Review: Be methodical in your approach to any rigging task.
Research: Be a student of your profession. Load and rigging data – Don’t start until you get it; don’t stop until you get all of it.
Responsibility: Be willing to give it and receive it.
Reinforcement: Show support for those who work for you and those you work for.
Require: Demand thoroughness of yourself and others for each rigging assignment. Show by example, not by lip service. Require continuing education for everyone.
Reserve: Be cautious in making decisions. Hold your judgment until all of the available information is known.
Resist: Resist the temptation to make decisions for people who need to make them as part of their learning process. Be patient.
Respond: Respond quickly to those who are seeking answers or help. Be wise in how to lend assistance.
Reward: Be liberal in your praise and compliments. Let others know when a job has been done well. Be consistent in your praise of things done, i.e. equal praise for equal jobs.
Happy Rigging, Mike Parnell.
This article was originally published by Industrial Training International here.
This is an article from The Professional Rigger newsletter, 1988. To download this issue of The Professional Rigger, click The R’s of Rigging Managment.
