Continuous Improvement 4 Life

Change your culture and performance through effective meetings

37% of your meetings don’t add value!  Rick Heyland with Kevin Brown (ex-Lyondelbasell executive) and Don Telfer (RLG Team Leader) discuss solutions for more effective meetings that result in a high performing culture.

Play the long game on capital projects for total shareholder value with Chris Miller Ex- Chevron project director

Rick Heyland of RLG International and Chris Miller Ex- Chevron Project Director discuss the issues and solutions for mega capital projects.  Chris adds his 40 years of Chevron Project experience and insights to discuss solutions for capital project success.  Among the solutions they discuss, the importance of quality front-end engineering and design and great leadership as key success factors for total shareholder value.

Automation and Work Process Improvement with RLG and Appian Corp

Rick Heyland discusses with several guests from RLG and Appian Corporation (automation experts) on the state of automation opportunities for work process improvement.  RLG special guests are Bradford Sledge and Craig Windes.  Appian Corporation guests are Glenn Healy and Ryan Byrne. Our hope that every leader listening to this podcast will find additional work processes in their business to automate in order to save time, money, employee stress and to drive out waste.

How to achieve on-time and on-budget performance with Tjalling Terpstra of the Shell Oil Company.

Collaboration, Trust and Empowerment are key to delivering outstanding results for Megaprojects.  Tjalling Terpstra (Project Director- Shell Oil company) and Rick Heyland (EVP RLG International) discuss the issues, and solutions for delivering megacapital projects.  Tjalling shares an early career example that lead him to a more collaborative contractor and stakeholder approach for capital projects.

RLG CEO- Brad Farrow-The issues and solutions for successful Mega Capital Project delivery

RLG International's President and CEO Brad Farrow and EVP of Global Client Solutions Rick Heyland discuss the issues and solutions to successfully delivering mega capital projects.  Brad and Rick offer five solutions to on-time and on-budget delivery of mega capital projects:

1. Strong leadership skills
2. Contractor partnerships of trust
3. Development of the effective leading and lagging KPI's for each level of the organization
4. Highly visible and consistent Operating Rhythm™ to drive daily, weekly and monthly accountability
5. Integrated Schedule Optimization efforts to benefit contractor productivity

The power of Leading Indicators to create a step change in performance

If you were only able to change One Thing to improve performance, what would that One Thing be?

Rick Heyland of RLG International and his guests discuss the power of Leading Indicators to transform personal and professional Continuous Improvement.

Special guests include: Cezary Goch- RLG's Turnaround Specialist, Kirk Gibson- RLG's Capital Projects Expert and Matt Crowley- Endurance Athlete and recently summited Mount Everest.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield- A life time pursuit of self betterment on land and in space

Rick Heyland's guest is Retired Astronaut- Chris Hadfield.  Chris has been called the most popular Astronaut since Neil Armstrong.  He is a Husband, Father, Grandfather, Test Pilot, Fighter pilot, Astronaut, Author, Teacher, Singer and Composer.  His version of David Bowie's "space oddity" recorded in space has over 75M downloads.  Chris discusses with Rick his philosophies on personal and professional Continuous Improvement. In this hour long discussion he talks about principles such as;  "slow down to speed up", "be a student for the rest of your life", "use the quiet time to develop competence", "sweat the small stuff but don't let them see you sweat", "have long-term goals but celebrate the daily victories".  Any leader interested in insights about personal development and safety and operational excellence should listen to this podcast and share it with their teams!

How a Leader responds to failure will determine the success of the Team- David Webster-MD of the Center for Teams

Rick's guest is David Webster the Director for the Centre for Teams in London, England.  David and Rick discuss some principles for creating high performance teamwork and how a Leader can enable that high performance.

Strategies for Implementing a Step change in Safey

Episode 9: Rick Heyland of RLG International brings together all the ideas from the last 4 podcasts into a concrete framework for any leader to implement on-site.

Beliefs, behaviors, results and that ‘ah-ha’ moment in creating an injury-free workplace.

Episode 8: Rick Heyland from RLG International and Bob Vruggink (ex-Conoco, Dupont, Praxair and BP executive) discuss implementation ideas and frameworks to create an Incident Free Workplace.  Bob is the author of a new book called "The pursuit of Zero, Seven safety Principles for Creating an Injury Free Workplace".