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:

The inner game

Wimbledon. It heralds the start of summer (two weeks of rain) and all that is best about Britain and sport. Just the word conjures up images of strawberries and cream and genteel living – not that there is anything genteel about tennis these days; top players are elite athletes serving at speeds of over 140mps.

So what makes a 'champion' rather than just a great tennis player? Why is it that some players can pick-up their game when they need to? An answer may be found in 'The inner game', a coaching methodology created by Tim Gallwey in the 1970s that looks at the mental side of peak performance and though first devised for tennis players has since been applied to the fields of music, education and the workplace as well as other sports.