Your Role

Once you have considered the possibilities, advise management of the risks your company faces. Prepare a plan to deal with threats and acts of terrorism. Consider employees at every level and their appropriate responses. In most cases they are instructed to evacuate. Thought must be given as to how and where they will move. 

Employees with loved ones will likely want to unite with them. In major cities evacuation routes may be jammed and chaos will prevail if companies and municipalities have not worked together to determine routes and destinations. A written plan to be implemented 

There is no way to absolutely eliminate the risks faced with terrorism. As with all forms of safety, the goal is to minimize exposure. Huge sums of funds can be spent in pursuit of this task however, one thwarted terrorist attempt may make this expenditure a worthwhile investment. 

Talk to representatives from your local fire and police departments. Ask what preparations for terrorism they are helping local companies to make. 

From an insurance perspective, why would carriers be unwilling to underwrite companies against terrorist losses What alternatives are available to the companies  

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By the time you have successfully tested and refined your new PSM systems and installation is underway (Chapter 7), you and your team have passed a significant milestone. Congratulations are in order- ut there is still more to be done. The good news is that at this point most of the effort shifts from the PSM team to your company s facilities. As a result, your role will change from directing a project to monitoring its local implementation. 

Your role during an interim progress review is to achieve your objectives of knowing the status of operations and influencing the course of future events as necessary. During the discussion, you may have any of the following roles ... 

Your observations. Depending on your role in the organization, you may have a very clear idea of why a mentoring program may be useful. You may also be a very influential person who can approach and convince (other) senior managers of the value of mentoring. If you are fairly sure that your perception... 

Lionel notices. And Mark—forgive me—how do you see your role in this When you ve only just come back ... 

Therapy must address the drug habit before a client with a drug problem can change the behavior. Habit implies a pattern of behavior that may be rote and automatic. Your role as a counselor or therapist is to increase clients awareness... 

Mentoring is an honor that involves great responsibility, so take your role as a mentor seriously. 

If they are not software people, your role as analyst is to interpret between them and the formal models. The models represent your team s clear understanding of what you are to provide. By writing them, you are taking the fuzzy and inconsistent desires of the client, crystallizing them into a more precise form, exposing the questions you need to ask, and going back to the client with questions, scenarios, storyboards, proactive proposals of precise definitions of terms and requirements, and prototypes (see Figure 5.1). The cycle con-... 

This conversation was like a bad dream or a B-movie. I looked over at his companion who returned my gaze with utter impassivity. It seemed important to deflect the conversation if only even slightly. "And you, Herr Heintz, what of your role in all of this "... 

Your involvement in this reporting process will help to emphasise the importance of your role in providing a service to medicine and patient care. 

Integration - deploy your particular strengths, e.g. experience, technical training and special skills, in your role. 

Wider organizational value - if you feel that you are contributing to a wider purpose you are likely to function more effectively. Influence - self-evidently necessary for effectiveness (likely to be enhanced if your activities have wider organizational value). Personal growth - scope to grow and develop in your role will contribute greatly to your effectiveness in it. 

If you are not going to set up a special project, review the elements of your role that call on your creativity. Are you as innovative in your thinking and on as many occasions as you might be ... 

Fuifii your role as specified but fiexibiy if necessary ... 

Your role as a project manager is to find and highlight problems in a product, with the aim of improving its quality. You are one of the few who will have the required information, or be directly able to examine the product in close detail, before it is transferred to the regulated environment sector. 

Personal. That means self-identification with a component of the system. What is your role in the system It is a bit like method acting, what does it feel like to be a tree ... 

As the interviewer you can choose to play your role in different ways. In an accepting role, you let the interviewed determine what happens. This role combines well with open questions and little structuring of the interview. If you are new in a field, (and groping ) you can probably best take an accepting role. If you know the customer, and have a reasonable idea of the field, you will get more out of the interview if you are bit more critical, and use more structure. This mildly critical form is the most used one. 

Demonstrate the ability to solve problems that arise from carrying out your role during emergency situations or drills. 

Identify your role, if possible, within the emergency management system. 

Based on your past and current experience and education, what do you see as your role in an emergency preparedness and response plan ... 

I have one final question for you, about your role in analyzing the Martian meteorite found in 1984 in Antarctica. Do you really believe that your work shows that primitive life forms existed on Mars lon apfo ... 

While you are homeschooling your child, your roles will include being both an educator and record keeper. The portfolio that you and your child assemble will often be used to help prove your child s level of aptitude and performance. Parents may want to consider adding standardized test results to this portfolio. Check with your state—they may require that you do so. 

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