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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