Sharon Pickering, PhD
The voice strengthening human elements at the core of tech innovation across safety critical industries.
Founder and CEO
sp Human Elements LTD
HIN Member No: 301
Education:
Books Published: A Practical Guide to Crew Resource Management for Healthcare Teams
This book will help the reader’s team when confronted with complex, error-prone or ambiguous situations by providing concrete steps based on evidence and best practices in the application of Crew Resource Management (CRM) skills.
The reader will learn how to determine the situation, communicate clearly and concisely, feel safe to ask questions and be assertive when safety is an issue, and to support each other in preventing, avoiding or mitigating errors and threats. They will learn how to develop a CRM-embedded plan and briefing, as well as how to debrief their actions to constantly improve.
This book emphasizes applications of CRM in the healthcare profession, combines best practices from multiple industries with latest research, and provides concrete techniques applicable in the real world. It also employs dialogue-based examples written by healthcare professionals and based on actual clinical scenarios, allowing the reader to analyse real-time situations.
Author Bio: Sharon P. Pickering, PhD, has over 20 years of international experience in human factors, both in research and safety-critical industries. She specializes in working with aviation, military, and healthcare teams to optimize human performance under stress in their highly complex environments.
About:
Hello,
I dedicate my career to supporting you, the human as the core element in complex work settings.
After decades of researching and applying Human Factors (HF), I have designed the system (procedures, tools, techniques, training, etc) to support you in your work life.
My global career has been an incredible journey and I am continually inspired by people demonstrating their exceptional qualities and desire to serve others.
I have personally observed extraordinary skills during complex air-to-air refueling and brain surgery. Working with high performing professionals across safety critical industries, I look at risk through an holistic lens, one where the human must always be at the core of everything. Human health is the most important element and this is not just a 'work life' issue - it is a lifetime issue.
Sadly, the term ‘human error’ continues to cast a dark shadow over the phenomenal work that you as a high-performing professional, do daily.
As the world of technology evolves at lightning speeds, and the pressures of high-performance increase, you are expected to adapt and compensate, pushing individual limits to breaking points.
I create tools to give you knowledge for a healthier life and for optimum performance.
After all, if you are expected to keep performing at your best, then it’s my mission to give you the knowledge to take care of yourself first, so you can maintain your optimum performance, feel well throughout the day, and continue to do your amazing work.