Skills to Live By
Of Mice and Men: Frustration Instigated Aggressive Behavior What about the Experiment of We Humans Living on Earth? Our life is an experiment, isn’t it? Lately a lot of humans have been injured in the experiment. The murder rate in the U.S. in 2020 went up by 30% over the previous year – the largest
As you think about workplace violence and confrontations and harassment and about verbal abuse in the workplace, see the whole picture. 2020 saw the largest percentage increase in the murder rate since the beginning of record-keeping on this. 2021 has had more murders year-to-date than 2020. But the biggest part of the bell-shaped curve of
In Part One we explained the basic principle of not being there as the object of someone’s attack, which is to say that whatever insult they throw just goes through you or around you and has no effect on you, except to amuse you slightly. We’ll give examples of this later in this post. We
We are always looking at workplace violence, street violence and domestic violence from the point of view of you as the victim. In our workplace violence training and in our de-escalation courses we start at the flash point, when things have blown up in your face and someone is threatening or attacking you. That is
The ultimate and highest form of less lethal control of a violent person is the ability to just talk them down. This is not appropriate in all situations and would not be effective in certain cases. One such example would be that someone is holding you up for your money. You wouldn’t try to calm
…Seen an employee observing a co-worker doing an unsafe act but afraid to say something to him? …Had two employees who do a good job but hate one another, and draw others into their feud? …Found there is no visitor policy? …Had too much work and too little time to address it? ..Encountered “Us Versus
One company has teamwork, friendliness and a secure feeling. Another is a hellhole. What can transform the bad one to the good?
Of course you can’t do this in an absolute way. But there are a lot of things you can do to greatly
A group of workers smile and nod their heads while the safety trainer gives the “toolbox safety talk” but the moment the trainer finishes and begins to walk away something almost always happens. One person in the assembled group will make a rude hand gesture, involving one raised middle finger, at the back of the
They also have a Visitor Policy stating that vendors and salespeople hold the company harmless. Good, except that
If you had bought stock in Amazon or Netflix on just the right day in the right year your R.O.I. would have been phenomenal. It would have been 200% in one year! (Stock in Priceline actually led the pack with over 500 %.) Think about it, your interest in the bank is less than ½
Training that is separate bits and pieces from various sources simply never comes together. It takes
First of all, they don’t grin. They frown and then they complain to one another about being forced
One of the biggest causes of job dissatisfaction and even depression is the feeling of not being heard
That means if you have 1,000 employees it’s $5,400,000! The cost includes lowered productivity
For the average corporation earning 10% profit, just a small reduction in the routine losses would
Like systematic errors in engineering overlooked the same way each time, bad patterns in corporate culture
R3Results training is based on practicing things that will really change the quality of daily life and
When companies and employees experience losses and stress it is
