“ROC YOUR ORGANIZATION!”
How to Instigate ‘Radical Organizational Change’
 

This presentation addresses the two most important realities of Excellence:

1) Excellence (success) requires change, and

2) Change (for the better a/k/a success) is caused. In a recent Fast Company magazine article, former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich emphasized today’s challenge to Business leaderss: ”We can no longer accept change agents, we must demand change insurgents” in our organizations.

"ROC Your Organization” examines the case for change in safety strategy, and calls for ‘radical’ (as in ‘different’--not adversarial) change in what we think, and how we do safety. The session starts out with an overview of traditional strategy, (what we do), and identifies the limited impact on incident rates and loss costs, (what we got) over the past 30 years. It reviews the growing body of evidence (empirical and practical), that indicates that safety programs, although necessary, are not sufficient to minimize loss…more is needed…Excellence is required!

The session constructs a ‘Safety Excellence Continuum” model which visualizes the multiple strategies requisite for excellence, and identifies the headwater element of safety excellence. A workshop entitled” “Watch That First Step”, underscores the need for a strategic approach to excellence—an approach that addresses; values, vision, mission and ‘VIP’ Leadership (Visible, Involved and Participative). The results of this exercise allow participants to identify the correct targets for change in their organization.

Excellent companies have two defining characteristics: They get different (better) results, and they do different (better) things…hmmm, could there be a connection there? They confirm the safety success formula:

Success = CEO’…(Change Everything Often!).

With the case for change established, the session then presents a series of ‘ROC’s (Radical Organizational Changes) -- ideas, initiatives and change tactics that Safety Directors, Safety Committees, and Management Steering Teams can employ to move their organizations upward along the Safety Excellence Continuum. The program concludes with an exercise entitled: “Lets ROC”, in which participants are encouraged to brainstorm and identify specific ROC’s possible in their organizations to overcome safety mediocrity.
 

As a result of attending this session, participants will:

• Understand that safety excellence is a function of an organization’s ability to change and evolve.

• Understand why ‘traditional’ safety strategies and ‘incremental’ change are not adequate to achieve high performance safety results.

• Develop a list of ‘ROC’s’ (Radical Organizational Change) initiatives that can be employed to instigate ‘change for the better’ in their organizations.
   

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.