Five Tips for Dealing with Difficult Employees

Five Tips for Dealing with Difficult EmployeesFive Tips for Dealing with Difficult EmployeesFive Tips for Dealing with Difficult Employees FalconeFew things are more frustrating and angst-ridden than dealing with difficult employees, particularly if youre a small business owner or entrepreneur, where difficult employees can cause greater damage.There are effective ways of handling difficult employeesthat are more effective than others.Addressing substandard employee performanceand misconduct issues consistently and proactively will help you increase employee productivity, protect your company legally and restore camaraderie to your team.Here are some key methods of management interventions in managing problem employees.1. Distinguish between substandard job performance and misconduct. Employers often mistakenly treat ansicht two classifications of infractions similarly when, in fact, they are seen (and should be treated) very differently in the eyes of the law.2. Performance often re quires steps of corrective action. When it comes to performance (and attendance) issues, many companies follow a three steps before youre out type of disciplinary action model, where a verbal warning is followed by a written and then a final written warning.The three-strike approach is typically considered fair by almost all standards, whether employees are union or non-union.Much will depend, however, on the employees tenure and potential membership in a protected class As a rule, the longer the employee has been employed by your organization, the more workplace due process he or she may be entitled to.It follows that a recent hire and a long-term employeewill typically be treated very differently in terms of what constitutes appropriate elendice of substandard employee performance.3. Conduct provides for more immediate action. Conduct gives you, the employer, greater discretion in terms of according the appropriate level of corrective action.The three-step model under the substand ard job performance category above is not necessarily required when dealing with difficult employees who engage in misconduct.In those cases, employers have a lot more discretion to progress immediately to a final written warning (or even immediate employee termination) for a first offense.Misconduct infractions that typically rise to the level of immediate termination, or summary offenses, include theft, embezzlement, and forgery.Thats easy enough to understand, but an outburst of insubordination, an offensive rumormonger caught in the act, or someone shouting obscenities at a peer may easily qualify for a final written warning based solely on the egregious nature of their actions even if this is a first-time occurrence.In situations like this, youre placing the individual in question on notice that this is a third rail issue. The message engage in this type of behavior again and youll be firing yourself.4. Remember that verbal engagements need not be confrontational.Before you mo ve forward with documented corrective action in the form of a written warning, be aya that you first attempt to address the infraction verbally, whenever possible.Spoken respectfully and quietly, your message will carry even more gravity than if shared with emotion or drama of any sort.Offer to help, make yourself available to support the individual to reach established performance goals, but re-establish performance and productivity expectations.Seen this way, strong leadershipis constantly supportive but has the teeth necessary to escalate matters as needed.5. Escalate to documented corrective action when appropriate.When discussions and conversations dont yield the results you were hoping for as the business owner or department leader, then stepping up your game by providing documented disciplinary action is the next logical step.This not only protects your company legally but also escalates the seriousness of the matter in the employees mind.Close your document with the statemen t Failure to demonstrate immediate and sustained improvement may result in further disciplinary action up to and including dismissal.Such consequence language in the progressive discipline realm is exceptionally clear and incontestable in its intent.In addition, if circumstances warrant, include brde chance agreement language like this This is your last chance, and your position is now in immediate jeopardy of being lost.With a firm record of verbal interventions and written corrective action in place, most problematic performers or workers with bad attitudes will simply move on to other organizations.Should they try and challenge you legally, youll have an exceptionally strong defense.More importantly, youll send the right message to the rest of your team that youre supportive and willing to make yourself part of the solution but also ready to confront substandard employee performanceor workplace misconduct head-on, without hesitation.That is probably the most important management skillof all.Author BioPaul Falcone is Vice President of Human Resources at a major Fortune 500 company. He is the author of several books including 96 Great bewerbungsinterview Questions to Ask Before You Hire, 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees, 101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems and 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews.

