Study GuideAlive and Well at the End of the Day
“Experience is the best teacher.”
—Anonymous
Alive and Well was designed to serve as a practical guide to safety leadership: its focus is not on explaining leadership theory but on teaching leadership practices, the “what to do” and “how to do it.” In the book, safety leadership practices from starting off the day with a safety meeting to adding up the score at the end of the day are taught in a series of chapters, each one its own, self‐contained lesson.
That's how the book teaches the lessons. But life as a leader doesn't come at you like the chapters in a book. So, a more important question for you to ask would be “What's the best way for me to learn, understand, and master the practice of safety leadership?”
Teaching and learning may be related, but the processes to accomplish each are entirely different. How do you learn something? More importantly, how do you come to understand something? Most importantly, how do you become really good at something?
Undoubtedly you know the answers.
You might read about something in a book, or hear it explained, but you won't really understand it until you try doing it yourself. That's true for everything from what you learned as a kid, such as tying your shoelaces or throwing a football in a perfect spiral, to what you've learned as a leader in business, like leading a safety meeting or intervening when someone is taking too much risk. Think about what actually happens when you consciously ...