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Welcome to Starting Points! Your weekly dose of better questions.

Each week on Starting Points, your host Sam Goodman invites you on a journey of operational curiosity. He provides you with one "operationally curious question" designed to spark curious conversations within your organization.

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Welcome to Starting Points! Your weekly dose of better questions.

Each week on Starting Points, your host Sam Goodman invites you on a journey of operational curiosity. He provides you with one "operationally curious question" designed to spark curious conversations within your organization.

Visit www.thehopnerd.com to learn more, or visit startingpointcards.com to pick up your own card decks!

Welcome to Starting Points! Your weekly dose of better questions.

Each week on Starting Points, your host Sam Goodman invites you on a journey of operational curiosity. He provides you with one "operationally curious question" designed to spark curious conversations within your organization.

Visit www.thehopnerd.com to learn more, or visit startingpointcards.com to pick up your own card decks!

Thanks for being here! Get in touch at thehopnerd@gmail.com and visit WWW.THEHOPNERD.COM for consulting, resources, & more!

Thank you for your support! Need a hand with HOP? Get in touch at thehopnerd@gmail.com or check out thehopnerd.com! The HOP Nerd LLC can help you operationalize Human & Organizational Performance!

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In today's episode, Sam Goodman sits down with the Punk Rock Safety crew: David Provan, Ron Gantt, & Ben Goodheart!

They laughed, joked, talked music, talked ‘safety nostalgia,’ talked learning and leading with better questions, and discovered a new best practice for ending meetings early.... And, not the first serious moment was had.

Good.

“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”

Watch the episode on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1QN1eq30GI

A few randomly selected quotes (pulled by the recording software):

"I love lamp."

"It's fine."

"You nailed it, yeah, just nailed it."

"What magic words are we writing?"

"It's like, yeah, OK, sure."

"Back to the good old days."

"What does back to the basics even mean?"

"We can just go and talk to people."

"What is the viable alternative?"

"Lead with questions maybe."

"We should come up with an app."

"Second last is winning, right?"

Sam, a unique blend of strategist and comedic creator, brings a fresh perspective to organizational improvement. He's not your typical consultant; he's The HOP Nerd, dedicated to highlighting the absurdity in our workplaces and workplace safety through his hilarious and insightful content. With a track record of helping hundreds of businesses successfully operationalize HOP, and teaching tens of thousands of people around the globe HOP concepts, Sam uses his comedic lens to expose the ineffectiveness of our more traditional approaches.

Beyond his consulting prowess, Sam's comedic creations shed light on workplace safety and culture, proving that sometimes, a dose of absurdity is exactly what we need to see things clearly.

Ready to take your organizations efforts around learning and improvement to the next level? Book Sam Goodman for consulting, speaking engagements, or to inject some much-needed thought and humor into your next event.

Follow Sam on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-goodman-03a95391/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheHOPNerd
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehopnerd/

Welcome to Starting Points! Your weekly dose of better questions.

Each week on Starting Points, your host Sam Goodman invites you on a journey of operational curiosity. He provides you with one "operationally curious question" designed to spark curious conversations within your organization.

Visit www.thehopnerd.com to learn more, or visit startingpointcards.com to pick up your own card decks!

Ready to Get Curious?! Check out Starting Points!

FOLLOW SAM https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-goodman-03a95391/

Contact him at: thehopnerd@gmail.com

Book an initial consult at: https://calendly.com/d/26x-qs8-xnv/initial-consultation-call

Visit TheHOPNerd.com to schedule a consultation, access free resources, snag some exclusive merch, and more.

In today's episode...

Ever roll out a brilliant new process or tool only to watch it get ignored, resisted, or maliciously complied with? Tired of the "Top-Down Dictatorship" approach that frustrates people and achieves little? In this episode, Sam Goodman tackles Idea #2 from his book, "10 Ideas to Make Safety Suck Less": the crucial shift from Doing Things TO People to Doing Things WITH People.

Discover why 'doing things to people' always backfire and why leadership often misunderstands frontline reality.

Sam breaks down how genuinely involving people, asking what they need, and co-creating solutions transforms initiatives from bureaucratic burdens into collaborative efforts that actually work. Hear how one team transformed a checklist driven heat stress program into something useful. Learn practical steps to listen better, empower your teams, and finally start making work suck less by tapping into the real expertise – the people doing the work.

Sam, a unique blend of strategist and comedic creator, brings a fresh perspective to organizational improvement. He's not your typical consultant; he's The HOP Nerd, dedicated to highlighting the absurdity in our workplaces and workplace safety through his hilarious and insightful content. With a track record of helping hundreds of businesses successfully operationalize HOP, and teaching tens of thousands of people around the globe HOP concepts, Sam uses his comedic lens to expose the ineffectiveness of our more traditional approaches.

Beyond his consulting prowess, Sam's comedic creations shed light on workplace safety and culture, proving that sometimes, a dose of absurdity is exactly what we need to see things clearly.

Ready to take your organizations efforts around learning and improvement to the next level? Book Sam Goodman for consulting, speaking engagements, or to inject some much-needed thought and humor into your next event.

Follow Sam on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-goodman-03a95391/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheHOPNerd
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehopnerd/

Welcome to Starting Points! Your weekly dose of better questions.

Each week on Starting Points, your host Sam Goodman invites you on a journey of operational curiosity. He provides you with one "operationally curious question" designed to spark curious conversations within your organization.

Visit www.thehopnerd.com to learn more, or visit startingpointcards.com to pick up your own card decks!

Thank you for your support! Need a hand with HOP? Get in touch at thehopnerd@gmail.com or check out thehopnerd.com! The HOP Nerd LLC can help you operationalize Human & Organizational Performance!

Join us in Las Vegas for our upcoming workshop! To register email steve@hopimprovement.com or learn more at thehopnerd.com/event

Basic info: 2-Day Workshop | Las Vegas, NV | October 8-9, 2024

#safety #culture

Welcome to Starting Points! Your weekly dose of better questions.

Each week on Starting Points, your host Sam Goodman invites you on a journey of operational curiosity. He provides you with one "operationally curious question" designed to spark curious conversations within your organization.

Visit www.thehopnerd.com to learn more, or visit startingpointcards.com to pick up your own card decks!

Thank you for your support! Need a hand with HOP? Get in touch at thehopnerd@gmail.com or check out thehopnerd.com! The HOP Nerd LLC can help you operationalize Human & Organizational Performance!

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Thanks for being here! Get in touch at thehopnerd@gmail.com and visit WWW.THEHOPNERD.COM for consulting, resources, & more!