Managerial Interview At National Grid

East Hall High School is where I conducted my coaching interview. I was granted the opportunity to interview one of the most prestige High School coaches in the state of Georgia; Joe Dix. Dix is the head coach for the boys’ Varsity basketball team at East Hall. Dix and his staff were conducting try outs during our coaching interview, which is was pumped about. Coach Dix talked about the pressure on him and his team to bring home a State Title this year since it’s been a decade since his last one. Joe Dix is in his 21st season as a basketball coach and his 11th as the head coach at East Hall. As the head coach at East Hall Dix has won 2 State Titles, with 5 Final Four appearances, and 7 Region Championships.

This article discusses the pros and cons of advocating change within the workplace. It also discusses the reason (s) individuals are said to resist change because of habit and inertia, fear of the unknown, absence of the skills they will need after the change, and fear of losing power. OD approaches to organizational change pr

This week I had the pleasure to conduct an interview with a leader of my choosing. So, I chose to interview David Yarbrough, MSHA, MA, EA to the Director of Oklahoma City VA Health Care System, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. “The Veterans Health Administration is America’s largest integrated health care system, providing care at 1,240 health care facilities including 170 medical centers and 1,061 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics), serving 9 million enrolled Veterans each year,” (Administration 2008). During the interview I presented the concept of FRICTO to Mr. Yarbrough.

There were many options to interview for this assignment, after careful thought on whom to interview, I decided to interview someone outside of my work environment. I chose to interview a healthcare director who is much energized towards making change and being the best leader they can be. I liked the idea of interviewing this individual for the experience of having some awareness into an organization which I knew very little about, it was insightful to see leadership within a different frame of reference than I typically see within my work environment. The person I met with asked not to be named directly, his title is a director level at a large healthcare organization. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Ferris State and a Master’s degree (I don’t recall the college) in healthcare administration. He is a very energetic person and is very clear in the importance of good leadership. He was quick to start our meeting and take the lead by emphasizing to me how critical leadership is and that it’s a critical component towards the success of any organization, effective leaders help ensure that everyone works together seamlessly and they are much more likely to achieve the organization’s goals and success. A successful leader will be vital in motivating employees, communicating strategic directions and achieving organizational goals, without a good leader all of the organizations resources are less effective than they could be.

The interview process is the gateway to basically fill a position from a company. The function of an interview is to assess candidate’s skills to pertinent questions that are necessary to fill in the needs of an organization. Fact of the matter is, structuring an effective and efficient interview process is not really basic, for it entails ethical, legal and moral considerations with each question asked. Since we would cover up ten questions in this elective, the two criteria’s that I am going to include as a ranking score would be a confidence rating scale in which to scale the level of confidence the way each candidate answers the question and a question satisfaction rating scale in which for each person that conducts the interview will also rank the level of satisfaction on each question that had been answered by the interviewee (Pulakos, 1997). Both scales would be scaled from 1 to 5 in which 1 would be the lowest attainable score and 5 would be the highest. This then would make up a perfect score of 100 points as confidence would make up a total perfect score of 50 points for ten the questions and also the same with satisfaction. In the end of each question there would be a space provide to write any important notes on why or why not they are the best candidate for the position.

Nursing is constantly evolving as a whole. As the health care industry changes and "Quality" becomes more of the focus and determinate for medical reimbursement, G.O. thinks nurses in leadership will be utilized to help institutions develop programs, such as disease management, fall reduction, and other preventive programs to help improve quality. G.O. also feels that evidence based practice nursing will become the mainstay and we (nurses) will have to justify why we do what we do. Nursing leaders will have to continue to mentor and educate themselves and new nurses. She sees the "Master's Prepared Nurse" as the front line nurse. The vast amount of knowledge and skills needed to produce and maintain quality for health care institutions. Many institutions may require nursing to change its' entry level into nursing practice from the two year degree to a six or seven year degree; the Master's in Nursing degree.

I chose to interview Chris Bouwens. He is the owner of Professional Safety Solutions, Inc. and ProDry, LLC. Both of these companies he founded by himself. I had the opportunity to watch him take these ideas to fruition. He runs both of these companies out of the same Grand Rapids office. Each company has its own employees, logos, and phone numbers. Professional Safety Solutions is centered on hospital and construction site safety, inspections and testing. ProDry is a water and mold remediation company.

1. What is your story and how did it led you to create your own business?

The nurse manager of the cardiac rehabilitation unit has been a formal nurse leader for the past five years. The conversation began with a discussion about her personal leadership style and how it evolved from a knee jerk style to her current democratic style. Being a nurse leader requires adaptation and flexibility. Administration, Medicare, and certifying organizations require changes to be made frequently to improve patient care. These changes are often tied to service reimbursement, so they must be initiated swiftly. Many difficulties surround the role of leader in today’s health care. Being unprepared for a management role, avoiding micromanagement, and maintaining clinical competency were the biggest

In today’s society, it is commonplace for one to be electronically “connected”, by using devices like computers, mobile smartphones, gaming devices, tablets or laptops. Typically there is some type of network, which enables us to be connected, such as a Wide Area Network (WAN), a Local Area Network (LAN) or even a Home Area Network (HAN). A WAN is the most expansive type of network commonly used, which can cover large geographical areas, usually by amalgamating multiple LANs. The most frequently used WAN is the internet, which many of us connect to daily. A smaller type of network is a LAN, most often used in the workplace to connect computers and devices in the same office or building, so users can collaborate and efficiently share resources.

The second person I have interviewed was a second my project coordinator and his name is Julian. He was graduated from the New Jersey City University, in the same town as his home town New Jersey, where he grow up. Julian’s major is a Political science. He has worked at NYPIRG since November 2007. Julian has started with the community outreach, part of it, he started with the campus outreach. He states that the major, which is qualify for the nonprofit organization, are all kinds of degree. Such as journalist, engineering, business major, and so on. The most important for the NYPIRG is the people who are inspired, motivated, and people who simply use their experience to help people to solve their issues. He learned the skills which he has

The Lee & Alexander (1999) study in general showed that when change occurs organizational characteristics following it are

And of the time spent looking forward, no more than 20%is spent attempting to build a collective view of the future (the other 80% is spent looking at the future of the manager’s particular business). Thus, on average, senior management is devoting less than 3% (40% x 30% x 20% = 2.4%) of its energy to building a corporate perspective on the future. In some companies the figure is less than 1%. Questions go unanswered because to address them senior managers must first admit, to themselves and to their employees, that they are less than fully in control of their company’s future. So the urgent drives out the important, the future goes largely unexplored; and the capacity to act, rather than the capacity to think and imagine, becomes the sole measure of leadership.

Yesterday, I received a call from my neighbor Elena, whom wanted me to meet her friend Janie. She has just arrived in town and

For managers to be successful they have to be able to plan accordingly. Any good manager can understand the importance of planning, because it is one of the most basic functions of managerial skills. A goal has to be established and strategies have to be conveyed to the subordinates. For example, If I’m a manager I will engage