Do you want to make a difference?
Perhaps there is no leadership responsibility more profound than creating a sustainable, injury-free workplace.
Achieving an injury-free environment is one of the most difficult problems many leaders face. Indeed, during 35 years in manufacturing I never discovered a singular solution to this challenge.
In my experience, organizations with the best safety performances do not have a secret. They simply do a lot of small things collectively and strategically well.
That's really what this book is about. It is a collection of leadership concepts, thoughts, words, and actions that (when strategically implemented) can move your organization toward a better safety future.
The first section of the book takes a look at some fundamental concepts everyone who is striving to achieve safety excellence should understand.
The core of the book reviews key research findings in social psychology, sociology and neuroscience. I share personal experiences of highly effective leadership. And I recount other situations that exemplify the wrong approach. In each case, I discuss how you can leverage these concepts in a practical way to improve your safety leadership skills.
At the end of each chapter, there is a segment called the SAFETY LEADER'S TOOLBOX. This toolbox contains over 70 practical tools and tips for being a more effective safety leader! Readers are encouraged to consult this toolbox for small changes in what you think, say, and do to shape your safety culture.
Where do you begin? Start with a 'Why' of caring. If you start with caring as your personal motive, you won't have to do everything perfectly. Your employees will want to do the right things for the right reasons.
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'This is not just a safety book. It is a playbook!'
Do you want to make a difference in someone’s life?
There is no leadership responsibility more profound than creating a sustainable, injury-free workplace.
During 35 years in manufacturing, I observed leadership actions that significantly contributed to less risk-taking, greater hazard awareness, and genuine collaborative efforts among employees and supervisors. Leaders who embraced and implemented these strategies saw a dramatic reduction in incidents and injuries. This audiobook is a collection of leadership concepts, thoughts, words, and actions that can move your organization toward a better safety future.
The first section reviews fundamental concepts. It includes a discussion on compliance versus commitment, why people make mistakes and take risks, and an overview of a Just Culture. The core of the audiobook reviews research findings in social psychology and sociology. I share firsthand experiences of highly effective leadership. And I recount other situations that exemplify the wrong approach. In each case, I discuss how you can leverage these concepts in a practical way to improve your safety leadership skills.
At the end of each section, there is a segment called the 'Safety Leader’s Toolbox'; It contains over 70 practical tools and tips for being a more effective safety leader!
Spoiler alert! One essential leadership skill is knowing why, how, and what to talk about when it comes to safety. Where do you begin? Start with a 'Why' of caring.
If you start every conversation and initiate every action because you care about others, you will not have to do everything perfectly. Your employees will want to do the right things for the right reasons!
Phoenix investigative reporter Joya Bonner knew nothing about the world of sex trafficking-or the ugly status her city held in this filthy underground.
But then her 15 year-old honorary niece went missing in Phoenix. And a 13 year-old from her hometown in North Dakota disappeared. And there was that pitiful dead girl in the vacant lot. As Joya rushed in to help-naive, scared, repulsed, frantic, but determined-her world would never be the same again.
This is a work of fiction. The major characters are created from the author's imagination-with the exception of Mike Lacey and Jim Larkin. They really did create a media empire that began with the New Times of Phoenix; they really were arrested in the dead of night by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's goons; they really did create Backpage.com that Congress calls an "online brothel,' they really are currently awaiting trial on scores of charges they facilitated child sex-trafficking.
The story woven around these characters--ripped from today's headlines--will shock you to your core.
Warning: Contains Crude Language, Alien Blasting, and Sex.
Lee's too wild for the military, but too good at his job to get rid of. The government's solution is to banish him to the outer planets until he's deemed civilized. His latest attempt at rehabilitation has him signed on with an outpost colony.
He hates ranching. He hates taking orders from his boss. But he likes shooting aliens. Luckily, the planet he's on is about to face a full blown infestation.
You can't take it with you...but what if you could?
Most people believe their souls outlive their bodies. Most people would find an organization that tracks their souls into the future and passes on their banked money and memories compelling.
Scott Waverly isn't like most people. He spends his days finding and fixing computer security holes. And Scott is skeptical of his new client's claim that they have been calculating and tracking soul identities for almost twenty-six hundred years.
Are they running a freaky cult? Or a sophisticated con job?
Scott needs to save Soul Identity from an insider attack. Along the way, he discovers the importance of the bridges connecting people's lives.
In 1946, soon-to-be-executed Nazi General Hermann Goering asks young Soul Identity overseer Archibald Morgan to take his looted gold and deposit it in a soul line collection, there to await his soul's rebirth.
A GRIM RESISTANCE
Flora, a seventeen-year-old Gypsy girl whose father died in the Dachau concentration camp, is sure that Goering stole the gold. She struggles to persuade Morgan to reject the Nazi's deposit, but Morgan prevails.
A MYSTERIOUS THEFT
Sixty-four years have passed. A repentant Morgan opens Goering's collection and discovers the gold is gone. In its place lies a cryptic journal. Morgan asks security expert Scott Waverly to find the thief and recover the gold.
A THRILLING ADVENTURE
Scott must race through Europe to uncover the elusive secrets of what really happened in Nuremberg¦ secrets that threaten to reopen old wounds, settle old scores, and lead to the gold's"and his own soul's"recovery.
An ambitious Soul Identity story that will challenge your views on faith, courage, and conviction.
1980: Claudia Famosa is a Cuban revolutionary and exile living in Florida, mourning her lost husband. Xinya Xia lives in Manhattan, and has spent a lifetime perfecting her soul line formulas so she can someday find the twin brother from whom she was separated at birth. Her crooked business partner claims that Claudia can use Xinya's formulas to reunite with her husband's incarnation in her own next life, but only if she's willing to sacrifice everything and die in Benares, India in two short months.
Present: Valentina Nikolskaya, the product of this extraordinary love story, has recently given up and divorced her pre-destined husband. Her ex-boyfriend Scott Waverly claims she has been duped, and asks for her help in finding Soul Identity's missing overseers. Thus begins Val's attempt to regain her own faith, and to discover the drama behind Claudia's and Xinya's actions.
Told from the perspective of three women determined to make a difference, Soul Integrity, the third book in the Soul Identity series, is a compulsively readable and emotionally immersive adventure of faith and courage through time and history.
