Organizational skills, effect

Being an effective leader will serve you well throughout your entire professional career. Regardless of where you are in your organizational structure, effective technical leadership can make you a more effective contributor, and can make your organization more productive. Practicing your leadership skills in volunteer positions in your professional societies will contribute to and strengthen the entire profession. 

In prescription, as in the other areas of clinical management, doctors - key decision-makers in the health system - are to be provided with the necessary incentives, information and infrastructure to take clinical decisions in a cost-effective way. When possible, appropriate personnel selection, valuing not only skills but also attitudes, can compensate for the characteristic weakness of incentives in the health sector. This focus on selection as an organizational... 

The concept of total quality management (TQM) recognizes the importance of the contributions of all departments and individuals to the quality of the service provided and supports and cultivates a one team approach. In order to optimize the quality of outputs, staff must be adequately trained, involved in their tasks in such a way that they can contribute their skills and ideas, and must be provided with the necessary resources to do their job effectively and efficiently. All employees, from top management to technicians and support staff, must know the mission of the laboratory, including the role they play and their specific tasks, and must work in harmony with each other and with the laboratory s clients to achieve the organizational objectives. 

I lament the disappearance from the curriculum of almost every vestige of nontechnical content. We expect chemists to get along with their co—workers, but deny them contact with the social sciences we expect them to have serviceable communications skills, but fail to provide them time for effective study of any language and literature - even their own we hope for flexibility that will permit them to serve indiistry outside of the laboratory, but teach them nothing of economics, organizational behavior, or the world of commerce. Others feel that "the University environment (in Itself) ought to expose students adequately to many aspects of the liberal arts without the need for spending valuable classroom hours on such subjects."... 

When interviewing a scientist who wants to make the career transition into the field of communications, I look for certain skills sets and personality traits. These include writing ability, people skills, computer proficiency, planning and organizational ability, presentation skills, and attention to detail. 1 will be looking to see if you will be able to interact effectively and tactfully with other staff, clients, and vendors that you can be a team player with a positive attitude that you can work independently, but will know when to ask for help, and that you have a professional demeanor. 

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