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… for more than a year. Both are exposed to year-round weather between 30- and 50-degrees Fahrenheit. Howling wind and rain batter the island for an average of 300 days a year. The terrain is equally inhospitable, with rugged mountains, cliffs, and barren soil that make crop cultivation a challenge. The animals available to hunt are mainly seagulls and …
… 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, improved collaboration, …
… implementing the Safety Leadership Process. They would be responsible for providing systematic follow-up to every leader trained to ensure the early changes in a leader’s behavior were positively reinforced and that barriers for the development of … of people with the characteristics and desire to become a champion of the Safety Leadership Process. Provided advanced training and coaching . After the team was selected, Pat worked with ADI to provide more advanced training in the Safety Leadership Process. These trainings gave the champions additional knowledge and practice, further …
… MORS Whether your organization engages with ADI for a leadership workshop or for expert consulting, you will gain access to MORS, a proprietary tool from ADI. Pinpointing the right behaviors that produce the results you need is key to … your success. … Whether your organization engages with ADI for a leadership workshop or for expert consulting, you will gain access to MORS, a proprietary tool from ADI. Pinpointing the right behaviors that produce the results you need is key to …
… 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. Apparently, it’s his thing. He wishes pain and suffering to his …
… a compelling case for an objective assessment of the Behavioral Lean Maturity of an organization. The business insights gained from an assessment can empower leaders to reduce implementation variability, streamline efforts, track progress, and accelerate and sustain success. Assessing the integration of Behavioral Lean within an organization begins with the ability to objectively … you know you are on your way to realizing your organization’s continuous improvement vision. Each subsystem is scored against a set of critical features. Each score indicates the Behavioral Lean Maturity of a subsystem. Those scores are then …
… 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 … consistent with the organization’s mission, vision, and standards. Pat was tasked with this new leader’s onboarding and training. Having worked with ADI previously, Pat knew that, while this was a large undertaking, the new leader could be … learned about applying the science of behavior. While Pat knew this would not be an overnight process, ensuring proper training would set the new leader up for success, which benefited both the new leader and the organization. To help bring …
… reduced. Those organizations for which driving is a requirement have found motor vehicle incidents to be one of the remaining greatest risks, sometimes accounting for a significant proportion of incidents. Telematics is a term used to refer to … to it is very different. When I asked drivers in Company A about telematics, they rolled their eyes and proceeded to complain about it. They begrudgingly admitted that it did change their driving habits. It was clearly a point of contention … B, when asked about telematics, the response was neutral. They agreed that it improved their driving but there were no complaints, no negative impact on employee-management relationships, and no negative impact on company culture. What’s the …
… to ensuring business activities are value-added. The benefits of a Lean foundation make investing in, developing, and sustaining Lean an easy decision for leaders. With many documented benefits, why is cultivating a Lean culture only an … impacts/inputs/outputs, especially in matrixed organizations where processes overlap. Identifying contributing factors to failures can make leaders feel like they are caught in a loop. The high failure rate for Lean implementation results in significant direct and indirect costs to organizations. Resourcing …
… respective industry. This means that someone working, let’s say in the service industry as a cook, cashier, or waitstaff, might now be applying for jobs in high-hazard industries like utility companies and manufacturing. Also, clients … respective industry. This means that someone working, let’s say in the service industry as a cook, cashier, or waitstaff, might now be applying for jobs in high-hazard industries like utility companies and manufacturing. Also, clients …
… but it is rare to truly see it in action. Most often, the opposite is seen. Organizations cut work forces, slim down training and development of people, overburden leaders with admin work (preventing them from getting into the field and … concerns were. He heard examples of how the contractor company had a history of “getting back” at employees when they raised concerns about safety or asked for equipment. This led to the contractor employees being concerned about reporting, … what the workers needed in the first place. He asked the group, “What can we do as a group to ensure this does not happen again?” This led to a plan where he and several of Pat’s employees would write an ethics complaint and turn it into the …
… this process. Pat understood the traps and difficulties he would be facing when starting this committee. To help create sustained change, Pat displayed these critical leader behaviors: Defined the “Why.” Pat was adamant that the initial members of … everyone together for an in-person, initial kick-off meeting. This meeting was dedicated to creating a shared why. Pat laid out his vision for how the group was going to help the organization be an industry leader in safe production. Then ADI … members. Without this shared purpose, once back on site, the committee members likely would have gotten caught up in the daily grind and not done what they needed to support the committee. Second, it increased the potential for positive …
… Leaders have become more willing to “get tough” and use more of a negative reinforcement or “do it or else” strategy to gain and maintain compliance with return to office (RTO) mandates. Take, for example, the viral Internet Brands video intended to kick …