What would you like to start, stop and continue doing in order to change culture in your organisation?

These are the questions we put to delegates post event at The SHE Show North West 2018, we had an amazing response and would like to share this with you.

Please feel free to join in and comment below, what would you like to start, stop and continue doing within your organisation to help change culture.

START – WHAT WILL YOU START DOING?

  • More leadership and team community from the team down, TEAM is everything.
  • Focus more on record keeping of decision making to help provide a time line during incident management.
  • Get out and about speak to the guys on the shop floor
  • Being different in meetings
  • Breathing if I start to feel anxious
  • It’s my role to change the culture of my organisation!
  • Better / Quicker recording of decision making
  • Try to outlaw price work
  • Being more of a leader
  • Getting more involved in implementing mental health and well-being in the company
  • Start being more mindful
  • Listen more make safety fun
  • Focus on how I work and impact culture
  • Networking outside my speciality
  • Including mental health on the agenda
  • Each situation I get in where I get stressed to take a step back and take myself out the situation and think
  • Fighting to implement my own ideas and change
  • Simplify and add quality of information at every opportunity
  • Keeping records for longer
  • Not giving up
  • Focus more on the serious issues
  • Checking communication – giving people time to digest what I’ve said – checking their understanding
  • More MH TBTs
  • Encourage others to take more responsibility.
  • Going home to see my family – work life balance
  • Engaging more with our supply chain members
  • We have just engaged Tim Marsh to assist us to develop a Cultural Improvement Programme which commences in October
  • Reinvigorate engagement with my workforce
  • Communicate better
  • You said/You did philosophy
  • Chris Hines presentation was full of good ideas one I will be looking into is the tonnage of waste taken from site and where possible matching this volume with the purchase of recycled goods to move closer to a holistic view to the environment. Looking at increasing focus on health
  • Ensuring mental health is an agenda item
  • Try to become more aware of people’s behaviour and if they are being their normal selves
  • Defensible decision making
  • EHS part of daily life not an add on
  • Taking vitamins to improve my wellbeing
  • Implement mental health awareness
  • Practising mindfulness
  • Discovering the behaviours we want to change
  • Focus on Climate improvement to drive cultural change
  • Looking into people’s eyes to see how they look and feel – I think a lot of our workforce are currently very tired due to increasing workload, which is worrying.
  • Evolving a health and wellbeing programme.
  • More employee involvement
  • Looking into the behaviour we as a company need to change.
  • Seeing more of the positives and capabilities in people’s disabilities.
  • Looking for more positives as well as the negatives and areas for improvement
  • Recording decision making
  • Engaging & influencing operations to better own their safety agenda
  • Simplifying conversations with co-workers
  • Focusing more on the present and what I have rather than the past or worrying about the future
  • Pushing for improvements in wellbeing across our business
  • Taking Vitamin D3 supplements in November

STOP – WHAT WILL YOU STOP DOING?

  • Pointless meetings
  • Stop worrying about things I cannot change!
  • Doing it for people
  • Getting stressed about the small things that cannot be helped
  • Micro managing people
  • Stop trying to do everything
  • Running round in circles
  • Making assumptions (try…..)
  • Biting and stressing over each situation
  • Letting others dictate on what we shall or shall not do
  • Moaning
  • Giving up
  • Being deviated from my core responsibilities
  • Assuming somebody has heard and understood
  • Overthinking: Just do the right thing
  • Relying on others.
  • Overworking
  • Putting things off until tomorrow
  • Not getting to site
  • Believing some of what I’m told by others
  • Don’t concentrate on the bad but concentrate on what is done to rectify
  • Taking on too much therefore improving quality of work
  • Ruminating on the past and worrying about the future
  • Putting things off in meetings
  • Allowing anxieties to take over
  • Stop doubting our climate culture improvement strategy it’s only been reinforced
  • I will stop judging people instantly, instead I will enter a conversation with them and find out why they do what they’ve done and how I can help to suggest an alternative and better way to keep them safe, healthy and feeling good about themselves.
  • Trying to re-invent the wheel and doing everything myself from scratch. There are so many inspirational people out there who can help.
  • Stop personnel being negative on issue around the business
  • Worrying about what’s past and look forward to the future.
  • Stop questioning my own decisions and knowledge. I do know a bit
  • Not recording decision making!
  • Being the 4th emergency service. Safety must be everyone’s responsibility and not just my teams
  • Saying yes to every project that comes my way
  • Worrying about things that I have no control over
  • Trying to do everything myself!
  • Deleting notes

CONTINUE – WHAT WILL YOU CONTINUE DOING?

  • Great communication and going the extra mile
  • To be a good influence on my business
  • Making my team environment stimulating
  • Use good, evidence based decisions to change to our organisation and make us more amazing on the inside and out
  • Increasing the Health focus within business objectives
  • Continue to track our Climate and Culture programme delivery and benchmark its success
  • Be nice to people
  • Keeping an open mind to new things/ideas
  • Being aware of others behaviours and how to influence them
  • Engaging staff with new ideas
  • Engage with staff
  • Promoting health, safety and wellbeing amongst colleagues, family and friends
  • Listening to people and questioning
  • Ensuring that I do my upmost with regards to my colleagues welfare, health and safety
  • Smiling
  • Evaluating our behaviour change projects
  • Ruffling feathers
  • Engaging and inspiring colleagues
  • Being present / providing support
  • Being passionate about health, safety, environment and the welfare of our employees etc.
  • Being tenacious, keeping the agenda live throughout the challenge
  • Keeping up a good standard of safety.
  • Working in the profession to make a difference
  • Promoting the importance of realistic H&S Management
  • Continue to develop and roll out the Cultural Improvement Programme.
  • Promoting good behaviours
  • Be proactive in promoting a positive SHE culture for all.
  • Be encouraging support function/think positively/raise awareness of mental health
  • Continue focus on safety whilst increasing focus on health.
  • Ensuring that high risk jobs are undertaken by competent people
  • Push health and safety within my remit
  • Learning and adapting to change
  • Evidencing my decisions/group’s decisions; researching more about changing behaviours and the application of; looking to continually improve
  • Focusing on people over procedure
  • Developing SHE culture at all levels
  • Concentrate of establishing a safe place of work, safe approaches to work with capable engaged teams.
  • Remind myself why I do the job I do.
  • Pushing for more of a health based approach to the H&S within the business
  • Continue on our journey of climate and cultural change
  • Sharing the feedback from these conferences with my management team and attempt to persuade senior managers to attend in the future.
  • Moving forward. The show has confirmed to me that we are on the right track. With some refreshing and exploration of the ideas I have taken away I feel I have some new tools to do this.
  • Developing employees in coaching, leadership and behavioural change
  • Proactive in the approach on Mental Health and wellbeing within the company
  • Roll out more ‘Mates in Mind’ courses within our organisation – mental health awareness.
  • Drive site teams on record keeping and the importance of them
  • Working hard to support the H&S behaviours and culture within my business.
  • Engaging, mentoring and influencing operations
  • My utter best to ensure everyone goes home safe at the end of their shift.
  • Learning and trying new ideas and ways of looking at things
  • Upskilling my team and involving them in decision-making

We hope you find this beneficial… and should you wish to add your own views on what you should start, stop and continue doing to help improve culture in your organisation, or comment on any of the above, please use the comment section below.