Strategic Safety Planning
Creating Alignment at the Top to Ensure Organization-wide Success
BST expertise can be a vital resource for senior executives' strategy planning with respect to its goals for safety. Organizations look to BST to provide consulting support to its senior leadership team at a number of points in the planning process, and often these points are unique to each organization and its situation.
But to ensure a safety initiative meets its goals, the senior management at virtually every organization needs to take dedicated time, up front, to formulate answers to the following questions:
- What are the most crucial elements that must be well-executed in order to achieve and sustain our objectives?
- How can our leaders be certain they will be able to focus the organization on those crucial elements?
To help top management arrive at complete answers to these questions, BST offers organization-specific, consultant-facilitated working sessions to assist senior executives with:
- Identifying four to five critical success factors and establishing metrics for each, to ensure top-down clarity, focus, integration and accountability.
- Understanding the results of predictive assessments (Organizational Culture Assessment, Leadership Assessment) and formulating plans to address the results so that the organization's everyday practices around culture and leadership consistently support the safety strategy.
Tailored to the organization and based on in-depth prior discussions of the issues with key leaders, as well as assessment results where applicable, these sessions are led by consultants whose executive-level experience in similar roles ensures the relevance of their approach.
BST Strategic Safety Planning sessions advance and align executive team members' thinking. They provide clear pathways to action at both the team and the individual level. As a result, subsequent phases of the safety initiative can move forward quickly and effectively.