How to Find Your Career Gift - The Muse

How to Find Your Career Gift - The MuseHow to Find Your Career Gift Theres a reason were constantly publishing lists of resume clichs. Despite the fact that each and every job seeker is different, fruchtwein have a hard time figuring out exactly what makes them different. As a result, hiring managers get job applications littered with the same phrases and descriptions, again and again.Thats why pinning down your unique blend of capabilities and expertise will put you way ahead- not just when youre looking for a job, but after youve gotten one, too.Steve Harvey, author of Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success (and yes, the host of Family Feud), calls this unique blend of abilities your gesundheitsgefhrdender stoff. I recently had the privilege of hearing Harvey speak at the Success Summit he hosted with Strayer University. At the Summit, he explained what your gift is, what its not, and how to figure out what yours is.Harvey says your gift is the thing you do at your absolute best with the least amount of effort. For example, his gift is making people laugh. Maybe your gift is problem-solving. Maybe its being able to listen to people and hear what theyre really saying. Or maybe your listening skills could improve, but youre a fantastic speaker. Harvey says your gift is not your past, present, or future job. If youre a lawyer, your gift isnt for law, but it could be negotiating, finding creative solutions, or being able to analyze information. When youre looking around, trying to figure out what your gift is, dont end your search at the office. You should also examine your relationships, your communities, your hobbies- basically, every aspect of your life.Its connected to you whether you are working or vacationing, whether you are with the family or even all alone, he explains in his book.To figure out your gift, try this Write down all of your successes, both personal and career-related. Then, see if theres a common theme. If theres one talent or skill that r uns through most of your achievements, chances are thats your gift. For example, youve been praised for your ability to calm down angry co-workers or clients. Outside of work, youve become the go-to person in your neighborhood, family, or friend group to resolve conflicts. Your gift is for mediation.You can also ask your friends, family, and co-workers what abilities they associate with you. They may have picked up on a characteristic youve under-valued, ignored, or not even noticed.After you hone in on what you do the best with the least amount of effort, you can use that knowledge to advance your career.If youre looking for a job, highlight your gift throughout the application process. It should show up again and again in your resume bullets. For example, if youre a wonderful communicator, include the number of successful presentations you gave, how many clients youve been the liaison for, and your clear and concise reports. In your cover letter, draw a clear link between the role s of the job and your gift. You might write, Ive always had a passion for rallying people around a common cause. As sales manager for your company, Id use this gift to create an environment thats collaborative rather than competitive and lead our team to record sales.During the interview process, keep circling back to your gift. If youre asked about your greatest strength, reply, In every facet of my life, I bring people together, which would serve me well as your sales manager. What if the interviewer wants to know how you spend your free time? Bring up your love of ultimate frisbee or your choir- because I love accomplishing goals as a team. Youre not trying to be subtle, youre trying to construct a memorable portrayal of what youre really amazing at- and how that would help you succeed at the organization.Once you have a job, you can continue using your gift to your advantage. Start making sure all your work actions align with your gift. For example, if youve always been able to make things happen, make sure thats coming through loud and clear in the office. Volunteer to help with projects behind deadline. Turn in your own projects on time, or even early. Promote accomplishments especially when they relate to your gift so people can really draw the connection between what youre able to do and what results followed. Before long, your colleagues will know you as the go-to person for that thing youre really amazing at- making you even more of an invaluable member of the team. This isnt to say your potential contributions start and end at your gift. Were all good at many things, and we should take full advantage of those skill sets. However, by really honing in on what youre best at, you can invest in that capability and make sure its on full display.While everyone has a gift, only you have your gift- and thats whats known as a competitive advantage.Photo of snowflakes courtesy of Shutterstock.

