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IMO supports more women in port management

As part of its efforts to encourage more women in the maritime sector, the IMO supported a training course aimed at female officials from maritime and port authorities. A total of 25 women from 17 developing countries took part in the two-week “Women in Port Management” course, hosted in Le Havre, France, on 24 June – 5 July.

The course covered lectures on port management, port security, marine environment, facilitation of maritime traffic, marketing, port logistics and other topics.

Visits were...

https://safety4sea.com/imo-supports-more-women-in-port-management/

Watch: Career advice for female leaders in shipping

In line with IMO’s World Maritime Day theme for 2019 ‘Empowering Women in the Maritime Community’, ABS issued a video depicting few of the organization’s female leaders discussing career advice for women pursuing a career in the maritime industry.

Women in leadership positions remains a hot issue across all business sectors, and maritime included. Of 6,500 engine officers at sea currently, only 1% are estimated to be female. According to HR Consulting, over 76% of the women’s workforce operated...

https://safety4sea.com/watch-career-advice-for-female-leaders-in-shipping/

8 Key focus areas for an inspirational leader

In the past both management and leadership were very much about processes or policies. However, these terms are evolving as long as humans continue to do so. That therefore means that the way leaders behave is changing as well. For the shipping industry to attract and build leaders there are some items that will need to get addressed in year 2019 such as attracting the right talents, genuinely invest in people, get along with digital developments but also formulate specific traits over time...

https://safety4sea.com/cm-8-key-focus-areas-for-an-inspirational-leader/

Women in leadership roles boost company performance, says new report

Businesses with genuine gender diversity, particularly at senior level, perform better and see significant profit increases, according to a new report from the Bureau for Employers’ Activities of the ILO. The report says that gender diversity effects beneficially when women hold 30% of senior management and leadership positions, although almost 60% of enterprises do not meet this target.

The report, entitled ‘Women in Business and Management: The business case for change‘, surveyed almost 13,000...

https://safety4sea.com/women-in-leadership-roles-boost-company-performance-says-new-report/

Watch: Safety culture and leadership in shipping industry

Professor Patrick Hudson, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, provides an insight in the safety culture and leadership of the shipping world. He refers to the three different types of leaders, and the importance of right leading in order to prevent accidents that may be costly and fatal.

He begins referring to Exxon Mobil drillers that wanted to drill the Blackbeard West; the ones on the area thought it would be dangerous to continue drilling deeper. On the contrary, the...

https://safety4sea.com/watch-safety-culture-and-leadership-in-shipping-industry/

Kierstin Lachtman the new head of Liberian Shipowners’ Council

Kierstin Del Valle Lachtman recently became the new Secretary General of the Liberian Shipowners Council (LSC), the Liberian Registry announced.

Having worked as a representative and advocate for shipowners, most recently as Manager of Maritime Policy for Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) in Washington DC, Ms. Lachtman knows the Liberian Administration well, LISCR noted.

Like LSC, CLIA is a shipowners’ association that represents its members to regulatory and rulemaking bodies.

Many of...

https://safety4sea.com/kierstin-lachtman-the-new-head-of-liberian-shipowners-council/

Disney Cruise Line inspires future female leaders

Disney Cruise Line announced a new initiative to inspire the next generation of female leaders in the maritime industry by funding scholarships to empower girls and young women to pursue careers in the cruise industry.

Under the initiative, Disney promoted Minnie Mouse to Captain, after 20 plus years of serving as First Mate.

In her new role, Minnie will oversee all new youth nautical programing with maritime scholarships for young leaders.

Beginning, in April 2019, Captain Minnie Mouse will sign...

https://safety4sea.com/disney-cruise-line-inspires-future-female-leaders/

Cecilia Österman, CEO & Researcher at Comfortably Safe AB and Senior Lecturer, Kalmar Maritime Academy, Linneus University

Welcome to the 109th episode of the Shipping Podcast and the 50th female interviewee! Cecilia Österman is the Chief Engineer that wen ashore and decided to become a researcher. Cecilia doesn’t fall in the usual perception of a researcher, she makes her findings easy to digest and is willing to stand up and speak about what she finds.

Cecilia has now received funds from AFA försäkring (insurance company) to research the #metoo movement in the shipping community. She will look into how other...

https://shippingpodcast.com/cecilia-osterman-ceo-researcher-at-comfortably-safe-ab-and-senior-lecturer-kalmar-maritime-academy-linneus-university/

Leadership is a marathon, not a sprint

Millennials have begun filling leadership roles in workplaces but faced with some common challenges like situations that test their skills, mindset but also their patience and consistency. Many of them strive to deliver performance, while others just enjoy the director’s position and sadly destroy their team’s performance. But what separates the first from the latter? Certainly, the way they handle daily challenges at workplace!

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more...

https://safety4sea.com/cm-leadership-is-a-marathon-not-a-sprint/

Leadership is a marathon, not a sprint: Do’s and don’ts

As Millennials have begun filling leadership roles in workplaces, they are faced with some common challenges; situations that test their skills, their mindset but also their patience and consistency. There are leaders who strive to deliver performance and leaders who just enjoy the director’s position and simply destroy their team’s performance. But what separates the first vs the latter? Certainly, the way they handle daily challenges at workplace!

Top four challenges young leaders face:

  1. Lack...

https://safety4sea.com/cm-leadership-is-a-marathon-not-a-sprint-dos-and-donts/

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