Glyn Jones, CRSP
Posted: May 26, 2021 8:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Professional Development
Safety practitioners need to consciously build their brand to gain sufficient non-hierarchical influence to drive change. Building a brand takes time, and establishing credibility with a growing audience requires real effort and focus. You will need to be seen as a savvy collaborator and it works like this: Collaborators get the opportunity to build their brand; people with strong brands have...
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Posted: May 14, 2021 1:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Professional Development
You're attending a CSSE conference or one of your local provincial conferences. It's Day 1 of the event and you're standing next to the registration desk. Given there will likely be 500+ people attending, how many people would you know or would know you? If the answer is not 100+, you have got some work to do on your network! In today's organizations, networking is essential to effective...
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Posted: May 4, 2021 10:10:00 AM ADT
Category: Professional Development
The power of volunteering has been known and well documented over the millennia. Most of the great leaders in history "cut their teeth" in volunteer roles before going on to greatness. Research now shows that volunteerism is associated with some other surprising benefits. Gordon Hinckle, a lifelong volunteer and American religious leader is quoted as saying this about volunteerism: "One of the...
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