Bryan Shelton
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Two Consultants on Leadership: Setting Clear Expectations
Providing clarity of what desired performance looks like is a foundational leadership skill. Pinpointing, task clarification, or simply being clearer about what excellence looks like and what…
Two Consultants on Leadership: Accountability in HOP
Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) is becoming an increasingly popular approach to safety. HOP’s five principles offer an interesting framework for thinking about human error or behavior in…
Two Consultants on Leadership: Key Elements of a Strong Culture
Organizational culture can be defined generally as the shared values, beliefs, and assumptions that guide behavior. Behaviorally, it can be defined as the patterns of behaviors that are strengthened…
Two Consultants on Leadership: Establishing Influence
Two Consultants on Leadership: Establishing InfluenceLeadership means having an influence on the people around you. Beyond relying on position of power or fear-based management, leadership is about…
Two Consultants on Leadership: Managing Conflict
Unhealthy conflict will be something that every leader has to address at some point. As leaders, helping team members address conflict is good for business. When team members are experiencing…
Two Consultants on Leadership: Who is Responsible for “Owning” Safety?
“Owning” SafetyWho owns safety inside your organization? Your senior leaders might point to the front line and say something like, “Safety is ultimately the responsibility of the worker; it’s their…
Two Consultants on Leadership: What Are The Most Important Skills for New Supervisors
Welcome to the 2025 blog series! In 2025, I am taking a slightly different approach to my newest blog series. I’ll continue to focus on leadership best practices and leader behaviors that will…
An Example of Leadership Success: Leading through Core Values and Mission
The tenth and final blog in this series is dedicated to one leader’s commitment to supporting one of his life’s missions—ensuring people live their best lives. Many leaders go through life…
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…
