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… exemplary safety performance, just as the best safety checklists won’t prevent incidents. In this video, Judy Agnew explains what organizations need to do to get employees using safety management tools reliably and accurately. For more on … exemplary safety performance, just as the best safety checklists won’t prevent incidents. In this video, Judy Agnew explains what organizations need to do to get employees using safety management tools reliably and accurately. For more on …
… was published in 1938. The value of a consequence can be increased or decreased by a person’s learning history or by pairing the consequence with some additional reinforcing or punishing consequence. Said differently, leaders are an important source of consequences for an employee’s behavior as well as they influence how … was published in 1938. The value of a consequence can be increased or decreased by a person’s learning history or by pairing the consequence with some additional reinforcing or punishing consequence. Said differently, leaders are an important …
… bitter response. “I feel terrible!” Or, “I’m exhausted!” Or, “I want to sleep!” However well intentioned, our efforts to raise his spirits and get him moving were fruitless. That’s where understanding human behavior comes in. The critical … walking every day. We began by changing the antecedents my father was hearing several times each day. We broadcast by email to all loved ones a request to NOT ask my dad how he was feeling . Instead, we told them to ask how many steps he had … cast a suspicious glance at me—the only behavior analyst in the room. We also knew that antecedents were not enough to sustain his behavior of walking. We had to get some positive consequences in place. T he first was creating a simple step chart …
… of each. Effective leaders ask questions to understand divergent viewpoints and to evaluate the integrity of the available information. Then they challenge their own assumptions to avoid a hasty, reflexive decision. The goal is to … talking to others serves to validate what is thought to be true rather than to challenge their personal viewpoint. It’s certainly easier to look for supporting evidence and then move on rather than to consider anything that would cast doubt on or … the business and work culture. These advisors need to be objective, have your best interest at heart, and have nothing to gain by your missteps. They can be colleagues, external mentors, and/or professional coaches. Invite candid feedback from …
… Change 3 Keys to Producing Durable Organizational Change BY Bart Sevin Download PDF file Benjamin Franklin once said, “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” Many organizations seem to embrace this mantra, given the number of … continuous improvement change initiatives, you likely have had some push-back in the form of “flavor-of-the-month” complaints or resistance, which arise in the wake of numerous roll-outs, many of which fail to stick. So, why do organizational changes rarely take hold the way we expect them to? When we talk about …
… I was in college, I worked in a food distribution warehouse loading trucks. It was backbreaking work. We would load five trailers per day—each load weighing about 25,000 pounds! We loaded the trailers by extending a conveyor belt all the way into the trailer, and placing each piece onto the floor by hand; stacking piece-upon-piece like oddly shaped bricks in a wall. Each one …
… broad or especially important further behavior change.” The behavioral cusp, as a concept, tells us is that there are certain behaviors or skills that once learned will produce significant and far-reaching impact in that person’s skill set, … to numerous other gateways. A clear-cut example of a behavioral cusp is reading. The moment children learn to read, they gain access to an innumerable set of skills from an infinite number of subjects. These skills will continue to branch out … they should focus on during their coaching and gives HR and Learning and Development functions direction for their training. The present need for organizations to adapt to change quickly is significant, and it seems only to grow as time …
… wanted to know what country this had occurred in—thinking that this must be some unregulated backwater territory. It certainly could not be that it was happening just outside the very hotel where we were sitting in—in North America! A few of the … felt compelled to take action on what they saw and went outside to calmly but firmly speak with the foreman and raise several of the points listed above. The foreman began with a curious deflection of, “Hey, I’m a 3rd party vendor.” … wanted to know what country this had occurred in—thinking that this must be some unregulated backwater territory. It certainly could not be that it was happening just outside the very hotel where we were sitting in—in North America! A few of the …
… for Improving Safety Performance BY Judy Agnew, Ph.D. Download PDF file Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) is under attack yet again. When BBS first became popular over 25 years ago, critics argued it was a blame-the-worker process that focused … hazard remediation. (For a discussion and refutation of these critiques see Agnew and Ashworth, “BBS: Setting the Record Straight.”) More recently, BBS has been criticized by those promoting Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) who say that BBS fails to take a systems view in understanding safe and at-risk behavior. (For a discussion and refutation of these critiques …
… Bayer: Building Safe Habits Across the Globe Bayer: Building Safe Habits Across the Globe BY Gail Snyder Download PDF file Bayer aspires to be a valued leader in health, safety and environmental protection (HSE) with … level, Bayer wanted to continue to improve its safety culture through a consistent and global behavioral safety process,” said Tom Spencer, ADI president & CEO. A Global Roll-Out While the goal was a global roll-out, the implementation needed to … have an immediate positive impact on the safety performance and the site-specific, follow-up (e.g. the behavioral safety trainings). The assessment results also provide a baseline to measure future developments against,” said Bayer’s Kees Hommes, …
… consequences people experience. For example, when companies talk about production as if it’s the only measure important to daily operations, it will likely increase the reinforcing value of saving time and therefore make behaviors that save time, … undesirable leadership behaviors. Combine this with the external consequences experienced and leader behavior on a daily basis could be completely misaligned with the type of leader someone wants to be. For example, saying, “Our employees … between what they say and do with who they want to be—to move past short-term reinforcers or punishers experienced daily and instead to access more meaningful, long-term reinforcers. To help us make this shift in our behavior we can use …
… This topic proves to be a very important one so it seems only fitting to dig deeper into the science of behavior to explain how poor management practices can destroy employee engagement. For a quick review, there are two consequence strategies … to strengthen behavior, the side effects produced are undesired emotional responding such as anxiety and uncertainty, lower moral, lower productivity, sluggish responding, and decreased communication, to name a few. Another thing can … as well: You can become a poisoned cue. So what is a poisoned cue? Technically speaking it is an antecedent that has been paired with both positive reinforcement and punishment (or correction), and begins to elicit undesirable emotional responding …
… it sometimes sounds like this: “You mean I have to do THIS for EVERY behavior?” The short answer is yes and no. Let me explain. The answer is yes in that using a scientific approach to manage behavior is simply a more precise way of doing what … habits that reliably occur with little or no additional attention from anyone. Once those habits have formed, they are maintained by naturally occurring prompts, reminders and consequences in the workplace or in your environment. Those behaviors …