We are in the peak of our 2024 Spring outage season. Last week we had 2600 craft working 161K hours on 160+ jobs. So far this year we have 4K+ craft working 1.3M hours on 500+ jobs.
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The 2024 Spring outage season is upon us. Last week we had 1920 craft working 111K hours on 100+ sites. Safety and Quality continues to be our focus. And we have had an excellent start to the year – ZERO injuries and events plus 15 STOP Works, 281 Hazard Hunts, and 815 Open Reports, 76% Leadership Tool Use & 88% Preventive Actions identified to SERs
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Last week was a busy week making GE Vernova & APM better! We had 20+ APM folks join 5 kaizens in 3 locations. Please see this video link with my reflections along with the attached summary of 1FS kaizen week.
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Wow! What a night! We celebrate the very best, not only in APM, but in the world of power gen craft services. I am confident you agree. To all the Award Winners: Congrats! The recognition is well deserved …
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As we close the year, I want to thank all of YOU for our work together in 2023. The year was not perfect – we had our challenges, particularly with safety and quality in the first half. Yet I am very proud in how we are finishing the year. We rallied this summer, put strategies in place, and have executed significantly better this fall. We have strong execution momentum (“mojo”) heading into 2024 …
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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It has special memories for our family, it is an opportunity to combine food and football, and especially it provides a few days to focus on being thankful. Because of this, my family and I have a yearly tradition of creating a turkey hand drawing. Read more below…
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World Quality Week is coming up next month, so I have asked some of our leaders to share their insights as we prepare to focus on this value. Read more below…
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As we look back on Global EHS Day, I first say thank you to all who engaged – those who coordinated our activities, led presentations, visited jobsites, and especially our field teams who were recognized for…
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As you saw in our Weekly EHS Report this past Monday, our Learning and Development Team has created a video demonstrating the Management by Walking Around “MBWA” in collaboration with our partner, Paul Balmert…
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As we look toward the U.S. Labor Day holiday this coming Monday, I encourage you all to make time for reflection (What went well? What can I improve?) and to prepare your minds for the coming outage season (What do I need to deliver success?)…
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In my below video, I share reflections from our Safety & Quality reset and recent LDC activity. Within 3 weeks, our LDC has hosted 8 training events with ~400 people, as well as additional partner events…
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We are excited to see many of you next week for the Safety & Quality Reset Event. Below is a special note from Bryan Williams and Scott Ranaldi, our Safety & Quality Directors, to help you prepare for next week.
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Earlier this summer we launched our first ever employee experience survey. The goal for this process was to better understand what YOU value – where we deliver strongly on your expectations and where we could improve the experience you have in a meaningful way.
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Over the past week I have been “catching up” on some actions and some reading. In my read box was this article titled On Followership from our friend and mentor Paul Balmert.
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CBS … Its about people … We are a people biz!
Today, along with Katie Maldonado, Mike Bush, & Mike Kehl, we had the pleasure of welcoming 30+ new Superintendents to APM via a discussion of our Safety Keystone (i.e., CBS) philosophy. In preparing for the discussion, I had opportunity again to reflect on the impact our friend and mentor, Bob Veazie – the originator of CBS, had on our business.
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As we finish out this year, I wanted to say THANK YOU for all of your dedication and hard work throughout the year.
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As we close this unprecedented year, we reflect on many things. Together, we have overcome many challenges in 2020, and we should be proud of the effort and results we have delivered. THANK YOU!
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How meaningful for you is having a workplace culture that expects empathy and respect for all?
I am thankful for each of you, and I am thankful for the collective performance we are delivering in these challenging times. Last week we had over 2900 employees working over 140,000 hours on over 200 sites across North America and beyond, and we are executing that work with minimal disruption despite the COVID challenges. Even more, we continue to see improvement in our culture, in our safety and quality outcomes, in the experiences we are delivering for our employees and customers. We do essential work – we keep the lights on – and we are doing it well. Thank you!
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Resilience is the ability to quickly recover from difficulties, it is the ability to get up quickly after you are knocked down, it is being tough throughout hardships. We must be resilient and be able to get up after any difficulties we face.
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Last October 2019 was a first for APM. We were invited to the table to sit with GE Chairman Larry Culp, alongside GE Gas Power leadership, to present a vision and strategy for renewing the safety culture at GE. To kick off the meeting, I was asked to present the safety moment, which was a highlight of a safety workout in September between GE-FC-APM & Entergy, one of our customers, hosted at the APM LDC.
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