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Reframe Your Outlook - Confidence In Conflict Book Excerpt
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Discover effective conflict management & de-escalation strategies, enhancing workplace safety through enhanced training & communication techniques.
Taking Action — Book Excerpt
Universal Greeting: Set the Stage for Cooperation—Book Excerpt
Fix This One Thing to Fix Most Organizational Performance Issues
I’m writing a new book and my research has caused me to reflect on the problems I’ve seen over the last 40 years that have most significantly impacted organizational performance.
What I’ve come up with is a pretty interesting list.
I’ve worked at a wide range of companies, spanning Fortune 500 companies to venture-funded startups, and the issues on my list have shown their ugly faces repeatedly...
You've Been Grabbed! Now What? Why being hopeful can get you killed
No work is more personal and intimate than healthcare and working inside a hospital means you are always up close and personal with your customers. In fact, healthcare workers are so close to their work that managing their personal safety comes second to their patients needs. If you are unable to manage your distance and positioning, as say in our training, then you are more than likely going...
Improving Your Personal Situational Awareness—Book Excerpt
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Chapter 2
Improving Your Personal Situational Awareness
After six hours of unloading her stuff and setting up her new dorm room, Amanda was exhausted. She was super excited that she finally had her own desk, her own bed, and her own space. She looked over at her laptop and iPod and noticed that her music download was finally complete. As she...
Bystander Mobilization—Part Two—Book Excerpt
Bystander Mobilization—Part One—To Empathize is to Civilize
Psychological Safety at Work: The Number One Way to Improve Retention
Gateway Behaviors Are Like Gateway Drugs
When I was in junior high school, we used to have to watch those corny “gateway drug” educational films. Do you remember those?
They followed a similar plot: Some clean-cut teenage boy would steal a beer from the family fridge; next we see him bowing to peer-pressure and puffing on a joint; soon he’s snorting cocaine at a wild party. Finally, he’s shooting heroin in some rat-infested alley....