Frazer Lowrie

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Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality Manager

Hi folks,

I'm wondering if any of you have any tips or tools that you use to help with decision making?

In my role and experience, I am used to making decisions under pressure, with limited facts and time. I find this is when I am more confident that I have made the "right" decision in my mind. However, when there is a need to make more high level "strategic" decisions, I find it more challenging.

Do you have any tips or decision making tools that you find helpful?

Interested to hear if anyone has any activities in their organisations for International Leadership Week?

I've recently been working on some projects based around Safety Culture and Behavioural Safety. As part of the "homework" this weekend, our teams have been tasked with watching Downfall: The case against Boeing, and this week many have shared thoughts on Values Led Leadership.

We've had some great discussions about being Values Led and what it means to each individual. Many have shared negative experiences they've had in their career where they've felt that they had been unable to challenge situations for a variety of reasons. Interestingly, most situations weren't safety related (we've had bullying, sexism and sectarianism) In fact, people were willing to challenge unsafe situations, even directly challenging senior leaders, but didn't feel the same had it not been "safety related".

I'm curious if anyone has been in a similar situation where you have felt unable to challenge a situation? What made you feel you weren't able to? Or, if you have been able to challenge a situation, what were the key factors which made you able to do this?

Hi folks, I'm Frazer, a risk and compliance manager for a manufacturing company based in Glasgow.