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Checklists rule the mundane. Checklist Manifesto is a great salve for this burn.
Make a little note of things to make sure you check. There's no shame - tell them you got the idea from Checklist Manifesto.
You can do electric or paper. If you're new, I'd go with clipboard and paper so you can jot notes wherever.
Biggest tip: Before you leave the property, check that your dimensions close the floorplan. I mean check that one side is 24' and the other sides total to that as well. It's really stressful getting back to the office and seeing a 5' gap between sides.
One thing I do is print the Assessor sketch and use that as a guide or check while I'm out on property visits.
Lastly, you mention you don't have a lot of experience. I'm not sure if that's for measuring or property visits in general. Be kind and professional, but don't get pushed around. If the agent or owner starts prodding for values, just say you haven't worked through that yet. Also, if this is like your first property visit, it seems odd to me that the supervisor wouldn't go on a few with you to get you oriented.
First of all there's no 'easy solution' to the structural issues we have. Pick an issue and we could potentially talk about it. But I have no interest in having an uninformed discussion with somebody, because I'm not going to waste my time ~~arguing~~ educating somebody who hasn't first gone out of their way to try and obtain a rudimentary understanding of the issues.
But (and this is controversial among people I work with) I'm in favor of something akin to a Swiss style double mandate. It's highly unlikely that a Medicare single payer system would work here in the US. Believe it or not, a lot of the exorbitant prices is simply a consequence of ordinary price inflation of basic items. The pricing system's lack of transparency is another issue, and that's a huge one that spills over even into the labor market more generally. The standards we have in place for various procedures overall outstrip anything other countries have. Anyone who's ever been to conferences on the new tech that's rolled out on an annual basis for healthcare knows this. No other country on Earth has a tech system that's as sophisticated (and naturally as expensive) as ours. I could go one for fucking hours about our system.
Basically yes. It’s all to do with checklist design. If you make a checklist too long and full of stuff you already know how to do without a checklist, you’ll end up skipping ahead on the checklist and actually skipping that one critical step that was buried in all the other minutia. If you’re interested in more about checklist design, I’d recommend the Checklist Manifesto. Also of all the times I’ve had an emergency, I’ve never used guard since I’m already talking to someone on a different frequency.
Sounds like your organisation os focused on workflow and delivery, so I would focus on aligning KPIs to OKRs that map up to business goals.
Also read The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. Atul Gawande https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1846683149/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_0NdFDb66SV631 for inspiration
The surgical industry got the idea of using checklists from the construction industry, which actually has a really good track record historically (there have been a lot more botched surgeries than buildings that fall apart). Source
interesting as hell read
I mostly do this in my head, but yeah sometimes I make real lists. It's a huge help. Real LPT material. Lists are incredibly useful both in professional life and personal life.
Also, be sure to adapt this idea for your personal style of thinking. You can see in these replies that people have different methods for breaking down large goals into simpler tasks. Figure out what works for you.
Further reading: The Checklist Manifesto
Or listening: NPR interview about The Checklist Manifesto
I just finished reading The Checklist Manifesto (Fantastic, I highly recommend it.) One section details the Miracle on the Hudson and credits it to a synchronized effort of a Team sticking to their checklists. Apparently when Sully and the co-pilot deboarded they looked at each other and said, "Well, that wasn't that bad." The author makes the point that we tend to celebrate lone heroes. The myth of the "master builder." One man has all the information and experience in his head to accomplish a complicated task. When the truth (and more importantly, saving lives) is about teamwork, management, and following a checklist.
Very nice. Each of these is good in its own way but in my eyes the last one kind of stands out because:
- there's more than a handful reviews for it
- after reading a couple of them on goodreads, it's evident that the author embraces futurology to a degree, which I think is ~~necessary~~helpful when you're trying to open yourself up to possibilities. In this sense it somewhat resembles sci-fi, so it should also be easier to read.
- it's pretty affordable.
I think I'll end up getting her this one and recommending the others.
I can't thank you enough.
Yeah, it's confusing AND pretty disheartening, I'm supposed to trust the medical professionals and now I feel like I can't. I've been having issues since I was about 7 with a bad back, first subluxed my knee 7 years ago, a physio noticed I have flat feet, got my insoles, also had a lateral release on each knee... Like, yaknow. No one put the dots together. I'm not sure about money involved though, but the NHS works in mysterious ways! I'll have a look at that book, it's only 35 pounds on Amazon (I'm in the UK) and I brought https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guide-Living-Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome-Hypermobility/dp/1848192312/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461347754&sr=8-1&keywords=ehlers+danlos+syndrome this one and found it really useful, so I'll def have a look.
I'm not sure of the names of the surgeries but two have been discussed: Number one, is tightening one of the tendons in my knee, but and I quote the surgeon said this to me "there's a risk we could do this and overtighten it which would give you arthritis very quickly" like dude... Isn't it your job to make sure you do it properly???????????? Haha. The other surgery is to build up the outside of my knee, to basically as I understand put an implant in to stop my knee coming out. As well as everything else my kneecap "sockets" are shallow, like flat, so there's no resistance for my knees going in and out. Which they like to do, a lot. Fun fun. I shall tell them what's going on, hopefully they'll listen to me. They just skated over my IBS symptoms in the letter too. So I'm going to impress on them that IBS is ruining my frickin life, haha. Thank you! :)
This book was just recommended to me last night.
I found it on googleplay and was able to get the sample of the book.
In the first part of the book it talks about how fidgety and fussy we can be. Highly recommend if this is something you want more information on - it certainly made a few things click for me!
Going to be purchasing a used version of the paperback soon.
I've not read that one, but one I found really made me go 'this is all about me!!!' is this one which my physio leant me after she realised I was totally oblivious to my hypermobility, which she'd assumed I knew about because it was so obvious to her. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guide-Living-Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome-Hypermobility/dp/1848192312/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454106894&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=hyypermobility
this book is relevant to this conversation and helped me get mine own going. good read.
Yes. And here's a book that shows you how.
I was more interested in your experience in algorithm analysis. Here are two good starts: http://www.amazon.com/Bioinformatics-Practical-Approach-Mathematical-Computational/dp/1584888105 and http://bix.ucsd.edu/bioalgorithms/
The surgeon from that article wrote a whole book about that, called the Checklist Manifesto, which covers checklists in all different applications. Neat book.
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0030V0PEW/