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TRANSATLANTIC!! The Americans are in the room!!

In this episode Crystal and I are joined by the wonderful Laynnea Myles and Kristi McClure, who have come to speak about the results of a survey they completed on women in the EHS profession.

We chat on    Advocacy     Allyship    Micro aggressions (and how to address them in the moment)       Laynnea’s insights about women supporting, or not supporting, each other in the workplace.

Leadership and ‘masculine attributes’

I have a pop at Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ (spoiler, not a fan)

Crystal shares a story about some difficult feedback she received that was pivotal to her career progression.

Thoughts on gender quotas!

And, Kristi brings it all together so well:

“…the women who have been in this for years and years…you're in that position of power. …If the word chief is in your title or VP, you have an incredible amount of power, you actually can influence how things are.

They need you to be an advocate and to be an ally. …You're actually in a position to change the structure and make some systemic changes… You can change a lot with your power if you if you choose to use it that way.”

Not for the first (and not likely the last) time on Speak, it’s time to get uncomfortable!

Chloe is back to talk all things Blood Work, based off a piece of research by Sang et al (2021) which is linked below. We get into

-          Effects of having your period at work

-          Menstrual etiquette

-          Masking symptoms

-          Personal anecdotes

-          What kind of support is needed?

-          What you (as a manager) can do next…be brave! You CAN survive an awkward conversation!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7921994/

to watch: https://youtu.be/NBmINVMbU6Y

Ahoy! Safety Piracy 🏴‍☠️, and Translating Value 💎 with Ben Legg

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We are joined by the wonderful Ben Legg for a chat about Safety Piracy! Sailing across the organisational seas searching for the magical solution that maybe doesn’t exist… 

This was a cracker – we meander through “the debates”, “back to basics”, book burning (!), and how we translate and demonstrate the value of safety in a language that your business understands.

It’s time we move on from (or at least add to) safety is a moral responsibility/ accidents cost money.

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BL: “You can’t go faster in the same way; you have to change something.”

CD: “See the problem, understand the problem - remove, mitigate, or accept.”

EL: “The key is listening, the language is there in every business, the conversations are happening and if you tune into it, they’ll hand it to you.”

CD: “If someone asks me to do some Safety Culture work, my job is not to humiliate them and say oh no that’s a subset of! …if you want to approach culture change by focusing on one area to get an understanding of why things happen the way they happen, it’s a positive movement, regardless of where we start.”

BL: “…friction fixer using health & safety as the catalyst to do that…We can go faster, we can higher, we can deeper, we can generate more product, by using the principles of good safety – not the basics – the good principles.

EL: “…there’s a lot of opacity between safety professionals, and we need to move to transparency – “I tried this it worked, I tried this it didn’t”, we need to be sharing a lot more…there’s still a big fear between ourselves of sharing.”

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youtube: https://youtu.be/57WM-KoM6bw

Join us, Crystal Danbury and Elisa Lynch, as we chat with Anna Keen about where the next gen of safety talent are and how we can unlock them!

You can also see Crystal freak for about 4secs thinking she had gone off air, but she hadn't! A very smooth recovery haha!

Find the episode on youtube too: https://youtu.be/0ij8P2lqUYc

Join us, Elisa Lynch and Crystal Danbury, as we chat with Stuart Hughes in the SPEAK! Seat.

He wants to know if we focus on the right things in Safety.We dig into 'the basics', how HACCPs could be helpful across the board, if we know our critical risks and vitally our critical controls. We also ask if the basics are as easy as they sound!

As usual, it's a safe, honest, unedited learning space.

to watch it: https://youtu.be/WHGnBmQqK8s

Great chat! Enjoy

Crystal and Elisa x

So, Speak! has made it across the ocean to the USA - how amazing.

Brad Green joins us for this episode. He talks about failure, redefining success in safety and the reality of work and risk! Vulnerability and humility in listening to our own failures too is discussed - I really liked that bit.

Come, have a listen and enjoy!

Crystal and Elisa x Youtube: https://youtu.be/WVVHqgDoueo

Join us as we talk through our fav pods so far, what's going on in our lives right now for us inc Elisa's trip to an incredible workshop in Norway and a pod that got traction.

Enjoy

Crystal Danbury & Elisa Lynch

Video: https://youtu.be/34oDCL0pcqk

Ah! Such a great chat with Christian Harris!

