After a week of sharing, learning and coaching in Canberra, Dec and Manu from Romania are on their way back home. On our final day of sharing and learning we decided to record some conversations about issues that were concerning them. One such issue was the challenge of psychosocial risk. So, … [Read more...] about Psychosocial Risk, An iCue Conversation
Social Psychology of Risk
Humanising Risk in the Workplace- A Video Conversation
This week we have had the two directors of Corporate Dynamics from Romania (https://www.corporatedynamics.ro/) in Canberra, seeking coaching in SPoR. The two partners/Directors are: Decebal Marin and Emanoil Draganescu. You can contact them here: decebalm@corporatedynamics.ro … [Read more...] about Humanising Risk in the Workplace- A Video Conversation
Following-Leading and ‘Meeting’ in the Hyphen
One of the dynamics that drives a SPoR view of leadership is Buber’s i-thou. The structure of this language is how a hyphen makes two words connected. Indeed, i-thou is one word. Similarly, Following-Leading is one word. And, this linguistic structure is active. It is not followership-leadership … [Read more...] about Following-Leading and ‘Meeting’ in the Hyphen
Conversations about Following-Leading in Risk
This week has been a great time of learning, coaching, understanding and meeting two colleagues from Romania (Decebal and Manu) wishing to learn more about SPoR in Canberra. It has been a week of conversation about how SPoR can help shape a new approach to risk in Eastern Europe. Dec and Manu are … [Read more...] about Conversations about Following-Leading in Risk
Safety and Risk Culture Cloud
I wanted to republish this article from last year after just reading yet another article about safety culture being "the way we do things around here" and therefore to change that, "Leaders need to walk the walk and talk the talk". I have never been comfortable with the term "safety culture", its … [Read more...] about Safety and Risk Culture Cloud
Living In Glass Houses
Living In Glass Houses - The real risk in casting the first stone. This an article slightly different to what we usually post and I hope you do what I did, and read it a few times to really get the deep meaning within it. When I met Ben earlier this year, there is no way I would have expected … [Read more...] about Living In Glass Houses
How do you Communicate?
On a recent trip to Darwin I was standing in line, waiting to board the plane when I spied a young person wearing this T-Shirt. What an incredibly profound statement! When I go into organisations I see plenty of paperwork. Without getting into a competition, I have seen an 80 page Safe Work … [Read more...] about How do you Communicate?
Learning about people
by Nippin Anand I hear people speak about work, safety of work, learning from work, learning from what goes well, learning teams, learning organisations etc. But we never say we want to learn about people. Why not? Some years ago, I visited a ship at the Aberdeen port. It was a point of time … [Read more...] about Learning about people
The Blame Game in Safety
It is pointless to talk about blame and ‘principles’ outside of a mature and well-articulated ethical framework. We read in the HOP Discourse the obsession and fear of failure and blame indeed, the slogans that accompany this fear are called ‘principles’. They are not. The central slogans of HOP … [Read more...] about The Blame Game in Safety
Using The Label of ‘Science’ to Validate Safety Mythology
From Heinrich to Dekker, the safety world loves to use the word ‘science’ to validate what it does. The word ‘science’ in safety is a just a brand, like MAGA, it doesn’t mean anything ‘scientific’ is going on just as MAGA is making nothing ‘great’. It’s just more ‘noise’. But, goodness me, its … [Read more...] about Using The Label of ‘Science’ to Validate Safety Mythology