Ron Newton

Ron Newton is the president of PEAK Training Solutions and the author of the top-rated business book No Jerks on the Job. Ron founded PEAK when business leaders and insurers asked him to help them improve employee engagement in change-resistant work environments through ‘soft skills’ training. Previously, he directed a rugged wilderness camp program to rehabilitate troubled teens. Newton is a Dallas Theological Seminary graduate.

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Is Civility Killing Risk Management? (Part 2)

Ron Newton

The focus on safety has become a social change movement, led by HR and focused on relational sensitivity, that should worry insurers.

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Is Civility Killing Risk Management? (Part 1)

Ron Newton

HR departments have taken control of safety away from the professionals, and that could cause major problems.

Breaking Through The Barrier Of Hardnosed Workers, Part 2

Ron Newton

What the Cycle of Rejection illustrates is the futility of thinking that command will result in the control of hardnosers. Quite the opposite. But while it's folly to follow this path of thinking, there is an even more damaging option to choose: doing nothing.|

Breaking Through The Barrier Of Hardnosed Workers, Part 1

Ron Newton

A hardnosed worker is a self-destructive, emotionally self-centered, uncontrollable person who would rather cut-and-run than commit.|

Breaking The Grip Of Unresolved Conflict

Ron Newton

The answer to addressing the personal factors of loss causation must lie in equipping current line level supervisors — those most likely to first identify an interpersonal conflict in their work area — with the people skills and method to accomplish interpersonal conflict resolution.|