for Nuclear Manager Leadership Responsibilities. During David's presentation, he had talked about a typical commercial nuclear power plant who acquires anywhere from 600 to 800 employees. Well, how do you get that information to the workforce such that everyone knows how to move forward? One of the exercises that we will do is what I call a paper exercise. If you don't have a blank sheet of paper, feel free to take a sheet and just pass it on. This will be about the middle of the presentation. One of the things that I would also like to comment on that David brought up, he being a radio chemist. And I started off my career as a radio chemist and eventually pursued a degree in health physics or the radiation sciences. From there, I progressed into industrial safety in the power plant environments. And from there, I was even able to expand my background even more by getting involved with quality assurance and also emergency operations. So the nuclear industry, should you want to stay in the industry, it does provide a variety of opportunities, a variety of areas that you can even what I call sub-specializing. Typically, for the most part, everyone has some form of technical degree. But once again, you will find yourself as you go through your career, if you haven't discovered this already, that you will begin to specialize in a certain area. But it's also good to have a variety of experiences in other fields. Because when you find yourself as a department manager, the key item there is to make sure knowing who to bring in, who to talk to. And that's one of the things that we'll cover in this presentation. So by participating in this course, what my goal is to prepare you for that transition, some of you may already find yourself serving as a department manager. Others may still be working within your organization at a certain level where you're focused on technical information. Not necessarily a manager, maybe a technical lead. But as I show here, the information that I'm providing, hopefully this will prepare you to become a visionary leader and efficient manager. There are two distinct attributes. I have also been fortunate to teach at the university level. I taught for a number of years at the University of New Mexico. I team taught with a professor. And I also taught at one of our local trade schools that David had also mentioned. The trade schools specialized in training chemical operators that were actually working at the nearby chemical plants. And we used a lot of the same information that we would train our nuclear operators working at the various nuclear facilities in the area. So the interesting thing about technical information and once you get in the nuclear industry, as well as any other type of process or energy industry, the information is interchangeable. Granted, there are distinctions because you're dealing with nuclear materials. But as David had mentioned, many of the industrial processes are the same. So the learning objectives, recognizing the need for a class on management, and ultimately leadership, why are we all here? The study of management. This has been going on for quite some time. And so I have some historical aspects to show with that. Learning objective number three, when you finally find yourself in charge. The manager, leader, mystique of success. Item number four, how to turn these ideas into actual performance, what you can do, or tools that you can use to become an effective manager. Nuclear manager or leadership, career advice, what I have learned. I've worked in the industry, in the nuclear industry, both in the government sector and the commercial power energy sector, for about 28 years. And I'm always happy to share my experiences to help those students that are up and coming in their careers. And then last but not least, item number six, additional handouts and slides. Just because of the time factor, I have my segment of slides that I'll provide. Depending upon how you can download this material, which I understand you're supposed to be able to, there are additional slides in the back that you can refer to at your leisure. And then there are also handouts that I've provided in Ashok. Are those handouts? Or will those be accessible as well? So OK. And there's a list. I have a slide which shows the various list of handouts that you can use. And I'll cover those at the very end. So recognizing the need for class on management and ultimately leadership. Now, as I mentioned, when you start off your career, you're typically covering or responsible for technical information. You may be working on your own. On a specific project, maybe on a team. But you may find yourself actually reporting what I call up the chain or up the chain of command in the organization to some other manager or director. But for the most part, you're the manager of the data. You're providing a technical specialty. For example, electrical engineering, right? OK, you might be the only electrical engineer, but you're working with a team of mechanical engineers and maybe some other process engineers. But you're bringing that technical specialty to the group. And as I mentioned, reporting to the manager. And some of the terms, as you go through the literature, you may see this term being used SME, subject matter expert. And all that is, is just referring to that you provide a specific technical specialty. Now, for those of you that do have an engineering degree, you may be familiar with this engineering flow chart. Does it move? If not, should it? If no, then there's no problem. If yes, then you may have to spray something on it to get it to move. Does it move? Yes, should it? If it's supposed to move, then there's no problem. But if you need it to stop, then you apply duct tape. So this is where you typically find yourself at the beginning of your career. Once again, just to review the fact that you're working in a specific area, providing a specific specialty. Now you're going from this SME to becoming a department manager. As you gain additional experience, you may finally find yourself responsible for manager of people. And with that responsibility, you are now influencing direct report employees. And here's another common term. Direct report would be those people within your department that report up the chain directly to you. And then you also have other employees outside your organization and company. Those are typically referred to as indirect reports. Like, you could be in electrical engineering. And there might be another engineering department that they may not report to you, but you may interact with mechanical engineers, for example. And one of the things about being a manager, and I use this quote here, anyone can steer a ship when the sea is calm, which means when everything is going well, being a department manager is the best job. Because basically, you're working as a team. You have other people working for you. But often, the critical part of becoming a manager is when there are issues. There were a number of human resource aspects that David covered in his presentation. Human resources could be one thing, personnel issues. And there's also the technical issues. The technical issues can usually be solved rather straightforward. You have various ways of solving a technical problem. But the human resource issues, hiring, retention, a lot of the terms that David used during his presentation, well, how do you make all that happen? How do you retain employees? So the question here I have, how and when do you discover that you are a manager? Are you appointed as a manager or just suddenly through attrition, through someone above you retiring or leaving the project? Are you suddenly promoted to being a manager? And I'd like to just find out from the room, are there people here that are currently identified as managers within your organization? We have two, three, OK. So everyone eventually may find yourself as a manager. How do you like being a manager? So it's what? So they assigned you as a manager. How many people do you have in your group? Movement going on. So how do you train to become a nuclear manager? Some of the examples that I provided, as well as possibly some of the managers that I looked to in the room, unless the company has a specific training program. Once again, here we go back to employee training. Does the employee have a training program to develop you as a manager? For the most part, when I became a manager, I was in a similar situation. I was appointed as a manager, and I was basically learning on the job. And the way I developed my managerial techniques is, as shown here, good and bad styles are obtained and nurtured by watching and working under other good and bad managers. Fortunately, in my career, because I've been able to advance, because I've been able to work in a variety of areas, I feel I have always had very good managers that took an interest in my career and helped me advance in my profession. So based on that model, I have used that when I have become a manager. And for the most part, what I then try to do with the employees working for me is to help those employees advance in their career. I'm happy to say that in my career, I've had about 10 employees that have gone on to manage their own programs, not just in the nuclear field, but in other fields, health and safety, for example. And the other nice thing about that is we all still stay in touch, so we can also exchange information. So there is a value of, even though you have an employee that may leave, but fortunately for good circumstances, if they want to advance. And that's the other thing that David talked about, retention, human resources issues. Employees that are advancing in their career, are there opportunities? Maybe they're leaving because the current company that they're with may just not have those opportunities no longer. So to touch on succession planning, this is where you prepare employees to take on these managerial roles. And just based on this survey that I was able to obtain that was published back in 2014, so it's fairly current, it takes about 90 days to evaluate and name a successor. And then they took surveys of various companies. Do they have someone that could, if the current manager or CEO or leader of the company, if they were to leave, how fast could they replace that position? Or would there be anyone available for these positions? And as it shows here, they have very few candidates. 39% reported zero, 32, one, and then 24 provided maybe two. But this is not something that happens. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen very quickly. So here we go into the study of management. This has been going on for quite some time. And that's the interesting thing. Management and leadership, it's an interesting area. It's been studied a lot, but we seem to keep having recurring problems. So going back to 1971, and these were taken out of a journal article that was actually published in 1983, is that it talks about people are learning from their formal education or their own experience. What they most want to know to build successful careers in management, their failure is doing part to the fact that many crucial managerial tasks are not taught in management education programs. Going to 1977, the graduates lacked a practical, disciplined understanding of themselves and their environment. They didn't know how to use the knowledge effectively. And then even further from 1982, the business school graduate is adequately trained to get their first job, but difficulty holding it at advancing. So business schools have basically made an industry of studying about management. But as these articles show here, and as what I touched upon in some of the opening slides, there seems to be a disconnect in training someone to be a manager. The programs just don't seem to be there or they just don't seem to be as effective. So in this article, the reason why I included this was not only for the historical aspects of management, but they actually identify effective delegation and joint decision making. This is a key item here. The other items are typical things that you would cover in a business school class. But this particular one talks about delegating and joint decision making. Those are like the two key elements when it comes to being an effective manager. I'd also like to touch upon safety culture and safety climate. This is another area that has been studied for a number of years, because this is where the approach or the company environment, the situation that you're in. This is where all of this, where you're establishing your base. So as we move forward, I wanted to first identify, like, well, how do you know how your organization is working? So here, the distinction is organizational and safety culture. And I have this italicized to distinguish this. And then you have organizational and safety climate. If you go through the literature, climate and culture are often used interchangeably. So one of the things that if you're ever reading an article about safety culture, try to find out if the article defines this in the early part of the discussion. This table here is based on my interpretations and my readings of articles on safety culture and safety climate. So organizational safety culture, it's basically quantitative and it's based on perception, very difficult because you're basing something on what you see or what you think is going on. Whereas safety climate, that's where you're getting into quantitative and numbers, safety statistics. Yesterday, William Fork talked about a number of areas that the NRC monitors, the number of scrams. So you have a number, you can quantify it. Are you above the limit? Are you below the limit? Very straightforward. But once again, when you're trying to evaluate perception, it gets very difficult. And then here, I just talk about how the information and administration is collected. It's observations and interviews, patterns of the organization and often this reflects senior management. So that's another distinction versus when you're getting into safety climate, you're talking to the employee that is what I refer to, they're on the shop floor. One of the things that in my career, I'm still on the shop floor. Just as you see me here in a suit, I feel just as comfortable being in coveralls and wearing a respirator. Of course, I would have to shave first. But I've been, as I refer to elbow deep in the 200 liter drum working on stuff. And we even covered one of these things in our root cause analysis. But organizational, just to distinguish it, organizational and safety culture, it's a construct of underlying attitudes and practices contributing to the way we do things around here. So that's a way of assessing what your organization is. And then the safety culture, that's resulting perceptions and actions and it expresses itself through the safety climate. And that would be your survey. So they are somewhat connected. You can take in-house surveys to evaluate your climate, but then it takes a little bit more effort to determine if your culture is working because that's the, typically the global overview. And as I mentioned here, this is just a list of the various culture and climate studies that have been collected over time. And I wanted to provide this reference here. So if you want to review any of this on your own, go to this reference. And there are a number of culture surveys and climates that you can refer to and review. But as it's shown here, it goes back to the 1930s, but this was more processes leading up to accidents where it's the environment, is it a worker fault, unsafe act plus a hazard, the accident and then, excuse me, finally leading to an injury. You have Turner's theory of man-made disaster in 78, total safety culture model 94, the Swiss cheese model. I did not make that up. 1997. This is another common term that you may hear, high reliability organization. This came about in 2001. And then Flynn's model of safety climate for the healthcare industry, 2007. This Rona Flynn, I had a chance to meet her. It was at a conference back about in the early 2000s in University of Aberdeen. And she did a lot of work regarding the safety culture on oil rigs. And that's one of the things about not just the nuclear industry is it's often good to go to other industries to see how they are handling not only their safety culture, but in the emergency planning realm that I work in, we often go to the offshore oil rigs just to see what they're doing and compare it to our programs. So there's a tremendous amount of information out there. And then nuclear safety culture. I just have this here as just for reference that this goes back to the Chernobyl accident from 1986. And this was in one of the summaries where it talks about the way to improve is we have to develop a nuclear safety culture. And what the IAEA has done, and this is a very good reference, once again if you're not too familiar with this area, this would be a starting point, a very good document to at least read through and it provides various areas of not only what are the components of the safety culture but establishing even your management system. As a department manager, you need to find out who are the people in your department, what are your responsibilities, what is your product? Like what are you producing?  Are you preparing a report?  Are you dealing with the facility that receives the waste? Or are you dealing with the regulator? Depending upon the environment, this helps define what you may need to do. And this is just the second part. There's like 14 chapters that provides useful information. So the case study, and once again, going outside the nuclear industry because these are always good to go from. And then we also, our group, we did a root cause analysis. So this is kind of a modified version. It's often good to go back and look at events that have happened, where management has failed and where possibly we can make improvements. So there are a lot of case studies that are already out there for you to review and say, well, management or just the facility, you don't necessarily want to, it's not a focus of blame. You're not trying to do that. You're trying to learn from the event. So what happened that you can possibly prevent happening from your own site? So a lot of good information that's out there. And this was a Longford Gas Production Processing Plant in Victoria, Austria. There were a number of things that happened. Oil at a very high temperature was introduced into a chilled vessel. There was the temperature difference. They called the vessel the flat to fracture. There was a rupture that released hydrocarbon vapor and the vapor ignited and the oil heaters caused an explosion and fire. And unfortunately, this is what was captured on the evening news from the person that provided this information to me. So unfortunately, when an accident happens, it's too late. So that's really what you're trying to prevent. Not only be able to get your employees, getting them the right information so they can do their work, but also preventing accidents from happening. So here's how we kind of circle back to emergency management. So the Longford accident, it was a three-year court case. The slide here just provides a summary, but the charges and it identified it, called out what management failed to do. Etiquette training, hazard analysis and risk assessment means to verify the equipment operated at temperatures within design specifications and operating the plant using etiquette procedures. And these are like the three key things as a manager that you need to make sure that you have in place is making sure that you have not only a trained workforce, but procedures. The presentations, and I understand this, where everything is being presented at a very high level, whereas the benefit or where you really get into the details is where you start developing procedures. There was a discussion about having vendors coming in and provide specific services. And it's probably part of the cost of bringing that vendor on site is that if they're bringing in a special piece of equipment, in my experience, they already have procedures. So it's not that they're bringing in something and now you have to develop the procedure, you basically have to just train from their procedure. So that's the knowledge transfer that's taking place. If you were to develop a procedure, just once again from my own personal experience, depending upon the complexity of the system, it can take anywhere from 30 to 90 days to develop a procedure because you possibly have to bring in other personnel input from, you might be focused on something electrical engineering related, but there is a mechanical engineering component, so you have to get that person involved. And then once you fast forward, and let's say you're 60 days into it, the procedure is done, then you have to go out and verify that process just to what the term that we use is walk down the process. That way you understand and everyone knows that the procedure follows what you're supposed to do in the field. So there's a lot of time and effort that goes into actually implementing a program. So never underestimate that. My rule of thumb is if someone is talking about, well, it's gonna take us two weeks to do this, my rule of thumb is I double it, and then I go to the next time scale. So if someone says two weeks, double it, okay, that's four, what's the next time scale months? So when someone says it's gonna take two weeks, in reality, it may take four months. So just kind of keep that in the back of your mind when it comes to estimating and projecting some type of professional action. So this is a root cause analysis. Our group, we had already done a root cause analysis on a different scenario, but once again, this is a useful tool to use to look at to see what happened in other industries and other situations, what can you use and learn from that has already been done and apply it to your own situation. We first start off, it's very high level. It's society impacts that was at the plant, but then there's the government regulatory system and then the company, but for the most part, this is where it starts to impact the department manager, the organizational part. And here where they put everything together, absence of engineers, poor engineering design, supervision, and then all the way down to the physical accident sequence. And as we went through our root cause analysis, one of the things that was done was develop the timeline, kind of talk to the scenario and then start gathering information. So my group actually went through this particular exercise. So, but this is a typical root cause analysis and this is the version that we used. I know this is very small. I did not send this to ASHAC, but what I can do is I can send this so that way the students can access this if they wanted. This is a causal tree and just, I'll ask that question. And I, my group doesn't have to raise their hands because we've already done root cause, but has anybody else, have you done a root cause or maybe the other term typically used as fact binding? Have you done anything like that before? No, this is brand new? Well, okay. But for the most part, this may be something that it's a useful tool to use. So what I came away with was when you look at that root cause analysis, these are the key words of a bad day. This is what you're trying to prevent as a department manager.  