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This Month’s Topic: Leadership and Unleashing Talent
Warren Bennis said: “Leaders are people, who are able to express themselves fully, they also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain their co-operation and support.’ This latter point of engaging people to gain their support is critical to harnessing their potential in order to achieve superior performance and is the Club’s key theme for the next month.
Our workshop on 18th March focuses on “Unleashing Talent and Celebrating Success” at Centrica-Hydro Carbon Resources (HRL). HRL is responsible for extracting and processing natural gas from reservoirs beneath Morecambe Bay and delivering this to the National Grid for onward distribution and sale by British Gas. In this “High Hazard” environment, teamwork is vital. A command and control structure has to exist, both because of legislative drivers and to ensure the delivery of real-time process operations. Alongside this, however, engagement of employees is vital to ensure mission success. Using a variety of formal, union backed, structures and informal targeted communications, Centrica-Hydro Carbon Resources attempts to deliver reward and recognition where it is due, promoting values and behaviours that lead to employee commitment, retention and business success.
Look on the website at Employee Suggestion Schemes to find out more and get yourself booked for this meeting. For related information on this fascinating topic, including related subjects, clickUnleashing Talent |
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H&S SIG: The Effective Management of Change and its Impact on H&S and Incident Investigation Best Practice
This session’s focus on effective change management will use Incident Investigation Best Practice as the driver for change: Best Practice investigation techniques will be examined in line with legal and regulatory requirements & obligations. Having an excellent investigation process should dramatically reduce the likelihood of incident recurrence. Our guest speaker on this day is Steve Jackson the Business Support Manager at Hydrocarbon Resources. Steve also chairs the Best Practice Club's Special Interest Group (SIG) on Change Management, so is well qualified to present some elements of the subject at our meeting today.
Our other speaker for this driver for change is Vince Fisher (formerly of AWE) who has had a long career in the petrochemical and nuclear industries working on major projects in the UK and Europe. In recent years he has turned his attention to Operational Experience Feedback – Learning from Experience – and was chair of the UK Nuclear Industry’s Learning Group on Operational Experience. If you’re interested in finding out more please look at the website at Change Impact on H&S. |
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Learning from the Best: Rigorous TRADE Benchmarking Methodology
The whole concept of “stealing with pride from the best” is the lubrication that keeps the wheels of Best Practice dissemination and learning from others turning. The challenge for most organisations is that whilst they will be increasing their use of benchmarking in the future to improve their performance, they need a more rigorous and consistent benchmarking methodology to allow them to fully exploit its benefits. This is the reason for our focus on Benchmarking and the launch last year, in partnership with the Centre for Organisational Excellence Research and supported by Quality Scotland and London Excellence, of our TRADE Benchmarking Methodology. The first two courses we ran were extremely well received and the next courses will take place on 15/16 and 21/22 April. Email Benchmarking for more details |
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Stop Press: Senior Stakeholder Buy In
This event on 27th April is a must for everyone interested in delivering results through the effective management and engagement of senior stakeholders!
If you’re looking to deliver results through the effective delivery of a change initiative, it is critically important to understand and strengthen your relationships with your senior stakeholders in order to secure their support. Undoubtedly their perspectives and priorities will change over the lifetime of the initiative so the ongoing and dynamic management of senior stakeholders is a significant activity. This workshop, hosted by Wiltshire Police and Swindon Council, will allow superior practices in two complex environments with a multiplicity of demanding stakeholders, to be shared.
Look on the website at Engaging Senior Stakeholders to find out more and get yourself booked for this meeting. |
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Remember!
To register your interest for our upcoming club workshops and courses (click here):
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18 March: Employee Suggestion Schemes |
Host: Centrica-Hydro Carbon Resources |
Venue: Heysham |
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23 March: H&S SIG - The Effective Management of Change and its Impact on HSE |
Host: EDF Energy |
Venue: Cottam |
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15/16 April: TRADE Professional Benchmarking Training |
Host: Best Practice Club |
Venue: Glasgow |
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21/22 April: TRADE Professional Benchmarking Training |
Host: Best Practice Club |
Venue: London |
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27 April: Senior Stakeholder Buy In |
Host: Wiltshire Police |
Venue: Swindon |
All the best,
Ray Wilkinson
P.S. Please feel free to forward to your colleagues
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