VIDEO 7 February 2024 | Organizational Solutions

Vlog: Four Reasons Lean Initiatives Fail

Brian Molina discusses his blog, "Four Reasons Lean Initiatives Fail and How Leadership Can Help." Lean tools have the power to transform businesses and lives. However, when leadership isn't fully on board, it can lead to disappointment. Learn from these 4 common pitfalls to ensure your lean initiative thrives and brings meaningful change.Go to blog.
VIDEO 1 February 2024 | Both

Kanban or Caution: Don't Try This at Home

Ever tried applying a successful work strategy to your personal life? In Brian’s blog, he delves into the difficulties of attempting to transplant a successful work strategy, kanban in his case, into personal life. Spoiler alert: it wasn't a seamless transition! Let's talk about the nuances of implementing strategies across different environments. Check out…
VIDEO 25 January 2024 | Organizational Solutions

Arranging Cultures of Innovation

For more than 200,000 years, humans have been trending toward technological innovation. We can see a common thread that starts with Paleolithic hunter-gatherers sitting around the hearth, sharing advancements in tool development and controlling fire, to our modern-era technologists brainstorming the next world-changing invention. However, this trajectory…
VIDEO 17 January 2024 | Organizational Solutions

CLE Blog Series

Throughout 2023, ADI Leadership expert Bryan Shelton wrote 10 blogs for his series on Common Leadership Errors. Watch the video to hear his thoughts on the series.  Which of these topics resonates most with you?  View all of the blogs here.
VIDEO 13 March 2023 | Safety

Behavioral Minute: Too Lean for Safety

It is an understatement to say that many organizations are running lean. While the business case for lean operations is compelling, there is such a thing as being too lean, especially when it comes to safety. But how can you tell if you are too lean for safety? In this behavioral minute video, Judy Agnew, Ph.D., ADI's Vice President of Safety Solutions,…
VIDEO 24 January 2023 | Safety

Behavioral Minute: Psychological Safety

Progressive safety cultures depend on employees’ willingness to provide input and feedback to leaders without fear of negative consequences. In this video, Brian Molina offers tips for building psychological safety into an organization’s safety management systems.
VIDEO 16 December 2022 | Organizational Solutions

Behavioral Minute: Accountability

The term “accountability” often is used in different ways, which causes confusion about what it is and why it is important. In this video, Bart Sevin defines accountability from a behavioral perspective and describes how positive accountability can be a gateway to learning. For more on accountability, read “Proactive Accountability for Safety” (https://www.…
VIDEO 7 September 2022 | Safety

Safe By Design: What do we hope readers learn?

Avoid Putting Good Workers In Bad Systems In their new book, safety experts Judy Agnew and David Uhl say understanding how systems impact behavior helps leaders minimize blame and work cooperatively with the front line. In the third video of this series, Judy Agnew, Ph.D., answers the question, "What do we hope readers get out of the book?"  Read…
VIDEO 9 August 2022 | Organizational Solutions

“New and Improved” or Just Good Marketing?

Buyer Beware! Don’t be fooled by straw man attacks on behavioral strategies. Done right, such strategies are key to any improvement that involves human performance.
VIDEO 4 August 2022 | Organizational Solutions

ADI Service: Behavioral Roadmapping

Human behavior is the driving force behind every business action and output in an organization. However, identifying and coaching to those behaviors can be difficult. ADI knows a leader’s time and energy are valuable resources and with our Reverse Engineering process, we can help drill down to the critical few behaviors that have the biggest impact on…