Employers can reduce the number of people dropping-out of vocational training by encouraging students to proactively seek help when they start struggling. Simple but effective communication with practical advice, sent at optimum times, is key.
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I’m on leave. The day before I went on leave, everybody wanted everything from me, because I was going on leave, even though I’m only away for three business days. In order to go on leave, I had to deal with a request for a “quick trial,” providing advice on null results, and managing staff remotely.
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All of my waking hours are dominated by our public health randomised control trial, which is currently in the field.
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I’m currently managing three large research projects, plus our media. I’ve had two big weeks preparing for our public health trial, planning an ethics application, delivering a workshop, finalising results of a project that’s been scaled across the state, and managing our public communications under less than ideal timing.
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Usually, when we create communications in Western societies, we’re used to telling a story. For example, emails usually follow a narrative format: an introduction to the organisation, followed by information about a project, background to the issue, further information about current objectives, and we end with our request. Evidence from behavioural science shows this format, while highly familiar, rarely shifts behaviour. This post provides tips for improving communications.
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Today was another day of back-to-back meetings and workshops. I worked on managing our team’s bibliography and our cyber security project.
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Back to back meetings from 9:00am through to the afternoon. Most were for planning our randomised control trial in public health.
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A big day running communications for my team, as well as planning one of our randomised control trials. I spent most of the day drafting a ‘do it yourself’ guide on scaling a successful trial.
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I’ve been back at work for a few weeks. Today has been a big day for meetings and planning on equity, diversity and accessibility.
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A peer-group program encouraged more student teachers to take up their professional placements in rural and remote schools. This post reflects on the project management lessons that would help organisations to attract professionals into regional jobs.
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