ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the typical requirements of each kind of safety role before going on to understand what sort of development and experiences you need in order to fulfil them successfully. It uses a much respected model known as the leadership pipeline which is widely used by organisational development professionals as well as those in HR to establish a pipeline of future leaders from within the organisation, from entry level front-line team leader type roles to chief executives. The model outlines that there are six leadership levels and moving between them form critical events in a leader's life, as doing so successfully requires different skills. Of the six levels, arguably only four really apply to a safety professional's career: Managing self, Managing others, Managing managers and Function manager. People often disassociate their personal development plans from their career aspirations or, if they don't, they fail to think about things in the longer term.
