Replying to LO30918 --
Marysa:
My head is hard and the hammers are not was well built as they used to
be. Learning and earning an MA at 55 my head has to be hard.
Thank you for your comments. my assumptions around the question are
that learning in relationship is a key to change , but then the whole
idea of a thesis as a question rather than an answer, is that I will
come to it, rather than bring it to the organization. I work for a
large ambulance service which pays to train hundreds of volunteers per
year. There are about three thousand volunteers and twelve hundred
full time paramedics. Training is all science(skills based protocols
founded in observation and questions relating to signs and symptoms).
There is an aging workforce on the verge of retirement, and along with
these experienced people will go our art. The art of pre-hospital care
is in quick relationship building and teamwork with police fire and
hospital workers. Moral is low because of poor change communication
from the top, and employee self esteem is also in the dumper due in
some part to poor relationship building with other emergency work
teams, and labour relations that are slowly moving up from abysmal. My
action research project is to focus on training better communicators,
leaders, and team players right out of the chute. Right now leadership
training is poorly placed at the end of training. I would like to
incorporate it in every lesson. to make it a way of being. I don't
expect to change the world for these people just start them with a
stronger work ethic towards teamwork and leadership.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Glenn Wainman
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