professor mark griffin, centre for safety, the university of western australia may 30, 2015...

Professor Mark Griffin, Centre for Safety, The University of Western AustraliaMay 30, 2015

Accelerated learning and personal impact

Influence

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Supporting people to make an impact

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Spheres of influence

Engage

Empower

Change

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Engage

Accelerate Learning

Preparing readiness for learning Building a psychologically safe environment Providing deep personalised feedback to

build self-management Challenging, experiential activities to

embed learning

Not only “What to Learn”

Also “How to Learn”

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Maximise Transfer

• Facilitating active reflection and codification of knowledge

• Fostering a proactive mindset in taking ownership of learning

• Designing on-the-job activities to apply learning into work

• Facilitating interaction with the work context

Empower

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Change

Transformation

• Multiple overlapping and interconnected elements of a system

• Change targets and stakeholder participation

• Action shared and distributed beyond a single change agent

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Targets of change activity

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Creating networks

‘I now concentrate more on specific industries and their relationship with society and environment. I am doing more applied work with these organisations.’

‘Communities are looking for my help in order to negotiate with the industry, so that was a surprise change in my type of work.’

‘Since coming back [from IM4DC workshops] we organised two trainings sessions for local government officials … Participants came from not only in Ghana but Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda and Somalia.’

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Policy change in Mongolia - Gender based violence

• Engagement with communities, industry, and government

• Systematic collation of information

• Roundtables and forums across stakeholders

• Government and company agreements to support facilities and activities

• Ongoing cycle of change

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Safety Benchmarking

• Opportunity to engage alumni in practical research

• Build networks and collaboration with companies, universities, and government

• Guide changes in safety policy and practice

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