So there's a lot of bad words that show up. And this is once again, as a department manager, this is what you're trying to prevent. So now how do we begin to get control over our program? And it comes down to four basic questions. And depending upon your situation, you can use this information to step through your process. So what we're doing is how do you do this work? Hazards and mitigating controls. You have the engineering, administrative, and maybe even some personal protective equipment, such as respiratory protection, and then education and training. So David covered this very extensively in his. So you see where these programs kind of come together. It comes back to education and training. How do you do this work? You are trained to do a specific work. How do you know that this work is being done correctly, written procedures? That was one of the management failures in the Longford accident. Procedures were not detailed enough or they did not even exist. So you have written procedures, you have written guidance. Should there be some form of, if an employee leaves, either through they have another opportunity or just through retirement, the procedure is there for consistent operations. There is value when it comes to procedures. How do you know the outcome is free of defects? Verification, validation. In our root cause analysis, one of the things that the students brought out was that there was no what we call endpoint verification. It turned out it was a chemical reaction. They were neutralizing an acid and they were basing it on adding a buffer solution that was supposed to neutralize it. But it was normally, if this buffer solution was adequate, the color would have changed, but that didn't happen. So normally we'd use some type of pH meter to verify that this process or that the liquid had been neutralized. But that verification did not happen and that right now we have a contributing cause. Right now the mission tonight is to determine whether that could be a root cause. But I'll leave that up to you to decide. So we have verification, validation. How do you know that things have come to completion and what do you do when you discover a deviation and quality assurance corrective action process? If you are in a technical area, if you are in engineering, for example, this is where your quality assurance group comes into play. Another key word that has been used throughout this week has been independence. Quality assurance or shall be independent of your organizations. This is why you have independent people come in to review the process, to check. Basically you're eliminating any form of bias. When we were doing our root cause analysis, one of the things that this scenario showed is that we have people that are maybe familiar or working at the plant site, but they were not involved with the event. They were not involved with the activity. So therefore you're eliminating that element of bias. You're taking five new people, you're looking at the event brand new for the first time and you're stepping through. Because if you bring someone in that was involved with the accident, they might have their own bias to say that, well, this is the reason why it happened. I did not get along with my supervisor and he told me to do something I shouldn't have done. That may be true, that may be not, but you need to extract that and see if that statement is valid or not in the root cause analysis. So quality assurance in the nuclear industry, quality assurance is a very big deal, a very big issue and it's typically a standalone group. It doesn't necessarily report to the plant manager. Well, there's what's called a dotted matrix. It's like there's a communication link, but the quality assurance personnel typically reports to maybe a board of director or a vice president that may be in the corporate office offsite and then if something were to happen, that board of director or that vice president comes to the plant and then seeks corrective action. So that's a typical example of independence and that was talked about a lot from when I was in the back. That's the program, it's not only for the victim. Right. In the beginning. Yes. Even the procedure, they should put on the pre-existing record as not true. Right. Yeah, the statement that was brought here is although I do have the example that I provide is for corrective action, quality assurance is a very large program. There's typically like 18 criteria that I'm familiar with that you step through the organization as being one of them, but it's also the process to make sure you have procedures in place to do the work and that goes back to the consistency part. Very good, thank you. So when you finally find yourself in charge, okay, we're going to be defining some terms here. We have manager, leader, and expert. I heard expert being used a lot this week as well and my conclusion is that an expert, really, whoops, whoops, whoops, let's backtrack. An expert is just someone who lives about greater than 60 kilometers away from the work site. So that has always been my definition of an expert. When what you're really looking for is a manager and the leader. Now the manager, that's the person responsible for controlling or administering the part of the company or organization. And it's not necessarily a leader. The manager is focused on the here and now. The leader, which once again, this is often difficult to quantify, the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country, that's the classic definition that you'd find in a dictionary. And then this could be the manager. So we're going to focus on manager and leader. And these are two distinct but complementary systems. So both are necessary for success. So for the delegates that already identified themselves as managers, and Richard, I'll call on you because you're a manager, right? Or you raised your hand? Yeah, I would say a lot. Okay, you would agree with this? Yeah. Okay, but you're always going to say you're busy, right? Yeah. Okay, so you're always busy, work is fragmented because there are various things happening during the day, the activities can be varied, and you're often given a lot of verbal direction. There was talk yesterday, I remember William was talking about communication, emails, being able to retrieve information, knowledge management. That is very useful, it's a useful tool, but during the workday, you're giving verbal direction, which is why you need that structure to at least not necessarily record everything that you're saying, but at least provide direction based on you're following certain procedures, you're following certain techniques to get the work done. So okay, communication means different things to different people. Everyone took, or hopefully everyone has the sheet of paper, and if you don't, if you wanna have that sheet of paper ready because we're going to do a quick in-class exercise. So here's what we're going to do. I'm going to give direction on what to do with this sheet of paper, and everyone in the back, and if you don't have a sheet of paper, that's not a problem, this is just to demonstrate one item, but I'm going to give instructions. So follow the instructions, what you interpret that I'm saying, and I'm going to do the exact same thing, but you will not see my sheet of paper, and let's just see what we come up with. So to begin, take your sheet of paper, fold it in half, fold it in half again, tear off one corner, okay? Is everyone done? Oh, say it again. Okay, you're supposed to take the sheet of paper, fold it in half, fold it in half again, then tear off one corner of the piece of paper. Just one corner, okay? Well, and this is how to demonstrate giving instructions. Okay, is everyone ready? Are you done? Do you have your sheet of paper? Okay, what does yours look like? This is mine, okay?  Okay, so you see how just giving basic instructions can be interpreted, oh, very good, I like that, can be interpreted differently. So which is why you need procedures, which is why you need consistent direction. So very good, and that's the other thing. In math, there's the right answer. You're looking for the number. When it comes to management, human resources, there's not often a correct answer as we see here. I mean, we all know what we need to do, but it can be interpreted differently, so very good. Okay, oh. Well, so as a department manager, I have to improve that. So I will issue a procedure next time. So with drawings, I mean that would even help even further. So whoops, okay. So getting back to the slides, managing versus leading, two different concepts. And as I just touched on earlier, management is really about coping with the work process and the complexity, the here and now practices and procedures, order and consistency. So that's the classic management model. Leadership chain, it's coping with change. And the thing that I discovered in being a manager is listen first, like receiving feedback regarding the instructions were clear. And it goes back to my quote here is what we are doing, managing versus where we are going, leading. So here are some examples. Planning and budgeting versus setting direction. We talk about phase one, phase two, phase three of constructing a nuclear power plant. Management function, the predictability and orderly results, but the leadership is to produce change. I would focus on where leadership comes into critical in this process is that transition going from phase one to phase two. Management can pretty much take care of what's going on within that phase. That's how I would look at it. Organizing and staffing versus aligning people. The people and skills and the jobs, the plans are implemented, that's management, but then the leaders look for the people and the vision. Whereas you're in phase one, now, like we're in, call it the middle of phase one, but you know what, we have to start hiring for phase two. So they're actually looking out further ahead. So that's one example of the difference. Controlling activities, management, focusing on the complete routine jobs where the leaders, its attitude, and David had touched on that as well. So to summarize, management, being the here and now, it's focused on more of the quantitative aspects. For leadership, it's focused on those qualitative aspects. It's thinking ahead and what's coming up that you need to be prepared for. Okay, who follows the World Cup? Okay, anyone else? Is there any other sport that you follow? Oh, excellent, rugby. I have a good friend of mine, he's a rugby player, and I don't tend to have very many disagreements with him. But one of the examples here I'm using is in the area of sports. I have coached my son in baseball, for example, and I grew up playing a variety of sports. And in creating leaders, there are two ways to approach this. One is that you have the coach, which is here, and they focus on the captain, and then the captain serves as this barrier between both he and the coach and the players. And it's not to treat the captain as the favorite, it's basically the captain is actually shielding the coach from the players. And the advantages here is, as I show in the examples, the captain serves as this barrier, shield for the team. It forces the players to trust the captain and each other. So depending upon who might be further up from you, if they're a difficult manager or a difficult boss, but no matter what's going on with that, are you shielding your employees so that way they can do their job effectively? And that's just one of the aspects of being a department manager. So in the sporting event, the captain serves as a de facto coach during the game in some basketball games that I've watched, especially in the championships. You'll see, and this is at the college level, you'll see the players like gather, like the game is going on, they'll have a timeout, but the players gather by themselves, the coach, he's just standing on the sideline like this, not really involved, not giving direction, but the coach or the captain, the captain of that team, they're working out their strategy. That's what you eventually want to get to is that your team works independently and not to say that the manager is no longer needed, but basically that's the ultimate goal or that's this qualitative aspect. You can't really put a number on it, but that's what you're trying to get to. So the players are less dependent on the coach in a crisis situation and that usually goes back to what I call a championship team. What I've discovered in my entire life of playing sport, I've been on two championship teams and one of the attributes of that team was that we had a strong bench, which means that if the starter was injured or not able to play, call it the second string, came in and was just as good, just as effective, and for the most part, that person did not mind being second string, so it was that team mentality. I've also been on a sports team where we had zero wins and 14 losses. And basically it was like we were just there to have fun, not take it seriously, when the game was over, we all pretty much left and went our own separate ways. So there is a distinction and once again, it's not something you can really say, well, that's a four, that's a seven, like you can't really assign a number to