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💫I think that the newly added video training on “Working with Multinational Teams - It's a Cultural Thing!” that I completed today on Ocean Learning Platform is a very effective video for ship employees. I enjoyed watching it and I hope you will have the chance to watch it. The closing subtitle at the end of the training adds more value. #training #onboard #crew #life #atsea #multinationalteams #culturalthings #oceanlearningplatform👷🏽♂️👷🏻♂️👨🏽🍳👨🏽💻👨💻👩🏻🔧👨🏽🏫 Qte- - - 👀İt’s a hard life at sea.But this happy crew,well,they love every minute. 👀All friends togeather. 👀People from all over the world working as one. 👀They may come from different lands,but it’s the seafaring life that brings them togeather. 👀Can we stop all this now? 👀Stop it ? Why ? Unqte- - -

A big part of my job is spending time soaking in the pool.... In fact, there is a very key element that makes my life and work easier. A good preparation in the pool means less stress for the students and an easier day on the ocean for me. So when choosing a dive center and instructor, choose ones that do their job well ) #scubacourse #scubadiving #pool #costarica #underwater #scubainstructor

A reminiscing about the good times in 2007, relaxing and chilling in the Engine control room on board VLCC Kazimah 3 with the guarantee engineer from HHI, Mr. Kim. Moments like this are important, fostering connections that transcend the boundaries of work. Here's to cherishing these invaluable moments of camaraderie and shared experiences! 🚢🔧 #ShipLife #marineEngineers #Memories2007 🌊🛠️

The power of reflection to suspend the emotional biases should not be ignored. Recently, one of The Human Diver educators was delivering a class where on the first day of using the #interpersonalskillsLAB simulators, the team was not convinced that the stress, workload, and uncertainty of the simulator equated to a diving activity, saying that they wouldn't have completed the task without having all of the knowledge needed. They were defensive over their abilities to complete the task successfully, especially given their high level of technical skills as divers and diving instructors. The educator and I had an online chat about some strategies to bring these points to the fore the following day, during day 2 of the programme. He didn't need to do much. Day 2 starts with a reflection of day 1, asking about key points and takeaways. This has two purposes - one to ask them to consider their learning after a night of 'soaking' and secondly to make sure the class is still on the path to the goals the students have set. During this reflection period, the team members who were most emotional about their lack of competence because of the 'system' they were within (InterLAB) realised that their (negative) ego was getting in the way of learning and that there was significant learning to be had from the simulations and the associated critical debriefs. Their perspective had shifted once the emotional levels had subsided. The need to separate emotion from decision-making and reflection is critical for improvement - looking through a different lens, a logical one to understand the decision-making process, rather than an emotional one when faced with failure and incompetence, is both needed but also very difficult because of the fundamental attribution error/bias. We often think about the FAE applying to our perception of others, focusing on dispositional (personal) factors, not situational (contextual) factors when something 'bad' or 'good' happens. However, when reflecting on our own performance, we often focus on the context and not our performance variability and what we can do to change that. Shifting perspective is critical to success in a complex world. And once the perspective has been shifted, reflection 'on the moment' is important if we are to reflect 'in the moment'. This shift in perspective is why I love what I do, be that in a small team or a large organisation, inside and outside of diving. #nontechnicalskills #psychologicalsafety #justculture #humanfactors Human in the System - www.humaninthesystem.co.uk Alexander Stork

It's National Bird Day! Here at Take Flight Learning, we have four distinct bird styles. 🦅 First up, Eagles! Know someone who's all about taking charge and diving head-first into challenges? That's total Eagle energy. 🦜 Then we've got the Parrots. Life's never dull with them around. They're the ones turning any situation into a party with their endless enthusiasm and colorful vibes. 🕊️ Now, let's not forget the Doves, always there to lend an ear or a comforting wing. If you're all about harmony, you might just be a Dove. 🦉 And lastly, the Owls. The thinkers, the planners, the "let's figure this out" types. If you're into details, you're probably nodding along like the Owl right now. So, what's your bird style? Share below! #WhichBirdAreYou #DISCStyles #DISC #LearningandDevelopment #humanresources #nationalbirdday

