Continuous Improvement 4 Life

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.

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 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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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".

 

 

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!

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.