Announcing New Supervisor Leadership Skills for a Safe Workplace Training

MELBOURNE, Australia - June 23, 2013 - PRLog -- Digicast Productions, a video communications agency, today launched an engaging online training course for supervisors and managers.  It’s designed specifically for companies who want to improve staff engagement with safety, motivate more safety contributions and improve poor supervisor communication skills.

Supervisors are integral when it comes to business performance.  Research has found that supervisor leadership skills drive job satisfaction, productivity, skills development and safety performance improvement.  

In other words, what supervisors demonstrate and expect from staff determines your level of safety and staff morale.

Companies who are finding that their safety performance is not improving or that staff just don’t seem to care about safety, often have a supervisor skill issue.

Improving leadership skills of front-line supervisors, not only improves safety, but also company profitability improves by 8.2% (according to research by Christine Boedker, Australian School of Business).

This one hour activity based online training has been designed to provide supervisors with the techniques to foster a thriving workplace that is engaged with safety matters, in order to reduce injuries.

The course is structured into six main topics:

   -The Importance of Supervisors
   -A New Workplace Culture Model
   -How to Connect Well with your Team
   -9 Connect & Collaborate Skills
   -Toolbox/Safety Meeting Best Practices
   -Using the Toolbox/Safety Meeting Template

The training is presented by Marie-Claire Ross, a workplace sociologist, who began her career working alongside advertising agencies and communication companies to improve Government and Commercial communication campaigns.

For the last 12 years, she has worked with companies such as Country Fire Authority and CSR Viridian on large scale workplace safety training campaigns.

Marie-Claire Ross says “For some time now, companies have asked me how could I improve their toolbox meetings.  Common complaints are that supervisors don’t have the skills to engage staff and that meetings can often be laborious and people don’t speak up.  This training course has been put together with some of the latest techniques to engage staff and will transform your safety meetings into a high performance machine that improves productivity, job satisfaction and of course, safety”.

To find out if your supervisors need training, download our free supervisor checklist called 18 Supervisor Behaviours that Produce a Thriving Safety Culture.

For those interested in finding out more about the training course visit: Supervisor Leadership Skills.  



About Digicast Productions

Established in 1991, Digicast is a communications agency that specializes in both internal and external communication.  Our communication programs work to change behavior from aligning staff with your culture, launching new initiatives and training staff to keep them safe and productive.  For more information, visit Digicast at http://www.digicast.com.au or The Workplace Communicator blog for training tips, http://www.digicast.com.au/blog.  
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