Posts Tagged ‘#SuccessAtWork’
“Leadership Skills for Success: 18 Lessons Learned on the Links” — Motivational Keynote Speech
Golf and leadership are each based on mastering basic fundamentals, making choices and dealing with the consequences of your decisions, learning and listening to others, controlling emotions, and respecting other players. Starting with “tee time” and taking you through 18 ‘holes’ Leadership Skills is a dynamic, entertaining, content filled motivational presentation that connects safety leadership…
Read MoreFour Stages of Team Performance: “Building High-Performance Safety Committees that Maximize Success and Results”
Usually, the team building process has to be done extremely carefully and has to be customized to the particular needs of each team. Well before any attempt has been made to build the team, it is critical to understand the stages through which a typical team will travel over time. A considerable amount of research…
Read MoreThe Leadership Oath for Safety — Nine Statements of Commitment
I am continuously asked, “What should a leader do to demonstrate a commitment to safety?” “What does it take to have a safety culture?” Well, here you go — Nine Statements of Leadership Commitment to Safety. They are not listed to ‘cherry pick’ which ones a leader should demonstrate and which ones can be ignored.…
Read More25+ Ideas to Increase Employee Participation in Safety
Employee participation is vital to the success of safety and health programs. The workforce members often know the most about potential hazards associated with their jobs. Successful programs tap into this knowledge base. The following ideas may help encourage employee participation for safety. Action Item 1: Encourage workers to participate in the program By encouraging…
Read MoreSeven Questions to Ask Yourself Before Goal Setting Sessions
Research has shown that there are seven competencies or factors that contribute to good goal setting skills. In itself, the activity of establishing goals and objectives is part of a general process of planning for the future. Goal setting provides a language from a broad intention to a tangible step or task that is likely…
Read MoreHow to Improve Employee Coaching to Increase Performance: Seven Quick Tips
Coaching is an important part of any effort to bring out the best in employees. Coaching as a formal endeavor might be relatively new to some organizations, but it has been around for a long time. Top athletes have personal coaches to help them improve what they do and compete to be the best. Opera singers, actors, and public speakers hire people…
Read MoreTips for Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills
“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.” -Winston Churchill Effective and efficient Problem-Solving and Decision-Making are critical for personal and organizational performance and success. If we fail to identify problems correctly or fail to resolve them properly, the cost to our time, our health, our customers, or our financial well-being will be very high and most unwelcome. Staff members…
Read MoreSeven Tips to Lead Change Successfully
One of the key competencies required of all individuals today is the ability to anticipate and respond effectively to any change that comes along. This skill is needed even more in today’s fast-paced and competitive work environment, where it is expected that we demonstrate some “change agent” skills. These skills enable us to lead ourselves,…
Read MoreHow Bloomingdales Saved $2.2 MILLION in Safety Costs in ONE Year
Have you tried all the conventional methods for training……classroom training, posters, toolbox-talks, brochures, one-sheet reminders, and even e-learning? Yet, the impact on the bottom line for reducing accidents and reducing costs is not there. Moreover, to make matters worse, your associates are in various locations and difficult to reach which makes consistency lacking. Does all…
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