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This RedR ‘talking point’ video demonstrates the importance of knowing your staff, particularly local staff and partners when operating abroad. This clip highlights the dangerous outcomes that can occur when working with staff you do not know and how they…
This RedR ‘talking point’ video shows the importance of behaving appropriately when working abroad at all time, which includes out of office hours. Individual behaviours reflect on everyone else in your organisation.
This Red R ‘taking point’ video shows the use of Megaphones as an impersonal and unsuccessful way to address the public.
In this Red R ‘taking point’ clip, Mark Knight shares a personal in-field experience. Mark successfully used inter-personal communication with an armed rebel commander in Sierra Leone to remain safe in a hostile situation.
In this Red R ‘taking point’ video Koenraad van Brabant, Author of ‘Operational Security Management in Violent Management’ discusses the need to be aware of how you are perceived.
In this Red R ‘taking point’ video entitled ‘born to be wild’ demonstrates the impact of aid workers acting in a disrespectful manner in the countries they are operating within.
In this Red R ‘taking point’ video John Ryle from Rift Valley Institute discusses being a political agent. John highlights the need for humanitarian organisations to understand that they are perceived as political agents when supplying aid in a conflict…
In this Red R ‘taking point’ video Prof Andrew Brown, Nottingham University Business School, discusses the artefacts of culture and image. He talks about the importance of being aware of the message an organisation’s assets such as buildings and vehicles…
This episode highlights the ongoing and unique challenges faced by many security managers this year. “2020 … it’s not just a year it’s a phenomenon’. Vita Peake Associate Manager of Global Security for Population Services International (PSI), aptly describes the…
I recently read an article about the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton in which the authors referred to ‘the brilliant success of failure’. Captain Shackleton and…