Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
Study in Semiotics demonstrates that congruence in messaging improves communication, incongruence creates miss-messaging. In order for communication to be effective there needs to be congruence not just in text, language and discourse (power in language) but also in para-linguistics (gesture, image, icon and symbol). The … Learn more >>>>>
The past 20 years the most successful program for the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) has been the Safety Conversations program. It doesn’t matter where I go in safety this shows up as the greatest need. It is simply a fact that most safety people have never been … Learn more >>>>>
One of the reasons why Safety is so obsessed with: paperwork, systems and audits, is that it is so poor at conversation. In the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) we have conducted thousands of workshops on conversation skills and not one risk and … Learn more >>>>>
Elam presents all that happens in paralinguistics and messaging that is not seen in his work The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama. You can download the book HERE
On pages 34-38 Elam presents all the codes that happen in any performance and communicative activity. This includes:
We’ve known for over 50 years that the Medium is the Message . It matters how you transport the message as much as what message it is which you wish to transport. And if the medium contradicts the message, it’s the message of the medium … Learn more >>>>>
