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In this RedR ‘talking point’ video Mike Dixon, former Met. Police Hostage Expert discusses the managerial response to abduction, kidnapping and hostage-taking.
This RedR ‘talking point’ video shows the pressures and realities of working in a hostile environment. The clip focuses on the vulnerabilities towards aid workers when working alone.
In this RedR ‘talking point’ video Dr. John Roberts, Judge Institute of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge, stresses the importance of having and developing emotional literacy when working in dangerous environments. These environments include the external environment and…
This RedR ‘talking point’ video demonstrates the importance of knowing your staff, particularly local staff and partners when operating abroad. This clip highlights the dangerous outcomes that can occur when working with staff you do not know and how they…
This RedR ‘talking point’ video shows the importance of behaving appropriately when working abroad at all time, which includes out of office hours. Individual behaviours reflect on everyone else in your organisation.
In this RedR ‘talking point’ video Bob Churcher, from Southern Balkans Consultants, discusses the importance of effective employee stress management. Managers should be aware of employees that are extremely stressed so they can support them in various ways such as…
In this RedR ‘talking point’ video Dr. John Roberts, Judge Institute of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge, discusses teamwork. He stresses the long-term team benefits of really getting to know and to understand one another at the start,…
This Red R ‘taking point’ video shows the use of Megaphones as an impersonal and unsuccessful way to address the public.
In this Red R ‘taking point’ clip, Mark Knight shares a personal in-field experience. Mark successfully used inter-personal communication with an armed rebel commander in Sierra Leone to remain safe in a hostile situation.
This RedR ‘talking point video’ shows aid workers acting in a disrespectful manner at a checkpoint which causes a dangerous and negative response.