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Navigating the Authority Gradient #2

Last week I wrote about how to navigate the authority gradient and build psychological safety in a team. This week I’d like to approach it from the perspective of the student or team mate. As a member of a team it is often the case that you have less power than the leader. This can make it diffi...

Human Factors in Diving. What it is. What it isn’t. Why you need to know.

Human factors, at its simplest level, is designing, deploying, and refining systems that make it easier to do the right thing and harder to do the wrong thing. That ‘thing’ can be many different things, and they are often interdependent:  delivering a theory session in a training class and the...

A 'Just' Culture is not a 'Just Do It' Culture

Those who have read many of the blogs on The Human Diver will recognise the term “a ‘Just’ Culture” but recent research I have conducted has indicated that there is some confusion about what this means to those in the diving community. This blog will hopefully address this so that we can continue...

What are we pretending not to know?

We’ve been quietly building a culture of psychological safety in our team at The Fifth Point since 2021 when we first fell down the rabbit hole that is The Human Diver. I say quietly because it’s not one of those things where you can just send a memo out and boom, everything changes. It takes a ...

It’s obvious why it happened!! (In hindsight)

Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog about the (in)ability to learn from near-misses because they are often treated as successes. Furthermore, the research behind the article also showed that those in leadership positions of organisations are rewarded for near-misses because the positive outcome contrib...

Fatores Humanos no Mergulho para Leigos - Parte 10: Segurança psicológica

Em alguns dos outros blogs para leigos, mencionei a Segurança Psicológica. O que exatamente é isso e como podemos desenvolvê-la?A Segurança Psicológica existe quando uma equipe pode falar sobre os problemas que estão tendo, sabendo que serão ouvidos e respeitados por falar, não agredidos ou ignor...

Fatores Humanos no Mergulho para Leigos - Parte 8: Liderança é sobre relacionamentos e propósito

É fácil pensar que a liderança não se aplica a menos que você seja um guia de mergulho ou instrutor, mas isso não é verdade, todo mundo é líder em algum momento. Um líder é alguém que entende por que todos estão lá, pode comunicar isto de maneira clara para que outros também o entendam e, em segu...

Chodź za mną! Zaufaj mi! Jestem twoim przewodnikiem!

„Mężczyźni poszukiwani na niebezpieczną wyprawę. Niskie zarobki, dotkliwe zimno, długotrwałe godziny całkowitej ciemności. Wątpliwy bezpieczny powrót. Honor i uznanie w przypadku sukcesu. Ernest Shackleton." Co za reklama! Niestety, pogoda przeszkodziła wyprawie w osiągnięciu celu, jakim było dot...

Common Sense – It doesn’t Exist: Or if it does, it isn’t what you think it is.

How often have you heard the phrase, normally after something ‘obvious’ has gone wrong, “They should have used their common sense” or “Has common sense died out?” To you (or those observing the outcome) it was obvious that the situation would develop in the manner it did. This is partly because o...

Success or Failure. Success and Failure. What do they mean?

The problem with words like success, failure, good, bad, better, worse, safe, and unsafe, is that they rely on a context to derive meaning. Over the last two weeks, I have been facilitating a two-week workshop to develop two more Human Diver instructors, Windal Adams and Andrzej Gornicki. This i...