Management and Leadership Skills for EHS Professionals

Program Overview

Improving environmental health and safety performance within your organization requires an in-depth understanding of management principles and the leadership skills to drive change. You need to be able to build leadership buy-in for health, safety, and environmental initiatives, lead teams effectively, and create strategies for integrating EHS principles into the culture of your organization, including in a crisis.

Management and Leadership Skills for EHS Professionals will help you develop the environmental, health, and safety skills you need to lead teams, make decisions, drive change, and achieve EHS functional excellence in your organization. In this course, you will develop proficiency in key management disciplines critical to your success as an effective leader. These skills will allow you to set a plan tying EHS outcomes to organizational goals, develop strategies to achieve these objectives, establish expectations, and measure outcomes. You will also acquire the skills to influence and guide others across organizational boundaries, build relationships and networks, drive long-term change, and assume senior positions in your organization.

Management Training for EHS Professionals

As you move higher in your organization, the requirements for technical environmental health skills give way to requirements for management skills. You will need to develop clear goals and objectives that tie environmental health and safety outcomes to organizational goals, as well as create strategies to achieve these objectives, establish expectations, delegate to team members, and measure outcomes.

In this course you will learn principles imperative to your success as a manager, including:

• Managing and motivating people
• Negotiation and conflict resolution
• Presenting EHS leadership during a crisis
• Effective business communication
• Risk communication
• Listening as a communication skill
• Time management and utilization
• Strategic and business planning for results
• Regulatory affairs management
• Professional ethics and legal issues of management
• Building EHS management systems

The management skills you learn in this program will make you a more effective environmental health professional, while also improving your proficiency in influencing the actions of others. This skillset will allow you to lead others, manage yourself better, and make better decisions.

Leadership Skills for Environmental Health and Safety Professionals

Generating and sustaining long-term change in an organization requires moving beyond management to leadership. Unlike managers, leaders are not limited by the scope of their formal authority. They influence and guide others across traditional organizational boundaries, build relationships, and overcome organization-wide challenges to increasing productivity and value.

This program covers both functional leadership, a form of leadership focused on effectiveness and cohesion, and transformational leadership which is focused on creating and sustaining change. Both types of leadership are required in today’s complex business environment.

You will leave this program with the skills to work smarter, make more strategic contributions to your organization, and gain increased respect, rewards, and recognition.