Seven Quality Management Tools
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Published:02/24/2011 09:21am
I received an email requesting a quick review of the Seven Quality Management Tools that are available to quality personnel. Here is a quick look.1. Flowchart - Map of sequential steps and decision points in a process. A flow chart is a good tool for a team which helps the group to understand the work flow of a process.2. Check Sheet - This tool is often referred to as a "tally sheet" that gathers information on frequency / occurrences of defects or events.3. Cause and Effect Diagram - This tool is also known as the Ishakawa and Fishbone diagram. The...
CRISIS BEGINS: SPEED TO HIRE 2011 mckearney.wordpress.com
Published:02/24/2011 07:29am
Speed To Hire 2011Posted on February 24, 2011 For the past three years employers have enjoyed the option of taking their time, being very picky about things like culture fit, and the hiring process taking 3 to 4 weeks to reach the point of making an offer.Those days are officially over entirely.In the past two days I have lost three offers in a row to small startups. My clients were mid-sized employers who went through the laborious exercise of three visits for interviews, needless 10-14 day background checks, and unwise decisions to make lateral or near lateral offers.There was time for...
Employees Test Lines
Published:02/23/2011 02:01pm
What is it the employees want to know? Why do they keep wanting to know it? Like any person a group of employees want to know where their place is in the scheme of things. They wish to know the job and how what each does affects the whole. They also wish to know they are doing it correctly and that the boss is pleased. Let's face it, every day they come in and basically do the same job so they need to get cues that it still is being done well.Employees wish to know that the boss is going to...
Let Me Introduce You to My Friend Karma by Cherokee Billie
Published:02/23/2011 11:23am
Karma is the concept of What goes around comes around. In other words you reap what you sow; positive actions are going to return to you in a loving and positive way, whereas unloving actions can bite you in the behind. No matter what religious belief you have the law of karma is always present. It is part of our soul experience in this life. This helps you to grow spiritually in a positive way or if you choose the unloving path to have no growth and experience many negative things coming back at you. Karma is...
The Best Weddings
Published:02/23/2011 11:04am
Nationally, the average wedding costs between 20,000 and 30,000. In metropolitan areas like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, the cost is far higher. I remember attending a wedding on Long Island that I am sure cost close to 250,000. Obviously, taste and standards vary from person to person. Obviously, the choice is yours, butI am not comfortable with spending in one night the equivalent of a new car (sometimes a very expensive new car) or the down payment on a home. Ultimately, I believe simplicity and imagination make a stronger statement than pretense. ...
The Heart of Wedding: What is a Marriage?
Published:02/23/2011 10:57am
I recently performed a wedding at a hospice in New York City. The bride and groom had two children and had lived together for seven years. His liver was failing, and no one was sure if he would live out the day. A special license was issued by a judge, and the wedding took place 15 minutes after it was valid. Family and friends gathered around as I read the required monitum, Before you are legally joined together in my presence and in the presence of these, your family and friends, I am bound to remind you...
Want to Change? Get Angry! How to use your anger to achieve your goals
Published:02/23/2011 10:36am
This is the time of year that people declare what they want to change in their lives. Unfortunately the real-time decisions you make will likely be based on emotion and will supersede those you logically made on New Years. When the time comes to make the change, your emotions will trick you into finding a great rationalization for ignoring your stated intention.The good news is you can counteract this process with emotional awareness. You have to recognize what you are feeling in the moment and then make a conscious shift to feel something else.First you need to recognize if you are...
The Fine Art of Female Assertiveness
Published:02/23/2011 10:10am
Women often have a smaller range of acceptable behaviors at work than men. If they are too nice, they are seen as weak or manipulative. If they are too aggressive, they are judged as acting like men or typical bitches.On the other hand, when men show traits of empathy, generosity and nurturing, they are credited for being progressive. If they are commanding, decisive and competitive, they are just a product of their testosterone.I'm not blaming men for this inequity. We are all to blame for holding on to some stereotypes and blocking change. That is an issue for a future post....
