What Are You Trying to Say? One of the Advanced modules we run in CLLR (https://cllr.com.au/register-to-study/) is on the nature of semantics, semiosis, linguistics and the creation of meaning. This Advanced Linguistics module addresses the primary question: what are you trying to say? Most of the … [Read more...] about What Are You Trying to Say?
Communication and Consultation
SHEeple STEMspeak
Q. Have you ever wanted to impress at a virtual safety conference or zoom webinar event? A. Subscribe to SHEeple STEMspeak* Just select any three-digit number and the corresponding buzzwords from the grid below:Examples: 473 – synchronized reciprocal timeframe 688 – responsive organizational … [Read more...] about SHEeple STEMspeak
Safety is about…
Why the way we talk about safety in an organisation matters. Does getting home at the end of the work day mean that we were safe that day? Here's my 7 ½ minutes on why the way we talk about safety at work matters so much. … [Read more...] about Safety is about…
Go and Stand in the Corner
Guest Post by Patrick Cini Do you feel like you are being punished at the moment? As children we are sometimes told to stand in the corner, as teens we are told to sit in detention, and as adults we can be segregated in a cell. Why is this isolation considered an effective form of … [Read more...] about Go and Stand in the Corner
Walking Leadership
Brene Brown comments that ‘the best way to move information from the head to the heart is through the hands’ (Daring Leadership). I’m more inclined to think it’s more through the feet. The affordance of hands is for holding but the affordance of feet is for moving and I think leadership is about … [Read more...] about Walking Leadership
What Are Observation-Conversation Skills?
The challenge with effectiveness in conversations is disposition. How are you pre-disposed to the ‘other’ in approach, listening, reflecting and responding? Yes, skill development and technique are important but these are easier learned than getting one’s disposition right. You would think people … [Read more...] about What Are Observation-Conversation Skills?
Safety Caring
It seems one of the biggest issues that come up when doing safety observations in the field is that management does not care or that the workers do not trust the management. We can learn a few things from doing safety observation if they are done for the right reasons. Should we look at what we … [Read more...] about Safety Caring
Framing Your World
Framing Your World In some of our education programs we focus on messaging. Messaging is what lies underneath language and what is embedded in discourse. Sometimes the way we ‘frame’ language and ‘prime’ our audience contradicts the very message we want to send. This is often not intentional but is … [Read more...] about Framing Your World
The Art of the Open Question
The Art of the Open Question One of the big challenges in communication workshops we do is helping develop the art of open questioning. It is important at the outset in this discussion not confuse the skill of asking a question as a ‘technique’ with the disposition of ‘suspending agenda’ and … [Read more...] about The Art of the Open Question
Making Language in Safety Meaningful
Making Language in Safety Meaningful Kakutani (The Death of Truth) helps us understand the power of confusion and doubt with the strategy of ‘fake news’ in the common era (https://www.amazon.com/Death-Truth-Notes-Falsehood-Trump/dp/0525574824 ). This was captured splendidly in the documentary … [Read more...] about Making Language in Safety Meaningful