Safety Leadership

[Terry Gibson]

Thank you Birgitt (congratulations on your new-found status, BTW) for your wisdom and starting the ball rolling (as ever) from which others have built. And thanks to everyone else who has responded so promptly. Doc is quite right - this is about developing a self organising culture of open communications of which safety is but one beneficiary.

One of my difficulties is that at this stage I am not in face to face contact with a client (several hundred miles away) who requires a single sheet synopsis of how OS can meet his needs. I therefore feel I have to present this as a rational process - along the lines of Birgitt and Michael's responses - but require some pragmatic evidence to back it up.

Ralph's anecdote was helpful and in response to his comment about the clarity of my request, can I now ask for examples I can quote to a client's inevitable questions: "How do I know that this will work? Can you give me examples of where this process has produced results elsewhere in similar circumstances? What were the outcomes that stuck?"

Best wishes to you all
Terry

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ralphsc 
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 10:21 PM
  Subject: Re: Safety Leadership


  Terry,

  I'm not sure what your question is, but I can tell you this story.

  The very first OS event I facilitated was for 75 engineers and
  construction execs.  I think there were two women present.  Worked like a
  charm.  Will engineers do it? My experience says yes.

  Will people used to top-down structures do it?  They may hesitate to post
  session posters, but it only takes one to break the ice, and there's
  always more than one.

  Will open space soften them up for good?  I doubt it, but so what.

  Ralph Copleman
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