Enacting cultural change, with Michael Emery

Today's Guest:

Michael Emery has worked in safety for over 20 years and is the Owner and Director of Securus Health & Safety Limited where he takes a person-centred approach to delivering IOSH-approved coaching for safety courses.

Michael joins us to discuss how we can build cultures that support safety professionals and the businesses they work in to perform better.

We talk about what culture is, the key causes of cultural change and how good culture drives good outcomes.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachingforsafety

You'll learn:

• How to properly define culture.
• The foundations to an effective positive culture.
• How culture affects performance.
• The key causes of cultural change and how to implement them.
• How to build a culture that supports safety professionals.
• How to build a culture that progresses business.

Resources:

• IOSH Approved Coaching for safety
• The relationship between safety culture, advice and performance
• Securus Health and Safety

In this episode, we talk about:

[2:12] How Michael found his passion for coaching for safety.

[9:30] Troubling definitions of culture and the nuanced nature of culture.

[14:26] Ways culture goes further than safety and how to build a culture that progresses your business.

[18:40] Fundamental foundations to good culture and what causes cultural change.

[24:22] Why a solution-building approach is better than a problem-solving approach when building culture.

[27:24] How culture affects performance.

[30:10] Developing an IOSH-approved safety coaching course.

[37:45] How the pandemic has affected people's perception of coaching for safety training.

[43:29] The difference between in-person safety courses and live Zoom safety courses.

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Quotables:

• 18:43 - "Culture change has to come from within there's no other way."
• 35:44 - "It tickles me that phrase that coaches are the earthworms of culture change but it still seems fundamentally true."

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