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Whistle While You Work – From Wolf to Wellness

26 Friday Aug 2016

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It’s Tradies National Health Month and this week has been an interesting one for me on the wellness at work front. On Monday I attended a one day seminar conducted by the International Well Building Institute and on Wednesday we held our quarterly Safety Series seminar on preventing workplace accidents. It’s worth reflecting on the figures for a moment.

The construction industry in Queensland annually has over:

  • 8,700 injury claims;
  • $119m in compensation payments;
  • 41 average days off work per injury;
  • 30% higher injury rate in workers aged 20-30 years.

How we address these figures and reduce the impacts on individuals, families, employers and the economy is a complex issue. I can’t help thinking the answer lies with the employer but not in the way many might think. If we don’t encourage our workers to think for themselves and take responsibility for their own behaviour and those of their workmates, then we get mindless behaviour and the pre-frontal cortex gets exercised less and less. Just because the pre-frontal cortex’s primary role is called executive function doesn’t mean just executives are allowed to use it!

To reduce injuries in the dangerous building and construction sector we need to encourage greater individual responsibility to be exercised by workers right through the supply chain. Musculoskeletal injuries dominate in the construction workplace yet so many of these could be avoided by periodic stretching or deployment of mechanical or other aids that were not used because it was ‘easier’ to do the task without assistance. According to WorkCover Queensland the average recovery time for a back strain is 8-9 months. That’s ample time I would have thought to contemplate the fact that a lifting device would not by comparison have taken too long to deploy. An exhortation message whether it be by celebrity endorsement or signage is not enough to get people to think for themselves. Encouraging individual behaviour through greater locus of control might have a better impact. Feeling greater control over the design and execution of the work we do is one way to encourage greater self-reliance and self-awareness. Where personal and organisational value align there is likely to be a greater buy-in and sense of duty to self and team.

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WorkCover does provide useful advice and their website is a mine of information. Here are a few helpful tips they provided at our Safety Series seminar this week:

1. Don’t overdo it on the job. The majority of injuries are to joints, ligaments, muscles and  tendons. So watch how you are handling objects:

  • Keep your chest up where possible when handling
  • Keep loads close to the body
  • Avoid awkward and twisted postures
  • Ask for assistance when required
  • Use equipment to make tasks safer and easier
  • Something doesn’t feel right? Early intervention of niggles, aches and pains prevents a small problem turning into a large one. Injuries shouldn’t affect your work, family and social life. So don’t ignore the warning signs.

2. You don’t need a six pack to be ‘fit for work’:

  • Being fit for work doesn’t mean having chiselled abs, going for a run at the end of the day or benching 80kgs.
  • Performing a simple set of preventative stretches and exercises can keep your joints and muscles ‘fit’ and avoid injury.

3. It’s the small things that help you keep fit for work:

  • Can you bend and reach without strain? Keep your flexibility by doing 5-10 minutes of stretching every morning
  • Take frequent micro-breaks during the day rather than infrequent long breaks
  • Stay hydrated—2-3 litres of water is what you need!
  • Keep your core strong—go with your other half to Pilates once in a while
  • Sleep well and eat well—give yourself energy to help you remain healthy, alert and safe

There are health issues that an individual has little control over and these I think are the major contributors to workplace illness or health. Tradies aside, most of us will now spend 90% of our lives indoors. The built environment itself therefore has the largest impact on our health. Perhaps for too long our focus on workplace health and safety has been on injury and not illness. A review of Australia’s workplace health and safety legislation would support this supposition. The Brits have done it better with the focus on COSHH deeply imbedded in the Health and Safety Executive. The Americans are even further ahead and leading the way is the Well Building Institute. Their Well Building Standard really does push the frontier of wellness. In fact, they advocate a move from wellness to well-being. Why would we as employers, with such a strong regulatory driver to focus on injury, want to be way out there looking at well-being? Kate Lister’s of Global Workplace Analytics research has identified the following alarming statistics:

  • 63% of CEO’s are concerned about the availability of key skills.
  • 85% of the global workforce is actively or passively looking for a new employer.
  • 87% of the global workforce is “not engaged” or “actively disengaged”.

