Holiday facts ... or fiction...

Hurray!  

It's stopped raining, the sun is shining and the holidays have begun.

It's also just a little more than two weeks until the Premier League – and the lloydmasters Prem begins, but more about that in a later blog.

Here are some facts to keep you thinking....

• 76% of UK CEO's and MD's favour the Caribbean for a family holiday 82% of management consultants don't have time to take all of their holiday entitlement

Behavioural safety conversations?

Been having a fascinating time in Baku running a workshop on behavioural safety conversations for one of the oil companies out here. Weather has been great at about 34˚C and the beer is expensive but cold. All in all, a good trip.

Behavioural safety conversations? 
Well, yes, it helps safety leaders think about process safety as well as personal safety and gives them the high quality coaching skills required to make a difference and we've met some great guys from Azerbaijan and Georgia who really wanted to understand the dynamics of a rich coaching conversation and use it to make their offshore and onshore work environments safer.

A couple of key takeaways for everybody:

We are pleased to announce that the next lloydmasters networking event will be at the Crowne Plaza Birmingham in September 2011.  For further information or to reserve your place please contact fiona@lloydmasters.com or call 020 8917 4520

Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt (31 March 1947-11 June 2011)

It  is always sad to hear of the passing of someone who has had a profound effect on your life, so even though I had never met Eliyahu M Goldratt, it made me reflect when I saw a post on a Linked-In group that he had died.

Goldratt was an Israeli physicist who became a business management guru, his specialism was in process improvement and optimisation where he coined the ‘Theory of Constraints’ model. This model identifies bottlenecks/constraints within a process, removes the bottleneck to improve capacity of the system and moves onto the next bottleneck.