Kevin Burns Blog

Leadership for frontline industrial supervisors.

Your Safety Department Is Wasting Money Training the Wrong People

Your Supervisors Are Costing You Millions (And You Don't Even Know It)

You Need An Enemy

Why Your Company Standardizes Everything Except What Matters Most

Why Supervisor Development Is Your Best Crisis Prevention Strategy

Why Supervisor Development Must Matter to Safety

Supervisors Who Do Nothing Are the Most Successful

How Strong Supervisor-Employee Relationships Drive Business Results

Stop the Revolving Door and Slash Frontline Employee Turnover

The Power of Confident Supervisors in Safety Management

Poor Supervisor Communication Is Costing Your Industrial Teams

Safety Managers: Your Secret Weapon is Supervisor Development

The Supervisor Effect: Unlocking Safety Culture Through Leadership

Can You Afford 2 Years of Supervisor Trial-and-Error?

The Supervisor Effect: Turning Leadership into Profit

Safety Stuck? Your Supervisors Hold the Key

Your Supervisors Aren't Bad Leaders - You Just Never Taught Them How

How Supervisors Make or Break Team Motivation

The Influence of Supervisors on Safety Culture: From Rules to Relationships

The Critical Role of Relationship Skills for Industrial Supervisors

Empowering Frontline Supervisors to Build Strong Teams

Tackling Safety Complacency: The Supervisor's Essential Role

Supervisors Can Combat Absenteeism by Building Better Relationships

The Human Touch: How Caring Supervisors Transform Safety Culture

When Supervisors Struggle, Teams Fall Apart: The Real Cost of Poor Leadership

The Hidden Struggle of Frontline Leadership: Empowering Supervisors for Success

Empowering Frontline Leadership: How Supporting Supervisors Drives Industrial Success

The Frontline Supervisor's Guide to Fostering a Participative Safety Culture

Cultivating Leadership from Within: The Power of Developing Supervisors

Stop Trying to Get Whole Staff Safety Buy-In: Start with Supervisors

The Three Pillars of Employee Satisfaction: How Supervisors Can Create a Thriving Workplace

The Hidden Fears of Unprepared Frontline Supervisors: A Call to Action for Industrial Companies

The Challenging Leap from Star Employee to Successful Supervisor

The Profound Impact of the Frontline Supervisor

The Vital Role of Training Frontline Supervisors in Leadership

Fostering Leadership: Skills Development for Supervisors

Mastering One-on-One Meetings: Strategies for Supervisor-Employee Relationships

5 Things Supervisors Should Be Doing As Guides

Support System Building: A Key for Overwhelmed Supervisors

Effective Strategies for Supervisors in Developing Leaders

Meaningful Work Matters: Retaining Talent with Skilled Supervisors

Strategies for Frontline Supervisors to Navigate Changing Situations

Supervisor's Guide to Effective Teamwork Strategies

Unlocking Essential Supervisor Skills for Success

How CareFull Supervision Can Reduce Safety Incidents and Improve Safety Culture

How to Adopt a Positive and Solution-Focused Attitude as a Supervisor

Confident Leadership: Equipping Supervisors for Success

Every Team Member Counts: How Supervisors Shape Collective Success

The Importance of Developing and Supporting Frontline Supervisors

The Top Three Tools for Conducting Successful One-on-Ones with Employees

How to Communicate Effectively and Respectfully as a Supervisor

How Investing in Supervisors Can Boost Your Organization’s Performance

How CareFull Supervisors Can Boost Employee Engagement and Retention

The Importance of Building a Solid Team of Supervisors

The Supervisor’s Gift of Undivided Attention

Create a Safe and Supportive Environment for Your Team

Why Companies Need to Consider Supervisor Leadership Training

How Your Supervisors Can Impact Culture Positively

How to Give and Receive Feedback as a CareFull Supervisor

The CareFull Supervisor’s Mindset: Positive and Solution-Focused

Not every supervisor wants to be a leader and what to do about it.

5 Reasons Companies Need to Train Supervisors in Leadership Skills

The CareFull Supervisor: A New Approach to Leadership and Management

How to Be A CareFull Supervisor and Why It Matters

What Keeps Supervisors Up At Night and How to Address It

Building Trust: Strengthening Supervisor Relationships with Employees

The Losada Ratio on Positive Employee Motivation

The Supervisor's Clarity of the Safety Mission

You Are Their Guide. They Are Your Heroes.

But What If We Train Them and They Leave?

The Supervisor's Role in Safety

When you have buy-in will you even need safety speakers?

Why safety may not be a priority.

People buy-in to this before they buy-in to safety.

Is "safety" a barrier to safety buy-in?

Negative reinforcement doesn't work. Positive reinforcement builds buy-in.

You need engagement to get safety buy-in.

Complacency is not the problem.

Safety Compliance is not Safety Commitment

Safety Buy-in Starts With A Single Thought

Care vs Compliance: Making Them Care About Safety

The Key to Safety Commitment

3 Strategies to Better Safety Engagement

5 Questions to A Foundational Safety Message

Employees Are Unclear on Safety Goals

Why Safety Messaging Matters

What's Your Safety Complacency Plan?

