Last issue we began looking at safety-leadership styles in general, and focused on the first of this: the Coercive style. The next safety leadership style up for discussion is a close sibling to the Coercive style–sort of the softer side of Coercive–and that is the Authoritative style.
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.