by David Sarkus | Dec 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking about workplace complacency and injuries a lot the last few weeks. Maybe because we are in the holiday season and injuries around this time of year are emotionally devastating. It seems that really bad accidents are highlighted by the extreme...
by David Sarkus | Feb 19, 2018 | motivational safety speaker, motivational safety speakers, Safety Culture, safety speakers, safey leadership, supervisor safety training, supervisors
Expectations often say more about the leader than the follower. Various forms of research suggest that when leaders have higher types of expectations for their followers, those followers often live up to their expectations. In contrast, when a leader’s expectations...
by David Sarkus | Dec 9, 2016 | Safety Culture
Trust is a two-way exchange, for leaders and followers. But let’s focus on trust from a leadership perspective. For me, trust is largely about believing that a leader will do what is best for his followers or group. In our context, trust is about doing what’s right...
by David Sarkus | Oct 17, 2016 | Safety Culture
I lost a very good friend last week, Fulton Walker. Fulton was a teammate at West Virginia University and later played for the Miami Dolphins and Oakland Raiders. He set a couple of longstanding Super Bowl records and I’ve written about him in the past to...
by David Sarkus | Aug 31, 2016 | Safety Culture
The Akron Zips’ football team just had a big upset victory over Marshall University and Head Coach, Terry Bowden gave me all the credit – lol. After the game, Terry sent me a text, “it was all your talk” and I replied, “I’ll take...