The 3-Step Plan for A Successful Safety Stand-down

Focus on The Safety of Your Crew

Are Expectations More Effective Than Safety Rules?

Leadership Skills Are Needed to Improve Safety

Are supervisors the key to future safety performance?

3 Strategies for A More Effective Safety Program

What Is Safety Buy-in? And Why It’s Important.

The One Strategy to Supervisor Success in Safety

Top 3 Areas To Influence Safety

4 Strategies for Better Employee Participation in Safety

Safety’s Top 3 Challenges

The 3-Step Process to Improving Safety Culture

Safety is not a complacency problem, it's a marketing problem.

Focus on Safety Benefits, Not Numbers

Your Next Ideal Supervisor Must Include These Traits

Why do we expect they know what to do in safety?

The Real Safety Influence

Want to fix safety? Stop focusing on safety.

Supervisors Are Key to Improving Safety

Processes Don't Deliver Safety, People Do!

3 Tips for Motivating in Safety

Create A Positive, Motivated Team in Safety

Use This Rule to Get Buy-in to Safety

Are You The Safety Leader Your Team Needs?

Do You Know Your Real Safety Role?

What Old Teachers Can Teach Us About Safety Leadership

3 Strategies for Safety Communications

Are You Talking About These 4 Things in Safety Meetings Yet?

"Be Safe" Is A Terrible Safety Message

Senior Management Doesn't Support Safety

Safety complacency may not be the problem

Do Your Employees Have These 5 Safety Traits?

Do You Want To Lower Safety Numbers or Improve Safety Culture?

Safety needs a script to follow

Safety Only Needs Ten Percent Buy-in

Safety keeps employees loyal

What is your intent for safety?

Want safety buy-in? Stop using numbers. Do these 3 things.

How to Improve Safety Engagement

The Competition Between Production and Safety

3 Strategies to Improve Safety Buy-in

Safety Is A Marketing Problem

Safety Compliance Reduces Engagement

Gotta Care About Safety

Can Protests Improve Safety?

Safety Won't Fix Complacency

3 Strategies to More Safety Influence

Safety Handouts Are Useless

You Don’t Want People to Follow Safety Once

Valued People Value Safety

Buy-in Doesn't Happen on Safety Rules

Hearts and Minds in Safety

Focus to Curb Safety Complacency

Do This ONE Thing to Build Safety Teamwork

Leadership Vision to Create Safety Buy-in

Check-in Safety Beats Check-box Safety

Safety Conversations Beat Statements

How to Sell Safety Effectively

What's Important to Employees in Safety

Why fixing "safety" frustrates you

How to Convince Employees of Safety

How to Follow-up Your Safety Stand-down

The Tools of Safety Leaders

6 Key Parts of Improving Safety Culture

When Employees Don't Give You Safety Performance

3 Strategies to Improve Your Safety Program

To Shift Safety, Shift Perspective.

Stop manipulating. Start inspiring safety.

3 Strategies To Be A Better Safety Coach

Stop Dumb Safety Goal-Setting

"Safety-First" Is Not The Priority Anymore

There Are No Secrets in Safety, But There Are in ...

Once You Have A Safety System ... Now What?

The One Clarifying Question for Effective Safety Communication

Do This One Thing to Make People Care About Safety

3 Ways to Make Safety Meetings Matter

5 Key Ingredients to Building Safety Engagement

Yes, You CAN Make People Care About Safety!

4 Ways to Stop Safety Complacency

Make Your Safety Job Redundant

The Most Influential Person in Safety Is Not Who You Think

(video) How To Intensify Safety Participation

(Video) It Seems Like Your People Don't Care About Safety, But...

The 2 Approaches to Safety Meetings That Are Wrong ... and what to do.

How to Build Teamwork and Your Reputation

Sending People Home Safe Is Not Most Important

Build Your Leadership Capacity in Safety (video)

7 Essential Parts Of Safety Leadership

3 Must-Dos For Better Safety Meetings

Why Safety Leadership Matters

5 Way to Improve Teamwork in Safety

Top 4 Strategies To Improve Safety Buy-in

How to Improve Safety Culture Without Management Support

How Production And Safety Work Together

How to Promote Safety Positively

3 Ways to Improve The Effectiveness of Your Safety Program

3 Key Safety Responsibilities for Employees

Top 3 Strategies To Be More Effective in Safety

How Safety Leaders Define Accountability and Responsibility

4 Ways To Make Safety Positive

4 Things Employees Need Most from Safety

4 Ways to Use Safety to Build Teamwork

3 Reasons Safety Leaders Fail

4 Things You Must Talk About In Safety Meetings

Top 4 Strategies to Stop Safety Complacency Creep

6 Ways To Become A Respected Safety Leader

7 Ways to Connect Safety to Leadership

3 Effective Strategies to Fix Boring Safety Meetings (Yes They Are)

3 Conversations to Influence Safety Buy-in

4 Ways to Assess Your People-View In Safety

3 Areas to Make the Shift from Safety Process to People

"Be Safe" Is A Terrible Safety Message

3 Easy Steps To Improve Safety Meetings

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