Story Group by Coach to Safety Motivational Speakers John Drebinger
Safety Meeting Topics Help #1
How to find and develop great safety stories that teach a point. Every member of your team can be a successful safety speaker. All they need is a good story and my experience tells me that they already have some great ones.
Get your safety team, leadership, or any group you can gather together. I would recommend giving everyone a pad of paper and pens or pencils.
Plan ahead and have one or two people with whom you have pre-arranged who can tell a story when the time comes. Get everyone sitting around a table or in a circle and tell them you want to find out how many safety stories people in your group know. They can be anything that tells of an experience that relates to safety. Don’t worry if the story has a point at this time. The first task is to elicit as many stories as possible. Use your two pre-arranged people to get the ball rolling. Ask each person to tell a safety story they have heard or that has happened to them.
Once you get started, be sure to take notes. If you believe it won’t keep people from sharing making a recording of the session is useful. You must get permission to record them so keep it on the up and up. In some states, such as California, it is actually illegal to record someone without their knowledge. Remind them the only purpose of the recording is to be able to review it later to look for key points that it teaches.
Make sure you are taking great notes. Record the person’s name for each story and the general topic or working title you want to use. Also, at this point, only positive feedback is appropriate since you want to encourage participation.
Encourage people to write down additional story ideas as they listen to others. That way when one person finishes their mind won’t go blank. Just a key word or idea will remind them of the story they want to share. Keep going until you run out of time. It is unlikely you will run out of stories if your people have a lot of experience.
Remember to include safety stories from off the job. Safety motivational speakers learn to use many different events to teach safety.
I wonder how many great safety stories there are in your workplace?
