Safety Leader Workshop (Melbourne)

Move from an Advisor to a Trusted Advisor, Leader and Influencer

Understand the macro and microenvironment of safety leadership - Make the transition from technical excellence to leadership influence - Awareness, action and accountability for sustainable success - Navigate internal silos, intricacies and interdependencies - Explore risk management, governance and interaction with executives - Step up and ensure you remain a technical expert as a leader - Stakeholder management and engagement - Improve self-awareness and self-reflection skills - Strategic career progression - Managing visibility and influence

WORKSHOP DAY ONE

Safety leadership in context with your business

▶Characteristics of a valued safety business partner

▶ Navigate key challenges of safety leaders, negotiating diversity and

inclusion biases

▶ Understand your organisation and how you can have the best impact

on safety at its core

▶ Align your strengths with the expectations of your organisation

Understand the macro environment of safety leadership

▶ Legal and legislative requirements around safety leadership in Australia

▶ Knowledge to interact state-by-state with regulators and legal systems

▶ Manage the requirement to be informed - Keeping up to date without

being swamped

▶ Complex interrelationships of multi-state and multi-entity businesses

Understand the microenvironment of safety leadership in your

organisation

▶ Explore your current business environment to ensure the most effective outcomes

▶ How does your organisation operate and interact with other businesses?

▶ Navigate internal silos, intricacies and interdependencies

▶ Risk management, governance and interaction with executive and

board level

Turning insights into action

▶ Safety leadership in WHS today

▶ Personalise the path to leadership and go your own way

▶ Setbacks and step-ups: Two sides of the same coin

▶ How to find the right mentors and support mechanisms to help you get to the next level

WORKSHOP DAY TWO

Step back to step up

▶ Make the transition from technical excellence to leadership

influence

▶ Step up and ensure you remain a technical expert as a leader

▶ Set career goals and an actionable plan to move your career in the

right direction

▶ Keep yourself to account and where to turn for assistance

People management in and out of safety teams

▶ Manage safety teams, retain and grow talent through effective

people management skills

▶ Tackle tough conversations and proactively manage sensitive issues

▶ Build trust-based relationships with internal and external

stakeholders

▶ Focus on individual and team performance to deliver results

Stakeholder management and engagement

▶ Manage upwards and influence with integrity

▶ Nurture strong internal and external relationships

▶ Deal with difficult people and learn how to negotiate effectively

▶ Manage competing agendas, tight timeframes, organisational

changes and confidentiality

Leaders in Safety think tank

▶ Wrap up discussion on key themes and your career action plan

▶ What will you do differently as a result of this program?

▶ How to stay on track when other priorities demand attention

▶ Tools and ideas to navigate obstacles and competing priorities