it, but it's something that you begin to see. Now the other aspect, the coach, this is what I call a player's coach and this can be just as effective. It just depends on the environment that you're in where the coach is really the center and it's focused on all the players. The players trust the coach, the captain and players, but one of the downsides is that the captain and players may become too dependent on the coach and this is where your assistant coaches monitor the players just to make sure that everyone is treated fairly in this situation because if the coach is always going after the captain, well, you know who the target is, but in this case, there could be a little bit of favoritism that may come out. So this is a little bit more difficult to monitor, but necessarily as I say here, both cases, a strong bench determines the championship and your program, it has a three year longevity. That's the other thing that I've discovered in my career. It seems like you can hold things together for about three years and then after those three years, that's when you tend to have people leave to seek other advancement, maybe retirements, new people coming into the group which also affects the dynamic of the organization because now they have to be trained and get up to speed with the program. So, but there's usually about a three year point of consistency that I've just experienced in my career. So your department, you're maintaining oversight of the program, your director ports as shown in this sports model, they're implementing the program, you have the tools or the procedures and you've delegated your authority, your director ports use these tools to perform the scope of work. But now here's the other key element and what hopefully this was shown in these sports models is you're delegating this information just like we went through the paper exercise. I was delegating instructions and everyone had a different way of interpreting how to tear the piece of paper. So delegation becomes as the manager delegation, it's the sharing of authority, I'm not just giving away all my responsibility, I'm still responsible as the department manager. So before you delegate, you must communicate and there are three degrees of delegation that you'll also see this may be an important slide to remember, I guess there's a quiz or a test that you have to take. So anyways, but there are three ways of looking at delegation, low, moderate and high and this is based on level or amount of experience. If someone is brand new to the organization they may have a lower degree of delegation where there's that constant routine communication that takes place, moderate, where the investigate and advise on actions plan the supervisor approves or disapproves based on information provided by the employee. So there's a little bit better or more of an exchange of information going on and then high, this is where the employee goes out, takes care of it and says it's solved.   So anyways, my group has this high degree of delegation. So you are managing strategy, not effort. So turning the ideas into performance, how do we, numbers are still a part of this. What people are gonna look for are the numbers and this is where you get into, for example, in the industrial safety world, the number of accidents you've accumulated, so many safe work hours. Are there any open corrective actions? How long do they stay open? And then kind of quoting Gandhi here, I like this quote from his, but then what I've also experienced from my own time in the workforce, if you are doing things correctly, the numbers take care of themselves. Often some companies will manage to the numbers, like we have to get this certain number done by the end of this month. If your program is in place, if everything is operating correctly, the numbers will just happen. And I saw this firsthand, when we accumulated this amount of safe work hours, we had our program in place, we were interacting with the employees in the field, and fortunately it was just what I call, it was a magical time where everything worked. And it was, this was a project I was on from 2000 to 2006, and it was one of the best projects that I've ever been on, just because it was one of those times where everything worked and we had good numbers, everyone had a good attitude. And in this case, this was six years where we had a stable workforce. We didn't lose too many people, we still had some people come in, but I can say the employees that did leave, these were employees that reported to me that were going on and going off and managing their own program. So once again, I wasn't about to hold them back. If they were seeking a good professional opportunity, I in fact, I encouraged them to do that. And on the flip side, there's nothing wrong with an employee who is in the area, they live there, they wanna finish their career at this particular plant, that is just as important. So the metrics, we talked about quantitative, this is qualitative, the self-assessments, what I call the real reason for management, and this is where you're going out and assessing your programs. Does a safety culture and questioning attitude exist among employees? These are various programmatic aspects. In one of the handouts, I provided an activity hazard review, so feel free to use that in your line of work. Typical field level activities that are more qualitative, that are effective, pre-job and post-job briefings, daily close-up meetings, and stop work suggestions. Stop is just an acronym for, and I can't recall it right now, but it had to do with safety programs. So it's like stopping work in case if there's a deviation from the normal process and that's where QA comes in. So, very good. Oh, this is the example of the analyzing the hazards. This will be in your handouts. And just to give you an example here, physical hazards, known, suspect, not applicable, cold stress, heat stress, noise, slips, trips and falls. So for those of you that are working in an industrial environment, or maybe overseeing a project, like if you're considering new construction, if things start happening in the field, this can be a form that you can use. So this should be available. And it's, even though we published this back at a conference back in 2003, it's still effective today. So success stories, one of the things that, from my own experience again, what I have found very useful in dealing with field operations, because that's really where I developed my managerial skills, what was working in the field, was every morning, plan of the day, and even for off hours or off shift hours, I was on certain projects where we were working 12 hour shifts from six a.m. to six p.m. We would work four days, take a few days off, and then we'd do six p.m. to six a.m. So we were on a rotating shift basis, but we still had the same employees, so we were still, the team was kept together. But one of the things that we would do is cover safety topic, weather, and the sports scores for the local teams. And this is one way to make sure that you're getting feedback with the activities in the field, discuss project details, metrics, trends, the various project elements, and then not necessarily at night because HR would work like eight to five p.m. But during the day shift, we would have other departments come in and talk.  So that was always useful. Weekly, we would cover a different topic. So, and feel free to use this or modify it for your purposes. We would just try, every day of the week, we would just try and provide some different information because if you're covering safety Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, it pretty soon people start to tune out. It just gets to become mundane routine. Whereas if you have something different, but even following this consistent schedule, it keeps the employees aware as to what's going on with the project. And plus it's a different topic. So things do not get stagnant or boring. And we always try to say, we'll ramp up Monday and we'll start to wind down on Friday. So, oh, one year ago today, and this was a gentleman that I worked for, he played college football. And one of the things that he said to us when this project was starting, is that he said, we are going to be a different team. Or actually, let me even start over again. He played college football. This was a coach, his coach, that said to him, we are going to be a different team at the end of the football season than what we are now, okay? And that approach was, the team was going to evolve. They were going to hopefully get better through practice, a little bit improvements of practice throughout the year. So by the end of the season, the team should be working together. The other thing that also I wanna get across is this time perspective. It sounds like many of these things within one week, you put a program together, it does take a little bit longer. It'll take about six months to really get everything together, get everything going. So it's just like last week, Dr. Martinique who gave a presentation on emergency management, depending upon, I don't know if he had talked about preparing for drills. For us, we would spend about six months preparing for a major exercise. And this is not just something like a building that had a radioactive or chemical release. This is where you have multiple events going on. You're involving offsite agencies. You're involving a lot of people. So keep in mind, something like that can take six months. The IAEA conducts these multi-state emergency actions, correct? The, I can't think of the name, but it was supposed to be in Hungary coming up. I don't know if they did it this year, or maybe they bumped it to 2018? Oh, they already done it. And it takes like, what, two years it seems like to coordinate that. So depending upon the scale of the project, you know, that's the time. But to get to your question, the ramp or the one year ago today, as if your project has already been operating for quite some time, it's always good to look back and say, what were we doing one year ago? Like maybe the containment building wasn't built yet. A year ago, the containment building is built. Now we're training for the procedures. So as you're moving forward, you're always looking back to say, what were we doing a year ago, just to maintain that perspective that you are moving forward, you are advancing, you are improving. So that's where that comes from. So leadership and career advice, as we start to wrap things up, good performance.  