Assessing team performance - Markers and methods

Optimal team performance in healthcare is vital to avoid error. Assessing teams improves their performance by providing accurate feedback to team members. To construct an assessment tool that is both valid and reliable, it is necessary to understand what should be measured, when it should be measured and the context of the team performance. Current assessment methods include observation of behavioural markers, self-assessment by team members, event-based coding, and narrative field notes. Future assessment tools should incorporate best practice elements such as having a theoretical or empirical basis for teamwork competencies, measuring process rather than outcomes, analysing rather than describing performance, capturing non-observable cognitions, distinguishing individual from collective team behaviours, using trained raters, and linking assessment to learning objectives

The Legacy of Mr. Ponzi: The Madoff and Stanford Cases: Panel 1

The American College of Bankruptcy First Circuit Fellows and Boston College Law School held a conference featuring the Madoff Trustee, a Co-Liquidator of Stanford International Bank, and reporters from the New York Times and Associated Press who covered the Madoff and Stanford cases. Speakers: Irving Picard: a partner at Baker Hostetler who is the Trustee for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities Peter Lattman: currently the media editor of the New York Times, who as a reporter for DealBook covered the Madoff case for the Times Marcus Wide: a Managing Director of Grant Thornton Ltd. who was appointed Co-Liquidator of Stanford International Bank by the High Court of Antigua and Barbuda Juan Lozano: a Houston-based reporter for the Associated Press who covered the Stanford case --First-hand accounts from the reporters who reported on the Madoff and Stanford scandals, and their insights on the nature of the Ponzi schemes, victims and perpetrators --Insights from the individuals administering the Madoff and Stanford cases on the legal theories they have employed, how the cases have played out, and prospects for finalizing the cases --Reflections on the results obtained in the judicial handling of large-scale Ponzi schemes, and suggestions for change Moderator: Daniel Glosband, Goodwin Procter LL