The Downside of Experience
There are numerous vocations and daily activities that could be considered extremely dangerous, such as firefighting, oil refineries, construction workers, …
Situational Awareness in Hoarder Homes – Guest Post
Firefighter-Paramedic Ryan Pennington with the Charleston (WV) Fire Department has been conducting extensive research on the epidemic problem of emergencies in …
Please…Don’t Read This Article
This article does not contain anything valuable that will improve situational awareness. So, please, do not read
Twelve Ways to Situational Awareness
Ho, Ho, Ho. Merry Christmas everyone! With Thanksgiving day in the past, it is officially the Christmas season! I know everyone’s feeling particularly …
Technology Can Help AND Hurt Situational Awareness
You don’t have to look far and wide to locate clever marketing campaigns that make outrageous claims to improve our lives or solve our problems. I’ve been …
Positive and Negative Clues and Cues
As we train our leaders to improve situational awareness it is important the lessons include a list of both positive and negative clues and cues. In the …
Positive Reinforcement of Undesirable Behavior
In this article I am taking on a topic often discussed in my leadership programs more often than in my situational awareness programs – motivation. …
More on Training For Failure
Since I announced the release of the Training for Failure live program (and the DVD recording of the program) I have received a lot of emails from …
Mission Myopia: A situational awareness barrier
The primary mission in all emergency situations is to save lives and property. In some agencies when a new member is inducted into the organization they take …
Nine Dangerous Mindsets: Part 9 – The Synergist
Welcome to this, the last of the nine part series on dangerous mindsets. From the feedback I’m getting, this series hit some chords with readers. I …