What does Job Leadership mean in the Trades? What are its main elements given how varied work is across the Trades? And perhaps most importantly, what is the criteria for knowing if successful job leadership has occurred? Is that the same as asking: has leadership occurred?

At their root, jobs are assignments that can last several hours to several months. Despite vast differences in duration, job success is achieved through the progressive build up of outcomes, shift by shift, hour by hour. The common denominator for the leadership of any job is the single day of work, in which the drama of gathering men and resources, and deploying to a work site, is forever repeated. In the world of the Trades, to lead a job really means to lead a group of men for a day, doing battle in all sorts of ways to accomplish job outcomes. And there are always two sources for these outcomes, the customer and the company. The ongoing, encapsulating outcomes that the customer requires each day are: an increment of progress and the achievement of momentum in sync with timelines. From that angle, job leadership means keeping to the schedule while ensuring high quality execution. On the other hand, job leadership from the company perspective is mainly about the leader himself, and the ways and methods that social outcomes and special requests are acheived.

Job leadership is a process of serving the customer and the company at the same time. Since customer needs are straight forward ("Build me this path."), it will help to expand more on what it means to serve a company that is dedicated to the personal development of staff and a pipeline for leadership.