Filling the Talent Gap

Filling the Talent Gap Filling the Talent Gap Filling the Talent Gap Will Caldwell was sure he wanted to be a mechanical engineer. The 20-year-old had spent his childhood in Madison, Wis., building models of spacecraft and futuristic vehicles with whatever he could find around the house. He started a mechanical engineering club at his high school. And when he enrolled in the University of Wisconsin-Madisons School of Engineering three years ago, he hoped to someday design cars. But along the way, he realized that mechanical engineering skills alone would not get him where he wanted to go. His pals who recently graduated with mechanical engineering degrees had landed jobs that required them to program computers and robots, and to perform other tasks that were related more to the computerized world of the Internet of Things (IoT) than to traditional mechanical engineering. I met a lot of people who had figured out what IoT was and wanted to do something real with it, he said. But neither he nor his friends had much opportunity in their mechanical engineering classes to learn about IoT-related technologies and how to apply them to real-world solutions. In the emerging IoT ecosystem, new technologies like embedded sensors make it possible for just about any type of device, machine, or component to collect data and send and receive information over the Internet. Data analytics and cloud computing then turn that data into something valuable. Startups dont have the money to burn on training Kayla Matheus, a Yaletrained mechanical engineer who who invented MOTI (pictured) Almost every industry is now trying to leverage those technologies to improve business and manufacturing operations, monitor and diagnose how well machines are functioning and forge closer collaboration between humans and machines. This is called the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or Industry 4.0, and companies desperately need a new type of engineer to help them create it. Until a few years ago, industry expected entry-level mechanical engineers to focus on mechanical engineering. But today almost every job they take onfrom designing a medical implant to engineering a turbine jet enginealso requires an IoT-related skill, says Peter Hirst, associate dean of executive education at MIT Sloan School of Management. IoT is everywhere now, he said. The job function might not be characterized as IoT, although many of those jobs include some implementation of sensors, data measurements, and connectivity. Hirst also serves as director of the IoT Talent Consortium, an industry-academic group that develops new ways of training engineers, technicians and others to meet the needs of IoT employers. Hes in constant contact with C-level executives from a variety of technology, engineering, and science companies, who say their biggest challenge today is finding the talent to fill IIoT-related jobs. Its no longer you and 10 mechanical engineers working on a project, its you and a designer and a data scientist and a customer expert, he said. Those are the kinds of abilities that people historically learned by osmosis and experience over a 10- or 15-year career. Now were saying we need people to come out of school with those abilities. But most are not. This has created a gap between the skills that industry needs to develop the technologies, products, and services that make companies profitable and competitive, and the skills that entry-level mechanical engineers typically bring to the table. For these reasons, companies and engineering educators are looking at new ways to train young engineers in the skills needed to bridge the gap. Finding a unicorn For at least 40 years, mechanical engineering fundamentals have been taught in much the same way. The core classes stuck to the basics every mechanical engineer must know, such as material, fluids, thermodynamics, measurements, and instrumentation. That satisfied industry, and thats what professors on a tenure track had incentives to teach. While industry has complained over the years about young engineers lack of job preparation in some areas of technology, most of the skills they needed were closely related to traditional mechanical engineering and could be honed early in a career. Large companies with deep pockets were also able to pick up the slack and teach engineers skills they didnt learn in school. Some still do. GE, for example, looks for candidates with deep knowledge in specific areas and have a commitment for life-long learning, said Stephan Billers, GEs chief manufacturing scientist, who directs a team that develops IoT-related software and hardware to digitize manufacturing processes. ;custompagebreak; GE also spends billions on ongoing business and technical training initiatives, internship and co-op programs, and online courses. We hire talent, not skills, Billers said. But its difficult for small companies to offer the same opportunities. Startups dont have the money to burn on training, said Kayla Matheus, a Yale-trained mechanical engineer who invented MOTI, an IoT device designed to help people develop better habits, and founded a San Francisco-based company of the same name to commercialize it. Many companies, especially those that cant afford to train young employees, expect universities to do a better job teaching mechanical engineering students practical IoT skills. Matheuss startup is no exception. Its namesake product has as much to do with software as hardware. She and her small team develop cloud-based databases, manage firmware, and have created a smart-phone app, and they integrate all these technologies into the devices ecosystem. Matheus hopes the young engineers who apply to her company will have a working knowledge of these skills their first day on the job. A little marketing, supply chain, and overseas manufacturing experience would also be nice. We need people who can wear many different hats but who also have focused experience, Matheus said. Were looking for a unicorn. Real-world skills To prepare for these new jobs, students need a deeper understanding of the cornerstones of IoT, including data analytics, networking, cloud computing, mechatronics (a combination of mechanical, electrical, computer, and controls engineering), automation, and robotics. Young engineers dont need to be crack computer programmers, Hirst and others said, but they need to have enough working knowledge of other specialties to understand what their co-workers or teammatesfrom designers to data scientists to marketing expertsare actually