Six Leadership Strategies

In his October 2011 Leading Thoughts column in Professional Safety, Robert Pater shares six safety leadership strategies for energizing and sustaining safety performance and culture. These strategies, he says "can elicit prized multiple gains: turning around safety disinterest into safety advocacy; redirecting certain workers' 'I'm an accident waiting to happen' mentality to one of surefootedness and self-control; changing the norm from lackadaisical, leery or left out to confident, concentrated and committed." His strategies: 1) select a path; 2) project forward; 3) energize internally; 4) harness inertia; 5) maintain liquidity; and 6) condition for momentum. Read his column here. What's been your experience implementing these or similar strategies in your workplace?