do a lot leadership development programs who Boeing, and she signed up for First-line of sharing and listening.” are using what they’ve learned to help Leadership training at Boeing South Carolina. The First-line Leadership course is drive business results. The course helps new managers learn how one of many management courses that ABoeing South Carolina in 2009 as be effective managers. prerequisite for First-line Leadership, andBoeing offers at the Boeing LeadershipCenter or at work sites. These include theBasics of Boeing Management course, aSince completing the course, Wells said,to develop and coach employees whoreport to them, and teaches them how tofter 25 years as a manager in theauto industry, Joann Wells joined a quality technician. her team of 13 quality specialists and tech- the Transition to Management course for “I wanted to learn more about the aero- nicians is more “cohesive.’’ non-managers who might be team leads space business,” Wells said. “I learned a lot “I make a conscious effort to be a good or acting managers. and as a result I had that opportunity when listener especially if they have different Caleb Behrmann completed the First- a management position opened.” ideas,” she said. “I never assume anything line Leadership course this past summer. 34 BOEING FRONTIERS / OCTOBER 2012
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