Continuous Improvement 4 Life

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".

 

 

Anil Mathur- CEO- ATC- Leading Edge Ideas to Achieve World Class Safety and Performance

Rick Heyland talks about leading edge ideas to achieve world class safety performance in an interview with Alaska Tanker Company (ATC) - CEO Anil Mathur.  Anil highlights ATC's Key Success Factors to achieving world class safety and Efficiency performance.  Anil shares how the cultural and performance change started with a Significant Emotional Event! In order to have world class performance you have to change the mindset, skillset and toolset!

Gary Yesavage- Ex-President of Chevron Manufacturing- The Power of Personal Connections to Improve Safety and Performance

Rick Heyland interviews Gary Yesavage, former president of Chevron Manufacturing and discusses his success with leading safety improvements. Gary shares his stories of having personal interviews with every person that was injured on his site to show care, concern and positive accountability. He talks about his leadership style for input, decisiveness and course correction if needed.

A Framework to Implement Safety

Rick Heyland shares RLG International's framework for implementing sustainable performance improvement. Rick shares how proper Focus, Accountability, Involvement and Response (FAIR model) are key success factors to successfully changing safety performance.

Energy Management for Peak Performance

Proper Management of Energy is the key to daily peak performance not just Time Management.  Rick Heyland shares the research on how energy management is the key to sustained peak performance at work, home and play.