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“They absolutely loved you! Captivating yet influential and motivational, Garrison far exceeded expectations and was exactly the type of keynote speaker we were hoping for – still being talked about months later.”
– Amazon Global Safety Leadership
Dynamic, Customized And Funny
“They absolutely loved you! Captivating yet influential and motivational, Garrison far exceeded expectations and was exactly the type of keynote speaker we were hoping for – still being talked about months later.”
– Amazon Global Safety Leadership
Here’s what others had to say after hiring Garrison for their conference.
Programs
Influencing Safety
Whether you are trying to reduce your number of recordables or prevent a good safety record from creating complacency, this entertaining, customized session is more than just a safe bet. It will get your people laughing, learning and motivated to create a culture of safety while maintaining productivity.
This program focuses on developing the personal influence to make things stick, whether you’re helping leaders move change through their locations, dealing with COVID based issues or getting workers to look out for each other on the job site. Garrison is authentic – a guy who’s been there. He’s a chemical plant explosion survivor who has developed environmental safety products still in use worldwide. He expertly fuses his experiences into key takeaways such as how to build the trust and relationships that make consistent safety a reality. He delivers those takeaways using a humorous approach that will have a serious impact on your event.
What the Most Successful Safety Leaders Do Differently
We hear the term “employee engagement” a lot these days. We also hear how recognition, goal alignment and a clear path to success can create it. But how can engagement produce a sustainable culture of safety as we strive for zero incidents? By leaders making their employees the “heroes” of safety.
Drawing from Gallup research across 46 countries (research shows that engaged employees are 48% safer on the job than their disengaged counterparts), this highly informative and entertaining session reveals how skilled leaders at all levels create safety: They give employees what they value most—the feeling that they are valued. From this session, leaders acquire specific communication tools they can use to dramatically reduce resistance to change and to create a safer work environment. The impact of this program reaches far beyond the session itself, creating an emotional shift that fuels immediate implementation.
Frontline Supervisor Buy-In
It has long been known that frontline supervisors and foremen essentially run the day-to-day operations of an organization, but we often forget that their opinions and beliefs directly determine overall success. They carry such influence because people don’t really work for companies; they work for their direct supervisors. This hands-on (and gloves-off) customized, nonacademic session helps you get buy-in from those direct influencers by shifting their perspective toward creating a work culture that benefits them, their people, and the organization as a whole.
Customized Safety Leadership
The Truth About Awareness And Complacency
Garrison’s presentation can be tailored to focus on what’s most important to your group. Motivation, safety, communication and success tools mixed the way you like it. Below are segments that can be used to build a customized 30-minute to 1hr session.
- What really motivates people to be safe: The real truth about influence and belief systems
- How to get people to listen to you
- Engaged employees are safer and look out for each other
- We are our brother’s and sisters’ keeper: Awareness
- Being present in the moment: Creating a safety culture
- The truth about trust: Team building in action
- Generational differences: Making sure veterans are supportive of Gen Y and young employees respect experience
- Avoiding blame distribution: Working better together
- Getting buy-in and changing behaviors
- How to be right without making people wrong
- Making change work: Dealing with resistance
- Staying motivated by motivating others to be safe
Living Safe
Personal Safety Through Situational Awareness
Whether you’re traveling to the job site, on the job site, in your office or at home (your remote work
office) the key to personal safety is situational awareness. Most research shows that being present in the moment is the key to reducing incidents; but achieving that requires we understand how to make that a sustainable reality. This research based entertaining and enlightening session shows how anyone, anywhere can dramatically improve their chances of living a safer life and helping others do the same.
From ergonomics to economics this program shows how we can take the effective tactics and mindsets
that create the most successful safety cultures in the world and apply them our individual everyday lives.
Segments include:
- How relationships keep us safe (especially when we are alone)
- Situational awareness: separating the data from the drama
- Being present in the moment: how thoughts and beliefs create our actions
- The truth about trust: why we rely on certain things to keep us safe
- Hotel safety: Data from Marriott Global leadership and others on how to be safer in hotels
- Unsafe mindsets and mental health: Psychological safety in action
- Fight or flight: how your body understands danger and how you can use it
- How we can be safer everyday right now: Eliminating problems before the occur
How to get total buy-in from everyone
Whether you are trying to reduce your number of recordables or prevent a good safety record from creating complacency, this entertaining, customized presentation is more than just a safe bet. It will get you laughing, learning and motivated to create a culture of safety. With a focus on generational differences, the program explains why older employees get stuck in their ways and why younger people are more likely to snap a picture of a fire than run from it!
