Mini Learning Team - Let's get "BLOTO" with Learning Teams
November 18, 2020
Welcome to the 10th Episode of the podcast series. In this episode, The Practice of Learning Teams, book authors Brent Sutton, Glynis McCarthy and Brent Robinson will conduct a mini-learning team based on your submissions in the learning journal. We will discuss and reflect on some of the community challenges to embed learning teams and explore The What?, The How? and The Why?
Hi Safety FM listeners, this is Brent Sutton, one of the co-hosts of the new podcast series The Practice of Learning Teams, with my fellow co-hosts Glynis McCarthy and Brent Robinson.
Our goal is to support you on your journey and build a better community of practice for Learning Teams.
On today's podcast of the show, we conduct a mini Learning Team on the topic of BLOTO which is an acronym for Blame versus Learning and Organizational Trade-Offs.
This episode was inspired by a conversation with Dr Todd Conklin and Jeffrey Lyth (the host of Safety Differently).
In this episode we will explore:
Our goal is to support you on your journey and build a better community of practice for Learning Teams.
On today's podcast of the show, we conduct a mini Learning Team on the topic of BLOTO which is an acronym for Blame versus Learning and Organizational Trade-Offs.
This episode was inspired by a conversation with Dr Todd Conklin and Jeffrey Lyth (the host of Safety Differently).
In this episode we will explore:
- Why is blame the first port of call with organizations?
- Whilst blames inhibits learning, what encourages learning?
- Does learning need to be deliberate?
- Why do workers need to be active and not passive learners in safety?
- All safety problems are learning opportunities?
- Why blame inhibits incremental learning
- Does blame affect worker assessment of "Dynamic Risk"?
- Does top-down learning from traditional safety systems work?
- Waste versus Value?
- Fault finding versus fact-finding?
- Issues with person-centred, not process-centred learning opportunities
- How do we make learning deliberate?
- Where do learning opportunities exist
- Learning happens when people feel safe
- The importance of workers feeling valued
- Can safety systems create a learning opportunity?
Please share your thoughts about this episode @ podcastlearnings.com
Be part of the journey with Learning Teams @ learningteamscommunity.com
And don't forget, the book "The Practice of Learning Teams" is available in printed and Kindle editions on Amazon or from the author's website.