Today’s guest is Melbourne-based railway manager and leadership coach Teeshal Bal who was already featured before in episode 28 and the leadership episode 44. This conversation emphasises the importance of people in our industry, including their need to take over and operate large projects developed and built over many years by others. Topics of this deep conversation include:
* How to transition a railway organisation to new technology and new ways of operating
* How to make the world a better place
* What is “mind engineering”
* Initiatives to foster the role of women in the railway workforce
* The importance of gratitude and living in the present
And much more. Please enjoy and tell a friend about this podcast. And if you’d like to subscribe (or already have), I thank you.
Show notes:
1) ‘High Capacity Signalling’ is a trendy term used not just in Melbourne but many other places where the increase of signalling capacity is needed to make the business case for new technology viable.
But how is High Capacity Signalling defined, how is it achieved with CBTC technology, how can it be achieved with enhanced varieties of ETCS technology, and how do CBTC or ETCS need to be applied to really achieve high signalling capacity?
All of those questions are comprehensively addressed in the online training course “High Capacity Signalling Blueprint” which is now available to podcast listeners at a special end-of-year discount (listen in to find out how).
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2) As discussed in the podcast, MINDSET is critical for general success (or lack thereof) in life, but also more specifically for success with signalling technology projects that are meant to transform a railway to the next higher level of high capacity metro-style operation.
The online training program “High Capacity Railway Mindset” is based on cutting-edge research and presents monthly training modules over an entire year. Every module includes a “Transformation Guide” lesson with coaching how to facilitate change and learning, as well as five examples of an outdated legacy mindset with an associated new mindset more conducive for a high-capacity railway and tips how to get there.
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3) South Morang to Mernda was a recent conventional network extension project in Melbourne.
4) MTM in the context of this episode stands for Melbourne’s rail operator Metro Trains Melbourne (sometimes just referred to as “Metro” by Teeshal).
5) The Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project delivers a new twin railway tunnel underneath the city centre of Melbourne, introducing five new underground stations and connecting two lines of the existing suburban network, the Dandenong line and the Sunbury line.
6) The other railway podcast that Doc Frank referred to is the “Railway Transportation Systems” podcast by Sydney-based Rahiman Shaik. Here is a link if you want to check it out:
https://railwaytransportationsystemsrtspodcast.buzzsprout.com/
7) The initiative to support young girls that was mentioned in the podcast is “Flourish Gi
