The first step to building levels of employee engagement is to engage in workforce differentiation to build a stronger safety culture. It’s a common “rookie” mistake of first time supervisors and managers to want to treat everyone on the team in the exact same way: ” I just treat everyone the same because I want to be fair.”
Eric Svendsen, Ph.D., is Principal and lead change agent for safetyBUILT-IN, a safety-leadership learning and development organization. He has over 20 years experience in creating and executing outcomes-based leadership development and culture change initiatives aligned to organizational goals, and he personally led the safety-culture initiatives of a number of client organizations that resulted in “best ever safety performance” years for those companies.