Learning lessons in the #commercialdiving sector... not easy given the commercial protectionism that happens. This morning, I had a commercial diving friend contact me and say that they'd heard of a burning incident that knocked someone out in a similar way to his incident which he recounted in this session at the #humanfactors in #diving conference in 2021. https://lnkd.in/ek3XJUY9 The need to share stories is something I talked about at the Bergen Commercial Diving Conference in November last year and also at the Canadian Underwater Conference and Exhibition in March this year. It is also core to my MSc research available here (Storytelling to learn: what happens underwater, stays underwater - https://lnkd.in/ea45b2Cr) The PDF of the deck for Bergen is available here: https://lnkd.in/einem9TV We can't make all the mistakes ourselves, so we aren't going to learn that way. We easily dismiss others' stories if there isn't the context because that is the way we are wired. It takes a paradigm shift to move away from an event and the particulars and look at the context and conditions (which are likely to be similar). To explore the context means that organisations have to be open, and this is an issue when lawyers and (often) HR get involved. Having delivered a full day 'Just Culture' workshop last year, I can say that there are false preconceptions about what a Just Culture is, and it isn't what most companies think it is. Fundamentally, algorithms are about protecting an organisation, not about facilitating learning. And you can't proceduralise a culture (dust the policy off), but you can weaponise such a process, and that induces fear, and that seriously limits learning. If organisations genuinely want to learn, they have to move the conversations from 'have to say this' (absolute minimum) to 'want to say this' (lots of context, adaptations, and workarounds). I will see about getting the CUCE 2024 presentation put onto YouTube as I believe in sharing my presentations where possible. The presentation doesn't benefit me, it is there for others to reflect on, and hopefully learn. As an outsider, I can highlight gaps, but I can't close them. I can give people tools, but there needs to be leadership that is willing to go out there and find the truth, and that is not easy. Phil Newsum Peter Sieniewicz Don Davies CMIOSH Alison Locke Robin Kirkpatrick Andy Butler Phil Bryson Warren Fulton Tracy Childs Jonathan Chapple Aaron Griffin Øyvind Loennechen Nils-Eivind Holmedal Kristian Gould

"Undoubtedly having good technical skills makes you a good and safe diver and that is the goal of getting "certified" but this is not enough. How many times have you seen or read situations in diving that are far from "up to spec"? How many times you have done unsafe dives due to time, money or peer pressures? This is when Human Factors come in. The class allowed me to look in the mirror and learn the real reasons why I made decisions in diving that in retrospect were so wrong but I still made them anyway. It also showed the things other than buoyancy control or trim (for example) that are missing from diver training and why and how to get better at these "human" skills." Tonight, the first session in the next 10-week programme starts. There are still some spaces for those who want to learn beyond the technical skills taught in diver training programme. - Reducing error - Enhancing communication - Managing risk/uncertainty more effectively - Changing your language to encourage learning rather than judgment or blame - Creating teams more quickly, be that socially or as an instructor This 10-week live programme is for you. All sessions are recorded if you can't make any. $349 for 20 hours of live, directed learning and discussion, plus loads of additional resources for you. Starts this evening at 19:00 UTC. https://lnkd.in/dc7MeDm The Human Diver

An instructor has a position of authority and power over a student so the student tends to look up to and admire their instructor kinda blindly. This is “normal” in a sense but can also be dangerous. Many times a student will not have a good learning experience (or not have a good experience at all 😔) with a certain instructor, possibly without even realizing it in the moment. It might only become apparent later when they discuss their experience with other divers or another instructor. We should be wary to not succumb to this power dynamic and cult of personality. Just because someone has authority or is well known, doesn’t make them a) a good educator, b) a good diving safety, c) a good role model or d) a good fit for us. There is no shame in asking questions before booking your diving or course, neither in asking others about an instructor, looking at reviews, talking to the person themselves to see it they fit your “vibe”. And there is also no shame in saying no if it doesn’t feel like a good fit for you. After all, our goal is to enjoy ourselves and be safe, that’s what matters most, and that can only be achieved in “appropriate” company. Happy dives! 😊🙏🏼🫶🏼 #freediving #freedivingcourse #freedivinginstructor #freedivingtraining #freeflowgr #freedivingschool #apnea #apneaacademy #zakynthos #greece #freedivinggreece #mediterranean #greekislandlife #greekislands

Learning and Safety go hand in hand! When the powers that be, customers, do not want to pay for that learning it diminishes SAFETY! https://lnkd.in/gAZqTJuz