VIDEO 14 October 2015 | Organizational Solutions

Behavioral Minute: Default Management

In today’s busy work environment, it’s easy to fall into management traps. For example, it’s not uncommon for managers and leaders to find themselves managing to exceptions—addressing what went wrong and putting out fires. In this video, Judy Agnew discusses an alternative management style that focuses instead on what is going well. For more on avoiding…
VIDEO 5 September 2015 | Organizational Solutions

Behavioral Minute: Managing in Times of Uncertainty

Economic downturns, mergers, or even internal policy changes can all disrupt business as usual. Whether your organization is thriving or fighting to survive, being able to manage all types of uncertainty that arises, particularly with your people, will give you the advantage every time.  In this video, David Uhl offers two very sound things…
VIDEO 17 April 2015 | Organizational Solutions

BLITZ Precision Learning

When it comes to online training platforms, organizations have many options. While these platforms have their own look and feel, most are not designed to transform learners into fluent employees who can respond without hesitation. Blitz Precision Learning, a product of Aubrey Daniels International, is a web-based training and evaluation tool …
VIDEO 10 April 2015 | Safety

Behavioral Minute: Effective Safety Interactions

While frequent, short discussions between managers or supervisors and frontline employees is an important key to safety, it’s how these conversations are handled that will determine their effectiveness. In this Behavioral Minute, Cloyd Hyten addresses this challenge and offers three tips for how to make these interactions most effective. For more…
VIDEO 20 February 2015 | Safety

Behavioral Minute: Near Miss Reporting

While world class safety cultures have thriving near-miss reporting processes, many other organizations struggle with systems that don’t work effectively or inadvertently do more harm than good. ADI senior vice president, David Uhl, explains the real intent of near-miss reporting and the role senior leaders must play to strengthen this process. For a closer…
VIDEO 11 February 2015 | Organizational Solutions

The 10 Commandments of Performance Measurement: Part 1

Performance measurement is a widely used tool implemented by organizations to help reinforce performance improvement. However, many organizations rarely achieve the type of improvement they desire. In the first of a three-part video series, ADI’s Lori Brody provides several tips for building better measurement systems, including why you should start with…
VIDEO 11 November 2014 | Organizational Solutions

Behavioral Minute: Across the Board Decisions

Many times, organizations do things with the best of intentions but the effect is the opposite of what they had hoped. One such example is when decisions are made across the board, such as providing bonuses. Hear from Dr. Aubrey Daniels as he explains why organizations may be rewarding the wrong people, punishing the wrong people, or both, and how you…
VIDEO 26 June 2014 | Organizational Solutions

Behavioral Minute: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Feedback

When it comes to safe and unsafe behaviors in the workplace, employees on the front-line are often uncomfortable giving peer to peer feedback. Some likely feel it isn't their place to speak up, while others may think it won't be effective. In our latest Behavioral Minute, ADI senior consultant, Bart Sevin, identifies the benefits of coworkers speaking up.…
VIDEO 19 June 2014 | Safety

Behavioral Minute: Behavior in High-Hazard Environments

To keep people working safely, particularly in high-hazard environments, behavior at all levels of an organization is critically important. However, the impact of leadership behaviors does not always match up with its intent. Leaders themselves are also often left in the dark when it comes to near misses or injuries. In this latest installment of ADI's…
VIDEO 13 May 2014 | Organizational Solutions

Client Perspective

Rich Gold, M&T Bank Watch as Rich Gold, President and Chief Operating Officer of M&T Bank, discusses how his organization moved away from a focus on the performance appraisal process to one of building a system for managing people performance. By implementing a behavioral approach to the employee engagement process, M&T Bank has realized a…