Leading Through Change
This year’s Air Force Leadership Forum took place in September. Held at Ohakea, the theme for the two days was Leading Through Change.
In the rapidly changing environment we work in, it was timely to get the wider leadership group together to work through change issues. The group was given updates on all the major issues facing the Air Force and the NZDF - such as Defence Review 09, the Defence Transformation Programme, current operations, and the progress of our Capability programmes. As well as the high level updates, the team also heard from a number of our younger people, who gave their views from the ‘engine room’, and presented their ideas on innovation and moving the RNZAF forward.
Chief of Air Force, Air Vice-Marshal Graham Lintott - who led the forum - concluded that bringing everyone together for this two-day programme was useful in many ways. “Given the large volume of work that is currently going on across the Air Force, it was extremely valuable to hear updates and see the many inter-dependencies between all the different programmes of work, together with the progress that has been made,” he said.