{"id":1436,"date":"2013-02-11T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2013-02-11T10:43:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:43:46","slug":"tolerant-people-and-zero-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2013\/02\/11\/tolerant-people-and-zero-tolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolerant People and Zero Tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being tolerant of differences in humankind is not that same as a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Zero Tolerance <\/span>program. Accepting people\u2019s differences is something a civil society tries to do \u2013 some traits we are just born with.\u00a0 The term <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Zero Tolerance <\/span>in relation to drug abuse programs or cell phone use while driving have become common in many companies.\u00a0\u00a0 We strive to tolerate the uniqueness of humankind while having intolerance of \u00a0rule breakers.\u00a0 If it sounds harsh, rule breakers tend to take short cuts, skirt the law, not follow procedures and hope they don\u2019t get caught!\u00a0 Rule breakers cause inefficiency, errors, low morale and waste resources.<\/p>\n<p>In the workplace, we deserve what we tolerate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If we tolerate one employee being habitually late, what will others think?<\/li>\n<li>If one employee has a messy office, what does that say to others and customers?<\/li>\n<li>If our employees don\u2019t wear their safety glasses (management tolerates non-compliance) then when an accident happens, we will deserve to be scrutinized by our leadership and government.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>If our policy is to double check, what happens when that is not followed by all?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tolerations come in all shapes and sizes, drain energy and are usually something that needs to be done, fixed, removed or changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Typically, the energy to correct is less than the time and energy spent tolerating. Translating these energy drainers to the workplace often means the business is in danger of losing customers, causing stress or breaking laws.\u00a0 Zap tolerations when you find them because by permitting errors we are promoting those very errors.<\/p>\n<p>What is your business tolerating that you can fix this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being tolerant of differences in humankind is not that same as a \u201cZero Tolerance\u201d program. Accepting people\u2019s differences is something civil society does\u2013 some traits we are just born with and cannot change &#8211; like curly hair and brown eyes.\u00a0 The term \u201cZero Tolerance\u201d in relation to drug abuse programs or cell phone use while driving has become common in many companies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What happens when a company tolerates a messy office of one employee?\u00a0 What is the aftermath of tolerations?\u00a0\u00a0 What is your business tolerating right now that can be fixed this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,21],"tags":[52,53],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-improvement","category-business-management","category-image-marketing","tag-tolerance","tag-tolerant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}