Boretti, Inc.
Friday Quotes
Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals.
Success in safety is like success in business. Both take a vision, financial and human resource investment, and engagement. That’s more than speaking the language of business and alignment. Positive relationships with coaching creates the willingness to be involved.
Can’t fix safety in isolation.
A successful organization requires a team of people with the right skillsets and appropriate resources to achieve its goals. Each element of the successful organization influences the other, seeking to ensure they are heard and processes implemented to achieve their goal.
(Culture is) about repeatable systems that connect purpose to action every day, across every level of the business.
What makes a business sustainable are the systems within it. Systems aren’t written policies, they are processes that make the organization alive. How the work get’s done and why we do it shapes and involves the accepted, supported culture in the way we work.
We don’t need leaders to be perfect—we need them to be curious about their impact, open to feedback, and willing to grow.
Many times leaders fall short of their potential thinking they have to always be perfect, have all the answers, and right all the time. Leadership in safety is the same as it is in business, whereby “my way or the highway” doesn’t work in the end.
Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.
In business, just as in safety, leadership can take many forms. And while it’s appropriate to take different styles to fit the situation, one thing that’s constant is the taking care part. Leadership isn’t a demand, it’s an engagement.
Only 20% of individuals and teams reach their true potential. The rest of us waste much of our time and energy playing Sisyphus.
How do you get teams to reach their true potential? One way is to recognize and address the mental barriers that keep them from becoming so. Helping individuals overcome their challenges in a respectful, dignified, positive way allows them to be more, feel valued and be part of a successful team.
Self-awareness is a leadership responsibility, not a personality quirk.
There are times when leaders and managers mean well and care for the team; however, their communication style doesn’t resonate with receiving the feedback so needed for the team to thrive. Sighs, ‘shutdown’ tones and preconceived thoughts about the person or a situation results in non-participation.
Engagement does not come from pressure. It comes from ownership.
Organizations are the product of systems and human interaction. Success or failure is based upon how connected team members are with each other, the mission and the customer. In safety, the system and processes in play need to be relevant for participation.
Yes, have your cake AND eat it too.
There’s a common understanding that two mutually exclusive things cannot be done at the same time. However; it does take one to lead to the other. Making choices to only chase rewards isn’t the same as achieving success.
The real opportunity is to create systems that reward not just output, but ownership.
Anyone can do a task if they are properly taught, but share the reason why along with the how leads to personal investment to see it through. People may also come up with ideas for improvement.