Put this together and you can see that well-being is a traditional bottom-line issue. Our workplaces it would appear are intrinsically unhealthy. The Well Building seminar I attended produced some startling statistics which bear repeating:

  • 1 in 3 buildings are sick buildings i.e. will have a detrimental impact on our health;
  • We have 2x risk of cardio-vascular disease (CVD) if we have a sedentary job;
  • If we eat unhealthily (often associated with on-site cafes) we have a 66% increased risk of lower productivity;
  • 12.7% of deaths could be averted by improving air quality;
  • Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and formaldehyde found in buildings are major carcinogenic risks to humans.

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Is this the world’s healthiest building? 425 Park Avenue New York

The Well Building Standard has a scorecard that concentrates on seven core facets:

  • Air;
  • Water;
  • Nourishment;
  • Light;
  • Fitness;
  • Comfort; and
  • Mind.

Some of the above facets are obvious but I was fascinated by the Mind facet which is broken down into 17 separate areas including;

  • Health and wellness awareness – within the employers as encouraged by the employer;
  • Beauty – where the actual building and how it presents itself has a positive impact on personal health and well-being;
  • Biophilia – where nature is incorporated within the design because our affiliation with the natural world is primal and aids health and wellness;
  • Healthy sleep policy – everything from sleep pods, circadian lighting to work servers preventing email exchange outside of prescribed family friendly hours;
  • Business travel – ensuring enough recovery time is built into schedules;
  • Workplace family support – family friendly employment policies especially around leave;
  • Self-monitoring – advocating sensors and wearables;
  • Stress and Addiction Treatment – advocating mind and behaviour support and a focus on stress management;
  • Altruism – positive health benefits from employers matching employee’s contributions to charities;
  • Art – where artwork, spatial familiarity and ceiling height can all work to improve health outcomes.
  • Organisational Transparency – Where there is an obvious and authentic fairness, equity and just treatment a culture of reduced stress is created that in turn has long-term health benefits.

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It would appear that to provide a truly healthy work environment we are being encouraged, and at some stage will be required, to think beyond the normal kinematics of accidents and incidents. The key to health promotion lies with the individual that is an engaged member of their team and works in a culture that encourages loyalty and rewards it with the possibility of satisfaction and self-actualisation. Too lofty, or Byron Bay woo woo? I think not. Businesses out there are already in this space and are being rewarded for it by way of greater productivity and improved profitability. Along the way team members are feeling more engaged and their physical, mental and spiritual health are being improved and nourished. Without the promise of this, the prospect of working longer before I can retire is not very edifying. In fact it makes me sick just contemplating it!

 

Re-Booting My Attitude to #censusfail

21 Sunday Aug 2016

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Recently we had the national census debacle, quickly badged on Twitter as #censusfail. How cruel and biting Twitter can be brought about by the need for brevity. There was an ominous feeling in the air the day of the census with the task presaged by fears of data loss, privacy concerns and overly long data retention. The census became a political football well before the day we were supposed to complete it. Scott Ludlam, Greens Senator, was a prime mover in the scaremongering and there was encouragement for the public not to file a census return, or at the very least to not fill it out completely. Strange given how much many of the naysayers freely share on their Facebook page. Foolhardy too given this is the data upon which our nation plans.

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What the census was for Australia was an opportunity to demonstrate that at a national level we could pull off a digital solution. We are, after all, in transition from resource country and on a pivot to a creative and innovative one. Innovation nowadays is synonymous with technology especially digital technology so it was in some way a test to see how far along our transformation of the economy we have come. Not very far if the experience of the night was anything to go by. The facts of the census day are now forever emblazoned in our nation’s history filed under the ‘cock-ups’ section. However for my international readership let me give you a potted history. National census day set down for 9th August where most people were down to log-in to the government’s census website and fill out the form. Things go well until about 7pm and the system crashes. Takes a number of days to get it up and running again with a myriad of excuses and absurd assertions made in between time. Egg on face for government, necks on the line in the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Sherlock out at the moment looking for IBM’s Watson who seemed to go missing on the night. Pretty much egg on face all round.

