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		<title>The Sustainability Initiative:  Implementation Challenges are Different from Traditional Corporate Initiatives</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicehs.com/2010/07/the-sustainability-initiative-implementation-challenges-are-different-then-traditional-corporate-initiatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Redinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sustainability is on every corporate radar.  The strength of the signal and distance from action vary.  In some cases, internal task groups have been formed, sustainability risk assessments have been performed, and actions incorporated into operations and products and services.  In other cases, none or some of these activities have been started, or actions have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building the Sustainability/CSR Department and Personnel Competencies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Redinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate Social Responsibility]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the increasing need to address Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues, organizations are faced with several options on how to proceed in developing their internal capabilities.  Beyond their sustainability and CSR strategy, there are nuts-and-bolts issues to consider, such as who will lead the effort and how to build the team or department.
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EHS Auditing – A Key to Breakthrough Performance and EHS Integration</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Redinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auditing & Metrics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[High Performance Teams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“What gets measured, gets done” is a popular saying in performance improvement circles.  There is more though.  Yes, true as this is, measurement – and I’ll go a step further here and say auditing – is just part of the “gets done” piece.  When crafted within a context of breakthrough performance, EHS auditing and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Multi-Dimensional Perspective for EHS, Building and Leveraging Your EHS Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Redinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emerging Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organizational culture is complex and according to many experts, not well understood.  EHS professionals often think about culture in terms of a “safety culture.”  While safety is clearly important, the topic of culture is all-encompassing.
An area that I continue to explore is how can EHS departments and their professionals impact overall organizational culture?  Said another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use of Causal Loop Diagrams in Building High Performance EHS Teams</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicehs.com/2010/03/use-of-causal-loop-diagrams-in-building-high-performance-ehs-teams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicehs.com/2010/03/use-of-causal-loop-diagrams-in-building-high-performance-ehs-teams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Redinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emerging Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Performance Teams]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal Mastery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Team Vision]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have worked with several EHS departments to increase their performance and cohesiveness.  In partnership, we’ve addressed performance beyond simply meeting regulatory compliance, rather looking at ways they could integrate EHS deeper into the organization and impact sustainability and CSR.  A starting place in all of these engagements has been to get the EHS management system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISO 31000 on Risk Management Published</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicehs.com/2010/02/iso-31000-on-risk-management-published/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicehs.com/2010/02/iso-31000-on-risk-management-published/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Redinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[High Performance Teams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISO News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many EHS professionals are familiar with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) from its widely known management systems, ISO 9001 and 14001.   Over the past five years, that has been activities to extend ISO more explicitly into the area of risk management.  Their first two management systems (9001 and 14001) are essentially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a New Story</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicehs.com/2010/02/creating-a-new-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Redinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[High Performance Teams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Mastery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty Sue Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pegasus Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Senge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Universe Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Berry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In their presentation at the 18th Annual Pegasus Conference, Peter Senge and Betty Sue Flowers spoke about leadership and the role that story and myth play in guiding leaders. Leadership, they argued, is about the future, the story that is created and communicated.
Oftentimes, leaders don&#8217;t think that they can alter the story. Senge and Flowers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EHS Professionals as Change Agents</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicehs.com/2010/01/ehs-professionals-as-change-agents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicehs.com/2010/01/ehs-professionals-as-change-agents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Redinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[High Performance Teams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Mastery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barrick Gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Huber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Ritz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the NAEM Forum, Don Ritz and Bruce Huber of Barrick Gold led a session called &#8220;The EHS Manager as a Change Agent.&#8221; In this session, they put forth that EHS professionals can and must view themselves as change agents in organizations, and presented a process similar to the Seven Steps of EHS Integration developed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Down Silos in the EHS Department: Interconnection, Not Separation</title>
		<link>http://www.strategicehs.com/2010/01/breaking-down-silos-in-the-ehs-department-interconnection-not-separation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.strategicehs.com/2010/01/breaking-down-silos-in-the-ehs-department-interconnection-not-separation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Redinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[High Performance Teams]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Rifkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Passacanando]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his keynote address at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition (AIHCE) in Minneapolis, economist and futurist Jeremy Rifkin stated that the most basic human instinct is to embody relationship&#8211;that is, to be connected with others. He spoke of the &#8220;struggle to be,&#8221; and argued that it is imperative to reach out to and [...]]]></description>
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