Multitasking Add up to Inefficiency

Multitasking could impair cognitive control.  People  who  multitask  are  bad  at concentrating,  cannot  filter out  unimportant  details  from the  flow  of information.  Are easily disturbed by un important things and works slowly.  Human brain cannot process more than one string   of information at a time.  It even lowers IQ.

Multi tasking cannot  be  avoided  but it can  be reduced  or learned  to deal  with it smartly, following  are few  suggestions :- 

            Limit distractions

           Use electronic information devices only when necessarily

            Allot specific time slot for visiting inbox, attending phone calls etc.

            Inform people not to disturb when you are doing something important

            Priority/urgent tasks to be done first 

            “To Do” List  

            Prepare a “to do list”

            Prioritize your task and allocate time.  Time slots should not overlap

            Leave some time gap between each task 

            Complete task

            Complete task once you take it up

            Do not deal with several tasks, doing a part of each in a phase 

            Mix properly

If multitasking  unavoidable, pair  tasks  in a way  that one requires your  mental  ability  and the  other  doesn’t  require much of it 

            Relax

            Put some time to relax and rejuvenate your mind

            Try to do more number of tasks that you enjoy doing 

When you cannot avoid dealing with a monotonous job, do not multitask at any cost, till you finish doing it.

Making Team Srong by Managers

As a manager you are only as good as your team.  You succeed or fail through others.  So you must always endeavor to build strong teams that support and sustain success. The team should complement each other not complete with each other.

A good team does not automatically guarantee success. Following are five suggestion to correct low output and make team strong:- 

            Early warning  

            Plan and prepare  

            Install effective control and monitoring system

            Spot poor performer and make amends in time

            Identify Reasons

           Poor performance could be because of different reasons, such as:- 

                        Lack of energy and enthusiasm

                        Contentment with Mediocre performance

                        Resistance to new ideas

                        Refusal to collaborate with others

                        Failure to learn from mistakes 

            Make amends

            Take quick steps to fix the gap

            Revamp the work culture to create more supportive climate

Don’t leave scope for ambiguity while defining goals, objectives and expectations   from every individual and team 

            Development plans 

Sit with every team member to identify his strengths and short coming

at regular intervals

            Build appropriate development plans in collaboration with them.

            Find right assignment to each individual

            Live opportunity to show their talents

             Provide them scope to stretch and grow

            Assign them goals that are challenging and achievable

Ensure built in feedback system.  Feedback should come from you, others and work itself. 

            Recognize

            Give credit where due.  Thank for job well done

            Prompt recognition creates high performance culture

            Maintain a fair performance system

            Show respect to your team

            Keep their best interest in mind 

Integrity and honesty  is absolutely  essential  to build strong  team that propel success.       

 

                       

Ten Ways to check Law Enforcing Agencies

Abolish the need for official/political sanction to prosecute bureaucrats, policeman and security forces personnel when they are accused of committing crimes.

Stop talking about how making police and Army answerable   to the law will somehow demoralize their morale.

Bring an end to the costly relationship between the police and the politics.

Ensure that Police/Army  officers who abuse  their  authorities  and engage  in malafide  prosecutions   are dismissed  from service  and  sentences  to jail  for a  long period  of time.

Ensure that criminal  charges  against  law  enforcement  personnel  are fast-tracked  as a matter of routine , so that  a powerful  defendant  is not able  to use his  position  to delay  proceedings.

Empower the National Human Rights commission with teeth so that police/Army or State Government cannot brush aside their orders.

Ensure early enactment of pending legislation broadening the ambit of several crimes.

Take steps to introduce a system of   protection of witness and complainants.

Ensure robust interrogation techniques like narco-analysis against accused officers.

Media and the high judiciary  must also  turn the  light  inwards  and  ask  themselves  whether  they were also derelict  in their duty.

Changing Cultures within Medicine

The changed culture within medicine appears pervasive and in many ways irreversibly.  Medicine today looks less of a vocation and more of a business opportunity. Recent changes having impact on the practice of medicine are:- 

1.         Prevention is less fashionable than cure. 

2.         Curing a disease is more glamorous than healing an illness. 

3.      The clinical technology divide - Reliance on technology has resulted devaluation of clinical skills. 

4.         Generalists versus specialists approach. 

5.         Profit before service. 

The way forward 

Special social status  accorded to physicians  necessarily  mandates a social commitments  to save the people,  specially  to under privileged  and marginalized.,  Such  obligations are necessary from  individuals  and institutions,  professional  medical societies, regulatory  authorities  and government.   

  

Selections of medical school should also evaluate social consciousness.  A record of such service and commitments to serve vulnerable sector /sections.  In selections for higher medical education, greater weightage should be accorded to those who serve in areas of need. Commercial actions need to be checked