by Deborah Keep | Oct 21, 2019 | team performance
Spending time in Japan at the Rugby World Cup gave a real insight into how to create infectious engagement into an event on a mass scale. Japan is not traditionally a rugby union country, but how they’ve embraced the World Cup is second to none, as demonstrated...
by Deborah Keep | Sep 26, 2019 | focus, team performance
“The secret of epic performers is their daily rituals.” Robin Sharma In the spirit of the Rugby World Cup, I’m feeling inspired to write about the power of rituals, and more specifically, for most of us, pre-shift or pre-workday rituals. With excitement...
by Deborah Keep | Sep 23, 2019 | team performance, vision
Last week I talked about the ROI of safety culture. In addition to the stats, what you can also gain from having an excellent safety culture is something less measurable, but undeniably valuable, and that is discretionary effort. Discretionary effort is...
by Deborah Keep | Aug 21, 2019 | Safety Mindset, team performance
Without doubt, your day and night crews will be operating from varying levels of complacency, distraction, rushing and taking short cuts on an ongoing basis. Hoping that someone won’t do something stupid during a shift is futile as a safety strategy because...
by Deborah Keep | Aug 5, 2019 | culture, team performance
As much as a team needs to drive the culture they want to create, and the safety culture they want to promote, as a leader you need to be proactive with some essential leadership practices to help solidify the team’s culture. Consistency &...
by Deborah Keep | Jul 18, 2019 | Safety Mindset, team performance
One of the fundamentals that need to change within your team if you want to shift your safety culture is that of mindset. To reach a stage of interdependent safety ownership and accountability, you can’t leave mindset to chance. Teams need to make a conscious...