Richard Hawk

• How cutting-edge companies save valuable resources by getting past the “incident rate syndrome”
• Why savvy leaders spend more time and money on non-typical safety issues once they have low incident rates
• Several processes they can easily implement to improve the overall mental and physical health of employees
• Why emotions rule human behavior and how to use this scientific fact to inspire employees to live safer and healthier lives
• How to give employees the confidence to greet changes with open arms and minds
• How to “get more bang for your safety budget bucks” while improving performance
• The HAWK (Health, Awareness, Working together, Knowledge) method for creating a vibrant safety culture

Using your personal energy to stimulate world-class safety Performance

Discover habits and skills that will make you a more powerful safety leader. You’ll learn how to spread your personal energy throughout your company and community to make good things happen. You’ll leave with the YOU POWER! know-how to improve your companies’ safety performance.

Proven Methods for Handling Stress and Reducing its Impact on Performance It’s a fact that in today’s fast-paced world, we are expected to get more done with fewer resources. This kind of stress can affect people’s safety performance. In fact, according to the American Psychological Association, stress is a major factor in many accidents. During this in-depth training, participants will learn how to attack stress – the modern epidemic. Whether it’s stress due to a frantic work schedule or unexpected life changes, they will discover proven ways to handle day-to-day stressors. And, the workshop itself is a great stress reliever because it’s so much fun! Everyone attending will:

• Recognize how potent stress is and how it develops
• Discover how to handle pressure situations with minimal stress
• Learn how to appropriately have fun at work
• Understand that they have the power to change their outlook toward negative situations
• Begin an active program of self-improvement with respect to handling stress
• Utilize a five-step plan to minimize needless worry in the future
• Leave with a cache of easy-to-use weapons against daily stresses

Audience: “Attack Stress at Work” will help anyone in your organization learn how to handle stress better.

Lead the Way to an Accident‐Free Workplace Leaders face a special set of challenges when it comes to safety performance. Not only do they have to understand a wide array of safety requirements, but they also need to possess the social skills to influence people to perform better. This engaging training session helps leaders develop those skills and create a vibrant safety culture that everyone will buy in to. Participants will learn how to increase their influence as a safety leader and better inspire employees to take to heart their company’s safety and health values. Give your safety program a tune-up and make your workplace safer, starting immediately. Your leaders will learn how to:

• Maximize their personal impact and influence as a safety leader
• Listen with purpose to find out what’s really going on in the field
• Overcome the fatigue and apathy that blur employees’ focus and block their attention
• Market and sell the benefits of your safety program to employees
• Inspire and motivate employees to be proud of their safe behavior
• Reduce employee stress, a common root cause of accidents and health problems
• Develop a valuable in-house safety marketing plan that they will be able to use right away

Audience: Create a Vibrant Safety Culture is a must for any leader in your organization who has “safety” as one of their responsibilities.

Innovative Ideas to Keep Your Safety Program Fresh and Alive This mental workout will give you the power and the skills to create safety and health campaigns guaranteed to pump-up your employees. Let Richard take you on a surprising and wonderful ride that will strengthen your amazing imagination and hone your creativity. A stronger imagination will not only make you a better problem solver, but also give you the passion, know-how and ideas to revitalize all aspects of your safety program. Giving safety leaders fun and powerful techniques to liven-up their safety program is the main goal of this workshop. Through stories, exercises, demonstrations and songs, attendees will learn:

• What it means to imagine
• Why imagination is a powerful problem-solving tool
• How some of the great “imaginers” from the past and present (such as Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs) developed their skills
• Practical ways to hone their imagination and overcome obstacles that hinder imagination
• Ways to use their imagination to improve their safety program and add spice to their meetings and communications
• How imagination is a key factor in successful accident investigations

Audience: “Just Imagine!” is designed for anyone in your organization who needs to come up with fresh ideas and new ways to get your employees excited about your safety program.

Practical Ways to Turn Your Safety Presentations from Bland to GRAND! Let’s face it...safety meetings have a reputation for being boring. But they don’t have to be! Using the time-tested techniques in Spice It Up, your safety leaders can deliver captivating, compelling and memorable safety meetings that will promote safe behavior and reduce accidents. Participants will master various presentation skills and learn dozens of ways to take even the most mundane topic (even hazmat and confined space training) and turn it into an exciting learning experience. No more napping in your safety meetings! Participants will learn all the juicy details for delivering sensational safety presentations, including how to:

• Assess the audience to make presentations more alluring
• Create a great first impression and quickly develop rapport with the audience while stimulating their desire to hear more
• Develop a set of tools to keep the audience engaged
• Manage distractions and “difficult” audience members
• Avoid “death by PowerPoint” and creatively use visual and physical aides to arouse curiosity
• Cultivate and control their voice so it sounds more pleasing to listeners
• Persuade an audience to action and use closings that create a lasting, positive impression
• Structure powerful presentations, including defining goals, organizing thoughts and materials, creating a central theme and using a logical progression of ideas

Audience: “Spice It Up!” is a must for anyone in your organization who conducts safety meetings or safety training.