How you communicate will influence your upward mobility and the paper exercise, for example. Be active in decision-making events, such as, you know, key decisions like we should pursue shipping waste offsite to this particular vendor and here are the reasons why. Become a complementary employee by having different skill sets than your managers. Typically you may have a department where you'll have electrical, mechanical, process engineering, so that's always good. And one of the things that I found very useful, and even if this is in professional society publications, if you can publish your work, because one of the things, as a manager, and if we're hiring employees, you'll get 30 resumes and they all tend to start to look the same after a while. But if you publish your work, at least that documents, you were there. And this is one of the things that I had done throughout my career. So as we move forward beyond this class, if you have any questions, the last slide has my email address. So feel free to email me if you have any other questions because chances are I currently write for Power Magazine. I do freelance writing for them. So I've written on a variety of topics in commercial nuclear. So if you have any specific questions, chances are I can send you the link to the article, because most of this is on the web, or like the activity hazard review sheet, we did that back in 2003, but that documents what we did on that project back then. But the other thing to keep in mind is as a manager, you're always evaluating yourself, do you want five things half done or 10 things half done? If something is like 80% complete, my recommendation is finish it, and then you can move on to the next thing that you have to get done. Because often as Richard with being very busy, do you find yourself you have a lot of things half done? Yeah. So that's why it's like, do you want five things half done or 10 things half done? So that's where, and often when you're talking to your employees, ask them like how close are you in getting this done? And if they say, well, I just got to spend one more day on this, I'll tell them, okay, lock yourself in your office, finish it, get it done, and then we'll move on to the next item. So practical career advice, do not expect your responsibilities to be defined by narrow job descriptions, because once again, the hiring process, it has specific criteria, but as you move throughout your career, as you move in this job or your assignment, you may take on other responsibilities, and what I always try to do, if ever I'm starting a new position, I always try to do this assignment project completion list during the first six months, and then I compare it to my job description, because depending upon if you have some form of employee evaluation process, you can tell your employer, well, I was hired to do this, but based on the situation, I started doing this. So once again, it's a way to document if there's any deviation from what you were hired to do. And established cooperation with other departments, QA, human resources, records management, those are very valuable to have. So either looking up or down the career ladder, your career is often determined by the competency of your immediate supervisor. Just like in my situation, I had direct reports reporting to me because 10 people left to manage their own programs that doesn't necessarily mean I'm a great manager, but you're encouraging your workforce to improve. Communication skills eventually start to overshadow technical stills, and your direct reports are looking to you to advance their careers. And my other quote here that I've used, and actually my son picked up on this, your direct reports will not really accept you until they have a reason to. So realizing your strengths and weaknesses, in this course, we covered a lot of material. So if there's one particular area throughout these last two weeks, focus in on that because obviously the nuclear industry covers a variety of materials, but I use this example based on, well, my wife, she plays the piano, so she has educated me on various concert pianists. This particular one, Van Klyburn. I don't know if anyone is familiar with Van Klyburn. No? Chopin? Yeah, okay, I'm seeing heads nod, so Chopin a little bit more. But anyways, he became famous in 1958 because at the age of 23 he won this major piano competition in Russia, he was the first American to do the Tchaikovsky piano competition in Moscow, and his mother actually studied under another famous piano composer. But then a schoolmate of his is John Williams. They were both at Juilliard, which is a major school for music, and John Williams has done very well in his career. He has written numerous scores for movies, but the point here is he was able to see way back when, well, if that's the competition, I think I'd better be a composer. So that's the one thing within your group. If there's like 10 electrical engineers, it's like, well, see how your, if you have a certain specialty, see how yours may be a little bit different, or do you want to start training in another discipline to compliment your electrical engineering skills? So that's one option. So this is just an example. The last slide, these are just the various handouts that you can also download from the presentations, getting good information from others, evaluating your managerial strengths and weaknesses. This is just for your own evaluation. As it shows here, if you get a score from eight to nine, this would be a strength where you can mentor others. If you get a five to seven target for growth, but if you get a zero to four, that doesn't mean it's not bad, it's just that you, this is like an area that you can improve through professional development. Integrated Safety Management System Wheel. We talked about various programs coming together. That's available. We got the hazard review form. We had a slide on that. And then outside the corner office, this is just an article I wrote a number of years ago and it talks about our promotions. Should promotions be based on past accomplishments or is it the ability to grow into that position? So wrapping up, learning objectives, recognizing the need for a class. Management has been studied for a number of years, but there, once again, it depends on the organization if there is some form of succession planning or training. If there is no training, you're left up to yourself and hopefully this training class has provided some value to you. The study of management, it's been done for a number of years. When you are finally in charge, some of the four questions, we covered the sports analogy, team captains, ideas into performance, that's the numbers, the qualitative and quantitative assessments, the career advice which I've provided and then we also covered the additional handouts and slides. So the star of success, I have this in my office, so this is like one slide just to kind of keep things in perspective, I use this slide because it kind of gives an overall wrap up. So as a department manager, as you go into this role, feel free to print this out and keep it in your office, hanging on the wall to always keep that perspective. And then terminal objective, the purpose of this was to prepare you to make that transition from being a subject matter expert to a manager and then one of my favorite quotes from Louise Pasteur in the Fields of Observation, chance favors the prepared mind. So by taking this training, you have improved your chances, you have prepared yourself to step into that role as a manager should that opportunity arise. So last but not least, contact information as time moves on after this course, if any questions come up, either feel free to contact me, David, Ashok, and if you have any other questions and we'll be sure to help you out. And then this additional slides, this was the power article that I wrote that appeared in the June 1st issue. The link is available in the handout or you can just Google Power Mag, my last name, Hilko, and safety culture and it'll pull up the article. But that graph that I use that talks about the organizational culture and climate, the article goes into a little bit more detail on that. So feel free to reference that if you want. But that concludes the presentation. Hopefully you have found this information very useful and I look forward to hearing from you in the future. So thank you.


This is lecture six in this lecture. We'll be talking about one big theory cognitive dissonance It's rather complicated theory So I think it's very good that we will spend an entire lecture on it So in the first part we will talk about what the theory is and the second part I will give you some more elaboration and applications and consequences of the theory So as human beings and we've learned this so far in in the lectures in the previous lectures We like to think that we are good people we like to value ourselves and we I think we are smart and reliable We have our people with good solid ideas, right? That's what we all like to think But sometimes these ideas are challenged. You may for example value honesty a lot, but then You find yourself telling someone else a lie. So you tell for example to your kids I tell my kids this all the time don't lie don't ever lie and then I see a colleague of mine Wearing a new outfit and she asked me so what do you think of my new dress and I'm like, ah beautiful Well, I actually think otherwise. So I am behaving in a way that is not in line with my own core Core value namely honesty In the same way you can be maybe a climate activist and then still take a private jet to a climate conference I think to yourself.  So these are all Behaviors that are not in line with your own core values and according to cognitive dissonance theory something happens within people the moment we are our ideas are Battling with our behaviors. So cognitive dissonance theory is a theory. That's that's first developed by Lee and Festinger in 1957 and later a lot of other researchers continue with his work and the main idea is that the moment we experience inconsistencies between two beliefs so two different types of cognitions or between cognition and behavior and this happens more often This will lead to an uncomfortable emotional state of being and this state is called dissonance Rather complicated, right? Okay, so let me give you I'm gonna give you many examples. So it will become more clear so Let's imagine you are a person with a certain belief and then you show behavior That is not in line with that belief the moment you realize this you will experience Dissonance is a very unpleasant experience It's an emotional state of being in which you sort of doubt yourself and it's also very bad for your self esteem So you value yourself less the moment you experience dissonance so an example is Let's imagine you care about the environment and then you take an airplane to your Ibiza holiday with your friends So the moment and people confront you with this and say I thought you cared about the climate And now you're taking a plane to Ibiza to party with your friends. That's a bit weird, right? Then you start experiencing dissonance or I think for anybody who smokes you experience dissonance every time you lay the cigarette because you want to be healthy, right? We all want to be healthy and then you still smoke also an experience of dissonance So if we experience this negative state, we want to get rid of it We don't want to experience dissonance and we have several ways of reducing this feeling of dissonance So there's three major ways. The first one is change your behavior Make sure your behavior is in line with your attitude with your core value Stop taking planes stop smoking very straightforward If you make your behavior in line with your attitudes, then you don't experience dissonance anymore Secondly, you can change your cognition. You can change your ideas. You can change your values I don't care about the environment anymore. Then you can take all the planes you want, right? Or you can add new conditions and this last option is what we oftentimes do But let me give you an example of reducing dissonance with smoking So if you smoke then most straightforward way would just be to quit smoking And I think any smoker agrees. This is not as straightforward as you as it sounds It will be the best option in many ways in many regards But it's also for a lot of people very difficult and sometimes even an impossible or it feels like an impossible option So changing your behavior is oftentimes very difficult Then you can change your cognition So you can say to yourself all smoking is actually not so bad at all You can doubt the theories and this is also something that politicians politicians oftentimes love love to do So in order to make our worlds more more pleasurable and for example denying climate change, it's beautiful, right? It makes us feel so good although dissonance is removed You can take planes you can eat meat who cares because the world is actually doing very very good So fake news is doing this fake news is feeding into this idea that we want to reduce dissonance and and it helps Enables us to change our cognitions But oftentimes of course the consequences are really bad for changing cognitions because these cognitions are often times quite solid These are good ideas. These are factual evidence and and we just ignore it and we put it aside So that will be change in a cognition Finally you can add cognitions. You can for example say yes I know smoking is bad, but smoking relaxes me and Relaxing is super good for my health. So because I'm less stressed. I'm actually more healthy So for me, it's really important to keep on smoking because otherwise you can never relax anymore So this third way sort of adding cognitions or and also the second way change cognitions That's what people love to do because we love comfortable lies. We love, you know fooling ourselves Rationalizing our behavior. Yeah saying something like