Brilliant Basics
This Brilliant Basic is Amazon's top priority in every operation, ensuring that employees return home in the same condition they arrived.
What is Safety?
This unique program involves senior leadership meeting with associates on their birthday month to gather feedback and discuss their experiences at Amazon.
What is Birthday Roundtable (BRT)?
This program ensures that employee feedback is heard and used to drive improvement in the workplace.
What is Voice of the Associate?
This safety tool houses actions related to Evacuations and Shelter in Place.
What is RallyPointNative?
In the classic board game "Hungry Hungry Hippos", players compete to collect these.
What are marbles?
Amazon aims to evaluate this Brilliant Basic by quantifying execution as it relates to shift plans, elevating concerns, opportunities and data driven input from the management team to ensure plans are as efficient as possible.
What is Cost?
This Amazon program focuses on enhancing the associate experience by providing tools and resources for managers to connect with their teams and improve workplace satisfaction.
What is the Engage portal?
This partnership program encourages leaders to visit the front lines of the operation to observe processes firsthand and identify opportunities for improvement.
What is Gemba?
This metric is used to measure how effectively leaders promote and maintain a strong safety culture within their teams.
What is Safety Leadership Index (SLI)?
Despite their appearance, hippos are mainly this type of feeder.
What are herbivores?
This dual-purpose Brilliant Basic showcases Amazon's commitment to ensuring that every product or service meets the highest standards.
What is Quality & Customer Experience?
This program gives associates the opportunity to provide feedback by answering a daily question on their computer or other device. It is an important mechanism for providing regular feedback on how managers can continue to make Amazon a place where builders can build on behalf of customers.
What are Connections Questions?
This partnership program focuses on helping associates prepare for shifts with a daily routine that includes stretching and safety updates.
What is Start Up?
This safety tool houses incident guides for any workplace situation and the site ERP (Emergency Response Plan).
What is Konexus?
Hippos have this many stomach chambers, similar to ruminates like cows.
What are three?
Amazon believes in investing in this Brilliant Basic, recognizing that they are the company's most valuable asset.
What are People?
This metric measures effectiveness of leaders based on associate feedback regarding how well they embody and exemplify Amazon's leadership principles. Common themes include competence and decision making, effective communication and empowering employees.
What is Leadership Behavior Index (LBI)?
This partnership initiative fosters a culture of safety by connecting leaders and associates to share best practices and continuously improve workplace safety.
What is the Safety Climate Network?
This Amazon hotline allows employees to report safety concerns, incidents and potential threats directly.
What is Global Security Operations Center (GSOC)?
The famous "Hippopotamus Ballet" sequence appears in this Disney animated film.
What is "Fantasia"?
Overall execution refers to this Brilliant Basic, ensuring that objectives are met on time and within budget.
What is Nail the Plan?
This leadership development program records structured conversations for T3 through L8 leaders with templates provided to ensure a consistent mechanism for holding 1:1's.
What is Thrive?
The term "Gemba" is a Japanese word that translates to this phrase in English.
What is "the real place" or "the actual place"?
This weekly operations audit consists of multiple sections (General, Ergonomics, etc) and takes a mixed approach, often leading to generated Austin actions to be completed within a designated timeframe.
What is a Risk Based Inspection (RBI)?
This popular children's song features a hippo as one of the animals you might see on a safari.
What is "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas"?