The Cost of Personal Agendas May Be Safety: BONUS Episode

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Let's talk personal agendas as it relates to safety.
So if this is the first timewe're meeting, my name is Jen
Allen and I am one of the ownersof Allen Safety LLC and over
the last almost 20 some oddyears we have had the
opportunity to meet people ofall kinds in all walks of life,
in the different trainingsessions and auditing and safety

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evaluations, all the thingsthat we do.
A lot of safety is actuallyevaluating and kind of trying to
understand psychology of people, and one of the things that we
kind of use to tease out some ofthat information is trying to
understand if we're dealing witha personal agenda and so what

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that kind of looks like and whatwould be a trigger for me to be
like huh, maybe I need to delvea little bit deeper here is if
I see someone holding reallysteadfast to a specific idea and
this specific idea is notsomething that this person is an
end user for so they are notthe end user and they have a
very strong opinion about it andthat opinion isn't resulting in

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a safer, more efficient, moreeffective, more productive
outcome for my end user, I havequestions.
So when we're in charge ofsafety, our goal should always
be increased safety, reduce risk, drive that down.
We want to increase ourefficiencies, get the most out
of whatever we're doing.
However, we're spending ourmoney on a project, on whatever

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that looks like, and if we'renot meeting those things and
we're not holding onto this ideabecause it somehow benefits
those areas or the end user insome way, I have questions, I
have concerns.
This is going to be a red flagfor me to be looking a little
bit deeper.
Is this something that'ssystemic?
Is there something else goingon here?
What is the agenda of why thisis the sticking point for this

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individual?
I need to spend a little bitmore time either with this
specific person to figure outwhat's happening here, spend
some time trying to understandand allow them that opportunity
to articulate why this is soimportant to them.
Of course, it's always apositive thing to respectfully
raise concerns, but if the thingthat we're focusing on again,

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like I say, is not better forthe end user and their strong
opinions, this person isn't anend user.
If any of those boxes areticked, I've got questions, I've
got concerns.
It's a red flag and I need tolook deeper.
So, when you're consideringchanging the role of someone, or
even during interviews, if youget a vibe or you ask questions
and someone answers a certainway, or maybe this is just

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during performance reviews.
I know some folks are doingperformance reviews right now.
Those would be things that Iwould look at and try and decide
.
Is there something kind ofweird here that maybe we need to
focus on?
And if we find something, is itcrossing into other areas where
they're allowing personalemotions and personal agendas to
get it in the way of what'sactually best for the end user?

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And then we can kind of go fromthere as a management team.
So hopefully that helped you alittle bit today.
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