Seminar Content
This 1.5 day workshop provides a step-by-step guide to Leadership, as per Clause
5 in ISO’s new Annex SL (formerly ISO Guide 83), which sets out a template for the
alignment and integration of management systems. The course will enable participants
to understand and apply the requirements of Clause 5, including how demonstrate
management commitment, design or align policies and designate roles, responsibility
and authority. Participants will learn how Clause 5 applies to different management
system standards and what best practice leadership for sustainability and social
responsibility looks like.
Who Should Attend
This seminar is designed for Compliance Managers, ISO Implementation Team Members,
and Management Representatives for Quality, Environment, Occupational Health & Safety,
Sustainability and Social Responsibility.
Recommended Training and/or Experience
A general understanding of one or more ISO-type management system standard (e.g.
ISO 9001:2008/2015 DIS, ISO 14001:2004/2015 CD, OHSAS 18001:2007/ISO 45001:2016
WD) is recommended, but not essential.
Seminar Materials and Certificate
Each participant will receive a seminar manual and a Certificate of Completion from
Omnex Inc., an Exemplar Global certified training provider.
Seminar Instructor
The course will be presented by Dr Wayne Visser, a globally recognised sustainability
expert and Vice President of Sustainability Services for Omnex Inc. See Dr Visser’s
biography here.
Seminar Goals
- Understand the new ISO Annex SL and the specifications of Clause 5 on Leadership.
- Identify the characteristics of good sustainability leaders, including traits, styles,
skills/competencies and knowledge.
- Assesswhat can make sustainability leaders effective change agents
Seminar Outline
Day one (full day)
- Introduction and Welcome
- Introduction to the ISO Annex SL framework for a generic management system
- The new High Level Structure (HLS) for management system standards
- How new Clause numbers apply to ISO 9001:2015 DIS, ISO 14001:2015 CD and ISO 45001:2016
WD
- Requirements of Clause 5 on Leadership.
- Leadership and Commitment
- Quality Policy
- Organizational Roles, Responsibility and Authority
- Drivers of Sustainability Leadership
- Internal and external context
- Rise and fall of sustainability leaders
- Characteristics of Sustainability Leaders
- Traits, Styles, Skills and Knowledge
- Competency Frameworks
- Actions of sustainability leaders
- Breakout Exercise 1: Why Some Sustainability Leaders Rise and Fall: The Case of
BP
- Breakout Exercise 2: Characteristics of Sustainability Leaders: The Case of Unilever
Day Two (half-day)
- Sustainability Leaders as Change Agents
- Kotter’s 7 Steps of Change
- Visser’s 12-Types of Change Matrix
- Ainger’s Organisational Change Matrix
- Gladwell Tipping Point Agents: Connectors, Mavens, Salespeople
- Purpose-Inspired Leadership Types: Experts, Facilitators, Catalysts & Activists
- Tools and techniques for interview context analysis, including:
- Employee satisfaction barometers
- Psychometric testing
- Internal auditing
- Role-modelling and storytelling
- Issue materiality analysis
- Breakout Exercise 3: The Role of Leadership in Sustainability Change Processes:
The Case of Elon Musk
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