Are you just ticking the box on the checklist?
Why take the time to observe the desired behaviour when you can audit a completed checklist?
These days there are more ‘things’ that we demand of our staff than ever before. […]
Rainbows aren’t real
Spoiler alert – Rainbows aren’t real.
You and your dog are walking in the field, in the distance you see a rainbow. Beautiful, high definition colours…..
Your dog sees the rainbow too, but to him, with his dichromatic vision, only parts of the rainbow is visible […]
Is Safety (really) a Priority?
Statements like – “Safety is a priority” can be dangerous.
Dangerous because the at risk worker can see right through the false claim.
Actions speak louder than false platitudes […]
Listen to your feedback…
Listen to that feeling, the feeling you have when you are doing something. If everything feels normal, it’s because you are doing what you’ve always done. But if you are feeling perhaps some anxiety, some uncomfortable feeling when[…]
The power of habits
You are creating and cementing habits every day. Every day you are growing stronger at the things you do. Every action, every behaviour literally leads to a thickening of the neural pathways in your brain as it receiver the feedback from your actions. The actions become less thought out, more automatic. You become an expert. You ar[…]
No Consequence!
If someone isn’t doing something that you want, there’s no consequences. You might be thinking, ‘yeah, that’s right, they’re breaking the rules because there’s no consequences’ – well, no, that’s not what I’m talking about. And actually that’s an incorrect assumption, a fallacy. The belief[…]
Tragedy of the commons…
At many levels in business and society there is competition between individual gain and collective good. There is a paradox, or an incompatibility, an incongruence, a conflict – whatever it is, it is there, and a balance needs to be maintained for optimum performance for the collective. Imagine that you are a seasoned construction[…]
Tarts or Quiche?
My daughter and her fiancé are visiting, we haven’t seen her properly for over a year. I’m going to cook something for lunch, I start discussing options with my wife (she’s American). She asks me why I bought more eggs wh […]
Space…
The space between stimulus and response. I want to be more careful. I want to be more curating and purposeful. I want to be more thoughtful with what I say, how I respond. Buddha lik […]
I am not the me that was and won’t be the one in the future…
No behaviour happens in isolation of the situation. Every behaviour is linked, inextricably to the environment in which it occurs. No person is how they are independently of their experiences. ‘I’ the person you see, the […]