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SAFE: Safety appraisals for everyone (formerly Seeing yourself as others see you) www.safeappraisal.org
We all like to believe that we are effective at communicating what is important to us, and how we would like our team to be working. To find out how others see us, the SAFE upward appraisal process compares how you see yourself with how other people see you.
It focuses on four key aspects of management:
· Walking the Talk - actions speak louder than words. People don't see your intentions, which is why you always need to be seen to do the right thing, matching the 'talk' (what you say) to the 'walk' (what you do).
· Informedness - knowing what is going on. Accepting good as well as bad news, so not blaming the messenger, is vital. Managers who are believed only to want good news will eventually get the bad news, but by then it will be too late.
· Trust - vital to effective management. Managers must trust their workforce and earn trust in return by being consistent. Trust is precious, hard to win and easy to destroy.
· Priorities - what managers focus on affects the behaviour of others. In business priorities change, even when values remain constant, this means that it is easy to send mixed messages.
The tool is a web-based service, based upon the Seeing yourself as others see you booklet (now discontinued). Presentations are available to introduce you to the SAFE process, how it works and what the roles of the people involved are. There are 3 main types of role: the Guardian (who nominates people such as managers and safety leaders to be appraised), people being appraised (who nominate their colleagues/staff to appraise them) and appraisers (who appraise their colleagues/managers).
Visit www.safeappraisal.org for more information, or email safe@energyinst.org.
If your employees do not have access to the internet but wish to participate in this appraisal then please email safe@energyinst.org where we will do what we can to help.
Related files
SAFE Presentation (PowerPoint 2.28MB) - Introduction to the new SAFE system
(Additional resources are available to registered Hearts and Minds users)
