In my profile, you can read about my work and me:
1. Why CRM and PCM Fascinate Me
CRM as a Safety Net, Also and Especially for Perfectionists
As a hopeless perfectionist, I can hardly accept that we are not perfect, despite all our efforts. However, CRM provides us with strong concepts and tools, which helps us as a team to detect our errors, before they reach our patients.
Thus, CRM helps us, for example, in the emergency medical service to prevent those confided to us from harm and, in some cases, even not to put their lives at risk.
On my Blog , you will find an new article about an exciting CRM topic every month.
The article of September 2024: Unauthorised People on the Runway
The article of August 2024: Deadly Knife Attacks in Public
PCM as a Key to Oneself and Others
No matter whether we are thoughtful or perfectionist, whether we seek harmony or new challenges, or whether we enjoy telling everyone our opinions or jokes, all of us learn to know ourselves better through PCM. For many of us, the optimised key to themselves has changed their lives, my own included.
To me, the art of using PCM actively is as fascinating as it is valuable. We can assess our fellow human beings far better, communicate accordingly, and use PCM as an effective tool against stress.
2. Communicatio optima - Why I Have Chosen the Name
Taken from Latin:
Communicatio: inter alia: message, conversation, a figure of speech in which a speaker includes his or her audience
communicare: inter alia: to convey sth., to do together, to let so. participate in sth.
optima, superlative of bona, -us, -um: inter alia: good, excellent, skilful, appropriate
Like speakers their audiences, team leaders using crew resource management include their team members actively. For instance, when they are making decisions.
The Process Communication Model® helps us to choose the most appropriate message according to our counterpart´s personality.
3. My Logo
My logo exhibits a six-ray star in its centre, resembling the Star of Life. This is the international symbol of the emergency medical service, one of the first specialist areas in medicine to embrace CRM.
As in an atomic model, six "electrons", coloured to match the six PCM personality types, circle the star.
Last but not least, the atomic model reflects my education in radiation oncology, to which I owe a lot of my current knowledge, skills and attitude.
4. A Short Excerpt from My CV
A Selection of Important Career Moves
- Board Certified Specialist for Radiation Oncology, 2009
- Board Certified Specialist for Emergency Medicine, 2013
- Feelance Emergency Physician in Germany and Austria
- Freelance Emergency Physician in Switzerland, 2017-2020
- Diploma "Concomitant Cancer Therapy", Austrian Chamber of Physicians, 2024
- Certified PCM Trainer, 2019
- Training as a CRM Instructor, Varied Course Formats, 2017-2019
- Instructor-Simulation-Crew Resource Management, 2019
- Certified CRM Trainer, 2020
- Teaching Experience: inter alia Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Technical University of Munich, Medical University of Innsbruck, students´ courses and lectures
- My work as an author and contributing author comprises scientific publications , as well as my blog on this website, of course
- Certified Book Publishing Professional, NFAA, 2023
- Certified Book Marketing Professional, NFAA, 2024
- Certified Book Publicity Professional, NFAA, 2024
- Knowledge of general management: second degree "Drug Research and Management", graduation as a Master of Science in 2014, continued education via the e-learning platform eStudie.no
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5. "In All Beginnings Dwells a Magic Force"
With this quotation from Hermann Hesse´s poem "Stages", I start a short abstract about the beginning and the development of my freelance work as a seminar trainer and an author.
5.1. Two Intensive and Valuable Training Courses Laid the Foundation
I graduated as a PCM trainer in Vienna in 2019. The training course was demanding, and we felt the pressure to perform. We had, however, a phenomenal team spirit in our training group and helped one another the best we could. Hence, I look back to this time with great joy.
My training as a CRM trainer in Copenhagen in 2020 was in no way inferior to that. Two highly experienced experts in the field of aviation taught us in a comprehensive and varied manner. Also this time, the training course was characterised by a really pleasant and constructive atmosphere. Taken together, I am really grateful to my seminar trainers and my colleagues for the taught abilities and our exchange.
5.2. A Selfemployed Seminar Trainer Since February 2020
You can easily see that I started out at the worst possible moment in time. Due to the continuously challenging situation in 2021 and 2022, I focused more on my blog and, of course, my main profession as a prehospital emergency physician during these two years.
I offer my seminars at fixed dates in my hometown Munich to you. It is a city in which you can visit many a pleasant place, from world-famous museums to spacious green parks.
5.3. Starting From 2023: A Self-Publishing Author
After intensive preparations in 2021 and 2022, I have written my first book as a self-publishing author in the sunmer of 2023 and I will publish it in February 2024. This book, the first volume of "A Special CRM Collection", will comprise the refined and expanded versions of my blog articles from 2021. Later in 2024, this first part of the series will be followed by the second and third volume, containing my carefully revised blog articles from 2022 and 2023 respectively.
I also plan to publish the first volumes of my comprehensive textbook "Crew Resource Management" in December 2024. In this book, I will present CRM to you as extensively as it is taught in aviation. You will find regular updates in my Newsletter.
5.4. Consulting for Textbook Authors from 2024
Learning All About the Business
For my own business as a self-publishing author, I am currently attending the superb training courses offered by the Nonfiction Authors Association, NFAA. In October 2023, I have obtained my Certification as a Book Publishing Professional, which will be followed by the Certification as a Book Marketing Professional in February 2024 and the Certification as a Book Publicity Professional in the spring of 2024.
Consulting Especially for Textbook Authors
As I have always enjoyed passing on useful knowledge and helping those who are eager to learn new skills, I will offer Consulting for Textbook Authors starting from March 2024. I write textbooks myself and I had to find out about some pecularities of publishing and marketing them on my own. This needed a bit of extra thinking, but was fascinating nonetheless.
Of course, there is excellent material about all steps from writing to publishing fiction and nonfiction books available, but it usually covers several genres. Hence, the advice tends to be more universal and has to be adapted to textbooks. Furthermore, textbook authors have to think differently about public speaking and generating additional revenue streams, for instance.
The Exchange With Professionals and Continuing Education
I love further training of high quality and I continue to attend classes and conferences with the NFAA, the Independent Book Publishing Association, IBPA, and the Alliance of Independent Authors, ALLi. The exchange with fellow authors, book industry professionals and experts from various lines of business is truly invigorating, be it in class, during joint projects, or when discussing with the fasccinating people who seek consulting in order to achieve their goals.
6. My Network Rounds off My Profile
My network of colleagues with whom I exchange ideas regularly, shall not be left out in this profile. During our conversations we do not only broach topics concerning rescue medicine, but also CRM and PCM, as well as all the important topics regarding business administration and the art of formulating well.
6.1. Personal Connections
The experts listed below have given their consent to be named here.
Civil Engineer Christine Perner-Neidhardt is a self-employed building biologist in Munich with remarkable expertise, who offers her customers superb advice.
Vanessa Kuzmich is a TV presenter who also moderates events. She has a comprehensive education as a trainer. Amongst others, she is a very precise, understanding, and creative certified trainer and coach for PCM. She lives and works in Vienna.
Katja Werner MSc is an acknowledged expert in the field of nanotechnology and an innovative entrepreneur in Hamburg.
Dr. Larissa Ritter is an excellent anaesthesiologist and emergency physician, who also writes blog articles worth reading in which she addresses various professional topics.
6.2. Important Memberships
For the exchange of experiences, mutual support, and continued education, I am a member of the following professional associations, amongst others:
Nonfiction Authors Association, NFAA
Independent Book Publishers Association, IBPA
Alliance of Independent Authors, ALLi
German Association for the Advancement of Simulation in Medicine (registered association)
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