Why You Need Soft and Non-Technical Skills for Successful Data Librarianship

Would Engineers Need Non-technical Skills or Non-technical Competences or Both?

Surgeons' non-technical skills.

The importance of non-technical skills to surgical performance is gaining wide acceptance. This article discusses the core cognitive and social skills categories thought to underpin medical knowledge and surgical expertise, and describes the rise of non-technical skill models of assessment in surgery. Behavior rating systems such as NOTSS (Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons) have been developed ...

Anaesthetists' non-technical skills.

This review presents the background to the development of the anaesthetists' non-technical skills (ANTS) taxonomy and behaviour rating tool, which is the first non-technical skills framework specifically designed for anaesthetists. We share the experience of the anaesthetists who designed ANTS in relation to applying it in a department of anaesthesia, using it in a simulation centre, and the pr...

Why you need a buy-sell agreement.

It is not uncommon for surviving business owners to find that the heirs of the deceased business owner want to take on a role in the management of the business, even though the family members may have insufficient skills or experience to participate in the business, let alone, the management of the business. Perhaps, the surviving business owners want nothing to do with the deceased owner’s fam...

Non-technical skills for scrub practitioners.

The non-technical skills of situational awareness and the formation of effective interpersonal relationships are essential to enhance surgical outcomes. However, most scrub practitioners demonstrate only tacit awareness of these skills and develop such qualities on an informal basis. Application of non-technical skills may be assessed formally, using a structured framework, to transform normati...