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Exploring excellence in human performance and behaviour in complex environments.
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In today’s episode I speak with Dr Dan Pronk about self-care and developing resilience for front line health care workers during times of increased pressure, specifically as we are experiencing right now in Australia. Dan openly shares from his experience working extensively in high pressure, high threat environments and personal experience with both acute and chronic trauma with the contextual understanding of the risks, impacts and constraints. To provide a number of personal habits he has ...
Shannon is a seasoned former Physical Training Instructor (PTI) from the NZDF. With over 19 years of experience as a strength and conditioning coach her lifestyle and family life revolve around sport, health, physical fitness, adventure, and hunting. She is married to a serving member who spent 22 years in the Defence Force and has two young sons. Aside from her work with military personnel, She has trained sportsmen and women from grassroots to national level. She has competed in numerous sp...
This episode we speak to Rick Pedley-Smith from PF Welfare and engagement and Adam Demamial from Boys to the Bush. These two not for profits are working with at risk boys to try and improve the lives of some of the most troubled youths and keep them from continuing the cycle by showing them a better way and providing mentoring programs to help them establish a better life.
What makes for effective training in tactical and critical response Occupations? To help answer this questions and improve awareness, a group of researchers recently published a study on “Factors Related to Negative Transfer of Training in Safety‐Critical Professions: An Interview Study” They separated the factors in several factors related to the Trainee, Training design and Organisational Environment and relevant subfactors within each. Part 1 provides an overview of their recommendat...
In this episode we touch on the difference between routine and adaptive expertise for occupations that work in complex or chaotic environments and why the traditional method of trying to develop routine expertise may be a suboptimal approach. When we look at "Routine expertise" the focus is on getting things done using known solutions in stable environments. While "Adaptive expertise" is about adjusting and innovating when things are unpredictable and complex.
A In law enforcement, the military, and other tactical organizations, the beep test has long been a benchmark for assessing aerobic fitness—ensuring recruits are physically ready to meet the demands of their duties. But here's the catch: in recent years, many organizations have lowered their entry standards to attract more recruits. While this may seem like a win for diversity and accessibility, it raises some serious questions: What’s the cost of reduced standards? Increased risk of injuries...
This short discussion explores linear and non-linear motor skill development to emphasise the need to understand the operational needs, your students, your learning outcomes and the principles underlying what you're trying to achieve. To develop the most effective training methodology to maximise the transfer of training to operaitonal performance.
Knowledge shields are a form of cognitive rigidity that we regularly use and encounter, which can impede the formation of new knowledge, updating old knowledge and learning. It Is the general tendency to preserve old models, beliefs or misconceptions through denial or defensive mechanisms, including downplaying the importance or relevance of contradictory data, arguing from authority, resorting to bad analogies, ignoring secondary effects, arguing from special cases and arguing the principle ...
This episode explores some of the co-factors associated with MTBI in the military, the considerations and difficulty in isolating the impact of blast exposure, and the behaviours we can do to reduce the risks of cognitive degeneration.
Does the scan develop an effective combat behaviour of is it just range theatrics? This discussion explores some of the considerations to improve the way we provide critical training.
In this episode, I speak with Sam Cox. Sam was raised in South Devon and throughout his school years developed a taste for the outdoors living close to both the beach and Dartmoor. This sense of adventure continued after he left school and joined the Royal Marines in 2010. He has tested himself throughout the globe’s harshest environments from the humidity of the jungles in Brunei, the heat of Central Asia, to the depths of the iciest temperatures in Norway. He will be using these experience...
Today I want to ask the question, could the Pygmalion effect be having an impact on individual mental health outcomes? The Pygmalion or Rosenthal effect is a psychological phenomenon in which the leader's high expectations can lead to improved performance and low expectations lead to worsened performance. Subconsciously influencing their actions and behaviours in relation to those individuals leading to the realisation of those expectations.
Are we asking the right questions about veteran suicide in Australia? Should we look at it as a wicked problem, where each individual has their own multifactorial circumstances and co-dependency from their own environment that we can find specific interventions for? Rather than grouping everyone into a causal effect theory from Defence Service? Rather than classify everyone who has one day of service as a veteran, should we look at separate groups of long-term ex-serving Defence member...
In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking to Shuan O'gorman. Shaun O’Gorman is a Human Behaviour, High Performance and Resilience consultant, keynote speaker, and author. After joining the Queensland Police Service in 1989, Shaun worked in the Police Dog Squad for many years as well as the Covert and Surveillance unit working on Major and Organised Crime. While in the K9 unit Shaun was involved in daily high-risk critical incidents ranging from violent street brawls, high-speed pursui...
Welcome to the Critical Response Performance and Innovation podcast, this episode's guest is Andy Bell. Andy Bell is a Senior Lecturer in Paramedicine at Griffith University, Gold Coast Australia. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern Queensland and most recently took up a full-time role as Paramedic Team Leader for TacMed Australia. His role at TacMed includes the clinical governance, educational development and team leadership of a group of specialized Tactical Pa...
Today's episode is a special edition dedicated to those who serve in the QPS and broader Law Enforcement community, as a special thank you for doing what you do in keeping us safe and to try and offer something back to help, in your time of need. In this interview, I have the pleasure of being joined by Melanie Freeman to cover topics around leadership, social connection and growth following traumatic events. Melanie is a registered psychologist and management consultant and has...
In this episode, I talk with Nathan Durbridge about leadership and considerations for managing the health and wellbeing of healthcare staff during periods of intense disease outbreaks. Nathan is the Deputy Nurse Manager Quality and Risk for Alfred Health Emergency, Nathan is responsible for the delivery of the National Safety and Quality Health Standards across both the Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre and Sandringham Emergency Departments. Nathan has extensive experience an...
Values are generally considered part of our morale compass that guides our behaviours around who we want to be and where we want to head in life. If we don't know who we are though, how do we know where we want to go and the behaviours that we need to develop along that path. As well well as how we act when our path conflicts with our values, or our intended destination changes. This episode looks into some considerations for values and some different contexts and situations tha...
In this episode we talk about IDENTITY, a lot of the complexity we introduce into our world comes from how we form our identity and the emotional impact that can have. So in this episode we explore; - Where our identity comes from, - How this determines who we are - How it impacts how we see our self value - How we compare ourselves to others - How does this impact the way we seek reward and avoid punishment - How this influences our thinking and decision making - Ho...
In this episode its an absolute pleasure to speak with the Author of the great new book, The Sporting Parent. Nathan Parnham is a strength and conditioning specialist located in Brisbane Australia. His career spans close to two decades in working in both amateur and professional sport. This includes setting up several successful high school athletic development programs throughout the country across both government and private schooling sectors. In doing so he has proven his worth and versati...
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