Human Systems
You Can’t Change Behaviour By Telling People What To Do
Training doesn’t survive pressure. Rehearsal does. Stop teaching slides. Start building instinct under fire.
Read MoreBefore Frameworks, There Were Fairytales
On why narrative beats instruction.
Read MoreThe Engagement Paradox
On cyber awareness, and why it keeps failing. In cyber security, we bloody love the word “awareness”. It goes into strategies and programmes. We measure it. We report on it (kind of). We even dedicate a whole bloody month to it, worshipping the idea as if it’s an end state in its own right. And…
Read MoreAttention Seeking B*tch
Why being an attention-seeker makes me better at producing outstanding cyber security training. Let’s get the title out the way first. I’ve been called an attention-seeker most of my adult life. Sometimes it’s affectionate. Sometimes it’s a joke. Sometimes it’s said with the full intent of landing as an insult and staying there. I’ve never…
Read MoreDon’t teach me anything.
John Oliver was joking when he barked that line at Edward Snowden. Yet it might as well be every employee staring down another mandatory cyber module. Beneath the comedy is a truth most organisations refuse to face. People do not reject cyber security because they are stupid. They reject it because the learning experience reeks…
Read MoreAttention Before Awareness
The ignition point Attention. That’s the game. That’s the god(dess). And until we start worshipping it, every awareness campaign that we build will collapse under its own dullness. Cyber awareness isn’t failing because employees are careless, stupid, or “the weakest link”. It’s failing because we’re not competing for their attention. Not even trying, half the…
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