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Road Safety Leadership Essentials: Uniting for Efficiency

Explore fundamental leadership needs for effective road safety management, defining leadership traits, roles, and influencing tactics. From inspiring followers to overcoming barriers, discover how leaders play a crucial role in prioritizing safety in a competitive environment.

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Road Safety Leadership Essentials: Uniting for Efficiency

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  1. Leadership and Champions Describe the fundamental organizational leadership and support needs for effective and efficient road safety management.

  2. Major Topics • Defining Leadership • Leadership Traits and Skills • Influencing Others • Barriers to Effective Leadership • Key Leadership Positions

  3. Importance of Leadership • Bring cohesiveness to a diverse field • Ensure technical knowledge is used • Make safety a priority in a competitive policy environment

  4. Defining Leadership • Leaders : • Inspire followers • Provide direction • Examples: • DOT Secretary • Law enforcement • Trauma nurse

  5. Leading Versus Managing • Leaders focus on setting direction and motivating the group. • Managers focus on effective execution and use of resources. • Both skill sets are necessary to get things done, often in the same individual. “We lead people, but we manage things.”

  6. Leadership Traits • Self confidence and decisiveness • Resilience and energy • Need for achievement/service mentality • Flexibility • Emotional maturity

  7. Leadership Skills • Communication • Social • Problem solving • Technical • Influence

  8. Influence Tactics • Pressuring • Exchange • Legitimating • Rational persuasion Consultation Emotional appeals Personal appeals Friendliness

  9. Influence Tactics (Cont.) • Pressuring • Exchange • Legitimating • Rational persuasion Consultation Emotional appeals Personal appeals Friendliness

  10. Leadership Constraints • Legal or contractual constraints • Limits of position power • Resource constraints • Limits on leadership abilities

  11. Key Leadership Positions • Governor • DOT Secretary • DOT Director of Planning • DOT Chief Engineer • Governor’s Highway Safety Representative • Police Superintendent

  12. Review • Leaders are essential in the road safety field • Leaders set direction and inspire others to follow • Leaders have certain traits and skills that can be developed • Leaders are bound by limitations in their authority, available resources, and their skills • Key leadership positions

  13. Exercise #9 Leadership

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