July 2020
Quarterly Newsletter
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Embracing Change
By Katie Dively, Senior Trainer and Research Scientist
I don’t like change. There, I’ve said it. I’ve resisted change for years in favor of the comfort of routine, familiarity, and expected outcomes. I’m a creature of habit. I’m that person in the training who likes to sit in the same seat each day. I’m the person who likes to give the same training and anticipate the same questions from the audience. Or at least I was that person.
I’ve changed. I now embrace change. Ok, maybe not entirely, but mostly. I’ve learned that change can be good. In fact, change can be amazing! This revelation didn’t come easily. In fact, it was a really difficult journey of figuring out how to be ok with the unexpected. Not how just to deal with or accept change, but how to encourage change, how to seek it out.
I have a colleague who likes to poke. She who shall not be named (ahh hem, Annmarie McMahill, the Center’s manager) likes to poke and push the Center into new directions. I’ve always been uncomfortable with that because I love stability, routine, the things I already know. Annmarie likes growth, opportunity, and shaking things up! The exact things that managers should be doing! You can imagine how that feels to someone who likes to stay in their own lane - their straight, very narrow path. It took me a while (about 2 years) to figure out what was so uncomfortable with the poking and the shaking. I was scared of the unknown. What if I fail? What if people laugh? What if no one learns anything? What if I can’t answer the questions? As a trainer and guide, these are very scary and very real potential outcomes. My job is to have the answers, isn’t it?
I had the help of a wise professional coach who encouraged me to think deeply about this fear of change. Why is it so uncomfortable? What do I fear exactly? What I learned is that I’m scared of change because it poses new questions, new challenges. Questions and challenges that I may not have the answers to or the solutions for. Again, I’ve always thought it was part of my job to have the answers, to have the solutions. He helped me understand the risks of making those changes and the potential opportunities that may emerge as a result of those changes. He, along with my colleagues, helped me see that my role is NOT to have all the answers or the solutions, rather to ask the right questions so others can see new possibilities emerge.
Today we’re all faced with change. So many changes each and every day as we live with COVID-19 in our states, our communities, and even our homes. Some of these changes in our lives can be really tough. They may be devastating. How do we learn to accept them? Dare I ask how can we learn to embrace a few of the changes to find opportunities revealing themselves? Our team has been asking ourselves those same difficult questions. How might changing how we offer services help communities or organizations be more effective during this time? Or if anything, how can it make their lives a little easier amidst the changes occurring all around them?
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Online Training
Opportunities
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Positive Culture Framework Training
We decided not to move forward in scheduling our in-person 2020 Positive Culture Framework Training. The health and safety of our attendees is of the utmost importance, and with the uncertain and evolving situation with COVID-19, we cannot guarantee that traveling and gathering in a group will be safe. Although we are not hosting an in-person training, we are excited to announce another opportunity to learn our Framework.
Save the date for a virtual version of our popular Positive Culture Framework Training on January 19-21, 2021. We have received very positive reviews from our in-person training, and we want to make this training available during these challenging times of the pandemic. We have taken our core content and made it even stronger. This three-day training will consist of six virtual sessions, two per day. Each interactive session will be two hours in length and will cover the foundations of the Positive Culture Framework for improving health and safety, a 7-step process for implementing the Framework, and three critical skills for improving effectiveness. The size of the group will be limited so that we can facilitate interaction and support everyone's learning. To learn more about the Framework, please
click here
. Registration information coming soon!
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Guide Service + Virtual Training
The Center is excited to announce a new version of our very popular
Guide Service
! While continuing to offer our standard Guide Service, moving forward, we will also offer a Guide Service + Virtual Training option. This new offering allows you to engage in Guide Service while building your capacity as well as the capacity of your team. This one-year Guide Service + Virtual Training contract includes:
- Monthly phone calls with the Center for Health and Safety Culture’s Guide to support your efforts to improve health and safety within your organization or community
- Access to a private, online Community of Practice Site offering Center tools and resources
- Up to 6, two-hour interactive Positive Culture Framework training sessions for up to 15 stakeholders
- Executive Summary Report at the end of the contract detailing progress using the Positive Culture Framework to improve health and safety
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Spotlights and Webinar Archives
Many online trainings and webinars are available on our website and YouTube channel. Our Spotlight videos provide brief training for individuals seeking to make a difference. In each Spotlight video, Center staff address key topics on a variety of public health and safety issues and provide practical tips and ideas for practitioners. The topics include:
- Applying Motivational Interviewing to Advocate for the Positive
- Meetings 101
- Medication Assisted Treatment
- Networks and Buy-Ins
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Stigma Training Series (six videos)
We record all our webinars and post them on our website and YouTube channel for individuals seeking to watch, re-watch, or share them with others. Our Webinar Archives include recordings of topics on:
- Applying Traffic Safety Culture – Sharing Survey Data About the Culture of Impaired Driving in Park Rapids, Minnesota
- Traffic Safety Culture and Its Relationship to Vision Zero
- Proactive Traffic Safety – Communication Tools to Reach Our Shared Vision of Zero Deaths and Serious Injuries
- Key Information for Driving Under the Influence of Cannabis (DUIC) Policy
- Reducing Problem Gambling in Oregon
- What is the Positive Culture Framework for Improving Health and Safety?
- And many more!
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Spotlight: Asher Townsend
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Please note: The previous version sent out had an incorrect image of Asher.
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The Center’s M.S. student, Asher Townsend, presented his Industrial and Management Systems Engineering master’s degree thesis defense on May 15, 2020. His thesis is titled, “Altering Threat and Reflection Levels of Traffic Safety Messaging and Effects on Psychological Reactance.”
Asher graduated with a B.S. in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering and a Minor in Psychology from Montana State University in 2017. He is fascinated with areas of engineering that intersect with psychology, which led him to focus his graduate research on Human Factors. Asher is most interested in working in a field where human factors intersect with transportation, especially the advancements of automated driving features in vehicles and how to design them to allow users to adapt easily and safely.
Congratulations, Asher!
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Jay Otto, M.S.
, presented a workshop in Mercer Island, WA on three lessons to initiate a strategic planning process.
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Dr. Kari Finley and
Jay Otto hosted a webinar in February on, “Applying Traffic Safety Culture – Sharing Survey Data about the Culture of Impaired Driving in Park Rapids, Minnesota.” The recording can be found
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Annmarie McMahill
and
Katie Dively
attended Appreciate Inquiry Facilitator Training. Appreciative Inquiry is a collaborative, strengths-based approach to organizational development. It helps to bring change by focusing on the positive aspects of an organization rather than focusing on what is going wrong.
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The Center for Health and Safety Culture is an interdisciplinary center serving communities and organizations through research, training, and support services to cultivate healthy and safe cultures. We are dedicated to applying research to develop sustainable solutions to complex social problems. Our research focuses on understanding how culture impacts behavior – especially behavior associated with health and safety. Other than Guide Service and Training, our other services include:
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RESEARCH
- Conducting, Exchanging, and Applying Research
- Cultural Assessments, Surveys, and Evaluation
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