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Afternoon all We (I say we, I mean me) are running a small local safety conference for some of the local depots as a general get together and update on what’s going on and It is something that I have been tasked to put together. I have looked at what others within my company have done for their areas and I got bored myself just looking at the slides. Now how can I make it interesting and informative, without being condescending (which I believe the ones that put in cartoon and such can be) and without boring the pants of people within the first 5 minutes. I'm not going to talk about KPI's well simply because they get that all the time in one meeting or another and I do not have the budget to bring in a guest speaker. So any ideas on how I can keep it fun, interesting and above all positive!?
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If you can source a couple of 20 minute relevant Health and Safety films for your people to watch then have an interactive session afterwards that should normally do the trick Mr Flibble. KPI presentations bore the pants off me likewise statistics thrown up on a screen. If you can get a freebee guest speaker in then that would be great. Good luck to you.
Regards
Franky
Edited by user 10 February 2017 12:59:09(UTC)
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I'm not going to teach you suck eggs,,, raw egg is potentially hazardous! (you can have that one for free).
But seriously, start by figuring out how much time you've got on the day and how much of that will be taken up by the real purpose of the meeting (assuming there's a genuine purpose to the meeting) then you know how much you've got to play with.
Consider the nature of the audiance and what knowledge they already have. Consider also what type of people they are, scaffolders aren't interested in forecasts unless it's the weather and safety managers will switch off if you start spouting basic principles.
I would personally inject humour because that's my style of presenting. Humour will engage people and being serious about the stuff that really matters will give it more gravitas.
I'm guessing that like most of us not that much of any serious consequence has happened recently so there's no lesson's learnt to be shared. if that's the case look to cases from elsewhere you could learn from.
If all else fails there are thousands of funny accident clips on YouTube.
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What about asking your safety suppliers to come in and give demos of what they sell/why they sell them - takes the onus off you and allows a bot of hands on touchy feely of potential new products - might help generate ideas of what would impriove safety based on what they are shown. Of course the downside to this is that they might see something they all want which costs the earth and can't be supplied by your company :-)
Just a thought anyway. Might not work - depends on your set up I guess and what type of safety equipment you use (PPE, LOTO, inspection systems, signage etc)
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How about focusing on the soft skills-usually referred to as touchy feely c**p! Less about rule and regulations and more about getting the bods on the ground to think and do safety:improving the culture and getting
managers involved and leading the whole thing.
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I was aksed to do a presentation to an engineering company involved in MV/HV installation works. I came at it from a different perspective and asked a simpe,question, "so, what exactly is safe?" Threw up some of the usual horror pics and the fols (about 120) had to shout out safe or not safe, got everybody engaged straight away. Fun part was that the last 3 pics showed extreme sports....safe or not safe not so easy then, that got people talking.
If you can engage people early you can hold their attention.
I threw in 2 exercise during the presentation and then get each table to provide feedback to all.
Happy to share the presentation if you PM me with your email.
Jonty
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A great tip for anyone who is doing any sort of presentation that's aimed at a diverse audience is to try to tell a story. Everyone loves a story so using the tips that have been prsented to you above, build a narative. You could use an intersting case study if you want and intertwine humour, pictures, videos and even stats to build upon that narative and help you deliver in a softer, more memorable way, the information you wish to. Everyone loves a story, this is how marketing works.
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I've just run two conference sessions both at 1 hour apiece and had superb feedback as the original perception was that "HSE was going to be real boring"!!
This was my format:-
- Both sessions were to an audience of approx 65-75 people ranging from junior to senior/exec managers.
- Different business backgrounds ranging from office to warehouse to operational manufacturing plus some overseas too.
- For the 1 hour session, I did a quick 12-15 minute intro and overview - two powerpoint slides (yes 2!) tailored to the audience and conference message. This was a quick look-back over 2016 and look forward to 2017 and beyond.
- Then, 3x "market stalls" of 12 minutes each - each market stall had to be visited one at a time - this meant that the audience had to get up and move around the conference room.
- Market stalls were interactive - titles of"Where do you want to work?"; "Incident Management" and "Get it Right First Time".......
- At the end of the three sessions each person was requested to make a personal commitment to making just one HSE improvement in their area of responsibility - raised via our internal hazard reporting system.
- Finished with a brief summary and Q+A.
It was great with lots of interest, engagement and so on. It was also collaborative too breaking down silo mentality that sometimes occurs.
Hope that this makes sense and helps.
Kind regards
Pete
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