What is Mental Health Secure Escort Training?
Our staff writer, Vanessa, recently talked with Senior Trainer Zeb Glover about our prevention and management of violence and aggression training course for secure mental health transport teams, to help prepare them for some of the unpredictable behaviours and risky situations they face in their work. What is Secure Escort or Mental Health Transport work? […]
Personal Safety for Housing, Social Work and Probation teams
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How to NOT end up on Panorama; decision making as culture.
Over time, decision-making becomes culture. 💡 If more team-members spoke up, more effectively and more often, how many disasters, scandals and failures could be averted? I was asked recently to help a team whose workplace ended up looking like a disaster-zone, because of the failure of the team – collectively – to make the right decision […]
Conflict in a Childrens Hospital
Conflict in a Childrens Hospital – interview with Gerard O’Dea Gerard: I’m Gerard O’Dea, Director of Training here at Dynamis, and I’m going to be talking to you today about one of our recent training courses. Vanessa: What was the training course and how did you prepare for it? Gerard: We were asked to help […]
Your Breakaway Training Day needs to have LOTS of practice time
A Breakaway training day from Dynamis is designed to enable Public-Facing staff faced with the imminent threat of violence or a violent assault with the appropriate attitudes and tactics for personal safety. If danger can not be avoided any other way, staff should breakaway or disengage from violence and move towards safety using appropriate personal […]
NHS Security Officer training for a group of NHS hospitals – Feedback over 5 years.
We recently took the opportunity to review hundreds of feedback responses from a long-standing hospital security client who chose for their NHS Security Officer training in hospitals in various parts of the UK, since 2018. We have collated the feedback from individual NHS Security Officer training who worked with our trainers over the period, to […]
NHS Trainers Shocked by gains from Scenario Approach
Our Director of Training, Gerard O’Dea, and Professor Chris Cushion worked with a number of experienced conflict and physical intervention trainers from NHS boards around Scotland to introduce them to the SCENA Scenario-Driven Training Approach in early March 2022. The team – already competently teaching a variety of approaches to tactics including Maybo, GSA, Functional […]
Resolve Conflict: Beginnings and Endings in NHS Conflict Resolution
In looking at how to resolve conflict scenarios for the emergency department and the needs of the acute hospital staff teams, we made sure that staff were really successful in establishing initial contact with the people, by carefully Being Alert and Decisive – noticing things about the patient or their family, by addressing those visiting […]
Conflict Resolution across Cultures
Conflict Resolution across Cultures can be tricky! In our experiences deliveringconflict management courses in the UAE, Qatar and other GCC countries, we address issues of Conflict Resolution across Cultures. For example, the Arab communication style is known for containing exaggeration (through a fear of being ignored) over-assertion (through a fear of a point’s force being […]
Healthcare Communication and Language Types in Conflict Resolution
As vehicles for our training content in Healthcare Communication for one Emergency Department team, I developed a set of common target scenarios from the information I gathered in talking with the management, the learning development team and the staff themselves. We worked through these Healthcare Communication scenarios in the training, ranging from easy scenarios, such […]