Creating A Culture Of Safety
Safety is not a priority — it’s a core value. Priorities can change but core values stay in place. While research points to the fact that groups that know, value, and listen to each other are dramatically safer than groups that don’t, it takes specific skills and effort to form a sustainable culture. This session provides the skills and belief systems to make that happen. From psychological wellness to embracing change, this entertaining, research-based program makes all your other safety initiatives much more likely to be implemented.
What the Most Successful Safety Leaders Do Differently
- What really motivates people to be safe: The real truth about influence
- How to get people to listen to you: the foundation of a safer culture
- Engaged employees are safer and look out for each other
- Being present in the moment: Situational awareness
- The truth about trust: Team building in action
- Generational differences: Making sure veterans are supportive of Gen Y and young employees respect experience
- Dealing with COVID19: social distancing does not mean no communication
- Getting buy-in and changing behaviors: new normal of PPE
- How to be right without making people wrong
- Making change work: Dealing with resistance
Virtual Breakout Sessions
- Topic #1 – Understanding Employee Engagement: Creating a safety culture
- What is it? Helping people understand that it’s not about how happy one is at work, but rather are the conditions right so they can be successful/safe
- Why is it Important? – Employee Engagement impacts everyone’s overall well-being
- Engagement Impacts Safety – demonstrating how engagement and a safe workplace go hand-in-hand
- Topic #2 – Team Engagement Quiz
- Team Engagement Quiz – Engagement survey generated by audience response system
- Areas of Opportunity – How do our scores impact our safety culture
- Topic #3 – Safety Action Planning Conversations
- Getting Started – understanding how engagement becomes part of how team’s work, daily
- Creating a Team Action Plan – Team discussion that centers on areas of opportunity and how to improve.
Deliverables: so you can never stop getting better
- Participant Guide (take home the events key information with your notes)
- Action Cards (great tool that you can use to improve and teach others)
- Safety Action Plan Worksheets (create and maintain your safety culture).
Breakout Overview
Participants will learn the importance of engagement and how it impacts the workplace and influences on safety. Each participant team will work together to identify opportunities for improvement with respect to driving a Safety Culture. Attendees will leave the session with a set of actions that they will take to ensure a productive and safe work environment.
Influencing Safety
How do you move safety through your organization?
How do you get buy-in?
How do you get people to do what you want them to do regardless of the circumstances?
“Engaged employees are more aware, less complacent and more likely to look out for each other. Incidents go down when morale goes up!” – Garrison Wynn
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With talents that established him as a Fortune 500 leader and professional stand-up comedian, Garrison Wynn, CSP, fuses comic timing and research to show how anyone can help create a culture of safety. He is authentic – a guy who’s been there. Wynn is a chemical plant explosion survivor with a background in industrial instrumentation. For 20 years, he has given keynote presentations to clients such as Exxon, BASF, the National Safety Council, Behavioral Science and Technology (BST), the NFL, and NASA. In his teens, he debuted the world’s first video gaming system with baseball legend Hank Aaron; and as a young man, Wynn spent six years touring comedy clubs with the top names in the business before going on to create industrial products still being sold in 30 countries.
Yes, I speak at about 100 events per year, and 20 percent of the time it’s to safety professionals or those leading and creating a safer direction in their organizations. Research I’ve done over the past 15 years shows that knowledge, experience and intelligence are somewhat irrelevant if you don’t have personal influence. To reduce the number of incidents within an organization, it takes more than really good ideas; it takes people buying into a repeatable culture of safety. Some of this research is the basis of my book The Real Truth about Success: What the Top 1% Do Differently, Why They Won’t Tell You, and How You Can Do It Anyway, which is now an Amazon.com best-seller. Of course, I make sure my delivery of that information is very entertaining. Comedy is truth, only faster!
“How to Get People to Do What You Want Them to Do”
is the overall theme of influence.”
Segments Will Include:
- Building trust in a minute or less
- Everyone knows something you don’t
- The foundation of influence (which anyone can master)
- How to create safer behaviors by understanding the real reason people don’t want to change and learning how to reverse that mindset
- Weird safety issues: Many people are hospitalized every year from eating Hot Pockets, which proves that we take risks when we value something else more than safety. (The fact that the thing we value in this case consistently turns out to be a Hot Pocket is as interesting as it is disturbing.) The word “hot” in the name of the product is apparently not enough to help reduce incidents. I’m sure the embarrassment alone reduces the recordables, which means the situation’s even worse than the statistics show.