talking about. To give them that working knowledge, some companies are taking matters into their own hands. Siemens PLM, which sells a suite of software that automates manufacturing processes, donates millions of dollars in IoT-related software, curriculum, and training to more than 3,000 schools, universities and organizations around the world. The company also supports dozens of government, industry, and academic initiatives to provide mechanical and other engineers with the computer-related skills theyll need for IIoT and Industry 4.0 jobs. More real-world activities will help solve some of those challenges we face, said Dora Smith, Siemens PLMs global director of academic programs. ASME, for its part, hosts a series of global engineering competitions called the IShow, challenging young engineers to design a marketable product that will have a social impact. Each year, more of those projects include sensors, connectivity, cloud computing, and other IoT-related technologies, said Mahantesh Hiremath, a distinguished engineer at Space Systems Loral, a satellite builder in Palo Alto, and an ASME Fellow. All those projects on display are very much in tune with what young mechanical engineers will see in the workplace, he said. ASME also offers national and local professional development courses and seminars on IoT-related components like sensors and big data. It also works with academia to shape STEM curricula from kindergarten through university. Think different Training efforts by corporations and organizations can help teach young mechanical engineers how to incorporate IoT technologies on the job. But to properly prepare students for positions created by new IoT technologies, university engineering programs will have to do a better job at contributing, industry and education leaders agree. Raj Veeramani, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, realized that a few years ago. Since then, he and a handful of other thought leaders have been developing better ways to teach and train young engineers to give them IoT skills. One of the best is to have students from different majors collaborate on hands-on projects that include IoT components, Veeramani and others say. For that reason, he and his colleagues launched the IoT Lab two years ago. They saw it as a tech sandbox that would bring together students, including those with nonengineering majors, to explore, innovate and engage in problem solving and entrepreneurship with IoT technology. Veeramani papered the campus with flyers announcing the IoT labs first informational session, which fell on an incredibly cold January night in 2014. It didnt help that he forgot to mention on the flyer that thered be free pizza. I wasnt sure if anyone would show up, he said. Meanwhile, a handful of other university engineering departments have developed similar initiatives. Theyre typically set up in partnership with government or industry, which are turning to universities to understand IoT and figure out how to take advantage of the technologies and related business and marketing strategies. Engineers compete in ASMEs IShow India. The international hardware competition features many solutions that include IoT-related technologies. Above is Navyo, a Bluetooth-connected smart glove accompanied by a Mobile App that can guide a blind person turn by turn via vibrations. In these programs, students typically pitch an IoT project or build a solution to a problem posed by a company or government agency. The university supplies the parts, equipment and guidance the student teams need to complete their projects. The energy, knowledge, and ideas fostered by the environment benefit the corporate or government partners as well. They bring together a lot of smart people to make the progress you couldnt do alone or with other private companies, said Daryl Erbs, vice president of technology at Manitowoc Foodservices, one of about 25 companies that have joined the IoT Labs consortium. Each university adds a few twists to differentiate their program. Karthik Ramani, a professor in the School of Engineering at Purdue University, for example, is developing a set of kits for core mechanical engineering classes with all of the basic components students could use to build an IoT-enabled device related to class topics. He also teaches a popular toy design class where he encourages students to build products and develop business models that fit into the IoT ecosystem. On top of that, Ramani started an IoT product-design contest in his mechanical engineering class. If you want to get the best of all worlds, you need expose [students] to different technologies, designs, disciplines, and business models, he said. Thats an interesting concoction that is not found in traditional university settings. A New Direction Back at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, more than 80 students showed up on that cold winter night for the IoT Labs open house. Student interest in IoT has blossomed ever since. At a subsequent open house last fall, more than 280 students from a variety of majors showed up. Today, half of the labs 40 participants are engineers, while the rest are from nonengineering majors, such as computer science and business. About 30 percent are usually women, a much higher percentage than in most engineering-related activities, Veeramani said. Will Caldwell was one of those participants. His frienda nutrition major and cycling enthusiast whose friend had been hit by a carhad inspired him to develop a system that would alert bicyclists of a dangerous traffic condition and help them avoid injury. He thought the IoT lab might help him figure out how to go about it. At the open house, Caldwell hit it off with the other students and made a strong pitch to the judges, who accepted his project, which he eventually called Safe Cycle. The lab, he said, had everything he needed to make his project a reality. It has the newest, coolest stuff, he said, mentioning an Oculus Rift virtual-reality system; Google Glass; drones; plenty of Arduino boards, Raspberry Pi microcomputers, actuators, motors, and sensors; and a huge RFID container packed with past and present projects to inspire new design and technical ideas. ;custompagebreak; During the three months he spent working in the IoT lab, he managed a four-person team that included the nutritionist, along with a mechanical engineering major and an electrical engineering major, both freshman with no project experience. By necessity, each team member did a bit of everything, learning what they needed as they