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We have sterling achievements at the workplace, impressive KPIs and are undoubtedly confident of our leadership capabilities. But are we confident of performing life-saving aid as a bystander? Studies have shown that bystander CPR increases survival rates by two to three times, and bystander first aid are crucial in accidents. Am glad I took the full course with #Singaporeredcross. This certification is not for the resume, it is a meaningful skill because maybe all a person has is less than 60 seconds. #learningneverends

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The United States Marine Corps seems to subscribe to the training philosophy that all new recruits need to be "broken down" (through a lot of yelling and verbal abuse) and then built up again into the kind of individual they ultimately want as part of their unit and as comrades. Does this kind of new recruit training have any application or value in the corporate world, though? Are Gen Z'ers perceived as such a weak, coddled group that only this kind of onboarding experience will wake them up to how real world work is? Or should the weak and coddled be filtered out at the recruitment stage so that onboarding can dispense with all the false pressure and concocted challenges so that everyone can focus on what's really important ie introducing newbies to the industry, the work and what's expected of them in terms of output? Someone will say this scenario doesn't actually apply in the "real" corporate world but what if it does? To me, it's positively Dickensian but I hear from many that wel-known organizations actually subscribe to this approach of teaching and training, though what one is actually supposed to learn from it is beyond me. What are your thoughts?

BOOTCAMP FOR YOUNG OFFENDERS IN QUEENSLAND AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN STATES? Full Metal Jacket, the storyline follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their boot camp training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina. The introduction of recruits. "I am gunnery sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on, you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be 'sir.' Do you maggots understand that?" The actor's name was R. Lee Ermey  Kubrick the director, told Rolling Stone. "We lined them all (Potential drill instructors) up, did an improvisation of the first meeting with the drill instructor. They didn't know what he was going to say, and we could see how they reacted. Lee came up with, I don't know, 150 pages of insults." Inventing those insults wasn't particularly difficult for Ermey - he was just being a drill sergeant, this time on camera as he had been a real US drill instructor during the Vietnam War. "My main objective was basically to just play the drill instructor the way the drill instructor was and let the chips fall where they may." Queensland has an issue with delinquent youths who are terrorising communities across the state, also in the Northern territory. My proposal is to place wayward youth in the Boot camp system. Here they would be the subject of a serious routine, discipline and physical and mental exercises, sport and outward bound style adventure. I would propose a 'Boarding House' style initiative where youths would get weekend leave if their family situation was acceptable, or weekend visitation from family and friends. Alternatively taking the school holidays off with family. Youths would be taught to swim, to canoe and skills such as 2 stroke engine maintenance, car maintenance. They would also be taught in sports, survival and bush skills, resuscitation and first aid in a controlled situation. They would be taught hygiene and cooking skills and home accounting. This would be a pathway for an apprenticeship or further training. In remote areas the instructors would be First Nations' peoples. Frankly locking feral youths up for a period does not improve outcomes when they return to society. We need intensive 'Bootcamp' style adventure instruction, rather than prison for young offenders. It may be that those not in detention would opt in to the program to gain valuable skills. The 'Outward Bound' style boarding facility would be designed to improve mental and physical condition and prepare youths that have gone off the rails for a productive life. Medical and disciplinary officers would be on site. Instruction in Maths, English, History and Australian Culture would be also provided, however delivered in a physical education setting. Ferals who have been detained would have to opt in to the 'Outward bound' scenario with their parents or guardians. A series of facilities across Queensland to deal with lower level crime and delinquency.

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Please read and watch Andrew's presentation. If you're Gen-X, think about your own history and how you can now see the subtle 'shoves' you got when you were growing up. Think about how the promoters of, "...if you don't go to college you won't be successful..." have had decades to perfect their perverse message. We need to make normal the notion of Trades = Potential for Success! College is not for everyone. Trades are not for everyone. Encourage our Children to first pursue their dreams. Oh - and if you do go to college, and you get a loan - it's your loan. Pay your loan. No one else owes you for your college degree, marketable or unmarketable.