MOVING UP…
the Safety Excellence Continuum”

Have accident rates flat-lined… or worse yet increased? Are injuries impacting your ability to perform? Are legal proceedings draining precious time and resources? Is doing more ‘SAFETY’, I.e., more training, more inspections, more committees, and more discipline, generating ‘more paper’ and less results? And, are loss costs continuing to rise in spite of all these efforts? If so, “MOVING UP” may just be the ‘mind-shift’ message your organization needs to break the bonds of mediocrity, and move toward Safety Excellence! Geoffrey Bellman, author of: “Getting Things Done When You’re Not in Charge” cautions: “You don’t get to where you want to be, by fooling yourself about where you are.” “MOVING UP” helps organizations improve their odds of success by addressing the four questions requisite to Safety Excellence…these questions:

• Where are we? – The program sequentially builds a ‘Safety Excellence Continuum’ depicting the twelve risk management strategies critical to Safety Excellence. Through a ‘Watch that First Step’ diagnostic exercise, participants identify their organization’s predominant safety strategies, and locate their current positioning along the excellence continuum.

• Where do we want to be? – The session explores the ‘links’ in the organizational ‘Reason Chain’, (the good reasons for poor performance), and proposes a Safety Excellence profile to identify those process impediments currently impacting results. If ‘change for the better’ is the desired outcome, an organization must have a quantifiable scorecard on ‘cultural, organizational, and leadership’ issues that need be addressed for performance improvement to occur.

• What (and who) must change? – As performance improvement initiatives (including safety) are change processes, success first involves personal change in advance of institutional change. The session profiles the ‘Seven Faces of Excellence’; the evolution of roles that one must transitioned through to effectively champion safety change, and targets the real drivers of transformational change in an organization, its ’Values and Principles’. It identifies the ‘Attributes of Safety Excellence’, and encourages participants to engage in “Valuing Safety” initiatives to identify those ‘core values, guiding principles, and excellence attributes’ that must be embraced for change in safe performance…and ultimately results to be achieved.

• What will speed up the journey? – Successful change not only requires that an organization start ‘doing the right things’, but also that it STOP ‘doing wrong things’. The session encourages participants to identify the conventional ‘Wiz-dumb’; (wrong-headed thinking which impedes progress in the right direction), that may exist in their organization, and to take a lesson from Rosa Parks and…‘STOP’ doing wrong things!

The presentation concludes by encouraging all participants to accept and post ‘A Sign of Excellence’ in their organizations to replace other more common ‘Signs of the Times’. If your organization is ready to ‘make the move’ to safety excellence, this presentation will point you in the right direction…and speed your journey!

 

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.