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So the first point of concern is we failed at the first hurdle when it came to providing a bug-free hassle-free experience in loading our data on-line. This does not bode well for transforming our economy into one of a highly digital and innovative nature. Secondly the thinking under-pinning the census completion seemed to completely flawed from a statistical perspective. This is extremely worrying given the Australian Bureau of Statistics had carriage of the census project. As I understand it the ABS had established a hot rate capability of 1 million hits per hour. With 24 hours to fill it out and 15 million citizens due to complete it this would appear to have enough margin to take the traffic. The only flaw here is that on-line completion would never be a flat-rate across the day but would rather cluster around certain periods. One would expect that the real pattern would look something like an errrr…normal distribution (aka bell shaped curve or Gaussian distribution). The irony here is that the normal distribution is meat and two veg to a statistician. I don’t think the technology therefore was necessarily at fault but rather our lack of understanding of basic statistics and the patterns of on-line behaviour of the general populace. Very concerning indeed. If we can’t read basic data how can we hope to deal with big data?

I found the concerns about a hack (the initial excuse for the site imploding) hard to fathom. We seem overly eager to blame a hack with its inherent overseas bogeymen sentiments all too often nowadays. If we want to be a smart nation then maybe putting some of our apparent intellectual and academic heft into suitable encryption to fend off such hacks would be a good first project to get underway. The underlying presumption in blaming the overseas hacks, most often sheeted back to the Chinese Government, is that in the spy versus spy thrust and counter-thrust of espionage etc. is that we aren’t winning the battle. If the overseas hackers are better than us what hope for our  economy transitioning into a digital tour de force when a few Chinese students in Beijing can bring down our census website?

What did emerge on the night of the census site meltdown was a pretty funny Twitter exchange as lots of people vented their frustration. Much of it in good humour I must admit and I did my best to add my own pithy contribution. I commented at work that if it was Ticketek selling the much anticipated Adele tickets for a tour in 2017 you could bet your bottom dollar that they would get it right. Where commerce is involved the private sector just gets it right. Aren’t I a clever chap!

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Well imagine my surprise to find that Optus – a very commercially focused and a tech-savvy subsidiary of equally tech-savvy Singtel – cocked up the launch of its much vaunted English Premier League (EPL) coverage in a way that makes the census look like a momentary buffering blip. So IT stuff ups are not the sole domain of a ‘hapless’ public sector after all. This notion of the private does best and the public lags well behind seems to emanate from a particularly dualistic mindset (subject of a future blog). We need to transform our social and technological policy thinking from one of the government hasn’t got a clue, to one where we appreciate the complexity of both the technology and stakeholder components in equal measure.

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While schadenfreude is great to feed a voracious twitter it is essentially a self-defeating emotion that posits no solution. It’s a lazy approach to any issue. The smarts are in the solution not just the problem identification. We need to take a collective deep breath and accept that the best endeavours are being put into IT projects both large and small. The private sector has no monopoly on IT functioning smoothly – Telstra can attest to that. Let’s just hope Ticketek have their servers well and truly denial of service proof for the upcoming Adele concert tickets.

 

Aristotle and the Philosopher’s Zone

12 Friday Aug 2016

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I was at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) the other day observing their driverless vehicle compound. I remarked to one of the scientists about how difficult it is to choose a career than is future proof against the inexorable rise of automation. The conventional wisdom is that we should be encouraging students to do STEM subjects. Readers of my previous blogs will know I don’t entirely subscribe to this convention. In fact I’m thinking that the real future might well lie in concentrating on the humanities.

