Do your managers know what is going on?
Mindfulness improves safety and risk performance
Professor Andrew Hopkins has clearly shown over many years that Mindfulness, Safety Culture and Safe Behaviour have the potential to move organisations to higher standards of safety.
Excerpt from the training DVD, Mindful Leadership: With References to BP Texas City.
Mindful Leadership Training
TWO FREE resources
This month we have two more FREE resources on the topic of Mindfulness for you to download.
SIMPLY ENTER YOUR DETAILS IN THE FORM ON THE RIGHT.
Download 1
What is organisation culture
and how does it relate to mindfulness?
Defining organisation culture is not a simple task. Most people have a vague idea of what it is but have some difficulty describing it in any detail.
This case study and training exercise was developed specifically to give managers, team leaders and employees an overview of culture, what it is and what it can mean in their orgainsation.
The BP Texas City case study is an example of a poor safety culture and shows the behaviour that underpinned the culture at that time.
Download 2
Mindful organisations
need a workforce that Speaks Up
Mindfulness is as much about what people do with what they notice as it is about the activity of noticing itself (Weick et al1). James Reason and others make a similar point when they argue that practices rather than values are the focal point of safety culture. 'Practices' means behaviour, the actions people take or don't take.
One of the more important ‘behaviours’ underpinning safety culture is the readiness to speak up.
1 K Weick, K Sutcliff & D Obstfeld, "Organising for high reliability: processes of collective mindfulness", Research in Organisational Behaviour
