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Developing your safety team: you can't "microwave" success.(POSITIVE SAFETY cultures)

Quite a few safety pros I've worked with feel that even with support from a team or committee, they personally do much of the heavy lifting needed to create a positive safety culture. Sometimes they feel like a solo performer with a cast of observers--not a leader of a powerful guiding coalition. In a classic Harvard Business Review article a few years back entitled, "Why Transformation Efforts Fail," John Kotter noted that a common denominator in failed culture-change efforts is the "failure to build a powerful guiding coalition."

What are the characteristics of an effective guiding coalition for safety transformation? Based on decades of team-effectiveness research and ...

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