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From Viral Moments to Purposeful Change A brief remark by actor Saoirse Ronan sparked a global conversation on women’s safety and everyday vulnerabilities. The structure and mechanism of the wildfire spread of this message is what we try to leverage with Drama for Change – affecting behaviour and culture in the workplace. Learn more in my latest Newsletter. https://lnkd.in/e9Q8h5r8

Mergers and acquisitions, toxic cultures, compliance initiatives that are getting no traction – these are some of the hardest problems to fix. All are fundamentally behavioural issues and are excellent subjects for a Drama for Change initiative. After many months of developing and refining Drama for Change, I’ve put together a white paper to explain the methodology in detail. It’s concise because I prefer things short and to the point, but it nevertheless outlines the research-based framework and the material that informed it. If you’re interested but sceptical, or if you need to explain it to sceptical colleagues, the white paper can help. You might find it intriguing…

This is an important cue for learning and development professionals to further the discussion of how a diversity and inclusion agenda can be properly served in the workplace. The problem is that, as a great deal of research has repeatedly shown, diversity training doesn’t work.

We’ve just produced an advert for TV and social media designed to boost recruitment for Brighton & Hove Buses and Metrobus. I’m pleased to say that job applications have already significantly increased. 

In most large organisations there is a problem that seem impervious to everything you throw at it. Training and mandating, workshops and awareness campaigns don’t make a dent. These problems usually boil down to one thing – behaviour.

I make video for learning and I specialise in drama. When people think of training films, it’s not what they think of when we say “Netflix”. After a lifetime in the sector, during the lockdown, I took a hard look at video drama in learning to work out how we can improve things.

I had the rare opportunity to direct a short promotional film for Fairlight School in Brighton – where my two children attend. It was an unpaid piece of work which was a treat because it took off the usual pressure of corporate deadlines. Also, we aim to do at least one project for a local community organisation in Brighton, where Nice is based, each year.

Drama doesn’t tell people what to do, but it can stimulate them to think deeply about a problem.  If you can create a safe space around that experience, discussion and sometimes solutions can arise.