Leading people effectively requires we lead them differently. Employees with differing levels of engagement and performance do not respond the same. And the greatest value in understanding safety-leadership styles is that they help us know how to lead people of varying levels of engagement and performance in a safety culture.
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.