I posited to the scientist that they might need to employ an ethicist and a philosopher in the near future. He looked bemused. While I was being playful there was a serious side to what I was promoting. Follow my reasoning. Driverless cars require technology and software to make them work effectively and safely. It’s this last hurdle that must be cleared if allowing or using driverless cars gets given the green light. It’s about social license. Until the public as a whole are comfortable, technology can’t get mainstreamed. Google Glass being a good example. Career advisers would jump in here and point to my apparent contradiction. Surely driverless cars mean the key job skills of the future are in STEM subjects which can provide the workforce with the skill sets of coding, robotics, engineering etc.

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The more the dispassionate application of science (‘because we can’) approach becomes our societal norm, the more we need philosophy and ethics to provide a counter balance. Let’s take driverless cars as an example. I put it to the CSIRO scientist that the decision a machine will need to make on some occasions in the driverless environment will be between harm and less harm. Imagine a scenario where there are only two ‘escape routes’ in an accident event. The vehicle may be confronted with say one avenue which is hitting a bus load of old people out on a day trip in one direction, or a bus load of school children in the other direction. Presented with these two options the car needs to make the decision based on mega fast computation which will itself be based on a set of codified rules. It’s cognition computing at its finest. Once again we are back to the coders. But just how will they make those decisions? Where this gets tricky is where the above scenario gets nuanced. Let’s say the bus with the ‘oldies’ is in fact a group of past-retirement age, but still working (Scott Morrison would be pleased) Nobel scientists working on a cure for childhood cancer and the school bus has a group of terminally ill children whose cancer could be otherwise cured by the other bus’s occupants. Much more complex. Would you want your freshly graduated coder writing the code on this one?

Only an ethicist/philosopher has the wherewithal to really give us the right steer here (pardon the pun). When coding up some of these decisions, deliberate and sometimes Boolean choices will need to be made explicit. There will exist somewhere in the Cloud, a set of rules that can be viewed. A sort of ‘value of life block-chain’ for want of a better description will be created. Surely the public has the right to input to these decisions. This might seem far-fetched but it’s coming as are driverless vehicles.

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That had me reflecting. Where else might a philosophy graduate add value in the workplace? I’ve been reading Alec Ross’s new book The Industries of the Future. He looks not entirely optimistically at the impacts of digitization on the future and what jobs might be gained and lost in the process, as well as what countries might gain and lose in the transition that is already underway in the digital revolution. He talks about demographics and the rise of robotics in particular in Japan. Culturally Japanese society, unlike the West, has looked after their elderly within the family unit. With a declining young population this is no longer an option for many. Not surprisingly the tech-smart Japanese industries have come up with a solution. Robots. The Japanese are pretty advanced and I think most are familiar with Honda’s Asimo which seems quite lifelike even though clearly a robot. Asimos are now capable of looking after the physical care needs of elderly Japanese patients. Increasingly, through machine learning and cognition computing, they are advancing to becoming able to deal with the psycho-social needs of the patients as well. All a good thing right?

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Not necessarily so. The imparting of wisdom accumulated from years of success and failures is a feature of all societies especially in Japan. What we now confront with Asimo is a break in a key anthropological aspect of society where the young learn from the old. There is a clear philosophical component to be considered here before we rush headlong into a robotic solution. The presence or not of some automation should not be limited only by the fact that the ‘technology isn’t there yet’.

One of the reasons robots haven’t featured at the top end of society yet is the time it takes for an individual robot to learn. With cloud computing robots are learning from the collective experience of just not themselves but all the other experiences of the other inter-connected robots. This clearly has an ethical/philosophical component as well. If ultimately the children of busy working parents are going to be raised by robots, do we really want the wisdom passed to our next generation to be a synthesized fusion of collective experience? Presumably robots learning at a global level and at digital speed are going to make fewer and fewer mistakes. Some of the best lessons I’ve learned have been what not to repeat from earlier mistakes I have made. To not have access to this wisdom, borne of the school of hard knocks, may have profound impacts on future generations and we may well not realise this until too late.

