How Storytelling Can Play a Key Role in Safety Management

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Mary Stine, an EHS director, consultant and storytelling expert.

Mary combines her safety experience with her passion for telling stories to help HSE professionals leverage the power of narrative.

She explains why storytelling is so compelling for humans and how this can be harnessed to help organizations improve safety performance.

Mary discusses many elements of storytelling, including neuroscience, structure, timing, knowing your audience, and the key skills you need to create compelling narratives.

She stresses the importance of transparency, self-awareness, proficiency and authenticity when communicating in your workplace - and explains why listening is also key to collaborating with co-workers to improve organizational safety.

You can learn more about Mary’s work with the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) and WISE (Women in Safety Excellence) online at:

https://sj.assp.org/

Mary Stine on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rocketscience06/

Kurt Vonnegut's 8 tips on how to write a short story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVcIhnvSx8

The books recommended by Mary:

Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life by Kevin Cashman:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leadership-Inside-Out-Becoming-Leader/dp/1576755991

The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Speed-Trust-Stephen-Covey-2006-08-01/dp/B01K3JXQVC

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