“Insights on Excellence”

This presentation supported by best practice references and findings from high performance literature provides answers to the core question of excellence: “Why do some companies achieve peak safety performance while so many others struggle to maintain mediocrity?

Excellence companies, aren’t just ‘luckier than most’… they differ from their peers, in two very different and distinct ways. First, they achieve significantly different (better) results, and second, they do significantly different (best practice) things…and realize the two are linked! Sir Paul McCartney once said: “I used to think that people doing weird things were weird people.” Today we refer to such individuals (and the organizations they lead) by very different names…corporate gadflies, thought leaders, best in class. Excellence companies do have very different beliefs about safety…they have ‘Insights on Excellence’ different (weird) from most. This presentation explores these different ‘Insights on Excellence’.

The session starts out by building the ‘short case’ for safety excellence, (the high cost of mediocrity), identifies the biggest impediment to safety excellence, and explores the requisites of ‘discovery and transformation’ as organizational initiatives critical to achieving peak safety performance.

Based in part on the Professional Safety cover article: “Re-braining Corporate Health and Safety”, this presentation explores those mindsets common to excellence organizations, and considered strange (weird) to their lesser performing peers, including:

• How Safety Programs and Safety Culture differ in Excellence Organizations.

• How the ‘Higher Purpose’ of Safety Drives Performance in Excellence Organizations.

• ‘Y’ Safety is Part of the Business Process in Excellence Organizations.

• How the Ultimate Goal (numeric) of Safety Differs in Excellence Organizations.

• Why Safety is NOT a Priority in Excellence Organizations.

• How Leaders Value Safety in Excellence Organizations.

• Why Leaders DO NOT focus on Employee Behavior in Excellence Organizations.

• How a Manager’s #1 Responsibility is defined in Excellence Organizations.

• How Safety is Measured in Excellence Organizations.

• What Drives Performance (the ‘P’-word) in Excellence Organizations.

• How Safety Contributes to the Bottom Line in Excellence Organizations, and

• Why Safety is NOT a Matter of ‘Sr. Management Commitment’) in Excellence Organizations.

In his best selling book “Good to Great”, Jim Collins summarized the findings of his research by concluding:

“Greatness, it turns out is largely a matter of conscience choice”

‘Insights on Excellence’ identifies those choices leaders of excellence organizations (the best) make to achieve peak performance, and distance themselves from…all the rest.
 

THESE POPULAR SEMINARS vary in length from 2-hour sessions to 1½-day seminars.  All sessions can be customized to meet your specific content or duration needs.  Please phone me at (315) 383-3801 or e-mail me to discuss any title listed, or to collaborate on a specific requirement you have.