yes, I smoke But it's just because everybody around me smokes, you know It's just my way of fitting in if I don't smoke I'll have to make new friends and that's really hard or you say to yourself. Yes smoking is bad But you know not in my family because my grandfather is now 80 years old And he smoked a package a day and he's still very much alive So from for in my family smoking is actually not so healthy. Sorry, not so harmful So these rationalizations is what people love to do We love to fool ourselves and this is just one of the many explanations that The the behavior that people show is actually oftentimes not logical and we convince ourselves of of you know Comfortable lies instead of accepting sort of unpleasant truth So the state of cognitive dissonance is something that we experience a lot and oftentimes we don't even realize it Actually, the state of dissonance is something we experience every time we make a major decision so for you you're probably first-year student or you just started a study psychology and This was a big choice for you, right? You're you're the choice for what you wanted to study and maybe last year you were still contemplating all the other options Maybe you're thinking way I also might want to study philosophy or maybe I want to be a med student or maybe I want to study history You had all these different study paths that all seemed quite appealing and psychology was just one of them the moment you choose psychology, this is actually quite a dangerous state because choosing one option means rejecting all the other choices and all these other choices were also very appealing Logically or luckily for us our mind helps us out because the moment we start making a choice Then we start devaluing all the alternatives and this is called post decision dissonance So the moment you started to study psychology then the option psychology became more attractive to you You saw all the benefits of studying psychology and that really was immediately very clear This was the best choice for you and all the other choice options became less attractive You start seeing many downside of studying history or philosophy So this post decision dissonance this state is something you see a lot in many many different domains I also because I'm a relationship researcher, of course I also love witnessing this in people in relationships So the moment that people are in a relationship in happy relationship They often also devalue the alternative student relationship So for example, they have very they have a lot of positive illusions about the partner They see their partner as really the most attractive person as way more attractive than this person objectively is or as having many You know admirable qualities qualities that other people might not even really see or maybe don't even you know really Value as much as you do so you think your choice for your partner is the best choice because your partner is the best And that is also an automatic way of protecting your relationship having positive illusions about your partner is super healthy Just as it is to have positive illusions about yourself. It helps us feel, you know comfortable in that relationship The interesting thing happens though once the relationship dissolves So if there's a breakup then you see this whole scenario changing all of a sudden everything that you thought was very Admirable of your partner all the positive things all the positive Attributes of this partner. You don't value so much anymore. All of a sudden you experience post decisional Dissonance meaning that your partner since you're no longer with this person is actually not a desirable option anymore So your our minds work really fast and oftentimes very unconsciously Sort of helping us out giving us confidence in the decision that we made So this state of post decision dissonance is something that that salesman actually also are very much aware of here See this very nasty salesman and so what we know is the moment that we make a decision Then our minds automatically start making that choice more acceptable and more, you know admirable and better for us in our minds So what sales people would love for you to do is make the decision for a product as soon as possible They want to get you on board because they know the moment you say yes to a certain product for example a car Which this nasty salesman is trying to sell you says here this beautiful car It's a great deal. You now get a discount of one thousand euro if you're trading your old car So you really this is the deal you you have to make think wow, this is a really good deal Okay, let's do it. Let's you know buy that car So you make a decision to buy a car then all of a sudden the cost starts to increase the salesman says Oh, I'm sorry the thousand euro discount. Yeah, that was that stopped yesterday. So actually that's no longer valid So you don't get the discount anymore. This is a tactic called low balling or the low ball technique so you accept one thing you make a decision and then all of a sudden the cost increase and We don't you would logically think then you just say oh, then I'm not interested anymore But because your mind already made the decision to buy it or to go for it then the yeah This this our minds already worked so hard in order to make that that choice a good choice But we still stick with it. We are committed to the decision the moment we make it and This has also been tested in the domain of research So if a researcher asks for example a participant, would you like to? Participate in my study at 7 a.m. In the morning It's not really, you know something you would love to do but then still 24% of the people say yes, okay? I'll I'll do your study at 7 a.m. In the morning What if you use low balling so then what would that look like then you can say something like this You can first start by asking the question. Would you like to participate in my study? Full stop okay, you wait for the answer then people say yes. Yeah, I want to participate in your study Oh, it starts at 7 a.m. In the morning then 56% of the participants agree so even though you know It's it's the same question, but then post differently You've basically trapped people once they say yes, they will stick to that choice And yeah, you can use low balling in order to make people consent or agree with buying a certain product So the key here is that the moment we make a decision One of the routes to resolve dissonance is blocked. That's the root of changing your behavior So the behavior you already show the behavior, so you're gonna stick with that You then only the only thing that's left for you to do is change in your cognitions and That's sometimes really really hard and you see that in the following examples. Let's imagine you decided to join the army and Joining the army is a choice with many consequences because you have to go through very intense training Of course, it depends a little bit for where you go to go to the army But oftentimes you have a period in which there's really intense training. It's really nasty. You don't sleep much You have to work out all the time and it's very Nasty circumstances you have to go through the training so you have to show behavior That's really effortful and it's actually logically you would think why would anyone on earth do this same thing with hazing So let's imagine you decided to join a fraternity or maternity Then what you then see is that people often go through a period in which they Have to do very weird or stupid or tragic stuff. For example, these guys over here are drinking probably beer in a diaper outside somewhere Showing this is really weird Extreme behavior and it's unpleasant, right? It's something that we really don't like to do So our minds have to work really hard to justify this effort if you have to go through a period of this Like hazing like joining the army our minds is just working like crazy trying to add cognitions in order to Justify this for us. So we know that actually Ironically going through these periods of hazing is actually psychologically very smart because what we then see happening is After this period of showing this very effortful Nasty behavior you start liking the army or the fraternity more So ironically because you have to you went through such an intense period you had to do so we such things that were outside of your comfort zone Your mind starts to justify this by saying that this is really the best The best workplace for me or this is really the best fraternity in the entire world And that's actually why this is still happening. So this we know from research that fraternities where there's hazing that then the members become really committed They really they would never want to leave the fraternity They feel like the fraternity is super important for their identity much more than fraternities where there's no hazing So even though it's very weird. It's very silly sometimes really dangerous even it does work because it makes people more committed And that's what our minds do so in order to justify this this behavior to us So here you see again an example of the way our mind is fooling with us And it's to make us believe that we are rational you and beings while we actually not So this is the basic summary of the cognitive dissonance theory


Well hi there, I'm Sandy, I'll knock artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and it is our lucky day because it's Ellen Hudson's 11th anniversary. I'm gonna use the Flora and Fana stamp set with these cute little critters in it and the lucky stamp set. I have a die here and I'll explain why I have the die out in just a few minutes but I'm gonna use the lucky stamp from Ellen Hudson and I'm gonna put my little critters onto the word lucky, their toes didn't quite touch so I ended up actually drawing their toes in, making them have a little longer feet so that they would touch the word. I don't throw things away when my stamping gets awry if I can possibly change it up and make it look like I meant to do that that I try to but what I thought I'd try here for my coloring with my Copic markers is to show you a little bit of color theory stuff that I talk about in my classes a lot, one of which is to change up the look of a trio of colors by just changing one of the colors in the trio. So the base color on both of these is YR27, the shadow on both is an E19 and that's going to give them some commonality between them. If you were trying to do a set of cards that go together or if you wanted a bunch of animals on a picture if they're all in one scene to look related but not exactly the same you could do the same thing. I changed up the mid-tone color for the fox to a YR07 to make it more orangey and I made a more neutral brown the E57 for the deer so that that one would go a little bit more to the neutral side but then I went back in with the YR27 to blend everything together. These two animals look like they're closely related now but one looks more orangey than the other because I changed up one of the colors. So you can do that to save yourself buying more markers, you can take fewer markers with you when you go coloring with somebody and change things up by just changing one in the trio. The other part of this card that I wanted to show you was making the letters look like they are dimensional and I love the funky script on this word lucky so I decided to put some shadows on it with my G99 I'm just adding shadows on the left slash bottom of each of the shapes trying to think of them as shapes rather than letters and it helps to make them dimensional in your brain but I'm just going to put my shadows on there I'm going to take another color and soften that out a little bit in a third color and soften that out even further and as long as my colors stay within this this green which is sage from kathryn pooler then it doesn't matter if I stay completely you know if I fill in absolutely every bit of it or if I stay completely within the lines if my lightest color is going to be fixable so if I go out of the line a little bit I can just clean that up because there's no black outline I can sort of fudge it if I need to so I just experimented on a piece of scrap paper to find colors that we're going to work with this and