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2. Optimize Life Now™ . . . with dr. Rhoberta Shaler
Why Meet?
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3. MEDICAL COLUMN by Karin Henderson
Bioburden: How Much Is Too Much
How Many Bugs (Micro-organisms) Create A Problem
PART 6 of 11
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4. PERCEPTIONS by Ken Darby
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5. WHY DO WE SAY IT?
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6. THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
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Optimize Life Now™ . . . with Dr. Rhoberta Shaler
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Why Meet?
I was recently consulting in a company that seemed to work
on wishes. They wished they knew what people were thinking.
They wished they could do something about lack of trust.
They wished folks would come forward with their issues
rather than chatting in halls. They wished they were "all on
the same page". Why wish? Meet!
Three things are impossible: to know what's needed unless
you ask, to know what another is thinking unless you talk,
and, to move an organization forward without trust. They
become possible when you meet.
Why do we shy away from meeting? There are many reasons. You
may not feel comfortable speaking up in a group. You may
feel that there are dominant folks in your group and you'll
never get a word in anyway. You may think it is a waste of
time when everyone could be at their terminals 'getting
things done'. You may not know how to run a good meeting.
You may have been coerced to attend non-productive, boring
meetings and never want to go through that again. Whatever
your reason, think it through again.
"There is no such thing as an organization! There is only a
group of people joining together around a common purpose to
produce sustainable benefits and profitability for all
concerned." You may have read my quote before on the home
page of my website. I believe it's true. The operant words
in that quote are 'joining together'. The most effective way
to join together is to talk together. That is what a meeting
is.
Recently I met with a newly established management team.
They had an agenda filled with employee concerns they had
recorded as the result of a new reporting line process. I
asked them this question: How will you communicate the
results of this meeting to your staff? One person said that
the staff would be informed on an as-needed basis. Another
said that a meeting would be called if they felt they had
something important to communicate. My next question: How
will you build trust with these folks? Oh, then there was
silence.
We talked about the trust issue. Staff needed to know that
their concerns had been addressed. They needed to know what
progress or decisions had been made on the issue. They
needed to be able to trust the management team. Oh, there IS
a reason for having a staff meeting following each
management team meeting.
One of the problems with our technologically oriented
workplace is that computers are great for hiding behind.
Have you noticed that?
Another issue in the workplace is that many positions call
for a high level of technological competency and folks are
promoted to supervisory or management positions on this
basis. Uh-oh, where are their people skills? This is a very
important consideration, isn't it? People lacking people
skills often dislike meetings. Are you seeing a pattern
here?
Why meet? Because it is the only effective way to make
informed decisions. Different people see different sides of
issues. Different people have different priorities.
Different people process information differently. Only a
meeting can create a true forum for maximizing potential.
Sure, it's more complex. Sure, it's an invitation for
conflict. Sure, it's time-consuming. Is it more complex,
conflicting and time-consuming than having multitudinous
side conversations in hallways and lunch rooms with wide
gaps between management and staff? Absolutely not!
Why meet? Because it is cost, time and energy efficient! Oh,
yes, it does require good meeting skills for this to be the
case! Fortunately, these can be learned.
© Rhoberta Shaler, PhD, San Diego, CA.. All rights
reserved worldwide.
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International speaker, coach & author Rhoberta Shaler, PhD,
is an expert motivator. She gives you the strategies and
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To share is to build both.
---- Ken Darby
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MEDICAL COLUMN - - - -
by Karin Henderson
Bioburden: How Much Is Too Much
How Many Bugs (Micro-organisms) Create A Problem
PART 6 of 11
It’s great to discuss micro-organisms but by
themselves, they don’t do any harm. The risk is present
when a debilitated person meets the pathogen
micro-organisms. This person would be called the “host”
because inadvertently they have invited the
micro-organisms into their body, where they are allowed
to grow. A disease causing micro-organisms is not a
risk without a host who is not at risk. A weakened or
low-resistant host without a disease-causing
micro-organism doesn’t have a problem until the risk
appears. So the entire control emphasis is to prevent
the host and the pathogen from ever meeting.
