Kay Yoder, Senior Vice President of EHS at Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, shares how she manages safety across an expansive North American footprint.
To improve operational outcomes, businesses commonly focused on what was not working in order to “fix” them and so improve organizational results. The Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Model was influenced by numerous research studies of positive outcomes in the fields of sports, medicine, and behavior science.
The gap between awareness and action is not a training problem, but instead a culture problem. Culture problems always require a different set of tools than a refresher training course or a revised work procedure.
Safety expert says that moving the needle on safety isn't about more rules; it’s about adaptive leadership and removing the demotivators that stall discretionary effort.
Everyone has biases which unconsciously influence our actions and/or perceptions and can be both positive and negative in nature. This invariably can manifest itself in any work performed by employees.