As promised last week this blog is the second in a series of blogs about awareness. Why? Because of the upcoming Risk Awareness Week running online globally in October that I am presenting at. Last week I wrote about awareness from a safety perspective. This week I’m writing about awareness from the perspective of an organisation responding to a
Recently I have been blogging about transparency and obfuscation in relation to decision making. For a few weeks I am going to blog about awareness. Why? Because of the upcoming Risk Awareness Week. It is the brainchild of Alex Sidorenko of the Risk-Academy blog, who is based in Spain. He has convinced me and a whole bunch of others
Last week I wrote about transparency of decision making as transparency builds trust. Staff can see how the values of the organisation have been applied. But what if your organisational values are obfuscated? That is, you have not stated them explicitly, explained them or done your best to ensure all staff understand them? First, staff may
In my blog last week I wrote about unconscious bias and the role of advisers in helping decision makers understand their biases, so they have more clarity in their decision making. However, having clarity of one’s own decision making is not enough, you also need transparency. Transparencies (remember those sheets of plastic on a projector) for presentations
While the concept of “leading alongside” is a noble one for an internal adviser, it is not accomplished easily overnight. You see, the problem is the “unconscious” in “unconscious bias”. The decision makers you are trying to influence are not aware of the unconscious biases that may be clouding their judgement unless they have been