Post by tornado on Aug 16, 2019 13:31:25 GMT -5
August 13, 2019
Dear FAA colleagues,
I am honored and humbled to be joining you as the FAA Administrator and I hope you learned a bit more about me personally and professionally at today’s Town Hall meeting.
As I mentioned in my remarks today, our top priority and most important core value must always be safety. Along with being the global leader in safety, we must also remain the world leaders in system performance and innovation while maintaining a culture of continuous improvement cutting across everything we do.
We must manage changes in technology, new entrants and in our workforce thoughtfully and effectively. We must focus on people and culture. A big part of that culture is what I call a “just culture” that places great value on our front-line employees raising and reporting safety concerns.
Continuous improvement must be ingrained in us. What we did yesterday, and what we are doing today will not be good enough for tomorrow.
Let’s focus our core values on the basics—honesty, integrity, respect, perseverance and servant leadership. If we can all live by those values then everything else takes care of itself. We will oversee a system that is safe. We will innovate. We will be excellent. We will be data-driven in our decision-making.
I look forward to meeting everyone and hearing your thoughts on our agency. Here are the questions I’ll be asking:
• What is the FAA doing well?
• What is the FAA doing poorly?
• What should we stop doing?
• What should we keep doing, or do more of?
• What general advice or suggestions do you have?
Again, I’m thrilled to be here and I’m looking forward to being your Administrator.Thanks everyone.
- Steve Dickson
Dear FAA colleagues,
I am honored and humbled to be joining you as the FAA Administrator and I hope you learned a bit more about me personally and professionally at today’s Town Hall meeting.
As I mentioned in my remarks today, our top priority and most important core value must always be safety. Along with being the global leader in safety, we must also remain the world leaders in system performance and innovation while maintaining a culture of continuous improvement cutting across everything we do.
We must manage changes in technology, new entrants and in our workforce thoughtfully and effectively. We must focus on people and culture. A big part of that culture is what I call a “just culture” that places great value on our front-line employees raising and reporting safety concerns.
Continuous improvement must be ingrained in us. What we did yesterday, and what we are doing today will not be good enough for tomorrow.
Let’s focus our core values on the basics—honesty, integrity, respect, perseverance and servant leadership. If we can all live by those values then everything else takes care of itself. We will oversee a system that is safe. We will innovate. We will be excellent. We will be data-driven in our decision-making.
I look forward to meeting everyone and hearing your thoughts on our agency. Here are the questions I’ll be asking:
• What is the FAA doing well?
• What is the FAA doing poorly?
• What should we stop doing?
• What should we keep doing, or do more of?
• What general advice or suggestions do you have?
Again, I’m thrilled to be here and I’m looking forward to being your Administrator.Thanks everyone.
- Steve Dickson
Statement from Teri Bristol, ATO Chief Operating Officer:
August 15, 2019
Teri Bristol
Hi everyone,
I hope many of you have been able to tune in to our new Administrator Steve Dickson’s remarks at his swearing-in ceremony or his first town hall for FAA employees this week.
Steve reinforced our priorities of safety and innovation. He said that while we are the safest, most complex, diverse and dynamic airspace in the world by far, he challenged us to remain the global leaders in system performance by maintaining a culture of continuous improvement.
Steve supports a “just culture” where employees can bring their safety concerns forward, which aligns with our safety culture, and he wants to ensure that we have the tools and the talent to get our jobs done.
He asked us to make sure we are managing risk in an intelligent way and not to cut corners, and also to understand not only what we should be doing more of but to consider what we can do less of. We have to resist doing things because that’s the way we’ve always done them, and we must make data-driven decisions.
Steve’s priorities dovetail perfectly into our ATO priorities of realizing a modern operation, developing a modern workforce and using data to improve system performance.
He said, “What we did yesterday and what we are doing today will not be good enough for tomorrow,” and I couldn’t agree more because the demands on our national airspace system will always change.
He is committed to the core values of honesty, integrity, respect, perseverance and what he refers to as “servant leadership,” which is a commitment not only to our stakeholders, travelers and communities, but to our team of co-workers.
Steve has been in aviation for 40 years as a pilot and an airline executive, and I’ve worked with him closely, particularly when he led the NextGen Advisory Committee. I can assure you we’re in great hands with so much experience in our top position, and having a permanent administrator will give the agency an added layer of stability as we move ahead with the challenges of the day.
I appreciate you welcoming Steve to the FAA and giving him all the support he needs as he helps lead us into the future.
Best regards,
Teri L. Bristol
ATO Chief Operating Officer
Top photos: FAA Administrator Steve Dickson is officially sworn in to office Aug. 12 at FAA Headquarters. The next day at an FAA town hall, Dickson discussed his top priorities as the new Administrator. (Photos: FAA)
Teri Bristol
Hi everyone,
I hope many of you have been able to tune in to our new Administrator Steve Dickson’s remarks at his swearing-in ceremony or his first town hall for FAA employees this week.
Steve reinforced our priorities of safety and innovation. He said that while we are the safest, most complex, diverse and dynamic airspace in the world by far, he challenged us to remain the global leaders in system performance by maintaining a culture of continuous improvement.
Steve supports a “just culture” where employees can bring their safety concerns forward, which aligns with our safety culture, and he wants to ensure that we have the tools and the talent to get our jobs done.
He asked us to make sure we are managing risk in an intelligent way and not to cut corners, and also to understand not only what we should be doing more of but to consider what we can do less of. We have to resist doing things because that’s the way we’ve always done them, and we must make data-driven decisions.
Steve’s priorities dovetail perfectly into our ATO priorities of realizing a modern operation, developing a modern workforce and using data to improve system performance.
He said, “What we did yesterday and what we are doing today will not be good enough for tomorrow,” and I couldn’t agree more because the demands on our national airspace system will always change.
He is committed to the core values of honesty, integrity, respect, perseverance and what he refers to as “servant leadership,” which is a commitment not only to our stakeholders, travelers and communities, but to our team of co-workers.
Steve has been in aviation for 40 years as a pilot and an airline executive, and I’ve worked with him closely, particularly when he led the NextGen Advisory Committee. I can assure you we’re in great hands with so much experience in our top position, and having a permanent administrator will give the agency an added layer of stability as we move ahead with the challenges of the day.
I appreciate you welcoming Steve to the FAA and giving him all the support he needs as he helps lead us into the future.
Best regards,
Teri L. Bristol
ATO Chief Operating Officer
Top photos: FAA Administrator Steve Dickson is officially sworn in to office Aug. 12 at FAA Headquarters. The next day at an FAA town hall, Dickson discussed his top priorities as the new Administrator. (Photos: FAA)
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