Oct
10
2018
Thanks for sharing this story Robert... another touching reminder of the importance of safety & positive reinforcement in our lives. - Bill Sims
Robert's Story:
I was in attendance at your opening ceremony in Spokane, WA on the 26th and later...
Mar
11
2018
“While doing some spring cleaning, I came across this letter to OSHA from a few years back. As we all know, OSHA made lagging incentives illegal this past December, 2017. Well done OSHA!”
An open letter to OSHA regarding the proposed...
Feb
01
2018
Buddy the golden retriever is an expert in behavior change and positive reinforcement. Buddy’s master is a perky lady named Misty who heard my Greenbean Leadership session last week in Everett WA. “Bill I can attest to the power...
Jan
22
2016
Think about it. We can try our best to give specific, focused reinforcement all day long. But if people don’t trust us, our re- inforcement becomes punishing instead of positive. You can’t fake integrity.
Five Apes And a Banana
So I’m...
Jan
22
2016
Proper employee engagement is critical; sometimes conventional methods need to be re-examined to ensure the right effect.
While surveying the employees of one of the top luxury hotel firms in the world, I met Rose, a delightful lady.
Rose was in a...
Jan
20
2016
It’s a business no-brainer that happy employees make better employees. But how do you get happy employees to deliver their best work on a consistent basis? It requires employees to move beyond simple compliance of workplace rules and become...
Jun
02
2015
The best leadership tips often come from the stories of great leaders. In this story You’ll see how George Washington’s leadership tip was to put his troops first.
Travel with me, if you will, to 1777, to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania....
May
26
2015
The best leadership strategies are the ones that cause you to be better at developing committed employees. Employee performance is that extra something you’ve been looking for to move profitability, quality, safety and customer satisfaction to the next level.
The...
May
22
2015
Every leader wants to know how to design their business for success, but what few realize is that business is behavior. That means that in order to improve the results you’re getting, you have to change the behavior of...
May
11
2015
Positive Reinforcement Systems For Leadership Development
Every leader or manager’s nightmare is a recognition program that is perceived as playing favorites. We’ve all heard employees or coworkers remark about how they do twice the work of someone else, but the...
May
11
2015
How To Get Results From Employees
Employee performance is a key element in the success of any business. Every leader wants to know how to get results from employees. Every leader wants employees who are committed, but in order to...
May
11
2015
Leadership Development Systems
Leadership Development Systems are crucial for the success of any business. Management style plays a key role in employee engagement and ultimately in the employees attitude towards the business and it’s customers, quality, safety, etc…
Harnessing The Remarkable...
May
11
2015
EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION IS AS IMPORTANT AS A PAYCHECK
I was asked to travel to Puerto Rico to give a keynote presentation to a group of CEOs.
After arriving at the airport in San Juan, I had to board a bus and take...
Apr
07
2015
How To Change Employee Behavior
Bill Sims first book "Green Beans and Ice Cream" is garnering rave reviews and is available at Greenbeanleadership.com and on Amazon.com
I would like to thank you for taking just a few minutes to chat with me about...
Nov
30
2014
How leadership affects behavior
Leadership always has an affect on Employee behavior, but great leadership understanding how to use Positive reinforcement in the workplace to reinforce the behaviors that drive profitability.
Positive reinforcement may seem like an obvious thing for a...
Sep
23
2014
How do your employees behave when you're not looking?
It is clear that in most work environments, there is a gap between employee and management. There tends to be a lack of openness and trust on the part of the employees, and...
Sep
20
2014
Some anonymous soldier once observed that when bad things happen to the leadership, somthing bad inevitably happens to the soldiers in his command. The principle was immortalized in an expression about the stuff that rolls downhill.
For many people, the...
Aug
10
2014
In an award winning Super Bowl commercial, Reebok poked fun at “tough guy” leadership styles. “We asked Reebok to help us improve office productivity, we had no idea how effective their methods would be” says the CEO in the commercial....
Jul
09
2014
This week I received some great feedback from a friend in Australia who is spreading the “Green Beans & Ice Cream” message to the leadership in his company. Stephen works as a business improvement adviser for a company in Australia...
Oct
23
2013
I always enjoy hearing when readers liked “Green Beans and Ice Cream” so much that they had to share it.
Cindy Worell, a branch manager at Prospect Mortgage in Massachusetts, recently sent me an email saying she did just that.
Worell’s family has...
Oct
13
2012
From CBSNews
It's graduation time and once again we say "Stand back all bosses!" A new breed of American worker is about to attack everything you hold sacred: from giving orders, to your starched white shirt and tie. They are...
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