Skating on Olympic ice: working with winter Olympians

Working as a sport psychologist with Olympic athletes requires a clear understanding of a broad range of multifaceted individual, group, situational, and environmental issues, all of which have the ability to impact upon performance. This article provides an overview of some of the common yet vital issues that have been observed to arise when working with Olympic Winter Games athletes and teams; what to expect, how to recognise them when they occur, and why they are important to prepare for in the context of supporting athletes to achieve the best performance they can at an Olympic Games. Aimed at the emerging sport psychology practitioner, discussion of issues such as performing under pressure, dealing with distractions, adjusting to external factors, team culture, and servicing models creates an informal set of “practical guidelines” based upon real-world experiences that can also be applied to other major sporting competitions.

The effect of a life development intervention on sports career transition adjustment

Lavallee, D. (2005). The effect of a life development intervention on sports career transition adjustment. The Sport Psychologist. 19(2), pp.193-202 RAE2008

Papel das lideranças intermédias no processo de mudança organizacional : o caso das organizações de saúde em Portugal

A Gestão, como arte e experiência, tem sido infelizmente pouco solicitada para participar activamente no crucial e urgente processo de regeneração e reversão do Sistema Nacional de Saúde em Portugal. Perante a prevalência notória da perspectiva macroeconómica da economia da saúde, a gestão tem-se remetido quase ao serviço mínimo de repositório e subserviente cumpridor da norma emanada dos diversos e diversificados poderes da saúde, nomeadamente os político e burocrático. Sem querer com isto pretender ter encontrado a panaceia para a intervenção no processo, julga-se que sem um forte contributo da gestão jamais se atingirá o objectivo pretendido de flexão no andamento notoriamente negativo dos últimos anos. E isso passa por dois aspectos cruciais inerentes às organizações de saúde: acreditar verdadeiramente nas competências detidas pelas suas lideranças intermédias e apostar na respectiva delegação de poder e decisão. A contrapartida para isso será um sério, genuíno, forte, diferenciado e negociado processo de contratualização interna e avaliação de desempenho em excelência das unidades, serviços e centros nucleares da estrutura, em que de uma vez por todas se arrede a tradicional e já demonstradamente prejudicial posição negocial leonina dos diversos centralismos da saúde em Portugal.

Fiscal Year 2015-16 Accountability Report

Each year the South Carolina Department of Public Safety produces an annual accountability report for the South Carolina General Assembly and the Budget and Control Board. Included is an executive summary, mission and vision statements, performance excellence criteria, and description of programs and services with budget.

Fiscal Year 2015-16 Accountability Report

Each year the South Carolina Department of Social Services produces an annual accountability report for the South Carolina General Assembly and the Budget and Control Board. Included is an executive summary, mission and vision statements, performance excellence criteria, and description of programs and services with budget.

Fiscal Year 2015-16 Accountability Report

Each year the South Carolina State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education produces an annual accountability report for the South Carolina General Assembly and the governor about the South Carolina Technical College System. This report presents an executive summary of project achievements and challenges, mission statement, description of leadership system, indicators of customer focus and satisfaction, other performance excellence criteria, description of programs, and statistics.

The self-Googling phenomenon : investigating the performance of personalized information resources

This paper investigates self–Googling through the monitoring of search engine activities of users and adds to the few quantitative studies on this topic already in existence. We explore this phenomenon by answering the following questions: To what extent is the self–Googling visible in the usage of search engines; is any significant difference measurable between queries related to self–Googling and generic search queries; to what extent do self–Googling search requests match the selected personalised Web pages? To address these questions we explore the theory of narcissism in order to help define self–Googling and present the results from a 14–month online experiment using Google search engine usage data.

Regional performance : mapping "The North"

Paul Makeham’s work in AusStage Phase 3 has centred on regional mapping of live performance activity. A pilot mapping project was developed to identify regional clusters of performance as well as key regional organisations. In designing this pilot project, reference was made to two other ARC-funded projects. The first of these was Talking Theatre, an audience development research initiative for Queensland and the Northern Territory supported by an ARC Projects-Linkage grant. Talking Theatre was funded between 2004 and 2006 as a Linkage between the ARC, NARPACA (the Northern Australian Regional Performing Arts Centres Association), Arts Queensland, Arts Northern Territory, and QUT. The second project was the Creative Digital Industries National Mapping Project, operating through QUT’s Centre for Excellence in the Creative Industries (CCi). The NMP is designed to develop and publish a range of accurate and timely measures of the Creative Digital Industries in Australia.

The art of careful listening : children as co-artists in the making of live performance

Since 2007 Kite Arts Education Program (KITE), based at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), has been engaged in delivering a series of theatre-based experiences for children in low socio-economic primary schools in Queensland. The twelve-week workshop experience culminates in a performance developed by the children with the assistance of the teacher artists from KITE for their community and parents/carers in a peak community cultural institution. Using Wartella’s notion of the socially competent child this analysis interrogates the performance product Precious, child participation modes, the intersection between the professional artists, teacher artists and child artists and outcomes in terms of building capacities for the development of social competencies in children.

Efficiency of research performance of Australian universities : a reappraisal using a bootstrap truncated regression approach

The motivation of the study stems from the results reported in the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2010 report. The report showed that only 12 universities performed research at or above international standards, of which, the Group of Eight (G8) universities filled the top eight spots. While performance of universities was based on number of research outputs, total amount of research income and other quantitative indicators, the measure of efficiency or productivity was not considered. The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, to provide a review of the research performance of 37 Australian universities using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) bootstrap approach of Simar and Wilson (2007). Second, to determine sources of productivity drivers by regressing the efficiency scores against a set of environmental variables.