We talk about the origin of SPEAK! and the barriers that stop great people posting their own content.We also SPEAK! (and laugh) about #zerobookclub ......have a listen, you'll laugh!!

Safety Nomics is also introduced by Christian Harris, it's such an epic term and we share how to engage in a new way in your next safety event too!

Lastly, Elisa's wrap up thoughts are SO GOOD!!!!

To watch: https://youtu.be/L8uWEPdFX50

Enjoy

Crystal Danbury & Elisa Lynch

Is Safety a mental game? That's Fiona's question and we take this to ALL THE PLACES!

• There's no such thing as balance!
• What do we expect from our humans when it comes to decision making, noting that 'leaving it at the door' is BS!
• The limits to connection in the workplace when hybrid working is all the rage.
• Organisations responsibilities to create safe mental spaces to talk about our feelings.
• Operating at 100% of your capability, 100% of the time is impossible.

And thats not even a quarter of the way in........

But the biggest call out is Fiona's organisation have created the biggest mental health check-in IN THE WORLD - FOR FREE!!!!! On the 10th of October please participate http://www.oml.world/ . Last year the insight from it bought about terrifying stats, but this enabled great action.And here is a link for the Jacobs checkin toolkit!: https://jacobs-global.foleon.com/pps-global/wbmhci-resource-hub

Check Fiona out, she's doing great things from a great place!!

This is a fun and brilliant SPEAK! Seat!

Chloe Hughes is smashing life and brings wellbeing and repro health to life for us.

She SPEAK!s about the impact of the u-turn on menopause in the workplace and her lived experience with repro disease.

We explore our conditioning to hide pain in the work place and what Chloe hope leaders know.

Tune in and see if you take something away, because we did!!!She was one of the best guests we've had!

To watch: https://youtu.be/-q6hTKDVcps

C&E x

The pro's, con's and fears of AI.....joins us as we chat about it all! To watch: https://youtu.be/rPRBQvpbuk4

Join us as we SPEAK! about Jerry's question, which is:

Why are we SPEAK!ing about Safety Culture, isn't it or shouldn't it just be culture? And, why do we separate it?

This is a GREAT episode! We had so much to say, and we laughed! Elisa is on form in this one (as usual).We hope you enjoy!

E&C

Need the video: https://youtu.be/rCzkGJ_eyNI

HELLO! A Welcome to Speak!

Join us, Crystal Danbury and Elisa Lynch, as we discuss a great post by Christian Harris, where he talks about Big Bosses not caring. I disagree; Elisa doesn't.....let's get into it.

This is a great chat!

To bang us on your screen instead: https://youtu.be/ymmel7kDaYg

Welcome to SPEAK! 

Our Guest question is a corker this week!! How do you measure success? 

Sam Neal put this to us with two lenses to consider; how do you measure success personally, with regard to our work and how do you measure safety success in the round?

MAN! We loved this one! There were so many frames, thoughts, considerations and more!

Please come join us as we dig into what success is, how we measure it and we talk about feelings of fault and failure when it hits the fan.....as in, SHOULD WE feel those feelings?? Honestly, what a chat! 

SPEAK! is an unedited honest learning space where we get into all the questions you want to ask and talk about. Perfection is not the focus for us, great conversation and growth is! 

We hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

C & E

PS: want to watch it instead: https://youtu.be/45fE42eJd3A

Join us, Elisa Lynch and Crystal Danbury, as we recap on Prt 1, chat about things looking worse when they are actually getting better, dive into managing up and then get stuck into managing performance conversations. 

We also talk about giving difficult feedback to help people create REAL development plans for themselves...as difficult conversations are not meant to be unkind conversations, they are meant to help!

We meander for the first quarter, but we commit to being unedited as PERFECTION IS NOT THE AIM here, authenticity is. 

So, come join us and maybe pick up a tip or two, or at least a laugh!

Lastly, thank you for your support and ears - it means the world to us!

(to watch the pod go to https://youtu.be/nlEzSvoiybY )

Join us, Crystal Danbury and Elisa Lynch, for the first half of the SPEAK! podcast on difficult conversations.   

We hear a lot about the need for soft skills so we wanted to unpack 'why' we need them. 

We share our own stories about when we were between a rock and a hard place and some tips to help start a difficult conversation or create a feeling of trust so the conversation is more fruitful.  

Come with us as we unpack it!  Part 2 drops in two week (as usual).

