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Professional Risk Taking – Are you Ready to Raise your Risk Tolerance?

So why are we smiling?  My story is that our smiles come as a result of professional risk taking.  Tim Sanders was the keynote speaker at the 2009 ASSE Professional Development Conference in San Antonio.

How did I get to share time with Tim during his busy morning?  The answer is I raised my risk tolerance to pursue connecting with him.  Why would I move from a virtual connection to a person to person connection?  I connect with Tim’s message on Corporate Responsibility.  The world of social media – twitter, facebook and linked in gives me a way to invest my time with people who share my values.

I believe that values will be a way to connect in the age of transparency.  Yes education, social class, professional affiliations, geography all count but the power of social media is opening new opportunities.   So back to risk taking.

I was on a panel speaking about CSR and the safety professional at the conference.  Professionals with Safety, Health and Environmental expertise are in my opinion at the right place, at the right time with the right expertise.  Corporate Social Responsibility is built on understanding the value proposition that safe & healthy people are the new talent we need to support to engage in solving environmental challenges.

Tim’s message is clear – take professional risk in moving CSR forward in your organizations.  The world need you!

It only made sense to me that our keynote would want to support our session.  Turned out I was right.  So when you think you align with values with your twitter virtual connection I encourage you to make it real.  That is why we’re smiling.

Here is the outline for the presentation Tim made in San Antonio.  It was great.  Now I’m reading his book, Saving the World at Work.  Please join us by taking the risk – you too will smile when you raise your tolerance by aligning your values with your virtual friends.  It’s all good!

Fay can be followed on twitter at: @fayfeeney

Tim can be followed on twitter at: @sanderssays

Saving The World At Work

What you can do to help your company go beyond making a profit to making a difference.

“There is a revolution going on the business world where companies will compete based on social innovations.  Consumers, talent and investors are gravitating to companies that achieve high levels of social responsibility towards people, communities and the environment. The key for companies to thrive during this new era of business is to innovate how it does business and achieve high levels of employee participation.

Tim’s keynote has an empowering message:  A single employee or small group of people can help lead his or her company to success during this new revolution.  Stories include:  A regional sales manager at Interface Floor that saved landfills from over one hundred million tons of discarded carpet.  A corporate attorney that convinced Microsoft product managers to dramatically reduce packaging size and waste.   A small group of bank tellers that convinced their senior management to get involved in breast cancer fundraising as a branding strategy.

This talk will challenge audience members to: Improve the quality of life of all employees and workers.  Participate in current corporate or association community projects.  Reduce individual and company environmental footprint.  This talk is perfect for meeting planners looking for:  Sales motivation/incentive, Leadership, Branding, Business Trends, Green Business and Social Responsibility.”