Intelligent Felt Leadership is essential for the success of any Health and Safety (H&S) Management System, as it empowers leaders to actively engage with their workforce in promoting a culture of safety. By embodying safety practices themselves and making safety a visible priority, leaders foster trust and commitment from employees. This visible leadership, coupled with clear communication and positive reinforcement, directly influences safety behaviours, helping reduce unsafe actions and conditions. Leaders who understand the dynamics of team development can effectively influence change, ensuring safety becomes ingrained in the workplace culture.
The Intelligent Felt Leadership training course enhances leadership capabilities by teaching leaders how to engage meaningfully with their teams and influence positive safety outcomes. It equips managers with proven techniques for building trust, promoting safety excellence, and leading change within the organization. By understanding team dynamics and applying strategies for influencing behaviour, leaders can drive lasting improvements in safety culture. This training course ultimately helps leaders make a visible and impactful difference, creating a safer, more proactive work environment.
This Energy Training Centre will highlight:
- The true meaning of Intelligent Felt Leadership
- Successful health and safety leadership
- The role and qualities of visible leaders
- Team development and human factors
- How to influence change and safety improvement
- The benefits of Intelligent Felt Leadership
At the end of this training course, you will learn to:
- Appreciate the qualities of Intelligent Felt Leadership
- Understand the importance of felt leadership
- Develop the skills for successful felt Leadership
- Understand how to influence change and maximize safety performance
- Understand the business benefits of Intelligent Felt Leadership
Participants in this training course will receive thorough training on the subjects covered by the outline with a highly experienced tutor utilizing a variety of proven adult learning teaching and facilitation techniques. This will include active participation during the programme using exercises, case studies and open discussion forums. The videos shown will encourage further discussions and delegates are encouraged to bring forth and share their own experiences and issues from their organisation.
By developing managers and supervisors to become Intelligent Felt Leaders an organisation will ensure they are effectively controlling risks and enhancing their reputation and profile. The organisational impact will be:
- The professional development of Leaders and Managers
- Improved safety systems, control and behaviour
- Team development and the benefits
- The ability to reduce accidents and business losses in the workplace
- Leaders better equipped to prevent or manage adverse events
- The capacity to increase profitability
Participants attending this training course will learn how to become an Intelligent Felt Leader using a variety of proven management techniques and interpersonal skills. The personal impact will be:
- Developing the necessary skills for Intelligent Felt Leadership
- Learning how to motivate individuals to implement health and safety
- Increased knowledge in evaluating health and safety performance
- Appreciating the importance of human factors and teamwork
- Understanding the benefits of successful health and safety
This Intelligent Felt Leadership training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- All line managers, supervisors and team leaders
- HSE personnel
- Any other personnel who are involved in leading, managing or supervising the organisation’s HSE management system
Day One: Introduction to Intelligent Felt Leadership
- Understanding Intelligent Felt Leadership
- Key principles and concepts of Intelligent Felt Leadership
- The role and qualities of a Visible Leader
- Characteristics of effective leaders
- Intelligent Felt Leadership in action
Day Two: Communication and Engagement
- The role of leaders, managers and supervisors
- Responsibilities and accountabilities
- Accident causation and making the safety case
- Effective workforce engagement and consultation
- Motivation and demotivation at work
- Communicating the safety message
Day Three: Leadership, Safety Culture and Safety Climate
- Safety culture and safety climate
- The influence factor
- Intelligent Felt Leadership and culture
- Strategies to foster a safety-first mindset
- Improving safety performance
- Behaviour and culture
Day Four: Team Development and Human Factors
- Developing effective teams
- Influencing organizational change
- Identifying critical behaviours to improve safety performance
- Motivation and demotivation at work
- Key performance indicators
- Success factors and barriers
Day Five: Intelligent Felt Leadership Development
- Leadership Development Strategies
- Continuous learning and development
- Building a leadership development plan
- Intelligent Felt Leadership - Success factors and barriers
- The importance of performance monitoring for continual improvement
- Celebrating achievements