'Shoot, Don't Shoot' training trailer
This is the trailer for our forthcoming online training program in High Consequence Decision Making (HCD). It is aimed at commanders,...
AVOIDING CATASTROPHE
for when failure is NOT an option
Decision making in the face of adversity - incident, emergency, and crisis management, the human factors and organisational inputs that ensure safety, mitigate risk, and minimise error
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Callide Creek - Failure IS An Option
The Callide Creek Flood of 2015 is instructive for professionals in the disaster and emergency management field because in this incident...
Lessons from the Dunalley Fire
"Decisions taken on the fireground, at the location of any kind of emergency or military engagement, are driven by the demands of the...
The Organisational Inputs Into Decision Making
Managers don't make decisions in isolation, they do so in an organisational context. This can either be helpful, or unhelpful, it can...
Setting The Right Objective - Why It Matters So Much
A key lesson from the Thunderstorm Asthma emergency is the importance of setting the right strategic objective to create a 'unity of...
Thunderstorm Asthma - Advanced Training In Incident Management
The thunderstorm asthma event of November 2016 caused mass casualties and the deaths of at least nine Victorians. This analysis uses the...
What Decision Making Really Involves
The key factors in sound decision making turn out to have nothing to do with the point of decision itself, but everything to do with how...
'Shoot, Don't Shoot' - Critical Decision Points
Here we look at a police shooting, from the officers' perspective, in order to show how critical decision points can be set up for...
Lessons From In Amenas
The In Amenas terrorist attack offers some important lessons for corporate security professionals operating in high risk environments....
Understanding Intent
This presentation for the AFINT Conference focuses on the human element in warfare. It provides examples of where low tech beats high...
Situational Awareness - More Than Dots On A Screen
In this talk I discuss the importance of understanding, a human characteristic, in military decision making, by looking at the airstrike...
High Consequence Decision Making - An Intro
High Consequence Decision Making (HCD) is a management program whose goal is to minimise the risk of catastrophic error. It is designed...
'Shoot, Don't Shoot'
Military decisions carry high consequences, often life or death. They contain the potential for catastrophic error, from which there can...