went along. You ended up doing electrical engineering, computer science, design and marketing, Caldwell said. I learned so many things in the lab that I couldnt learn in class. At the end-ofsemester open house, Safe Cycle won an award for Most Potential Impact. And the experience changed Caldwells career path entirely. To develop his interest in IoT, he added a computer science major to his mechanical engineering major and tacked on a minor in electrical engineering to build what amounted to a major in mechatronics. Will Caldwell and Katie Miller inspect the Safe Cycle, a device they designed to alert a bicycle rider to traffic behind the bike. Photo: David Tenenbaum/University of Wisconsin-Madison I was strictly mechanical engineer until the end of last semester. I wanted to build cars, he said. Now I want to build drones, robots, and other things. He seems to be on his way. Last summer, Caldwell was hired by a team of UW plant scientists to design and build machines that use connectivity and sensors to capture data on growth patterns of carrot and corn crops. They were interested in my experience in IoT, he said. Thats what got me the job. ME Jeff OHeir is a contributing writer.

How to Make Your Management Meetings Productive Events

How to Make Your Management Meetings Productive Events How to Make Your Management Meetings Productive Events You do not have to look very far to find articles from experts on time management, accomplished executives and other gurus and pundits decrying meetings and suggesting you avoid, shrink or otherwise dispense with these often laborious corporate time wasters. Nonetheless, sometimes we just have to meet. And yes, there is some great advice available from experts on time management, agenda control and rules of order. The focus here is a bit different, offering some tried-and true-guidance that will help managers turn five common meeting types into painless and productive events.   Five Common Meeting Solutions 1. Eliminate Death by “Around the Table” updates. You know this meeting. Cram eighteen people in a room and then require every person to share an update that typically sounds like an attempt to justify their existence and make a case for their enshrinement in the great employee hall of fame. CEOs and senior leaders are notorious for running these meetings, naively believing that this is a great way for everyone to hear what’s happening across the firm. In reality, people mostly tune out and focus on planning their own update that no one will listen to.   Instead: By all means, get together with your peers, team members or key colleagues, but don’t succumb to the “around the table” approach. Offer information on an exception basis. Share relevant news, including financial results, big customer wins or updates on organization-wide initiatives. Also, extend the offer for individuals to raise important issues. If something noteworthy and not widely known has occurred, someone should share it. If one group needs help from another group, raise the request. Otherwise, do not compel all of the attendees to share. 2. Status meetings in general. These can be brutal time-killers, particularly when they lock-in as recurring events and are poorly managed. Instead: Never call a meeting for something you can look up. Leverage the technology tools of the day to ensure your work teams maintain a current and visible status update where everyone can see it with the click of a mouse. If you must meet cut the planned meeting time in half or, use agile approaches and run short “stand-up” sessions. Be draconian about the digressions and distractions that elongate these sessions. Focus on sharing status and require people to tackle issues outside of this forum. 3. Unstructured brainstorming meetings. Most brainstorming meetings are so poorly facilitated that we end up suppressing ideas, supporting the boss’s idea or generating great lists of cool things on post-its that are never heard nor seen again. Instead: Work to define the brainstorming topic and share it with invitees ahead of the session. Collect their input and consolidate and post it or share it without attribution to the ideas. Use the live session to jump and build on the submitted ideas, adding to the list. Resist the urge to evaluate ideas in this session. Incorporate other techniques that minimize socialization pressures, such as brain-writing. And above all else, consolidate the ideas and create a process to evaluate them as well as to archive them for easy group reference in future sessions and situations. 4. Operations reviews that make the Inquisition look tame. If you have ever suffered through a session where the meeting leader- usually an executive- focuses on either one struggling function or searches for the weak spot in everyone’s presentation and then grill the messengers mercilessly, you know how destructive this format is. Do not perpetuate this process. Instead: keep the deep functional dives and corporate proctology exams private and focus on sharing key operating indicators, problems and opportunities. The group meeting is not the time or place to rip apart an underperforming area or individual. Set up a follow-up meeting on the spot, but do not subject everyone else to your visible cross-examination on this issue. Do not back off on accountability for improvement, but eliminate cruelty and what amounts to public shaming from your meeting management repertoire.   5. Meetings that raise issues demanding spontaneous decisions. Oddly or ironically, the meeting room is one of the worst places for quick decisions. Raising an issue for the first time and calling for a decision puts people on the spot, and they will resent you for using this approach.   Instead: Work unceasingly ahead of group meetings to engage key stakeholders on issues and options. Solicit their input, offer your perspectives and work to broker shared interests. Use the meeting forum to validate the interests of the stakeholders and identify their recommendations. While you may still not get the immediate decision without another step or two, you will have strengthened your working relationships with your pre-session work. The Bottom-Line for Now We are communal creatures by nature and even with a variety of technology tools that enable us to connect without being in the same place, sometimes, it just helps to be face-to-face. Leverage this time wisely and show your respect for participants by producing meetings that minimize time investment and maximize high-quality information sharing in a non-threatening environment.

A Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide

A Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide A Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK ® Guide)- Fifth Edition breaks down what project managers need to know to successfully pass their PMP ® exam and also be effective in the role. There are 10 project management knowledge areas covered by the PMBOK ® Guide. They cover each of the 47 project management processes. This article provides a high-level view of each of these areas in relation to what you need to know and do as a project manager. Project Integration Management This is covered first in the PMBOK ® Guide, but it’s about bringing together everything you know so that you are managing your project holistically and not in individual process chunks. Because of that, it’s easier to study this knowledge area last. Skip this section of the book and come back to it later! Project Scope Management The scope is the way to define what your project will deliver. Scope management is all about making sure that everyone is clear about what the project is for and what it includes. It covers collecting requirements and preparing the work breakdown structure. Project Time Management Project time management isn’t about being personally more effective. It relates to how you manage the time people are spending on their project tasks, and how long the project takes overall. This knowledge area helps you understand the activities in the project, the sequence of those activities, and how long they are going to take. It’s also where you prepare your project schedule. Project Cost Management Cost management is, as you’d expect, all about handling the project’s finances. The big activity in this knowledge area is preparing your budget which includes working out how much each task is going to cost and then determining your project’s overall budget forecast. Of course, it covers tracking the project’s expenditure against that budget and making sure that you are still on track not to overspend. Project Quality Management Project quality management is quite a small knowledge area, as it only covers three processes. This area is where you’ll learn about and set up the quality control and quality management activities on your project so that you can be confident the result will meet your customers’ expectations. Project Human Resource Management Project human resource management relates to how you run your project team. First, you have to understand what resources you need to be able to complete your project, then you put your team together. After that, it’s all about managing the people on the team including giving them extra skills to do their jobs, if they need it, and learning how to motivate your team. Project Communications Management Given that a project manager’s job is often said to be about 80% communication, this is another small knowledge area. The three processes are planning, managing and controlling project communications. It’s here that you’ll write your communications plan for the project and monitor all the incoming and outgoing communications. There are strong links with human resource management and stakeholder management too, even if these aren’t explicit as I think they should be in the PMBOK ® Guide. Project Risk Management The first step in project risk management is planning your risk management work, and then you quickly move on to identifying risks and understanding how to assess risks on your project. There is a lot of detail in this knowledge area, specifically around how you perform quantitative and qualitative risk assessments. Risk management isn’t a one-off activity, though, and this knowledge area also covers controlling your project risks going forward through? the project life cycle. Project Procurement Management Procurement management isn’t something that you’ll have to do on all projects, but it is common. This knowledge area supports all your procurement and supplier work from planning what you need to buy, to going through the tendering and purchasing process to managing the work of the supplier and closing the contract when the project is finished. This has strong links to the work of financial tracking on your project and also to performance management. Youll have to manage the performance of your contractors as the project progresses. Project Stakeholder Management The final knowledge area is the most important. This takes you through the journey of identifying stakeholders, understanding their role and needs in the project and ensuring that you can deliver those. I think well see this area develop further in the next edition of the standard. If you can grasp all these knowledge areas, you’ll have everything you need to know as a project manager covered!

