Sustaining a Culture of Engagement with Behavioral Science
If you manage a team or hold a leadership role in an organization, you may already know the benefits of maintaining high engagement. Highly engaged teams are correlated with lower rates of attrition…
An Example of Leadership Success: Creating Bench Strength
Want to go fast, go alone. Want to go far, go as a team. This sixth blog is dedicated to a leader’s determination to develop the bench strength of her team. Pat’s effort led to an organization-wide…
An Example of (Safety) Leadership Success: Creating a Learning Culture
Safety is our number one priority is a nice slogan, but the systems, processes, and management strategies happening inside an organization communicate what’s most important. This fifth blog is…
Teaching Persistence Without Overdoing the Pain
A headline about Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, wishing pain and suffering upon Stanford students caught my attention recently. I took the bait and clicked to find out what he might be getting at.…
The Case for Conducting a Behavioral Lean Maturity Assessment
Organizations that embody continuous improvement are exemplars within and outside of their respective industries. Ironically, we measure nearly every key metric critical to the forward progress of…
An Example of Leadership Success: Investing in New Talent
Why do companies hire smart people and then set them up to fail by not investing in their development? The fourth blog in this series highlights one leader’s investment in a new employee to help…
A Tale of Two Telematics
With the improvements in occupational safety over the past two decades, incidents within the workplace have been greatly reduced. Those organizations for which driving is a requirement have found…
Behavioral Lean: The “Best of Both Worlds” Approach to Cultures of Continuous Improvement
Creating a culture of continuous improvement is an aspiration for many organizations. Continuous improvement cultures bring to mind industries such as commercial space flight. Only 55 years ago…
We Just Dropped In to See What Condition Your Culture Was In
Several current and prospective clients have recently approached us at ADI with a request for an assessment of their safety or organizational culture. Requests for this service are not uncommon, but…
An Example of Leadership Success: Putting Safety First
It’s easy to preach “safety is number one” when the sky is blue, but what you do when the sky goes grey is what really matters. This third blog is dedicated to highlighting one leader’s example…
An Example of Leadership Success: Creating a Shared Mission
Without an idea of where you want to go, how would you know when you get there and if you have the right people to help? This blog is dedicated to highlighting one leader’s passion for developing a…
Leading a Return to the Office Without Losing Your Team
While some organizations have been able to fully embrace a remote model, most have grappled to varying extents with a return to in-person work. The process of trying to get employees back into the…
Examples of Leadership Success: Leading through Positive Accountability
Leadership Success Blog SeriesFor this next blog series, I will be highlighting successful examples of critical leader behaviors I’ve seen. The goal is to share leader behavior(s) and why they are…
Common Leadership Errors: Failing to Help the Human Thrive
For the last blog in this series, I decided to take a broader and holistic topic that is commonly seen in organizations. While this topic does not lend itself nicely to short examples of leadership…
Four Reasons Lean Initiatives Fail and How Leadership Can Help
It’s been estimated that at least 60% of continuous improvement initiatives fail to achieve their desired results. In reaction to lackluster results, I’ve seen budget cuts, SME resignations, training…
Common Leadership Errors: Failing to Develop People
In 1969, Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull authored the book, The Peter Principle. To summarize their research findings and developed principle, their concept sounds like this: in many…
Common Leadership Errors: Focusing on Backward Accountability
Feedback is a critical component of helping others improve their performance. Information about what behaviors to repeat or do differently in given situations allows for continuous improvement over…
Save Lives by Addressing Systemic Root Causes
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal highlighted a troubling trend on our nation’s airport tarmacs. Safety incidents among ground crew workers are on the rise. The article starts by describing…
