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Teams are a necessary reality of working in most organizations, and their effectiveness is impacted by complex dynamics that develop over time as the team-members develop working relationships with one another. Dr. Ruth Wageman, one of the world’s leading scholar-practitioner experts working with teams in organizations, developed an assessment called the Team Diagnostic Survey that accurately measures the degree of effectiveness in an existing team, in addition to identifying areas of strength and potential development opportunities in regard to how the team already works together. The Team Diagnostic Survey measures each of the 6 Conditions of Team Effectiveness and produces diagnostic information with regard to areas of strengths and opportunities for growth for teams. By understanding the team dynamics that impact a team’s effectiveness, practitioners are positioned to shape the growth and development of effective teams.

She indicated past conferences have been positive learning and networking experiences and has especially has enjoyed the collegiality that has developed from attending the conference with her colleagues from the Organizational Psychology program each year. Too” movement in the past year, Ms. Golbodaghi developed professional interests about what Organizational Psychologists can do to positively effect businesses in terms of gender safety in the work environment. Due to the delicate and sensitive nature of gender safety in the work environment, Ms. Golbodaghi collaborated with colleagues Nicole Saulnier and Amy Wax, PhD at Cal State Long Beach to apply positive psychology techniques in developing tangible solutions for organizations. Discussion of tangible solutions, including ways I/O psychologists can collaborate to support solutions, and roles women in organizations can play in solution generation • Discussions of recommendations and advice generated from the session discussion.

These are all big questions that are hard to ask and even harder to answer, but in Dr. Janina Scarlet’s new book, Therapy Quest, she attempts to do so while simultaneously encouraging her readers to do the same. When asked as to why this is the mode she chose to write in, Dr. Scarlet had the following to say: “I wanted to have an interactive approach to therapy to help people better understand their mental health conditions…People often have difficulty talking about their emotions, and they often experience shame or stigma about their mental health. Dr. Scarlet says, “With that in mind, I wanted to create an RPG-like [Role Playing Game] book where people can talk about their choices and the skills that they’ve learned How to Get a Copy of Therapy Quest It is clear that Dr. Scarlet has admirable ambitions and goals with Therapy Quest and, as the author of this post, having read it, I have to say that she and her methods, are in line to make a great impact and be a great success

According to the IMF (International Monetary Fund), as the populations of the developed and developing nations continue to bloom, the need for data-driven medical organizations with go right with it, as there is need for data analysis in clinical operations, R&D, public health studies, genome studies, evidence-based medical practice, and much more that is working to make today’s medicine the best that it can be. It’s clear that data analytics is going to be one of the great boom industries of the next few years, with more than 150,000 new jobs expected to be needed in this field by 2026—and this does not account for new specialized fields that may emerge, or ones that already exist, such as health care analytics, of which we can count on an addition 70,000 new jobs opening up in that same 7-year window. We already offer an Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs-accredited Master of Science in Data Analytics, and are soon to launch our Master of Science in Health Care Analytics degree program, which is likely to receive the same accreditation as well through our California School of Management and Leadership (CSML). CSML understands that the future of business doesn’t just involve using and understanding Big Data, but that it is Big Data, and we are working to train the future leaders and well-trained workers in the world of data analytics, both in general and in the health care sphere.