The RoboDoctor Will See You Now

The RoboDoctor Will See You Now The RoboDoctor Will See You Now A technological idea born in science fiction is a promising answer to the challenging realities of modern health care. With fewer doctors to meet the growing health-care needs of our aging population, hospitals and health systems are investing in robotic systems for surgery and telemedicine that increase their patient capacity and geographic reach. Machines like the da Vinci Surgical System (Intuitive Surgical Systems, Sunnyvale, CA) and the RP-7i Remote Presence medical robot (InTouch Health, Santa Barbara, CA) connect patients who need specialized care with physicians who can help them even if they are an ocean apart. In Robert A. Heinleins popular 1942 science-fiction story Waldo, a physically disabled but mechanically gifted man builds a set of automated hands that gave him super-human strength and dexterity. Waldo Farthingwaite-Jones could control his Synchronous Reduplicated Pantograph to duplicate his exact hand motions in numerous then-fictitious applications, including cellular-level microsurgery. But fiction soon collided with reality when the nuclear industry invented a real gadget, nicknamed a Waldo, for the safe manipulation of radioactive materials from a remote location, and a new industry was born. Seventy years later, medical robots are still an emerging technology. But forces such as health-care reform, the shortage of doctors and nurses, and the skyrocketing costs of hospital care are driving its acceptance like never before. Robo-Surgeon But its about more than just saving money. Advocates of robotic surgery, for example, claim the da Vinci surgical robot achieves significantly better outcomes than either radiation or traditional surgery in delicate procedures such as radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer. They say robotic surgery can remove more cancerous tissue with less disruption of adjacent nerve endings than other methods, helping to reduce cancer recurrence and retain sexual function. Thats why some 85% of men undergoing prostate cancer surgery are choosing medical centers that offer robotic surgery. Introduced in 1999, the da Vinci system remains the standard robotic system for complex operations in cardiac, colorectal, gynecologic, thoracic, urologic, and head and neck surgeries. The U.S. Food Drug Administration continues to approve its use in additional surgical applications. From Day One, when I sat down at that robotic console, I knew we would give patients a better outcome, said Florida surgeon Vipul Patel in a New York Times interview. I have not seen anyone who has done a good amount of robotic surgery go back (to traditional methods), he said. The robotic arms that comprise the da Vinci robot. Image: Intuitive Surgical Systems The guts of the system include four robotic arms, a high-definition 3-D viewing system with up to 10x magnification, and a novel family of specialized instruments with Intuitive Surgicals proprietary EndoWrist technology. Traditional devices such as forceps, scalpels, retractors, and suture drivers have been reimagined for the robotic age, with seven degrees of freedom, a large range of motion, and less risk from surgeon hand tremors. The systems robotic and computer technologies work together to scale, filter, and translate the surgeons hand movements into micro-movements that guide the instruments, not unlike the Waldo of science fiction. Seated at a viewing and control console located in or near the operating room, the surgeon uses hand controls to manipulate surgical instruments through tiny incisions. The instruments move like high-precision puppets with each motion of the surgeons hand, wrist, or finger. Detail from the da Vinci robot. Image: Intuitive Surgical Systems Robotic surgery has its critics, especially among those concerned about its comparatively high cost and the worry that hospitals will over-hype the technology to lure patients and recoup their investments. Catherine Mohr, director of medical research at Intuitive Surgical, acknowledged that a typical system will cost you about as much as a solid gold surgeon. Its a fairly big capital investment, but once youve got it, your procedure costs do come down. For Mohr, the next challenges in robotic surgery are to make the technique faster and easier to use in more complex operations, which is key to their eventual routine, cost-effective use. She said she is working with prototype designs that eliminate the need to move the robot to reach additional areas of the body and add new visualization capabilities that see beyond the surface we need to guide what were cutting in a much better way. University of Washington surgeon Dr. Richard Satava predicts in the next 40 to 50 years surgery will be completely automated. The surgeons role will evolve to include management of a full information system built around the surgical environment. The future of technology, and medicine in general, is not in blood and guts, but in bits and bytes, he says. Robotic Hands Across the Water The ultimate in robotic surgery would be the integration of daVinci-style surgical robots with telemedicine technologies that enable medical professionals to consult, assist, supervise, or train their counterparts in distant locations. Intuitive Surgical says the daVinci is theoretically capable of long-distance surgery, but its not the companys current focus. But in terms of experimentation, remote operations