Key point tipping

No attempt is made here to cover all, or even most, aspects of communication. Rather, the focus is on a practical definition, a few principles and tips, key listening skills, group/team communications, and an introduction to personal (one-on-one) communication tools such as orientation, job instruction, key point tipping, and planned personal contacts. 

Think of the specific person, the specific task, the specific most probable problem, and the most important specific preventive action. Give that employee the benefit of your knowledge and experience give a key point tip. 

Key point tipping is a specific, specialized contact technique that ... 

It gives you another top-notch tool of personal communication. It makes full use of the motivational power of repetition, reminders, and reinforcement. It is not a substitute for training or for any other part of the leadership job. Rather, it is an added tool in your leadership kit. It can help you get efficiency, safety, and productivity while improving employee morale. So make it a spontaneous habit—give a key point tip with every critical task. 

Here are some key questions you could answer in assessing the key point tipping process at your location ... 

Do written procedures for SHE activities include key point tipping. Yes No... 

Have supervisors been trained to do key point tipping Yes No... 

Many personal contacts are spontaneous. They just happen in the normal course of events. These informal contacts provide hundreds of chances to give key point tips and reinforce desired attitudes and behavior. However, these chance contacts should be supplemented with planned personal contacts, which give you opportunities for ... 

Most students will have access to specialist textbooks giving in-depth coverage of the theoretical principles and knowledge covered in lectures. This book aims to supplement - rather than replace - such textbooks, and covers the skills required in laboratory classes, together with practical advice, tips, hints, worked examples, definitions, key points, how to boxes and checklists which are useful in the field of chemistry. The text provides an outline on the underlying theoretical principles where necessary, but emphasis throughout is on the practical applications of this information. 

Later in the present chapter we will examine the application of these ideas to the study of fracture and dislocation nucleation at crack tips. For our present purposes, the key point to be made was the way in which several different modeling paradigms, namely, the use of bulk and planar constitutive models, are brought under the same roof, with the consequence that the resulting model is able to do things that neither of the constituent models can do by itself... 

Once the dilution method is final, it is necessary to start thinking about how many samples, deepwell plates, and pipette tips are required for the method. It is important that the system have space for these materials. If it does not, a larger capacity system may be required or it may be necessary to lower the number of samples that can be diluted in a single run. This process will ensure that the laboratory understands exactly what the system will do. Once the dilution protocol is finalized, it can be attached to the purchase order to ensure that the system will meet these requirements. The vendor can also be asked to do the actual programming of the protocol, which can save quite a bit of time and effort. This approach will work for any potential dilution protocol, including standard curve and control dilution. The key point is to figure out exactly what the instrument should do to execute the protocol. 

Antibiotic therapy is one of the key points in treating infective complications of cardiovascular devices. Therefore, we usually treat the patient for at least 2 weeks in case of local infection and for 3-4 weeks or more in case of endocarditis or systemic bacteremia. Therapy after lead extraction is obviously based on the results of blood and tip cul-... 

Lee s work was very useful for measuring the unbinding forces of discrete bonds, but not for measuring the single-molecular interaction force. To successfully detect the single-molecular interaction force, several techniques have been developed to modify the tips and the samples, e.g., cross-Unker system, nitrilotriacetate (NTA)-Ni -His system. Whatever technique is used, the key point is to make the density of the molecules distributed on both the tip and the sample sufficiently low to allow the formation of single-molecular interactions. Kienberger... 

In the local microscopy s field, a large effort is dedicated to study the mechanical properties which can be accessed with a nanotip. Within this context, soft materials are well adapted to probe mechanical response at the nanometer scale. After a discussion of some experimental and technical key points, we present three different types of experiments done on one model polymer polystyrene films with different molecular weights. In the experiments, the tip may scan the sample surface (friction loops), or move upward and downward in the vicinity of the sample -in contact mode (force curve) or in an oscillating mode (approach-retract curves)-. The comparison of the results shows the sensitiveness of the tip to local mechanical properties. New routes to explore mechanical properties without touching the sample are proposed. 

Good nursing care is essential. Be respectful and avoid patronising nurses when offering advice. They may more willingly accept tips from a PLN than you. Key points are ... 

The equipment selection must be versatile to allow for flexibility and expansion or alterations in process trains. Some key functions to note is the ability of the equipment to mill both wet and dry masses, variable tip speeds and tooling selection including safety and environmental requirements. The equipment must also be able to scale-up in terms of capacity and PSD, from formulation labs to production, is a key requirement. Additional point to consider is whether the process is batch or continuous type. 

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