then I'll add some white pen highlights to it but I wanted to sit here and talk for a minute about why this stamp set is on my card today it's because it's Ellen Hudson's 13th anniversary lucky 13 and I am just so proud of her for being in business and running it with such integrity she's one of the the people that I trust so much to do the right thing all the time she's an absolutely amazing woman you may not know her as a business woman you might just know her as the lady who runs this website and you see her stuff online and that sort of thing but she treats people so well she she doesn't do drama she doesn't get involved in like crazy industry drama stuff she's just she's just a wonderful person and I treasure her friendship I feel lucky to be her friend I really do but what she's doing for her celebration she always likes to give away fun things when she's having a party so she's giving away if you buy $75 worth of stuff after the coupon code which I'm going to give you the coupon code in just a minute if your order totals $75 then you get the lucky stamp set not the floor and fauna's tip set sorry about that just the lucky one with all the other sentiments that go with it and if your order totals $150 then you get the stamp set and the die set which is pretty swanky and then if you don't even get to the 75 it's possible a little birdie told me it's possible you may find other little treats in your box so it's a great time to order because she's just having fun giving away stuff she loves to inspire people and bring joy so when you get your box if you feel joy by whatever she's put in it then send a note to the the website and just say thank you you brought me joy and that's going to make her so happy so here are my finished cards I just kept them really simple I stamped the secondary sentiment lucky me to have a friend like you on it and popped it onto the card base and here is the coupon information 20% off sale it's on everything except for a few new release things so see the disclaimers on the website but lucky 13 good from now through Friday and if you order $75 worth you get a stamp set $150 you get the stamp and the dies and that is it for today I hope you have a great week I have something special coming up this weekend I hope if I get it done and I will see you of course very soon right here on YouTube thank you much have a great day bye bye


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Being a data scientist at Red Hat is pretty exciting because not only are you part of data science culture which involves using open-source data science tooling and looking forward to the most recent machine learning models But you're doing that at Red Hat, which is the biggest open-source company in the world. So things like contributing code upstream and focusing on the hybrid cloud and Containerizing your code is highly encouraged My name is Don Chesworth. I'm a principal data scientist here at Red Hat I've been here for about five years. My passion is deep learning machine learning neural network models and Doing that with the most cutting-edge machine learning tooling and doing that by just Distributing that work the training and the inference across multiple GPUs Right now. I have a few high torch deep learning models. Some of them are BERT sentiment models I also have a recommender system because I containerize that code and it's portable So I can read and write from S3 or Ceph or Redshift. I can have it run on my local machine I run it sometimes on a bare metal server that we have I run it on the cloud And I run it on OpenShift and a pod. I also run it with an open data hub that is also on OpenShift and My code is set up in a way that it can use a CPU if that's all that's available or a GPU or Multi-GPUs if that's possible one thing that I noticed in containerizing machine learning and distributing that across GPUs is that the way that containers are built by Default is to be nimble, obviously But because of that there's very little shared memory space on a container And you have to jump through quite a few hoops to increase that shared memory size so I worked with the open data hub team and they contributed upstream to cryo and Made a change to make it a lot easier to change your shared memory size that change went into cryo 1.20 which then went into kubernetes 1.20 and I hope if the releases line up right then in the future when OpenShift 4.7 comes out That it would be part of OpenShift 4.7. So I'm looking forward to that Everyone can look forward to having machine learning distributed across multiple GPUs be much faster much easier in OpenShift in the future and Thanks for your time


Hi folks. Hey, welcome on back here this Friday. TGIF here this April 5th shortly after 9am Eastern time. Good morning and great to see all of our students and members alike. Let me get the webcam popping up here for all of us now. I got Larry, I got Luis, I got Margaret, Brian, I got Gary, I got Michael, Alan, all of our students here in chat and all of us back on social media, mind you, at Sever Trading, you namely. You know, hey, just right before I press start here for this morning meeting, I was asking all of our students in chat, you know, hey, what do you got going on for the weekends here? If you have any weekend plans doing anything exciting, anything fun, just let me know right now. And, you know, just for all of our students here, what do we got? Alan, go into the driving range. There we go. I actually, I'm probably going to be doing a little bit of that myself, believe it or not. I've been finally starting to go a little bit more the last time, not the last time actually, the last week, the time before that I went to the driving range. I ended up bringing my friend's dad's lefty driver because he gave it to me when I moved down to Florida on the second swing. I snapped the head off the driver on the driving range. It went like 60 to 70 yards down.  Like I kid you not. Since that time, a little afraid to get back into the swing of things. No pun intended, Alan. And actually, I went last weekend. I went to like Chi Chi Rodriguez is a driving range golf course. It's up in Clearwater area. Did all right. Did all right. We're getting back into it. Hopefully no more snapping of the driver. Roger says visiting family, waiting for the eclipse. There we go. I feel like a lot of us are doing that as well. Patrick said, bring his granddaughter back to Wisconsin. Patrick wishing you well, my friend.  There we go. Bill, no surprise. Bill rooting. Caitlin Clark in the Iowa Hawkeyes on and then final four. So he's a big Hawkeyes fan. He's been shabbing them out for the whole season practically. Luis doing some spring cleaning heck of snowed here yesterday. Not that nice sound. So good time to at least get that done, right? At least the spring cleaning.  There we go. I like to see that. Hopefully my sister has a telescope. I ended up getting her a nice like telescope for her birthday a couple years back. That would be a good use for that. Now with that in mind, at least, hey, let's hop right to the trade here, at least on the screen. You have the HUBC. I just like basically one break even. I took a two cent profit on the first half and then it pulled back. I took a minus one on the second half. It's a nothing. But that's kind of the embodiment of this whole morning here. So we had a really nice trade to begin and actually I will say on GCTS. Oh, popping back up actually right now too. That's good to see. But this one ended up like blowing the roof off, blowing the ceiling off this trade shortly after eight o'clock. But the issue on this trade was two things. One, it popped up so much here at this point, you're expecting pulled back and you're expecting honestly a lower low over time. And thankfully did hold support. I was looking for right around 10 bucks, 990 again, just didn't really get there. Ended up holding pretty nicely actually just before to lead to this pop back up to the highs. But the other thing, look at the order book. It's just right now actually now it's opening up, I was going to say, maybe the spread was starting to fill in a little bit there. But yeah, it's still pretty wacky. I mean, just beforehand, it had like a 15, 20 cent spread at times. So it's not an easy stock to trade, especially in pre market where you know, the way I like to compare it, you know, when you're driving your car, right, we're gonna have our seatbelts on, you can't set your seatbelts here in pre market, you can't set your stop order, right, you can't use a market order, can't use a stop order. So you're kind of gambling, right, you're kind of gambling, not to say in general, but on this trade, because it has a bad spread has been volume out there. So if you'd missed out on the stock earlier today, I did too. It's okay, there's gonna be other stocks out there at least Susie says the spread was too wild for her is honestly, it's not even too wild for anyone person. It's too wild for everyone. I don't think it was really realistic to find like an intelligible like entry on this trade. It's more of just kind of and this is raw jump back to CDL from yesterday, because I want to talk more about this stock. This ended up making the same type of explosion and pop at least during regular hours, I'll talk a little bit more about this in a moment. But because of this type of pop, thankfully, there's gonna be new opportunity today. It started off on the GCTS. And hopefully, there could be other trades out there that at least have a better order of book or at least will move like after the market opens where you can set your stops and make an easier decision with your money. But this was pretty crazy for pre market. But to go back to CDL, oh boy, man, egg in my face here yesterday. So let me ask our students in chat are gold platinum diamond students here at CTU. What time do we normally look to trade going into the close? What time is it like 230? Is it like, you know, 245 in the afternoon? Is it like 315? What time? accordance to the old cyber clock, right? Dominic Wendy Joyce. Yeah, last half hour really 330 namely that's where algo program trading kicks in one last time. So I started class at three o'clock. And I don't want to just jump into a trade right away just to jump in like I've done this class before for a house to where I jump in at 302 305 and you know, it's a false breakout right place wrong time. Well, this stock had a clean resistance and it's not even at those highs was actually at like $4 and 30 cents, I think we said, big volume level from level four even the heat map. So once this re broke above this level, oh my god, this thing just took off like no other than it kept going in the after hours, it fizzled out actually after the initial wave, the initial pop here at first, but then it ended up breaking higher like after the close in the after hours at 430 Eastern time. So okay, just once that type of move happens, it's up like 300%, 350% on the day, you're normally going to see another crazy stock or two make a pop. So you had a nice one here just before, maybe there could be more room on this trade once the market opens up, maybe you'll see that pull back down to 10 and 90 more more time, or maybe it'll just break 12 or more time from here and run. But look at what it did back even last week for us stock went effectively from like 10 up to 50 and change back down. The back down parts, the scary part, right? You know, it's the weekend, right? We got family visiting, we're going to the driving range, we're trying to watch the eclipse, going to a car rally weather permitting says Gary, we don't want to ruin it, right? We don't want to ruin our weekend here coming up and just trying to jump in to jump in, especially here once we saw the stock pull back down as quickly as it did the following day and days. So made a nice pot up over 100% here, we'll try and find another one even. We'll add this to our list in case it tries to make one more push, but I want to follow other stocks even on top of this trade here. So let's go right from the top to bottom here on the diner side, the custom diners list at least build them back up here. So GCS.  