Illustrators Galore @ the LIBRARY STORE
Published:02/23/2011 01:08am
Illustrators Galore the LIBRARY STOREBy Jackie Siminitus, VP- CommunicationsCalifornia School Library AssociationThe American economy is crippling our schools and libraries in many ways. School library programs have been the target of budget hits in large part because parents and school officials are not aware of the changing role of the library in the digital age. These days, school librarians teach cyber safety and digital literacy, in addition to the academic research process. These skills are essential for success in college, careers, and life. Public librarians offer access to computers and wifi for all the mobile Internet devices....
Pills for Pain are Often Addictive
Published:02/23/2011 01:04am
It does not have to be narcotic to be addictive. When is the medical community ready to try other options for patients instead of drugs called medication? One more time a young woman from Tacoma, WA. Tina C., received pain pills to resolve hurting from a car accident. After seven months she realized she was addicted to the pills, which her doctor told her would not happen, because they were not narcotic. And her doctor replaced one drug with another which is merely "switching habits." Never was the woman asked if her family had a history of alcoholism. This is the...
Heal Your Depression Without Pills
Published:02/23/2011 12:52am
Taking responsibility for your health is the greatest gift you can give yourself. Create your new life of wholeness and joy. A diagnosis does not have to be a life sentence. Most professionals offer counseling and medications for those experiencing depression, mental illness, and other difficulties. This is the typical trend. However, Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev now has scientifically proven that affirmations along with meditation/ hypnosis (another term for meditation) will raise consciousness, well-being, and even change DNA. Therefore, it is possible to overcome the chemical imbalance of a chronically depressed person. Healing the toxic chemistry created from...
Twenty First Century Medicine will Identify the Root
Published:02/23/2011 12:41am
Inflammation is a symptom of heart disease and not the cause. It is time to go beyond warning signs of inflammation and other symptoms to the root cause that created the condition. Emotional causes are not addressed in the current paradigm of medicine. However, with a new millennium, it is time to explore beyond the surface and into the unidentified emotional levels of our existence. People are energy fields with the energy moving through out the body. This can be called the vital life force, chi, spirit or other terms that mean that necessary element that gives us vitality. When the...
Bipolar Disorder Is Not Forever
Published:02/23/2011 12:32am
New scientific evidence proves that hypnosis, mediation, and affirmations raise energy in a person changing their DNA. Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev now has scientifically proven that affirmations along with meditation/ hypnosis (another term for meditation) will raise consciousness, increase well-being, and balance chemistry in individuals. In the past, most people were under the impression that Bipolar Disorder would be a life long ailment. Often Bipolar Disorder is destructive to relationships, careers, can wreak havoc on family life, and is a potentially fatal disease. According to Edgar Cayce, the Father of Holistic Health, There are in truth no incurable...
Truth About Alcoholism
Published:02/23/2011 12:20am
Who wishes to continue in misery, wretchedness, and depression? Alcoholism is an incurable disease that ends at the time of death. However, this interim period between the two points can be extended into a normal, happy, and productive life if one accepts and practices the necessity for treatment for the rest of his or her life. Thousands of people today claim a daily healing from this malady, and as a result, enjoy living. With truthful information, no one in this enlightened age has to sufferdenial is prevalent.A couple years ago, our country spent 175 million in a campaign from the Office...
Discovering Self-Esteem
Published:02/23/2011 12:06am
"When raised in a loving family with mature parents, you grow in their warm caring ways. Parents model their own background. You see appropriate behavior for handling lifes situations. Without this, you may be negligent in the basic elements of living skills. This means that if you lack a loving background for growing up, you may be underdeveloped in your emotional maturity as well. Parents can only model their own emotional development and behaviors from their own family background. Most people fall somewhere in the middle of this spectrum." From Secrets of Life and Living: Let the Real You Out forthcoming...
