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      Staff Mgmt – Know Your Staff

      Acceptance, Communications, NGO Security Management, Training, Local Action

       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…

      Training Document 2021 English

      Staff Mgmt – Private Space

      Acceptance, NGO Security Management, Training

      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. 

      Training Document 2021 English

      Staff Mgmt – Stress Management

      Communications, Training, Wellbeing

      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…

      Training Document 2021 English

      Staff Mgmt – Teamworking

      Communications, NGO Security Management, Safety, Training

      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,…

      Training Document 2021 English

      Inter P Comms – Megaphone

      Acceptance, Communications, Inclusivity, Training

      This Red R ‘taking point’ video shows the use of Megaphones as an impersonal and unsuccessful way to address the public.

      Training Document 2021 English

      Inter P Comms – Mark Knight

      Acceptance, Communications, Safety, Training

      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.  

      Training Document 2021 English

      Inter P Comms – Checkpoint

      Communications, NGO Security Management, Training, Access

       This RedR ‘talking point video’ shows aid workers acting in a disrespectful manner at a checkpoint which causes a dangerous and negative response.  

      Training Document 2021 English

      Incident Reporting & Analysis – Documentary

      Communications, NGO Security Management, Policy Guidance, Training

      This RedR documentary shows that incident reporting & analysis are vital elements of security management.  

      Training Document 2021 English

      Incident Reporting – Learning Lessons

      NGO Security Management, Training

       In this Red R ‘taking point’ video Prof Andrew Brown, Nottingham University Business School, talks about the value of ‘learning lessons’ and advocates for organisations to invest in resources to learn about themselves and the context in which they work.

      Training Document 2021 English

      Incident Reporting – Checkpoint

      Context Analysis, NGO Security Management, Safety, Training, Access

      This RedR ‘talking point video’ displays a situation of aid workers experiences at a hostile checkpoint.  

      Training Document 2021 English