This symposium will provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to:

• Analyze your organization’s business processes in order to integrate safety into its goals

• Use business skills to enhance communication with management and receive support for safety and health from management and the workforce

• Employ strategies to secure a seat at the key financial and strategic planning meetings and business skills needed to be an active participant

• Demonstrate to management the benefits safety and health contributes to the organization’s business goals

• Take away ideas, examples and strategies for improving safety performance through alignment with business goals from the 20 concurrent sessions on business tactics, negotiation skills, communication, risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis, influential leadership and other business strategies that strengthen your efforts to make the business case for safety

• Chuck Martin, recognized business strategist will deliver the keynote presentation on leveraging your safety leadership and lead you through a self-assessment process to evaluate your business acumen

• Roger Dawson, leading expert, author and speaker on power negotiating will share his winning techniques for negotiating any endeavor

• A panel of executive leaders from several corporations share their views on what influences their support for safety - What does it take to get the respect, recognition and resources you need to accomplish your organization’s safety goals?

• Case study roundtables to learn, interact and share information with attendees about successful techniques for linking safety to the business goals of the organization

 

Just added -- Course Materials:

Analyzing the Cost of Safety - Excel Files
Michael Behm, Ph.D., CSP
- Company A (xls)
- Company B (xls)

Using Safety Management Systems in Aviation as a Template for Aligning Safety with Business Strategy in Other Industries - pdf file
AJ Bayuk
- Presentation Paper (pdf)

Smarts - Hardwired for Success - pdf file
Chuck Martin
- Presentation Paper (pdf)

Audio Sessions Available:

Miss the Symposium? No problem; just use the order from below to order audio sessions from the event:
Audio Session Order Form (pdf)
Audio Session Order Form (doc)

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To Achieve Success, Start with SMARTS
Presented by Chuck Martin - President, NFI Research

The advantage of understanding executive skill strengths and weaknesses can be an enormous factor for you in leveraging your safety leadership. Chuck Martin, recognized business strategist, has developed a blueprint for leaders to quickly assess these skills and identify and tap into their greatest strengths as well as the strengths of those around them.

Based upon extensive research, Mr. Martin will explain the 12 executive skills that are critical to the success of any endeavor. Everyone possesses these skills but in varying degrees, explaining why we gravitate toward certain tasks and shy away from others. Changing this mix of strengths and weaknesses is not the issue, but more importantly, identifying who possesses what skills and what weaknesses will increase your understanding of how to interact with all levels in your organization and enhance your ability to be influential in selling the safety position.

Based upon his new book, SMARTS: Are We Hardwired for Success, Mr. Martin will lead you through a self-assessment to not only help you understand your strengths and weaknesses, but learn the process for identifying the 12 executive skills in others. This knowledge can be a step toward achieving the level of communication and recognition needed to make the safety connection with your organization’s leadership and practice what really works in today’s business world.

Sharing the stage with President Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Dr. Phil, and Lance Armstrong, Chuck Martin advises audiences and companies on how to best cope with today’s business challenges. CEO of international market research powerhouse, NFI Research, Martin overseas a global idea exchange and
research engine with a network base of 2,000 senior executives from more than 1,000 companies in 50 countries, including: AT&T, GE, American Express, Deloitte & Touche, Microsoft, and IBM.

The American Society of Safety Engineers is a leading provider of professional development programs for safety, health and environmental (SH&E) professionals seeking to achieve important career milestones and build critical skills, knowledge and connections for excellence in safety management.
As a leader in the SH&E profession since 1911, ASSE offers a wide range of challenging continuing education programs – including Certification Preparation Workshops, Certificate in Safety Management and the Executive Program in Safety Management – designed to help professionals gain critical knowledge, resources and skills to deliver quality safety programs in their organization. Our instructors, drawn from both the academic and business communities, bring academic integrity and real-world experience to the classroom.

ASSE would like to thank the following organization for their sponsorship of the Business of Safety: A Matter of Success Symposium.