date back more than a decade. Patient being given a consultation via a bedside robot. Image: InTouch Health The first trans-Atlantic robotic surgery took place in September 2001, when teams of fiber-optically linked surgeons in New York and Strasbourg, France, robotically removed the gall bladder of a 68-year-old woman using robotic arms built by Computer Motion (later acquired by Intuitive Surgical). The robots chief architect and inventor, Yulun Wang, later founded InTouch Health, maker of the RP-7i. That technology may be more useful for surgeon training than for direct patient care, but there are myriad more routine applications today in which robots can not only improve patient care but also dramatically reduce its cost and increase its reach to remote communities. Thats where the RP-7i comes in. Remote presence robots bring big-city know-how to small-town clinics and trauma centers. The impact can be life-saving in the case of emergencies such as stroke or heart attack, where a fast diagnosis and onset of treatment is critical to saving heart or brain function. Telemedicine increases the publics access to advanced expertise while helping to reduce the overall cost of care. Critical care doctors in major trauma centers can evaluate accident victims remotely and, often, eliminate the need to transport them to larger hospitals. The RP-7i system features one or more physician control stations linked wirelessly to what the company calls an endpoint: a remote-controlled mobile console/medical cart topped by a high-definition video screen and camera. The robot enables two-way doctor-to-doctor and doctor-to-patient communication and visualization. It is equipped with a suite of basic medical instruments to allow remote monitoring of vital signs. The consulting doctor can observe patient behavior, check bedside monitors, confer with family members, or review medical images with the patient. Through his or her robotic counterpart, the remote physician can travel from room to room and to the nurses station to review care plans. With doctors in short supply, especially in rural areas, technologies that help them be in two places at once will surely be part of tomorrows health-care landscape. As Wang says, We have to innovate our way out of this problem. Michael MacRae is an independent writer. The future of technology â€" and medicine in general â€" is not in blood and guts but in bits and bytes.Richard Satava, M.D., University of Washington

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Typical Questions During an IT Interview During an IT interview, you can expect to see questions that fall into three buckets: Questions about you  - here, the interviewer wants to get a sense of your work style and abilities.Questions about the job and company  â€" your responses to these questions can help reveal if youll be a good fit with the companys culture.Technical questions  â€" your answers will reveal your knowledge, problem-solving strategies, and give a sense of your on-the-job performance. See examples of the types of questions youll get in these three categories. Questions About You (and Your Technical Skills) Youve presented your background on your resume, but interviewers want to dig into it a bit more. Asking questions about previous jobs and work experience as well as how you would  handle  (and  have  handled) work-related scenarios, will help interviewers get a sense of what youd be like as an employee. Practice your responses to these questions. 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Take the  job requirements  that are included in the posting and make a list of the top qualifications the employer is looking for. Then match your credentials to the list. Be ready to discuss why you have each attribute the company wants.  Heres how to  match your qualifications to the positions requirements. Also, review this list of common IT interview questions and take the time to prepare responses based on your qualifications for the job. When responding, give specific examples, whenever possible, of how you have handled a project or situation. Use the  STAR interview response technique  to generate examples to share during the interview. Providing details will show the interviewer how and why you are qualified for the job. Do keep in mind that the questions youll be asked will be specific to the job youre interviewing for, so theyll vary. How to Prepare for an IT Interview Preparing for an IT interview is particularly challenging. 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That means its just as important for you to get a sense of the company and the jobs responsibilities as it is for the interviewer to get a sense of you. In nearly any interview, the interviewer will ask if  you have any questions. Here are some options for what to ask- while theres no need to ask numerous or even several questions, you should always ask at least one. Whats the biggest project that youre working on currently?What are some of the big challenges facing your IT team?How many people are on the IT team?Whats your development process?What project are you most proud of completing at this company? How to Make the Best Impression As with any interview, if youre seeking a role in IT, youll need to  impress the interviewer. That means showing up  professionally dressed. Its also important to be engaged throughout the conversation and keep an eye on your  body language. 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