Learning from people who we don’t agree with I recently read this article, shared with me by a friend, and written by Mark Brandi a former ministerial adviser in the Bracks Labor government in Victoria, Australia. The article got me thinking of the many conversations I have had with good friend James Ellis over recent […]
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Does learning more about ourselves help us to better understand and influence others? I’ve learnt that if we are going to change the way things are done in risk and safety that the focus needs to be more on ‘influencing’ than ‘controlling’. In this piece, I’d like to explore the concept of learning more about ‘self’ in […]
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Dolphyn Newsletter # 4 – The Learning Adventure Continues Learning to Embrace Ambiguity “Organisations, despite their apparent preoccupation with facts, numbers, objectivity, concreteness and accountability, are in fact saturated with subjectivity, abstraction, guesses, making do, invention and arbitrariness, just like the rest of us” Karl E. Weick (1969, p.5) One of the things that stands […]
Culture of Care (and sackings…) I caught up with a good friend Martin over the weekend and he was telling me about his work situation. Martin works in heavy industry as a contractor, he has done most of his life and he’s now in his mid 40’s. Martin is currently contracting at a mine that […]
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Have you ever been involved in an incident investigation that was really just a checklist of organisational processes? Have there been times when you might have missed something because you became too focused on one aspect and weren’t open to exploring? I’ve been in these situations. I’ve written reports that were focused on checking off […]
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Learning from people who we don’t agree with
in BlogsLearning from people who we don’t agree with I recently read this article, shared with me by a friend, and written by Mark Brandi a former ministerial adviser in the Bracks Labor government in Victoria, Australia. The article got me thinking of the many conversations I have had with good friend James Ellis over recent […]
The Dynamics of Dehumanisation
in BlogsReflections of a ‘Doer’
in BlogsDoes learning more about ourselves help us to better understand and influence others? I’ve learnt that if we are going to change the way things are done in risk and safety that the focus needs to be more on ‘influencing’ than ‘controlling’. In this piece, I’d like to explore the concept of learning more about ‘self’ in […]
Newsletter # 4 – May 2015
in NewslettersDolphyn Newsletter # 4 – The Learning Adventure Continues Learning to Embrace Ambiguity “Organisations, despite their apparent preoccupation with facts, numbers, objectivity, concreteness and accountability, are in fact saturated with subjectivity, abstraction, guesses, making do, invention and arbitrariness, just like the rest of us” Karl E. Weick (1969, p.5) One of the things that stands […]
Culture of Care (and sackings…)
in BlogsCulture of Care (and sackings…) I caught up with a good friend Martin over the weekend and he was telling me about his work situation. Martin works in heavy industry as a contractor, he has done most of his life and he’s now in his mid 40’s. Martin is currently contracting at a mine that […]
We need to make sure this can never happen again
in BlogsHave you ever been involved in an incident investigation that was really just a checklist of organisational processes? Have there been times when you might have missed something because you became too focused on one aspect and weren’t open to exploring? I’ve been in these situations. I’ve written reports that were focused on checking off […]