If you have a safety problem, you have a people problem. And If you have a people problem, you have a leadership problem.

Legitimate Leadership has developed a 6-8-month intensive Safety Leadership Excellence In Practice programme which focuses on leaders enacting changes in themselves.

The programme starts with an Introductory workshop focusing on what safety leadership practices characterise care, means, ability and accountability.

This is followed by diagnosing against the Legitimate Leadership criteria.

Initial safety leadership assessments fundamentally ask: ‘How are we doing individually and collectively against the criteria of safety leadership excellence?’

Tailored application workshops then tackle specific areas of misalignment to the criteria, as diagnosed, addressing salient questions:

• What specific aspects of safety leadership pose us the biggest challenges?
• What must I change about my leadership approach to safety?
• What new leadership skills are required?
• What leadership tools must I learn to apply to safety?

The application workshops are accompanied by individual coaching to build specific competences in individuals’ areas of needed growth.

Application review sessions answer the questions:

• Am I applying my learning correctly?
• What can I learn from the peer group?

And finally repeat safety leadership assessments answer the questions:

• Have we improved?
• What next?