Just drop and drop and drop and after their initial move up like this, the MDIA trade, I guess this was a crack of dawn. No need to try and jump into that, right? I mean, it's up 55% still in the day on the morning, but I'll come back to it if we really need to. You know, really? HUBC teased me just just before for a break even trade, but I have no problem putting this back on our list because, hey, has a really good order book. Hey, at least this is still kind of trending up a little bit making a higher low still perhaps. So you know, maybe right place wrong time for me just before and we'll see if this can make the better push after. HUBC SPCB, my dyslexia is starting to kick in already. Thankfully, this is below a dollar. I don't know why this is your actions. Reformat this last let's just get you above one. Get all those penny stocks out of there. All right, keep going though Tara. Pop drop. Same deal before is like what we had on the MDIA. So I'm past there. DXYZ sounds like a funky name. Nice daily chart, I guess, but it's not going to have any good volume. XXII. At this point, this is what we're strumming up here on the gainers list, my friends, like what do we got going on right now? Hopefully a lot better shorts to work with into the into the morning. There's the CADL, I guess still kind of, you know, bottoming out there at support. Maybe there's a chance it goes up again. EJH was this up 11%. Again, the bad order book, bad order book for the price. You'd want it to be a lot more liquid. So, you know, we got to we got two stocks to work with so far. Let's hop over to the loser's list here for that. Let's do this here. All right, so see if there's any stocks like down off earnings or other news. Geez, honestly, I can tell right away. You know, there's a lot that's hard to borrow, meaning there's probably not too many name brand companies that are shortable at least on this list. Low volume, low volume. I know the market dropped off of a, what was it, non farm payrolls earlier, some other stuff. Some a little push down at first. TNF, not terrible. It's a treasury bull ETF though. It's an ETF. All right, we'll take a look at the spy really quickly. Pardon me. There's your drop at E30. I guess it squeezed back up a little bit, but back down we go. So, let's take a look at some sideless stocks that we normally just poke at, call out AMD, NVIDIA, Tesla, platform slowing down a bit. Tesla is dropping off a little bit here like wouldn't be a bad look as far as a potential drop with the market at the open. I'll keep going through maybe like a talent here from yesterday. They came out with news with Oracle, a partnership you'd figure would make a nice pop. Well, it's tough to swim upstream. This one ended up holding support at first, but then it came right back. So, you know what? I don't mind adding Tesla to our watch list there, Gary, just for the sake that it's like just at least steady moving in a direction. But really outside of that, I wasn't even being lazy with going through the loser's list. There really isn't a whole lot out there to work with leading into the open folks. So, just check out Benzingo one last time here. There's that CADL. I reckon I kind of add that back to our list at this point. What else did we have? The tarot tree, maybe, the F-A-A-S. And I might got to go through this one more time, even the most the other one, maybe XXII, I thought, maybe. That was up a little bit. It's actually one that we're familiar with, believe it or not. Just over the years, we've traded the stock on and off, off of news. So, at least it has a good order book, but it already popped and dropped so much. Hopefully it can get back up again. Maybe another run up to XXII, 30, 25 cent run. It's not bad to envision. I'm kind of selling myself, putting this on our watch list here. So, now we got four. We have four stocks to work with now heading into the open. Like I said, the second I locked into our trading room this morning, it is a typical Friday, right? I'm going to wait here for the Friday riddle that Lita makes at the afternoons. But outside of that, I told you at E21 this morning, I logged in early. I knew Fausto would be out. I said, should be a typical Friday. I'm not looking for much in the morning and, hey, I shoot straight. It's a good day to start the weekend early. So, with that said here, hopefully we have a little magic to work with on XXII, HUBC, the crazies out there, the two high flyers out there. But otherwise, folks, trade safe. And if you're on YouTube, Facebook Live either way, enjoy the weekend. We'll catch back on Monday, if anything. If you're interested in joining us inside our live trading room, just scan that QR code on the top left, on the top left of the stream right there.  Fausto will be back on Monday, just coming up next week. And we'll be good to go from there. Hey, if you have any questions, just shoot me a quick email, josh at ctutrading.com. I'll be more than happy to help you at least on the side. But, hey, from Margaret Charlene, actually last call. Or water breaking between. Question from Ted. Are you left-handed? I am. I am left-handed, Ted. That is a good observation, my friend. Charlene, yeah, very good call also as well on TVST. Just had a pop now, of course. So, you know, hopefully the order book could fill in a lot more here. But, you know what, I'll add it to our list, more of a recent pop. That's a good look. All right, but hey folks, best of luck trading going into the market open. If I don't catch you heading into the afternoon, again, for all of us in our trading room here, enjoy your weekend coming up and we'll be back at it right here, heading into the next week. Take care.


Hello and welcome to CMC Markets on Thursday the 2nd of November and this quick look at the week ahead beginning the 6th of November and once again we're coming off a week of new record highs for the German DAX, the S&P 500 US Markets in general and we've also seen a new 20 year high in the Nikkei 225 central bank policy still remains fairly accommodative the US Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged in November but they did slightly upgrade their outlook for the US economy which makes it much more likely that we will probably see a Federal Reserve rate hike in December this year just over just over a month from now before that we have the small matter of non-farm payrolls which is due out on Friday the 3rd of November so obviously I don't have sight of those numbers yet but that could also obviously play a very big part in how markets move and how the dollar moves in particular over the course of the next week or so just give a brief synopsis of what we're expecting for those numbers expecting a number in the region of 300,000 for non-farm payrolls and that's really as a result really of the 33,000 decline that we saw in the September numbers and more importantly I think will be the number for wage growth that jumps up to 2.9 in September I expect that to drop back a little bit to 2.7 but what I don't expect these numbers to do is really undermine the case for a US rate rise and we've also got visibility now on the new head of the Federal Reserve the person has replaced Janet Yellen as the chief next year it's likely to be Jerome Powell he's likely to be confirmed in the course of the next few hours so looking slightly ahead obviously we're looking at the German DAX and we can see that's hit record highs the euro has broken below a very very key neckline support level around about 1.16.17 and it remains to be seen whether or not this particular breakout that we've seen gets confirmed over the course of the rest of the week because the non-farm payrolls numbers couldn't really change the optics with respect to this particular move over the course of the next few days and he'd move and close back above 1.17 it's likely to be it's likely to be fairly damaging to the bearish case but as long as we don't break above this trend line here then I'm still of the opinion that we will see a lower euro and a slightly stronger dollar same sort of thing with dolly yen dolly yen is round about 1.14.40 which is a very key resistance level again I think if we get a move through 1.14.40 we could see further gains in dolly yen and that in turn will take the Nikkei 225 already above the 22,000 level but probably close to the 23,000 level over the course of the next few days we've also seen the Bank of England finally reverse that misguided rate cut in 2016 Mr. Kearney virtually had to be dragged kicking and screaming to reverse that rate that rate cut from it from just over a year ago so base rates are now back at 0.5% but it was a very dovish outlook for the Bank of England and I think the concern now is that if we break below 1.30 and a half on the pound then that could undermine the uptrend that's been in place for the past few months since those March lows certainly worth keeping on that and the 100 day moving average what are we looking forward to for the week beginning the 6th of November is two more central bank rate meetings and this time we're looking over in Asia particularly at the RBA where interest rates are currently 1.5% and where the Aussie dollar is currently looking as if it's finding a little bit of support down just above the just around about the 76th area so if there's a particularly bullish outlook from the RBA with with the meeting coming up next week then we could see a move back through the 77.50 area back towards 78 but it does certainly does seem to be the case that the break below this very very key level here around about 77 40 7780 could well be precipitating further Australian dollar weakness we really do need to see a move back above there to really target a move back towards 79 it's also a big week for the New Zealand dollar as well let's take in a bit of a battering over the course of the past few weeks with the advent of this new Labour government that's just come into power there's a little bit of concern that they might look to change the mandate of the RBNZ RBNZ base rate is 1.75% so we'll certainly be keeping an eye on that and in particular this very very big support level around about 68 cents I think if the RBNZ keeps monetary policy unchanged which again I think is highly likely it's really then a question of how hawkish or how dovish are they likely to be against the backdrop of what it could be potentially a much more interventionist Labour government so that's the key levels on the key we dollar also worth keeping an eye out for the latest China trade data and that's due out later in the week for October keep a particular close eye on the import and export data if export data continues to hold up fairly well then that points to a fairly resilient global economy certainly the data that we've been seeing coming out of Europe over the course of the past few weeks continues to be of the positive variety so certainly I think the European economy is showing those lines of slowing down that being said unemployment in pocket still remains very very high so that's likely to be a pressure point going forward the inflation the inflation picture within the European Union still remains fairly modest and I think that's likely to weigh on the euro for quite some time to come given the fairly dovish ECB rate meeting that we got last month a couple of other things to keep an eye out for this week some important UK manufacturing and industrial production data which is due out at the back end of this week that could get that could give a decent indication as to the direction of the pound at this point in time certainly if we look at euro sterling in terms of where we could go to next we did see a very dovish hike on the back of that Bank of England rate meeting which could suggest a little bit of a short squeeze back to rules around about the 50 and the 100 day moving average and that is a very very positive candle there so we could certainly well see a squeeze back to 90 but I would be very very surprised if we saw much of a move really significantly above that other things to keep an eye out for this coming week are the latest half yearly numbers from Burberry and Sainsbury's and we've also got quarterly updates from TripAdvisor and Macy's that's it for this week thanks very much for listening this is Michael Houston talking to you from CMC Markets