Management and Leadership Skills for Environmental Health and Safety Professionals 2018

Management and Leadership Skills for Environmental Health and Safety Professionals is organized by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Executive and Continuing Professional Education (ECPE) and will be held during Mar 19 - 22, 2018 at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Course Description :
In this continuing education course, you will develop the management skills needed to improve the EHS function in your organization while gaining the leadership skills needed to lead teams, make decisions, build stakeholder buy-in, and generate and sustain change. You will participate in focused skill building in the critical areas of leadership and management development with the objective of bridging the gap between environmental health and safety technical skills and leadership skills essential for achieving functional excellence.

As you move higher in your organization, the requirements for technical environmental health skills give way to requirements for management skills. You will need to develop clear goals and objectives that tie environmental health and safety outcomes to corporate goals, develop strategies to achieve these objectives, establish expectations, delegate to team members, and measure outcomes.

Management Training for EHS Professionals :
In this course you will learn principles imperative to your success as a manager, including:
• Managing and motivating people
• Negotiation and conflict resolution
• Effective business communication
• Risk communication
• Listening as a communication skill
• Time management and utilization
• Strategic and business planning for results
• Regulatory affairs management
• Professional ethics and legal issues of management
• Building EHS management systems.

Conference Objectives are :
• Develop clear objectives, goals, strategies, and measures for integrating health, safety, and the environment into the culture of your organization
• Create specific methods for pitching occupational health, safety, and environmental initiatives to organizational decision makers
• Employ listening skills to develop more effective negotiation and conflict-resolution techniques
• Establish measurable expectations for your services by identifying appropriate performance metrics and implementing a performance measurement system for accountability
• Manage time effectively and coach others in this practice
• Write and speak clearly and concisely in the language of the customer
• Identify the best possible course of action and prioritize work that is both urgent and important
• Meet common challenges with proven techniques in risk communication
• Use the most appropriate management style for every situation
• Integrate sustainability objectives into EHS management systems
• Understand the characteristics of both a transactional and transformational leader
• Develop specific skill sets required to become more transformational
• Understand the role transformational leadership plays in achieving functional excellence in safety and other critical business areas
• Assess your organization’s and your own current transformational level