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Dr. Boyce's article, It's All About Them: How a Focus on Others Can Nurture Your Ability to Motivate and Inspire, has been published in Motivated Magazine. Click here to read the article and leave a comment.
The article has been placed in the Lead section of the magazine which also contains a contribution by Deepak Chopra! Intended for a broad audience of people that have leadership roles, you will find Dr. Boyce's thoughts to be useful if you serve as a manager, supervisor, teacher, coach, or parent. It is also relevant for those involved in or considering Behavior-Based Safety.
For more information you can correspond with Dr. Boyce directly via e-mail at ted.boyce@cbsafety.com or through the contact page of the Center for ...
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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Boyce will have an article published in Motivated Magazine on line. Notable contributors to Motivated include: Sir Richard Branson, Warren Buffett, Deepak Chopra, Bill Clinton, and Steve Wozniak.
We will post a link to Dr. Boyce's article once it's available. So, please be on the look out for our special announcement.
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I recently had my annual physical exam. This yearly ritual always reminds me of the importance of checking to be sure everything is OK even when there are no outward symptoms of a problem. The benefit is early detection and simpler intervention to restore health if a problem does exist.
The same process can benefit your safety program. That is, you should routinely check leading indicators of safety success, even when no outward signs of a problem exist. To help you accomplish this, we are offering a 1-day observational assessment as quick, simple alternative to our comprehensive safety culture assessment.
The 1-day observational assessment process typically involves having one of our Ph.D.-level consultants spend a day ...
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Dr Boyce has an article published in the current issue of Mining Magazine. The article describes the basic components of a safety culture assessment and gives readers a practical understanding of what to look for in a comprehensive evaluation of their workplace safety culture. Click here for a free copy of the article.
As many of our clients already know, you will always make better decisions when they are based on good information. And, a well-done safety culture assessment will provide exactly this type of information. If you would be interested in having Dr. Boyce conduct an assessment of your safety culture, please contact him directly at ted.boyce@cbsafety.com or by calling 775.232.3099.
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Dr. Boyce wanted to let you know that he has placed a new video clip on-line at www.cbsafety.com. The video (on the right sidebar of the website) is an excerpt from a talk performed earlier this year in San Francisco and is a follow-up to the prior clip on the safety system. In this video, Dr. Boyce discusses the benefits of positive consequences for motivating safe behavior and the limitations of relying too heavily on enforcing policies to motivate safe behaviors.
We welcome your feedback and comments. And, please e-mail Dr. Boyce at ted.boyce@cbsafety.com if you would like to schedule him to speak at a company function or conference in 2011.
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The “bystander effect” is defined by people’s unwillingness to help or get involved (often in an emergency situation) when others are present. In fact, the effect is even stronger when more people are present.
The “bystander effect” is common in industrial settings where employees work in crews. It is often exhibited in safety when someone chooses to ignore a safety hazard rather than to point it out, much less acknowledge and correct it.
Call 775.232.3099 or e-mail ted.boyce@cbsafety.com to book world-renowned behavioral psychologist Dr. Ted Boyce today to help you:
- Understand the bystander effect and its causes
- Determine if the bystander effect is occurring in your work setting
- Develop and apply strategies for overcoming the bystander effect
- Motivate employees to get actively involved in their
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Fifteen years of experience helping businesses transform their work cultures have shown me that Evidence-Based Practices around key business needs are essential. Evidence-Based Practices are simply those that allow for objective measurement of performance that should lead to a desired outcome.
For example, in the Behavior-Based Safety process that we teach, safety behaviors are measured through direct observation. Then, performance feedback is provided immediately to the individual(s) observed as a means of reinforcing desired behavior and stopping undesired behavior. We stress giving positive feedback for safe performance. And, if correction is needed, we teach a constructive feedback process that allows the performer to share with the observer all factors that may have contributed to the ...
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The active ingredient in motivation is the outcome a person receives for performing a given behavior. Put simply, people will behave either to avoid unpleasant consequences or to receive pleasant consequences. Given this interpretation of motivation, enforcement can be seen as an antecedent-consequence relationship we call a threat (antecedent) of a penalty (consequence) given some behavior that we don’t want to occur. This will work, but generally produces only the minimum behavior necessary to avoid the penalty. We call this compliance.
Compliance is exemplified by the fact that the threat of a ticket for speeding does not motivate us to drive the speed limit, but rather just under the threshold for getting the ticket (often 9 mph above the speed limit!). ...
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A Brief Case Study in Behavior-Based Safety
Most traditional safety systems focus on tracking injury-related incidents (e.g., OSHA/MSHA recordables, lost-time accidents) as a means of evaluating safety success. Although it is important to track these events, the incidents themselves are most likely the result of actions taken by one or more people. Thus, they are outcomes of behavior or lagging indicators of safety.
To be most successful in preventing injuries, we recommend that you focus upstream when evaluating safety success. That is, although it is important to track incidents, you should also measure the potential for incidents to occur. This will allow your department or worksite to make adjustments prior to someone getting hurt or property ...
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Previously, I described the foundation of behavior-based safety, behavior-focused observation and feedback. Additionally, I provided some details on the essential characteristics of the observation card to be used by employees as part of a solid behavior-based safety process. If you will recall, the observations work not only to help employees look-out for one another and increase awareness, but as importantly, to produce the behavioral measures of safety. This month I will introduce the basic behavioral science understanding of “why people do what they do,” the foundation for promoting safety improvements in areas you’ve identified with your observations.
The ABCs of Safety Improvement
A major aspect of behavior-based approaches to safety focus on systematically studying the effects of various interventions on ...
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