Expanding Minds / Increasing Performance

Check out our new 1-pager that tells the story about how a drilling rig improved both safety and operational performance by over 60%.

Employees were tasked with thinking about HOW they were thinking to push them into new levels of creative and critical thinking.

The end result were a number of improved ideas that drove actions that ultimately reduced BOP stack testing time by over 60%.

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by Phil Uglow and Rob Van Cott

There is an acitivity in the United States, with one-on-one contests, as well as a national championship.

The same person won the championship on two occasions about 65 years apart.

What is the activity?

 Read this article in the September 27, 2010 issue of Fortune magazine, page 99.

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The article explains how cutting safety corners led to the deaths of six men, with severe injuries to 50 others.

What are your lessons learned?

 Check out this funny Dilbert strip about using metrics to improve productivity.

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A recent study in Harvard Business Review found that PROGRESS was the number one motivator of performance. It was noted that on days when workers have the sense they’re making headway in their jobs, or when they receive support that helps them overcome obstacles, their emotions are most positive and their drive to succeed is at its peak. On days when they feel they are spinning their wheels or encountering roadblocks to meaningful accomplishment, their moods and motivation are lowest.

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The Toronto Blue Jays are off to an amazing start to their 2010 season at 5 wins 1 loss through the first 6 games.

Does it have anything to do with the Jay's deicision to get to know their players better?

What a novel concept!

I often get asked what I do as a consultant.

I usually answer "Nothing", which is partly true and isn't necessarily a bad thin as we'll see.

There are 3 types of consultants, what I call:

Seems like the same old story, ... again!

I was at a CAPP WOSC meeting listening to an interesting presentation from Cecil Gordon of Cenovus. Cecil was explaining to the committee the need for an industry standard electrical work document that would protect electrical and non-electrical personnel while at the same time reduce training costs. (Companies would only have to add their individual requirements not create an entire new document)