Bryan Shelton
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An Example of Safety Leadership Success: Moving Towards a Just Culture
Want an improved safety culture that cultivates communication and problem solving? Make a systems approach the primary tool in your safety leadership strategy. This ninth blog is dedicated to…
An Example of (Safety) Leadership Success: Narrowing Focus to Create Results
The best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. This eighth blog discusses one leader’s intentional push to move away from everything is important right now to a narrowed, organization-…
An Example of Leadership Success: Building Psychological Safety
Want a team that performs at the highest levels? Make winning fun and learning a critical part of growth? The seventh blog is dedicated to one leader’s determination in developing a high-…
An Example of Leadership Success: Creating Bench Strength
Want to go fast, go alone. Want to go far, go as a team. This sixth blog is dedicated to a leader’s determination to develop the bench strength of her team. Pat’s effort led to an organization-wide…
An Example of (Safety) Leadership Success: Creating a Learning Culture
Safety is our number one priority is a nice slogan, but the systems, processes, and management strategies happening inside an organization communicate what’s most important. This fifth blog is…
An Example of Leadership Success: Investing in New Talent
Why do companies hire smart people and then set them up to fail by not investing in their development? The fourth blog in this series highlights one leader’s investment in a new employee to help…
An Example of Leadership Success: Putting Safety First
It’s easy to preach “safety is number one” when the sky is blue, but what you do when the sky goes grey is what really matters. This third blog is dedicated to highlighting one leader’s example…
An Example of Leadership Success: Creating a Shared Mission
Without an idea of where you want to go, how would you know when you get there and if you have the right people to help? This blog is dedicated to highlighting one leader’s passion for developing a…
Examples of Leadership Success: Leading through Positive Accountability
Leadership Success Blog SeriesFor this next blog series, I will be highlighting successful examples of critical leader behaviors I’ve seen. The goal is to share leader behavior(s) and why they are…
Common Leadership Errors: Failing to Help the Human Thrive
For the last blog in this series, I decided to take a broader and holistic topic that is commonly seen in organizations. While this topic does not lend itself nicely to short examples of leadership…
Common Leadership Errors: Failing to Develop People
In 1969, Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull authored the book, The Peter Principle. To summarize their research findings and developed principle, their concept sounds like this: in many…
Common Leadership Errors: Focusing on Backward Accountability
Feedback is a critical component of helping others improve their performance. Information about what behaviors to repeat or do differently in given situations allows for continuous improvement over…
Common Leadership Error: Failing to Evolve
The world around us is constantly changing. The markets we operate in, current economic conditions, world events, access to material goods and competition are all things leadership considers when…
Common Leadership Errors: Failing to Create Sustainability
Common Leadership Errors: Failing to Create Sustainability
Organizations are constantly evolving to keep up with a changing world. This evolution can include refinements to strategy, systems,…
Common Leadership Errors: Focusing on What You Don’t Want
The role of leadership inside organizations is to help achieve the mission, vision, and business objectives. Leaders define what winning looks like. They then are responsible for creating momentum,…
Common Leadership Errors: Retraining Fixes Everything
What happens in your organization when a human error occurs? By human error I mean an undesired behavior that could, or does, lead to some undesired consequences for the performer, people around them…
Common Leadership Errors: Being nice and expecting influence
The concept of providing feedback is nothing new. Performance feedback has been studied for well over 40 years and shown to be an effective and low-cost method for improving performance. …
Common Leadership Errors: Being Vague and Expecting Perfection
There is no doubt that how results are produced is just as, or more important, than the results themselves. How work is done, the behaviors people do to produce an outcome, is a driver of long-…