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Posted By Jonathan Sandler CMIOSH
I might get into hot water for this view.
PLEASE MODERATOR LEAVE THIS ONE ON)
Not wishing to sound sexist, but why are men bad at communicating?
Are most of the safety problems, we as safety persons come across, caused by men because of mans self pride? or because we as men we just do not know how to talk and ask for help?
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Posted By David Kimmins
What is your data source or are you speaking empirically ?
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Posted By Jonathan Sandler CMIOSH
My wife said that some men are good at communicating but most men are awful at listening.
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Posted By David Kimmins
Ahhhhhh, My wife has the same message for me. I guess I am her data source.
Smile and nod, Smile and nod
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Posted By Andrew Robertson-Böber
Simple: ethology
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Posted By Bill Fisher
Jonathan
Why did you think the Moderating Team would want to interfere with such an innocent enquiry?
The fact is you communicated your wish in such a (simple) manner that we couldn't think of a good reason to act.
Perhaps you got it right!
Best wishes
Bill
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Posted By Brett Day
Not sure why, are men percieved as a threat to another man's ideas, points of views etc ? Have been complimented by female friends that I am a good listener as though that is an unusual trait in a man.
Somewhat of topic, though might be something, whilst in the RAF one of the recruits in my intake took a swipe at one of our Warrent Officers, who proceeded to give him a good hiding, a junior officer came up and demanded what he was doing and why he wasn't communicating with the recruit, to which the W/O replied "Violence IS a form of communication, I am communicating to the recruit the error of his ways Sir."
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Posted By David Brede
In my experience there are two issues here, sending a message and receiving it.
The hardest job I have to do is to identify how I am going to communicate my safety message to my audience so that it is heard and understood.
For instance a safety professional will attend and be attentive at a day long networking event such as the rail group hosted this month.
An operative, say a male trackworker will stay with you 10 minutes tops unless you have hooked them into safety and they believe you really are going to help them in their work in some way.
There is a point that women are more health and safety concious in my view. Generally they are more into things like checking for breast cancer whereas how many of us look for danger signs in our genitals?
I guess that it just raises the level of difficulty in achieving communication and that you have to be aware of what gets the message across to the person/s that you want to communicate to.
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Posted By Gilly Margrave
Hi Guys,
It's interesting all the postings here are from men isn't it?
Gilly
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Posted By Peter MacDonald
Cummunicating is strong point, I take big pride in my spoken england. Whats' ur point eh?
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