Coaching is a skillset that, on occasion, may appear to share characteristics with other fields, such as mentoring, consultancy or therapy. However, coaching differs in a number of ways:“Put simply, coaching is a process that aims to improve performance and focuses on...
The Appreciative Inquirer
What is Appreciative Inquiry? Welcome to The Appreciative Inquirer, our forum for discussion and reflection about Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and related coaching technologies. Our guiding questions are: How can we best improve our living, working, and playing? What...
Three Rules for Good Health and Safety
Now, that is a novel idea, is it not? Surely people will ‘do’ good health and safety because they ‘want’ to? No. Simply put, No. In order for people to ‘do’ good health and safety, they require some pretty solid leadership. So let’s have a look at what such solid...
What is ‘Health and Safety Fatigue’ – and How Can You Combat It?
There are plenty of places one can go to read about ‘fatigue’ as a health and safety issue. But what about people being ‘over’ health and safety itself? I think, as always, the place to start when considering this is the culture of the workplace. Let’s consider...
Five Reasons Why ‘Common Sense’ is Dangerous.
What ever happened to good old ‘Common Sense’? You know, we hear this question often. Often from people who for some reason or other have decided to resist ‘Health and Safety’. So let’s use this as an opportunity to discuss why ‘Common Sense’ isn’t the same as a...
Health and Safety Culture: What’s Yours?
Every workplace has a Health and Safety ‘culture’ - What is yours? Let’s look at some examples and see where your workplace might fit in: (Shahid Ali, Researchgate.net) Let’s cut to the chase, shall we? The baseline we should all start at is ‘Calculative’ – but that...
Workplace Hazards Part 2 – Investigate Workplace Incidents
Investigate Workplace Incidents Thoroughly It’s worthwhile to consider, at every state of your health and safety systems – what kind of culture you promote in your business. But, rather than dwell on negatives, it is more productive to simply drill down into what a...
Workplace Hazards Part 1 – Identifying
Workplace hazards will not go away. They will not disappear. Even in the most attentive organisation, they will merely submerge and when they do submerge they have a tendency to rise up when you least expect it. One way to combat this is to engage in Internal...
Emergency Plan – A Quick Guide
By its nature, any emergency presents a range of perhaps unforeseeable consequences. However, a major factor in Risk Assessment is knowing how to plan for the ‘unexpected’, and an Emergency Plan will help. Get an Emergency Plan Having some basic contingencies in place...
Why Should You Set Up a Health and Safety Policy?
If you are a small business you may not ‘legally’ require a Health and Safety Policy. But ethically, for any small business owner, I would suggest that formulating a Health and Safety Policy is a necessary and useful addition to your armoury. Set Up a Health and...