Safety On Tap

In today's episode I'll share how to harness your reason for being, your ikigai.  I regularly hear that health and safety professionals feel stressed, anxious, frustrated and burned out because their job feels like such a grind.  Some feel unfulfilled, some just unsure about their career and job decisions.    I find that when things aren't working as well as they could in my life, especially when there is high uncertainty, I can always rely on my core beliefs and values to guide me, which come together to form my collective reason for being.      The Japanese word ikigai roughly translates to mean 'reason for being'.   I use this idea of ikigai when coaching people inside Safety on Tap Connected.  NOW you can head over to safetyontap.com/ep059 to download the full, free transcript of this episode PLUS a worksheet to help you take action from this episode. 

This is Safety on Tap! I'm your host Andrew Barrett, and since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.  Welcome to you, you're in the right place.  If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! Today I'm joined by Dr Sarah Colley from Pockets of Brilliance.  This episode is made possible by Safety On Tap Connected the world's first professional growth accelerator for health and safety professionals. If you are invested in your own development and improvement, this is right for you.  For the price of about 3 coffee's a week, you can accelerate your development and your effectiveness with access to an amazing learning community, educational content like you've never been taught before, and you get 1:1 online coaching with me - your personal coach to help you accelerate your growth.  This combination of things would usually be out of reach of most health an

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Safety on Tap, episode number 50! Wooo hoooo!   I'm your host Andrew Barrett, and I'm so glad you've joined us to celebrate the 50th episode of the Safety on Tap Podcast! Since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.  Welcome to you, you're in the right place.  If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! And of course welcome to all of you wonderful, regular listeners! Before we get into it, I want to thank Alistair Camm for reading our regular introduction.  Alistair has been a long time listener, and I had the pleasure of meeting him in person a few weeks ago.  I wanted to share two things about that.  First Alistair has seen I had made some comments on Linkedin about stocism, and knowing we would be meeting in person he took the time to find an excellent paper about stocism from a service he subscribes to, he printed it

  Today I'm joined by Greg Smith, from Nexus Lawyers in Australia. This episode is made possible by Safety on Tap Connected, the world's first growth accelerator designed for health and safety professionals to be more effective. This is professional development like you have never seen before, where you get long term social peer learning, soft skills that aren't ever part of formal education, and 1:1 professional coaching from me. If you want to accelerate your growth you need to check out safetyontap.com/connected to find out more and join the waiting list. Now Greg Smith is the first lawyer we've had on the podcast, with good reason. I've resisted many suggestions to get lawyers on, on that basis that I think as leaders we probably need to focus less on the legal stuff and more on other things to make us more effective. But Greg has an amazing passion and despite being a lawyer, has some really pragmatic reflections on how we can be more effective. Here's Greg:   Greg mentioned the High Court judgement Sli

Ep48: Industry 4.0 & the future of work is here, now. Innes Willox is my guest today.  Innes is the CEO of Australian Industry Group, the largest cross-industry peak body in Australia.  AI Group represents the interests of business to government, as an advocate and delivering services to their 60000 business members employing more than 1million staff Australia wide.   This episode is brought to you by the Safety Institute of Australia's 2017 Victorian Conference called Safety STEPS, Strategies Towards Efficient Productive Systems.  Innes is one of the keynote speakers this year, sharing his insights about the future of work, alongside a great lineup of speakers.  You can find out more about that conference and grab a ticket at www.sia.org.au, I hope to see you there!   Here's Innes: If you want info about the Net Promotor Score idea I mentioned in my take-aways, send me an email andrew[at]safetyontap.com   [activecampaign form=5]

Today my guest is Jonathan Lincolne from Pockets of Brilliance, a research and implementation company that does work that is way sexier than that description suggests.  I'm heading along to a workshop that they are running on their 5i change acceleration method on the 26th July 2017 in Brisbane.  I know that many of you won’t be able to go, so I thought it best to get Jonathan on to talk about their approach to change.  I'll put the links in the show notes for you to check out the workshop details if you do want to attend, spots are limited and time is short! Find out what is the one thing that drives Jonathan, which should drive you too.  Here's Jonathan:   Two things you need to know: Register here for the Pockets of Brilliance Change Accelerator Workshop on the 26th July 2017 Come along to our FREE listener meetup in Brisbane after 5pm on the 27th July 2017 (details and RSVP are here).

This is Safety on Tap!   I'm your host Andrew Barrett, and since you're listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.  Welcome to you, you're in the right place.  If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve!   Phil Bolton is my guest today.  Phil is a data scientist, whose been doing this for almost as long as the concept of data science has existed.  He is a Director at PWC and has spent his career in professional services companies helping clients get greater insights from their data.   This episode is brought to you by the Safety Institute of Australia's 2017 Victorian Conference called Safety STEPS, Strategies Towards Efficient Productive Systems.  Phil will be speaking at the conference on Machine learning and related concepts, alongside a great lineup of speakers.  You can find out more about that conference and grab a ticket at www.sia.org.au, I hope to see y

My guest today is Peter Wilkinson, who has a wealth of experience.  Peter and I met a few weeks ago and I enjoyed every minute with him, such was the value he shares.  And as you'll hear, he doesn’t chase catastrophe, catastrophe chases him.  Here's Peter: I also wanted to let you know about a very special group of people at Pockets of Brilliance.  You might remember them from Episode 38 with Michelle Oberg, she is one of those special people at PoB.  They are a team of Research and Implementation specialists who have spent decades synthesising their method for helping clients navigate challenges such as safety, change and engagement. The most exciting bit is that they are now teaching others to do this for themselves, which is the same approach we take here at Safety on Tap to helping you learn, grow and improve. They are launching their 1 day change accelerator in Brisbane on 26 July 2017, which teaches you their method. If you want to check it out head over to https://pobrilliance.com/5iapproachandevents/

  See the value of diversity and boost your career with a balanced approach to your professional capability. One of the greatest challenges I face in my mission to help people like you grow and drastically improve health and safety is to bring our message to people who aren’t seeking it out, but who would benefit greatly from growing themselves.  You might know someone like that - do them a favour and tell them about Safety on Tap, and what you get out of it.  But Don't tell them not just to take your word for it, check out this recent review on iTunes: HSE Improver says 5 starts Virtual Mentor! "The Safety on Tap podcast has been a revelation for me during my long commute. It is akin to a probing mentor, generating thought as it dissects across disciplines, with health and wellbeing at its core. Some of the episodes such as the recent cast on bullying have opened up my mind, and the technique that Andrew uses to flip threat discussions into opportunities has already reaped rewards in my own continuing profes