- Avoiding mixed messages like “Be safe – but not so safe that we can’t have a long lunch!” What’s the underlying message there?! “Keeping all your digits intact is a pretty good thing, but it can’t compare to grabbing a burger and a 10-minute nap”?
- How to clearly explain the value of safety in 20 seconds
- Standing up for safety policies and not letting your personal opinions confuse people about what they are supposed to do
- Why some of the most talented people are so difficult to work with and what you can do about it
- Dealing with people under 30 and making sure we are not creating a safety issue for them by bragging about how brave we were back in the day
- How younger workers are different and how to motivate them (this includes your 22-year-old couch-dwelling son who plays video games for a living!)
- Watching out for each other. Do we have the relationships in place that make us and those around us safer? The guy everyone dislikes is usually the last person saved if the plant goes up in flames!
- You can’t lead by example if you’re a bad example.
Over 10 years, we anonymously surveyed 5,371 top performers regarding what makes them so successful. Many of them were safety professionals or people who work in hazardous industries. The research points to the power of influence and of making people feel valued.
- How to make sure you have good relationships with people around you so they are looking out for you on the job
- How to effectively hold people accountable for safety
- How to clearly communicate a more powerful safety message that is more likely to get buy-in quickly
- How to gain and maintain more personal influence
- How to get people to see the value of safety and how to consistently show them your personal value as well
Communicating safety through an organization is accomplished by looking at the truth about success.
Effective safety procedures and behaviors are spread through an organization through the building of good relationships and safety awareness. Below are some highlights of what top safety teams do that allow them to spread the message of safety through an organization.
- They know it is possible to do the job right and safely at the same time.
- They get rid of poison employees who bad-mouth safety.
- They get people to buy into safety by making sure they know what is in it for them.
- They know production quality and safety go hand-in-hand.
- They make sure their people understand the difference between accountability and responsibility.
- They help people create their own safety plans; people always support what they helped to create.
- They respect their boss and participate in the change process.
- They know the key to safety is making sure people are aware of their surroundings.
- They are present in the moment. The excuse “I was not thinking” is always false. Accidents happen when people are thinking, just not about the task at hand.
- They are not afraid to ask questions.
- They can clearly explain the safety procedures. Overcoming resistance to change and adapting to change are fueled by clear communications. When people are confused they are hesitant to act.
- They remember the critical five rules for communicating safety.
Top safety people deal with change and face reality: Culture change is possible! It has worked for others and it can work for you and your people. Remember safety and changing safety procedures are not the problem, resistance to this reality is.
A safety problem is one thing that is better to have heard about than experienced.
It means that you are held accountable for safety results. Your safety and the safety of your people are key components of your productivity.
Everyone should be held accountable for safety.
OSHA says it’s the law; a supervisor can get sued for safety negligence. You have a moral responsibility as well. We should look out for others whenever possible.
One way is in writing; accountability is in our corporate policies. We can also outline someone’s accountability verbally; we can clearly explain accountability and avoid blame distribution. Also, if you are willing to hold yourself accountable first, it becomes much easier to create accountability in others.
All the time: when he or she first sets foot on the property or job site, before any incidents occur.
You have to develop a why, to get them to excel in safety by choice because they want to, not because they have to. If you have built relationships on a strong foundation of trust and communication, you can dramatically improve people’s acceptance of accountability.
A series of conversations need to take place. This is not an overnight process. However, the first conversation may start like this:
“Our company is trying to achieve zero injuries and accidents; do you think that is possible?” Remember, what comes out of their mouth means more to them than what comes out of your mouth in this situation. Get them talking about how they can effect safety results.
How do you get people to realize that they are responsible for all of the people under their direction?
By getting them to understand the difference between accountability and responsibility. Accountability is when someone makes you accountable for the results, and responsibility is the act of agreeing to be accountable. Put another way, accountability is something someone places on you, and responsibility is something you willingly take on.
Influencing Safety
How do you move safety through your organization?
How do you get buy-in?
How do you get people to do what you want them to do regardless of the circumstances?
“Engaged employees are more aware, less complacent and more likely to look out for each other. Incidents go down when morale goes up!” – Garrison Wynn
For pricing and availability
Please fill out the form below
Influencing Safety
How do you move safety through your organization?
How do you get buy-in?
How do you get people to do what you want them to do regardless of the circumstances?
“Engaged employees are more aware, less complacent and more likely to look out for each other. Incidents go down when morale goes up!” – Garrison Wynn
For pricing and availability
Please fill out the form below