– Dare to fail

That was professor Paul Iske’s message when he had his talk during Forhelse’s joint gathering december 2nd.

In the joint gathering, all participants in Forhelse were invited for an exciting lecture by the man behind «Brilliant Failures», Paul Iske.

Iske himself has extensive experience working with projects, and anything that can go wrong in such a process. After many years of trial and error, he discovered that many place too little emphasis on the mistakes one makes.

He started the presentation by comparing project work with how to present a perfect life on Facebook.

– One wants to show everything that is going well, but may avoid showing what did not go so well, says Iske.

Iske started “Brilliant Failures” precisely to show how important it is to fail and that one should often look at projects from end to start and not from start to finish.

– You can often begin with many good ideas, go through all the necessary processes, and when the idea is ready for implementation, it goes wrong – especially in the health care system, Iske explains.

He also pointed out how important the working environment is and how a “bad” working environment can affect the process.

Iske says one can distinguish between four different work environments. Apathetic, comfortable, stressful and an environment that promotes learning.

As part of this presentation, everyone in Forhelse got to answer anonymously on how they perceive their own work environment. Here (fortunately) most answered that they worked in an environment that promoted learning.

He ended the seminar stating that being allowed to make mistakes should be a human right and that all projects and work environments should have good routines for how one can learn from what goes wrong instead of hiding it.

-I hope my message is clear – things will always go wrong, says Iske.