George’s Safety Reflections – read a whole lot more HERE
Many OHS professionals think they can be successful with technical skills alone, the reality is that a broad range of additional skills are required.
Key Success Factors
- Develop objectives and goals for what you do, if you do not know where you want to go you cannot go there
- Produce and expect succinct documentation
- Have huge but realistic goals
- Do the simplest thing that will work
- Remember the 7 P rule-Prior Preparation and Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.
- Celebrate success
- Ask for and give regular feedback
- Identify and separate customer needs from wants
- Use face to face communication whenever possible
- Use real world approaches not theory
- Get some runs on the board quickly
- Do what gives you the biggest bang for your buck
- It is often the relationships you build not your technical skills that ensures success
- Keep promises
- Know your people and be gentle with them, treat others with respect
- Carefully define the scope of any project you take on
- COMMUNICATE, COMMUNICATE, COMMUNICATE in a way that inspires
- Use a continuous improvement / quality management approach
- Give something free
- Communicate your expectations
- Do not take yourself too seriously and enjoy what you do
- Every now and again do something really silly
- Strategic approaches are important but make sure you spend enough time in the field that you do not lose contact with the everyday reality of how the business is managed
- Be on time for meetings and appointments. It shows your commitment to others.
PS: I know there are 24 but one of our readers suggested another one that we had to add
For a fuller exploration of this topic refer to Key Success Factors on ohschange.com.au