But all this is over the horizon. We might assume we have time to get it right. Well I don’t think so. A skills shortage of philosophy graduates right now would suggest we need to be encouraging bright young students in our schools to take up a contemplative life where thinking for the sake of thinking is the main component of the position description. We need such minds now. There are moral and ethical issues with stem cell research which are obvious. Others that readily spring to mind are free trade agreements, food additives, ethical investing, DNA sequencing etc.

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There are subject matters that mightn’t be so obvious that would definitely benefit from a philosophical approach. Zika virus is one that strikes me needs careful consideration. We have the technology now to eradicate the most dangerous animal in the world – the mosquito. No brainer really. Think of how much suffering we could avoid by having no more malaria, dengue and zika. Pause for a moment and consider from a philosophical perspective though. According to Marian Blasberg, Hauke Goos and Veronika Hackenbroch writing in the Der Speigel one of the main reasons that we have the Brazilian rainforest still largely protected from development is the scourge of the mosquito. Without those green lungs in reasonable order the world would be a much worse place with arguably just as much misery as the mosquito ever caused. This is an issue for us right now as scientists are hitting the field with genetically modified mosquitos in the back of their Land Rovers. Who are we to deliberately decide the extinction of an entire genera?

At work we have recently introduced a journals club to put into a proposed Research, Reading and Reflection Room (3Rs for short). The usual suspects are there e.g. Forbes Magazine and Harvard Business Review. One that might raise a few eyebrows, but is I think an essential read for modern managers, is New Philosopher. In case the auditors think I’m getting profligate I will leave it to master philosopher Confucius to justify the subscription. ‘Learning without thought is labour lost. Thought without learning is perilous.’

 

Broom Broom..time to sweep clean at Mazda

05 Friday Aug 2016

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I had an experience lately that had me shaking my head. They say that things are getting tough in the Australian economy and they’d be right. The recent decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to reduce the cash rate to their current record low level of 1.5% is a fairly clear indicator that things aren’t so rosey in the lucky country. Which is why it’s even more difficult to fathom why someone in retail would not pursue a sale with a willing and able customer.

 I’m in the market for a new car. Cars are the second most significant asset in most Australian households so it’s a responsibility we take seriously. I do my homework made so much easier by the net in terms on online brochures and reviews. It could be construed without the application of much grey matter that most customers entering a car showroom come in much better informed than in previous generations. It’s probably reasonable to generalise that most going to a showroom are in the final phases of their purchase decision just wanting that age-old and primeval of experiences a kinesthetic connection with the product that is after all one I contact every day. It’s also nice to have a highly motivated salesperson use their considerable sales skills to try to get you across the line. As an NLP practitioner I like to spot the mirroring, pacing and leading to get rapport and the ever so subtle body positioning to get their final nail down into my right ear.

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Imagine my surprise on Saturday when at my local Mazda dealer I had the complete opposite of this experience. It’s probably unfair to name the dealership outright but those cruciverbalists who read my blog Lewis Hamilton performs in one every other week or so. I’ll start at the beginning to highlight how the sales experience went wrong from the get go. I enter the gleaming showroom with my wife and are immediately pounced upon by the salesman. FAULT ONE: Let me go to the vehicle then approach me. Otherwise you look too pushy. The salesman steered us to the vehicle we were after without introducing himself and without a name badge he was not identifiable. This will become important later. FAULT TWO and THREE in quick succession. Always introduce yourself and have a name badge in case we forget it. That allows the exchange of names. Using our names builds quick rapport which is important as we may be spending around $65k with you. Walking us to the car and saying ‘here it is’ destroys rapport. I know what it looks like. I’ve viewed it so many times online from every imaginable angle that if I was a welder’s dog I could still find it in dark room. Treating a knowledgeable customer as a fool, or with any degree of patronising could be very costly indeed.

