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What Aviation Can Teach Sport and Business About Trust and Safety
Aviation is one of the safest industries in the world - not by accident, but by design. Through decades of hard-earned lessons, aviation...

Steve Barbour
Jun 234 min read
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Why Blame Kills Performance (And Trust)
In aviation, sport, and leadership, few things erode trust faster than blame. In high-performance environments, where human error is...

Steve Barbour
May 124 min read
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What Just Culture Really Means (And What It Doesn’t)
As human beings, we are all fallible. Mistakes occur, despite knowing every Human Factor at play and identifying the potential for errors...

Steve Barbour
May 53 min read
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Why Communication Still Breaks Down in 2025
How many times do we see it in our day-to-day lives? Whether its an email to our boss that they took the wrong way, or a text to a family...

Steve Barbour
Apr 284 min read
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Subliminal Conditioning: Pavlov’s New Pet
While flying recently, I was handling the aircraft on an instrument approach in for a touch and go. I was wearing the oxygen mask, as we...

Steve Barbour
Apr 134 min read
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Predicting Human Error - Can We?
Investigating accidents and incidents serves one sole purpose; to identify the causes and prevent recurrence. Over time, this data can be...

Steve Barbour
Aug 22, 20244 min read
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Why do we make mistakes?
Sitting in a Grob 115A cockpit, at the hold on an empty airfield I ran through the pre-take-off checklist. It was my first time taking a...

Steve Barbour
Aug 6, 20244 min read
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