Tuesday, October 27th, Mitch Matthews
Mitch’s podcast DREAM THINK DO is in the top 0.5% of all podcasts!
To find out more about Mitch’s DREAM THINK DO podcast, please visit: www.mitchmatthews.com/podcast
Get the buy-in, build the connections, and bring tangible tools back to your team!
In this engaging and interactive keynote session, Mitch Matthews tackles one of the biggest challenges facing EH&S professionals: How do you get people to actually care about safety?
The answer? Lead with curiosity.
Mitch offers a powerful and proven question-based strategy that will increase your ability to inspire buy-in, spark innovative solutions, and help you understand the “why” behind human behavior and decision-making. Because let’s face it – some days are harder than others, and traditional approaches don’t always work.
• Use “Solution-Based Thinking” to navigate those frustrating moments when people just don’t get it
• Take new ideas from conferences like this one and successfully spread them back to your team (without hitting that dreaded brick wall)
• Build meaningful connections with fellow professionals who truly understand the challenges you face
• Lead with more curiosity, creativity, and resilience – even on the toughest days
Plus, these tools work at work AND at home! (Yes, even with teenagers.)
As Mitch likes to say: “True innovation doesn’t take a 2-day retreat – it can simply come from two minutes spent with a better question.”
inspiration – it’s transformation you can implement today.
Wednesday, October 28th, Bob Edwards
Bob Edwards is a Human & Organizational Performance (HOP) practitioner. Bob will share with you what he knows and what he does to help organizations gain a deeper understanding of their operations and the complex nature of work. He will also show how, through collaboration and mutual respect, organizations are becoming more reliable and resilient. Bob has a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University and MS degree in Advanced Safety Engineering Management from the University of Alabama Birmingham. His work experience includes time as a maintenance man, soldier in the U.S. Army, a design engineer, maintenance and technical support leader, safety leader and assistant plant manager. He is also the Co-Author of “Bob’s Guide to Operational Learning.”
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
In our work, Human and Organizational Performance (HOP), we believe that great leaders, make great decisions, if they have great information. Too often, it is a data input problem. People are afraid to tell us how they really do their work. If we can become more curious about how work actually gets done instead of how we think it gets done, we will make better decisions as leaders. Human & Organizational Performance is not some shiny program offering rewards for people behaving better or not getting hurt. HOP opens our minds to the reality that work is often messy and very complex and rarely, if ever goes to plan. With this said, we are still mostly successful, due to the incredible adaptation and resilience of our workforce. Our people aren’t perfect, our processes and procedures aren’t perfect and our equipment, certainly isn’t perfect after we start using it. When things don’t go well, we strategically need to choose to learn and improve instead of finding someone to blame and punish. HOP is not trying to replace any programs or initiatives that you might have in your organization. HOP is trying to help us better navigate the complex world of work realizing the deepest understanding of the how work gets done and what we need to do to improve it, often comes from the workforce if they feel safe enough to tell us the truth.