 Actually my reason outside of just ‘feeling the vehicle’ was to get a fix on Apple Play and when it might be available. I asked the salesman about this and the look on his face was priceless. He didn’t have a clue what Apple Play is. FAULT FOUR and FIVE. Firstly know your product. If you don’t you telegraph to me very clearly that you have no interest or passion for it. Apple Play is featuring in the model I am interested in, in the US. Don’t allow the power/knowledge gradient to change between buyer and seller. From that point forward the energy dynamic changed. I saw it, he felt it. He went away and came back with an answer which was a fluffy reply which essentially said ‘we don’t know’. If you don’t know when it’s becoming available say so. Be honest be authentic but hook me with something like ‘ I’ll contact Australian HQ on Monday and then give you a call or email.’ Guess what – you would now have my contact details and a legitimate reason for follow-up. Even a greenhorn real estate agent would never miss that sort of golden opportunity.

 The CX9 is an SUV with three rows of seats. With our children and their friends now no longer needing to be driven around I was interested in how the boot space looked with the third row collapsed. The pride of the CX9 fleet the Azami was my vehicle of interest so it was disappointing to find that it had a flat battery and couldn’t demonstrate any features requiring power. FAULT SIX and SEVEN. Never ever present a vehicle in a showroom that is below par least of all the pride of your fleet. Secondly if you can’t have a functional vehicle on demand how can I expect you to adequately service my vehicle.

 You can see things aren’t stacking well at this stage. The worst by far is yet to come. In the course of the conversation the salesperson, with I suspect poor EQ skills, construed completely incorrectly that I was either not a serious buyer or not one interested in buying from him. I mentioned that I wasn’t after a test drive at this stage whereupon he said he wouldn’t offer me one. Flabbergasted I asked why and he said he wouldn’t be ‘investing’ (his actual word) any further time in me as I wouldn’t commit to the purchase. It took a while for my jaw to lift itself up from the spotless showroom floor.

 Still bemused at the sales person’s ineptitude upon Monday on my return to work I rang the Mazda head office for Australia. I laid out my issue and the person on the phone shared my sense of disbelief. Clearly better trained he asked whether I wanted to have the dealership management talk to me. I was emphatic in my response. I had no intentions of speaking to the dealership ever again but was interested in how Mazda might delight me and try and woo me back as a customer. Not a trap – I am genuinely interested in how Mazda might handle damage limitation.

 FAULT err what number are we up to now? On Tuesday I received a call on my mobile. It was the Sales Manager at the aforenotmentionned dealership. After a brief diatribe about how this isn’t the way they do business we went through a hilarious charade of trying to identify the ‘offending’ party. Was he tall, short, bearded, did he have a mustache and my personal favourite was he overweight? Surely putting a name badge on the sales team would have avoided the need for such a ludicrous conversation in the first place. The Manager made it abundantly clear that he wanted to identify the culprit to give him a real kicking, or words to that effect. FURTHER FAULT – what sort of culture is it that tries to recover reputation by saying they will hang one of their team out to dry? Did this Manager attend the Gordon Ramsey school of management? Perhaps he needs to listen better to where I was coming from rather than second guess me. After all that was the original mistake of his team member. And as for Mazda HQ this is even more difficult to fathom in deliberately doing what I asked them not to do. Incredible really given the guy said he would record the call!

 I’m in commercial leasing. We get our fair share of ‘tyre kickers’ coming through our business. However our culture is a positive one. Every interaction is either a customer to be or someone who influences a customer who may be. We listen. Our entire team, me included, has been on mindfulness training to improve our listening skills, as well as Emotional Intelligence training to better read and respond to interpersonal exchanges. We are a fraction of the size of Mazda and have nothing like their budgets. It’s an investment I make for the professional and personal development of my people. Shame Mazda haven’t done the same, or if they have it didn’t work in my case.

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Where to now in my pursuit for my new car? Well I’m putting my toe delicately back in the showroom water this Saturday – lets just hope I have ‘Oh what a feeling’ if you get my drift.

 

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