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PILOTS IN
CRISIS

“Good” on YouTube). It’s time and fulfils you. If you pivot on the
for you to start owning your own outer circle (‘what you do’), as
passion and courage. you turn, you’ll lose sight of the
Passion and courage are like inner ‘why’ and you may not be as
muscles, they need exercise to successful as you think.
grow. I listened to an inspiring Once you understand what

talk by Lewis Pugh (endurance motivates you, don’t listen to the
swimmer and ocean advocate); naysayers.
he’s someone who has faced real It doesn’t mean you can ‘plug and
fear and is inspiringly hum- play’ into another industry over-
ble about managing it. Using a night but it does mean that once
metaphor learned from a tribe in you’ve learned the ropes in a new

Greenland, Lewis explained that role that an effective pilot has the

in every person’s mind exists a potential to apply a wide range of
good wolf and a bad wolf. The bad highly developed, high performance
wolf believes you will fail, you are skills into a business.
not good enough and that there Every person on this planet needs
is little hope of success. The good to read Carol Dweck’s book ‘Growth
wolf believes in your ability to Mindset.’
learn new things and find a way The fixed mindset belief is that

to achieve your goals. The wolf your skills and talent are inherent
you feed the most is the one that and given to you by your genes,
will survive. Every day, condition your education and upbringing.

yourself to feed the good wolf and Don’t listen to the politicians

achieve your goals. You won’t get offering an easy way out, the old

rid of the bad wolf, just make sure school examiner waving a stick, the

you feed the good one more. parent that said you’re limited or a
When you have to pivot in your colleague that said you just haven’t Who is David Doull?
career it’s important to under- got what it takes. They’re all just
stand what it is that motivates and projecting their own fixed mindset David spent 9 years in the emergency

fulfils you. on you, and they’re influencing you medical services as a paramedic and the

That’s something only you know to stop trying. Take a growth mind- last 17 years in the aviation industry as a
and you have to go through a set into your career and into your pilot with the last 10 of them at SAA. He

process of asking yourself “why?” relationships with people, it may holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Emergency
until you can’t go any further. just change your life. Medical Care from the Durban University
Simon Sinek’s ‘Start with Why’ is a I watched a great discussion of Technology, a Master Degree in
practical way to do this. There will recently between Tom Bilyeu and Human Factors in Aviation from
be core passions that you need Vusi Thembekwayo. They were Coventry University (UK), an ATPL and
to understand about yourself in discussing creating momentum around 9000 flying hours. He worked
order to pivot successfully. Sinek’s and Vusi gave an analogy of a car in various leadership and management
golden circle concept is that your breaking down, yet you need to positions within both industries, more
career operates on the three lev- keep moving. The hardest part recently as the CRM Training Manager
els; what we do, how we do it and is pushing the car those first and as a Safety Incident Investigator
why we do it. ‘Why’ is in the inner few metres, once it is moving it at SAA. David is now a Human Factors
circle of the three. To pivot means has its own momentum and the Specialist and managing partner at
to turn on a point, like putting a pushing becomes easier. Why is the Human Factor Hub. He is currently
stick in the ground and turning on this important? Because there’s undergoing certification to apply
it. If you pivot on the inner circle more power in your uniqueness systems theory to accident investigation
of ‘why,’ then your ‘how’ and and what you have to offer to the and risk management through
‘what’ may change but you will world that you haven’t discovered Stamp Engineering Services (USA).
never lose sight of what motivates yet. Get moving. Q

The Human Factor Hub:
The Human Factor Hub team is passionate about unlocking the potential for

high performance within people. Our vision is for people and organisations

to adapt and grow so that they may advance into the future with resilience

and flexibility. We achieve this by focusing on people, using cutting-edge

sciences of systems engineering and human factors to understand, design
and improve how things are done as well as integrate new technologies
that distribute awareness. We believe one of our greatest strengths lies in
delivering on what we say; to this end trust, learning, bespoke design and an
openness to change are among our highest values. To get in contact go to www.
humanfactorhub.com or send an email to daviddoull@humanfactorhub.com

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