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Safety Culture Excellence is a weekly series designed to support your efforts towards excellence in performance and culture. For more information or to contact the host, visit www.ProActSafety.com.
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Monday Sep 12, 2011
Monday Sep 12, 2011
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Denver, CO. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the August 2011 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “Policing for Results Leads to Management by Voodoo”. The published article can either be found at www.BICALLIANCE.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Sep 05, 2011
Monday Sep 05, 2011
Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I'm sharing a vital methodology used by many global organizations, to help improve the performance of critical employees at any level of the organization. As always, customization is a critical first step to ensure sustainability. You can either watch the video here at www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com, at www.ProActSafety.com/Insights, or directly on the magazine’s site at: http://cos-mag.com or you can watch it below from YouTube.
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I hope you enjoy and have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday Aug 29, 2011
Monday Aug 29, 2011
Greetings, this podcast was recorded while working in Topeka, Kansas. This week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in July 2011 in my column in COS Magazine, it was titled, “Public Praise and the Dangers of Demotivation”. The article can either be found by visiting the magazine’s website at www.COS-MAG.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Aug 22, 2011
Monday Aug 22, 2011
Greetings, this podcast was recorded while working in Soda Springs, Idaho. This week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in June 2011 in my column in BIC Alliance, it was titled, “Deciding To Be the Best Starts With a Few Simple Questions”. The article can either be found by visiting the magazine’s website at www.BICAlliance.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Jul 18, 2011
Monday Jul 18, 2011
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Colmar, France. This week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the May 2011 edition of Occupational Health & Safety Magazine. It was titled, “What determines Your Safety Focus?” The article can either be found by visiting the magazine’s website at www.OHSOnline.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.
We have received requests for older podcasts that are no longer available for download on this website. We are looking into why these old podcasts are not able to be accessed. It appears the application expires some of these once they reach a certain age. Even podcasts can have an age complex!
Soon to address this, we will start making some of these older podcasts available through a small purchase that can cover our costs to provide them on a CD or memory stick and ship to your location.
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Jul 11, 2011
Monday Jul 11, 2011
Hello everyone I hope you are having a great week! This week's podcast recorded while working in Colmar, France. This week I’d like to share an article written by Terry L. Mathis, Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety. It was published in the June 2011 edition of EHS Today and titled, “S.T.E.P.S. Strategic Targets for Excellent Performance in Safety.” The article can either be found by visiting the magazine’s website at www.EHSToday.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.
We have received requests for older podcasts that are no longer available for download on this website. We are looking into why these old podcasts are not able to be accessed. It appears the application expires some of these once they reach a certain age. Even podcasts can have an age complex!
Soon to address this, we will start making some of these older podcasts available through a small purchase that can cover our costs to provide them on a CD or memory stick and ship to your location.
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Jul 04, 2011
Monday Jul 04, 2011
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Kingsport, Tennessee where I was honored to deliver a Keynote titled: Creating a Sustainable HSES (Health, Safety, Environmental, and Security) Culture for a great organization. Prior to the talk I decided to record an article I wrote for my column in BIC Alliance, it was titled, “Change is Inevitable, Support Is Not”. It was published May 2011. The article can either be found by visiting the magazine’s website at www.BICAlliance.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.
We have received requests for older podcasts that are no longer available for download on this website. We are looking into why these old podcasts are not able to be accessed. It appears the application expires some of these once they reach a certain age. Even podcasts can have an age complex!
Soon to address this, we will start making some of these older podcasts available through a small purchase that can cover our costs to provide them on a CD or memory stick and ship to your location.
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Jun 20, 2011
Monday Jun 20, 2011
Begin first with this question: Are you looking to provide feedback to this person for your reasons, or for the benefit of someone else? If someone else, is the person open to the feedback and do you believe it will make a difference? If no, back to the first question. If yes, speak kindly, provide rationale for why you are concerned, and help them see it from another person's point of view. Ensure they know you are speaking from the heart and care for them as an individual, not just serving an internal desire to say something. You will do well if they know you care.
Give feedback, just be cautious in your approach.
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday Jun 06, 2011
Monday Jun 06, 2011
Some thoughts on Incentives and Rewards for the podcast this week:
The following is from a 1993 HBR Article titled: Rethinking Rewards: “In fact, we believe our incentive compensation program is at the heart of our company’s success… Since we adopted this approach, the quality of the budgeting process has substantially improved. Finally, award opportunities are uncapped, and, as a result, they encourage the entrepreneurial spirit that we value. When designed effectively and integrated thoroughly into the management process, executive incentive programs work well for management and shareholders alike.” L. Dennis Kozlowski (Former Chairman and CEO of Tyco Laboratories and now residing in a New York Correctional Facility for financial crimes).
If a site were to imagine what safety excellence looks like, what role do incentives play? I would not define safety culture excellence by what we have to do to prompt desirable behavior. Excellence to me looks like a naturally occurring series of desirable behaviors that occur unprompted. I prefer approaches that inspire people to do things above and beyond what is required for the right reasons, and recognize them for then doing more than what is expected for their job. Often positive reinforcement (R+) is sufficient.
Managers can certainly reward the individual behaviors, nothing wrong with recognizing behaviors that helped achieve a result. I agree with that. I just want to ensure people are performing these desirable behaviors for the right reason, not the reward. If an organization cannot afford to pay their reward program and if the behaviors are not occurring for intrinsic reasons, they will often cease. I choose to set goals, inspire, coach, recognize and then lead by not leading.
When people see progress and are recognized for their individual efforts, you have developed a sustainable model for performance. Telling them if you do this, I’ll give you that and then no longer can, isn’t sustainable. It should be recognized that we all are trying to develop paths to the same goal: Creating a world safe and free from risks and a society that knows the precautions necessary to keep themselves injury and disease-free. Both I believe can only be sustainable through an intrinsic passion for excellence, and the right combination of tools. Incentives can certainly be a starting point; they just shouldn’t be the ending one. If this is a site’s ending point, than they aren’t there yet.
What are your thoughts?
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Friday Jun 03, 2011
Friday Jun 03, 2011
Begin first with this question: Are you looking to provide feedback to this person for your reasons, or for someone else's benefit? If someone else, is the person open to the feedback and do you believe it will make a difference? If no, back to the first question. If yes, speak kindly, provide rationale for why you are concerned, and help them see it from another person's point of view. Ensure they know you are speaking from the heart and care for them as an individual, not just serving an internal desire to say something. You will do well if they know you care.
Give feedback, just be cautious in your approach.