Intelligent Felt Leadership

Introduction

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 GLOMACS Intelligent Felt Leadership training course 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

Objectives

At the end of this Intelligent Felt Leadership 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

Training Methodology

Participants in this training course will receive thorough training on the subjects covered by the training course outline with a highly experienced tutor utilizing a variety of proven adult learning teaching and facilitation techniques. This will include active participation during the training course using exercises 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.

Organisational Impact

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

Personal Impact

The participants 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