In the book, Positivity, by Barbara Fredrickson, she discusses a fascinating research project about what makes businesses successful.
Seven Factors Behind Creating a High-Performance Business Team
Posts by Marie-Claire Ross:
How to Reward Staff for Better Safety Performance
Many safety professionals believe they need to reward staff to get them to behave safely.
6 Ways to use the whole brain in Workplace Training
In the book, A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink, he compares both the left and right hemispheres of the brain and discussed that you need to include both hemispheres when creating anything new.
How Finding Workplace Safety Bright Spots Brings Success in Business
Since we were little, the majority of us have been taught to look out for what is going wrong and fix the problem. This can be for anything from getting an "E" at school to having friendship issues.
Six Secret Principles to an Effective Workplace Safety Campaign
In the brilliant book, Made to Stick, by Chip and Dan Heath, they discussed a 1999 research project by a team of Israeli researchers. In this study, 200 award winning ads were classified into six templates.
They then classified 200 unsuccessful ads and found that only 2% could be classified into the six templates.
But wait there's more...
The researchers brought in three groups of novices and got them to create three ads for three different products. The first group received information on the products and no ad design training. The second group was trained for two hours by a creativity instructor, while the third group was trained for two hours on the six templates.
For all groups, the best best ads were selected by a creative director and tested with consumers.
The Secret Behind Consistent Workplace Training Programs
Many companies often get frustrated about how their workplace training is inconsistent from site to site, despite trainers using the same training materials.
How to Design your Next Workplace Safety Campaign
Now that you have worked out your topic for your next routine workplace safety campaign, it's time to sit down and start writing. Here are some tips that have been designed for routine workplace communication initiatives (and not for large safety communication programs that require a lot of change, for large scale initiatives go to "14 Tips to Launch a New Safety Initiative").
How to Work out your Safety Induction Training Content
So your company has finally decided to systemise your safety induction training and you're in charge of sorting it all out.
How to get staff to remember training information
To get trainees to remember new information, you need to get the information to encode into the brain.
Three Causes of Trainee Boredom and How to Prevent It
Trainers often worry about how to create engaging company training for staff.