To watch it head to our Youtube Channel https://youtu.be/z0mbr3izb5A

Join us, Crystal and Elisa, as we talk about Blame and Accountability!   We LOVED this one!!!

Come with us as we explore ALL THE questions!

What does blame block, if anything? How are they different? Are they both useful? Which is harmful or helpful? Which one creates difference or damage? Can we escape blame, and should we? What are their roles and impacts in businesses and safety? Is accountability enough?

We share some great work examples of how this topic has played out in our careers, as well as quotes and story's. So, there is plenty to take away.  

It is a GREAT episode; we hope you love it too!  

Want to watch it instead, go ahead! Here's the link: https://youtu.be/xESc7dhtfXI

After so many emails, messages and love regarding last weeks Suicide Awareness Special, we decided to do the part 2 we waffled on about at the end! LOL! 

So, join us all again as we move on from our lived experiences regarding suicide and talk about how you come back from the darkest places, our 'I wish I said this last week' moments and we respond to a tweet about Suicide. We had SO many thoughts!  

Such rich conversation again!  A special thank you to Damien for being here with us and being amazingly open!

As always, we don't edit as perfection is not the aim. It's open, honest and a learning space. So, ENJOY!

Fancy watching us instead, got for it: https://youtu.be/dLVvx7YT-fQ

Join us and our amazing guest Damien McMullan as we dive into the taboo topic that is Suicide.  We hear a lot from surviving family and friends of people lost to suicide, but rarely do we get to hear from those that lived through it or were saved by others.....until today.  

We have two counts of lived experience on this call and man do we share!  We have real stories, take-aways, tips, stats and observations. T

he best thing is, we (Crystal and Damien) are grateful every day that we are still hear. It's a point we didn't get to, but it has to be said - we LOVE every day that we nearly didn't have.  As always its unedited, honest, a learning environment and we hope you or someone you love takes something from the episode.  Lastly, sorry about the 30second ramble at the end about extending the call. There is an important number just after that so bare with us.  

Thanks for listening! 

If you fancy watching though: https://youtu.be/1o3AyIMypx4

Join us, Elisa and Crystal, as we chat about whether we should care about the term 'New View' in the safety context. We chat about what we fundamentally believe safety is about, and how being precious or negative can cost us in the long run in terms of progression.

Warning: There is a rant about social media Trolls contained in this podcast! It's so ranty but SO valid!

Fancy watching the pod, crack on: https://youtu.be/od7HI4r6nEs

Join us as we talk all things curriculum; as usual this is unedited, real and authentic. 

We chat about what's missing for us, what we'd remove from all course, what we'd put in all courses, what courses we have loved and hated!

We also chat about how we treat people, investigations, motivations etc As usual, there is a tangent or 50. 

Oh, and you may want to jump passed the first few minutes as Elisa is losing it over a fly....ha! Just saying!

Enjoy!

To watch: https://youtu.be/0I8XnXdfewU

Join us as we SPEAK! about the pressure to consume the right books, pods, articles, bloggers and vloggers. We chat about our different approaches to learning......and spoiler alert, one of us doesn't read books etc and one is a content junkie! It's a great conversation where we talk through our differences. And the irony of challenging media content consumption on a pod is NOT lost on us haha!

It's a real, open, honest, unedited, learning space.....so come on in. 

Right, let's have the craic!

Join us as we SPEAK! about 'ZERO Harm'. We explore its validity, it's point and whether it's real or bull!

Join Elisa and Crystal to talk about psychological safety and its place in relation to pride, the work place and allowing better questions around LGBT+ topics.

We loved it, we hope you do too!

You'll notice we introduce this as 'Why Should I Care' - since recording. We felt so compelled to make this partnership solid we have created our new brand - SPEAK! 

Join Crystal & Elisa to chat all things pride month, stereotype, lived experience and much more...... 

This is part 1 of 2! 

In part 2 we dive into psychological safety in relation to the workplace and pride and taking people on a journey by allow better questions about LGBT+ topics.

We loved it, we hope you do too!

You will hear we intro this episode as Why Should I Care, this is because we recorded part 1 and 2 of this podcast and felt so compelled to make this partnership a fulltime thing we choose a new brand together and you will now hear us SPEAK! as a team going forward. WHOOP!

This episode looks at the three most popularly quoted approaches to safety. They are creating friction and I explore why we should care about them, or if we should at all!

Happy Listening, and thanks for joining me!