Hospital personnel already know that some areas are
more vulnerable than others because of the type of
person cared for there. Babies in a nursery have far
less resistance to potentially harmful living things
than adults do. We know that generally elderly adults
have less resistance than younger, healthy ones. People
on drugs that suppress their immune system are very
much less resistant and thus more susceptible to
disease. New post op patients are also very vulnerable
to infections. In this case, their open surgical site
is the best possible place for micro-organisms to grow.
Hence the need for specialized, “off limit” locations
with stringent rules for personnel, practices,
supplies, and equipment. Bioburden is measured very
carefully in these areas and problems are handled
immediately.
To find a source of micro-organisms you don’t have to
look very far. They can be as close as a curtain, the
floor, a bed or unclean linen. They might be located in
droplets from a sneeze or a cough. They could be found
on surgical instruments in the operating rooms or it
could encompass an entire corridor. It could be any
object that transfers the “living object
(micro-organism)” from one person to another person or
thing: directly or indirectly.
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Karin Henderson is a registered nurse and is thePEBBLE's
columnist for our MEDICAL COLUMN.
We appreciate her input very much. Thanks Karin.
You can send Karin questions at
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PERCEPTIONS . . . by Ken Darby
-----------------------DISCLAIMER
Some around me think I am an opinionated old goat.
Whether that be true or not I will sometimes, in this column,
talk about things people don't like to talk about - or don't want
out in the open. Take it all with a grain of salt.
Do your own thinking, and don't accept the things I say as
gospel. They are only mental meanderings from a simple soul.
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The UN feels that HIV infection appears to have peaked. That
means the while the infection is still increasing in some
countries the world wide picture is that the spread has
stabilized.
India is the country with the most cases of HIV. Because of
it's population, however, HIV victims are a small percentage
of the total.
The UN thinks other areas may open up to increased spread
but the world wide picture will eventually begin to drop.
In other health news scientists are thinking that fewer but
larger doses of radiotherapy are a means of curing breast
cancer. They continue to work on the method.
The medical community is still afraid of the "superbug", the
one that will spread world wide and be unstoppable. It is
for those reasons they monitor all form and manner of
disease. That is what the "chicken flu" scare is about.
They think mankind is subject to annihilation by some little
bug that catches everyone and which science can't catch.
The bothersome thing about all this is that as the press
reports all these things it begins to be a continual stream
of fear mongering. That seems to set up fear and negative
concern in the public and that alone has bad effects on
world affairs.
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WHY DO WE SAY IT?
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From the competitive cakewalk. This dance originated among
the Negroes of the South - and got its name from the fact
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contest was held among the men. The man who cut the best
capers in "strutting his stuff" was given his choice of
cakes - and along with the cake went the girl who baked it
as a partner for the meal.
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THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." –-
John Lubbock
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HA! HA! HA!
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle,
when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the
mayonnaise jar...and the coffee...
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some
items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he
picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and
proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the
students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured
them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles
rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then
asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it
was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it
into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full. The students
responded with a unanimous "yes."
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under
the table and poured the entire contents into the jar,
effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The
students laughed.
"Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, " I
want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things-your God, your
family, your children, your health, your friends, and your
favorite passions-things that if everything else was lost
and only they remained, your life would still be full. The
pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your
house, and your car. The sand is everything else-the small
stuff.
"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued,
"there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The
same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on
the small stuff, you will never have room for the things
that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that
are critical to your happiness. Play with your children.
Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to
dinner. Play another 18 holes. There will always be time to
clean the house and fix the disposal." Take care of the golf
balls first, the things that really matter. Set your
priorities. The rest is just sand."
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the
coffee represented.
The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to
show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's
always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."
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"No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do
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