What happens when an employee plucks up the courage to challenge a senior manager’s unsafe behaviour and is met with negativity, bordering on rude? Colin Hewson tells how a particularly negative safety conversation had surprising results. Recently, I was working with a small group in a client...
Without guidance, safety conversations focus on the obvious, thankfully Steve has advice to help you spot what really holds you back....
Steve Beswick shows how your innocent work targets translate into unsafe behaviour....
Our recent webinar on sustaining the culture change process (now available on You Tube, much to my chagrin) prompts me to consider the importance of nurturing the observer/coaching team that underpins the whole system. OK so you’ve set up a state of the art culture change...
[caption id="attachment_713" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption=" "][/caption] I’ve just returned from an interesting week in Austria delivering SUSA Engagement training to German and Turkish lead trainers at a multi-national oil company. Thanks to their English being far better than both my German and Turkish we spent the whole...
[caption id="attachment_725" align="alignnone" width="300" caption=" "][/caption]This month concerns the confessional nature of SUSA discussions and touches on religion I’m afraid (but hopefully not to the point of provoking a lynch mob). I was raised as a Catholic but sadly I’m lapsed (I confess). Confession is a...
So what do we mean by culture based safety? Let’s look at each word and what they mean. Culture: the shared values, beliefs and attitudes of a given group, which show themselves as behaviour. Based: the main principle or starting point. Safety: people not getting injured or killed. Delivered...
I’m pleased to announce that our new imaginatively entitled DVD Engagement Scenarios is out on general release. Surprisingly, the DVD comprises videos of...