“Leadership for Safety Excellence”

This seminar, (half-day - informational or full day – actionable) explores the significant impact that ‘leadership’ has on elevating human performance to achieve safety excellence. The session examines the key difference(s) between managing and leading, and the typical employee responses to each…(the ‘have to’ Vs the ‘want to’ factor). Participants complete an ‘Organizational Leadership Assessment’, and an ‘Individual Leadership Profile’ which benchmarks perceptions of where the organization and their personal beliefs and practices are positioned along a ‘Leader – Manager’ spectrum. A reality discovered by many organizations is that they are; ‘over managed and under led’, resulting in less than optimum performance.

This session focuses on the question: “How did we manage to get ourselves into this state of affairs?” and tracks the evolution of management science and the key contributions made by management ‘gurus’ of their time; --Fayol, Taylor, Mayo, Drucker, Peters, Deming, Covey, and Senge. Looking forward, the challenge, which emerges, is best framed by Stephen Covey: “ We can’t manage ourselves out of situations we behave ourselves into.”This session then explores ‘Leader-Manager’ behavior by addressing five (5) key questions:

1) What is managing?
2) What is leading?
3) What are the differences?
4) What is the critical ‘common denominator’?…and
5) Which is most important to achieving performance excellence?

To answer these target questions; three performance models are constructed:

• The Management Model
• The Leadership Model
• The High Performance Model

In reviewing the ‘focus points’ of each, participants recognize that Peak Performance is not an ‘or’ issue…Excellence requires ‘Leadership and Management’. The program proceeds to identify the single most important test of a true leader, and addresses that leadership attribute most influential to ‘passing this test’—‘Employee Empowerment’. ‘Ten Guidelines’ of empowerment are reviewed, and participants engage in the development of a ‘Follower’s Bill of Rights’ based on these guides.

The seminar concludes by identifying the five (5) core roles of a Safety Leader, and presents a ten point ‘safety leadership’ checklist’ to guide leader actions… even when senior executives fail to exhibit visible commitment or active support to a safety process.

Does your organization have the two essential requisites necessary to become a ‘Safety Leadership’ organization? Engage your staff in this informative and revealing seminar to find out ‘the score’.
 

“Excellence is—A Test of Character”

Do you have a formal safety program? Do you conduct new employee safety orientation? Do you invest heavily in on-going safety training? Do you have comprehensive safety rules and ‘ SOP’s’? Do you do all these things, plus say your prayers, cross your fingers, and step over cracks… yet still have accidents? If you answered yes, (as most do), odds are your organization has a strong safety program, but a weak ‘safety character’!

This program introduces you to ‘Joe(sie)…just an average manager…a real character! It examines the concept of ‘safety character’…the ‘human dimensions’ of safety, (1. What ‘S/he’ believes; 2. What ‘S/he’ says; and 3. What ‘S/he’ does), and the powerful impact these have on work performance (safe Vs unsafe) and operational results (accident-free Vs accident full). The session utilizes assessments, and facilitated exercises to aid participants in recognizing how ‘core values’, the foundation of individual (and organizational) character, shape behaviors and influence performance. Participants engage in three discovery sessions:

• “It’s Kinda the Same…Only Different”—To identify how common values drive both ‘high performance’ and ‘low accident rates’.

• ‘S/he’s a Real Character”—To identify the existence of ‘Say/Do’ gaps in the organization that influence employee attitudes and impede performance, and

• “A Test of Character”—To expose key organizational beliefs and values, which need be changed or strengthened to achieve Safety Excellence.

When asked to share the single most important management lesson learned in their ‘Search for Excellence’, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman concluded: “Figure out your Values”. This seminar can help you do just that! Does your organization pass The ‘Test of Character’ for Safety Excellence?
 

Competencies of Superior Leaders
The Desirable Dozen!

This presentation identifies those attributes that differentiate the best Managers…HR, Operations, and Safety from all the rest. In order to be a World-Class safety organization, a company must have World-Class employees, and this, above all else, requires that an organization have World-Class Managers, a/k/a ‘Leaders’. This session summarizes the research on peak performance…the core competencies and key attributes of high performing leaders and managers.

The competencies of high performance managers are reviewed and participants are provided opportunity to rate current practices against the competencies of excellence. The deliverable from this session is an objective (individual or group) assessment of the organization’s Operations, HR, and Safety management competencies (strengths and weaknesses) as compared to excellence criteria. How would you fare in an assessment of The Desirable Dozen?

 

THESE POPULAR SEMINARS vary in length from 2-hour sessions to 1½-day seminars.  All sessions can be customized to meet your specific content or duration needs.  Please phone me at (315) 383-3801 or e-mail me to discuss any title listed, or to collaborate on a specific requirement you have.