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Loving Life as an Analytical Thinker

Experiencing life through the five senses is a wonderful ability that cancer registrars and analytical thinkers can possess.  This ability has potential for making a giant contribution to their lives.  Just like the mind, our senses also gathers information and feeds it to our nervous system.  But, this happens on a completely different level than pure mental analysis, it is a completely different kind of intelligence. 

In reality, when our senses are fully engaged, our analytical thinking often comes to a grinding stop.  It is in that moment that we can fully savor the moment or experience something special.  For example, when you stop to smell a fragrant rose, or you step outside or from a shadow into the warmth of sunshine, what do you feel?  Do you stop to analyze it, or do you just experience it? 

Analytical thinkers, like everyone, need to take those few moments to savor life and experience something that brings alive your senses.  Our mind does something wonderful in this moment when it takes a few moments to suspend its analyzing of information in order to let us experience and love life!

More to come on the wonderful characteristics of the cancer registrar’s analytical mind.  We hope you enjoyed this post and encourage you to take a few moments today to savor the moment or to experience something special in your life!

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http://RegistryMindset.com/. Michele Webb, America’s Cancer Registry Coach, is a nationally recognized, certified cancer registrar (CTR). She cares passionately about her work and enjoys helping others to become cancer registrars and grow professionally. She is a motivational speaker, published author, trainer and netpreneur in the exciting field of cancer registry and oncology health care. Copyright 2010, Michele A. Webb, All Rights Reserved.

Inside the Cancer Registrar’s Mind

The cancer registrar’s thinking ability is a remarkable gift that allows them to accomplish great things in their work and personal lives.  While the human mind is a one-of-a-kind problem solver, it is also eager to provide the cancer registrar with the answer to any question or a solution for any challenge.  Here’s how …

As soon as the registrar forwards a question to their mind, their brain goes to work analyzing and calculating.  It searches its memory files for relevant information.  It rapidly picks out patterns, similarities and trends while it concurrently builds a resource library of related data.

This analytical thinking ability can be used for just about anything and can serve the registrar well as they develop partnerships in their health care organizations.  Whenever they make plans for cancer conference, cancer committee, the annual report, or their next quality study, their mind will jump into analytical mode.  Essentially, the cancer registrar’s mind becomes an efficiency expert, much like a heat-seeking missile, that is looking for ways to make improvements. 

Cancer Registrars need to understand, develop, use and even protect their analytical thinking abilities.  It is their tireless and ever-ready toolkit that is revving its engines, ready to instantly take off to face a challenge or solve a problem.  This ability is powerful when used in collaboration with their organization’s vision and goals or when exploring trends in cancer data that require study to better serve the needs of patients. 

This is just the tip of the iceberg!  In future blog posts we’ll talk about other aspects of the cancer registrar’s analytical mind that will help them communicate more effectively and freely.

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http://RegistryMindset.com/.  Michele Webb, America’s Cancer Registry Coach, is a nationally recognized, certified cancer registrar (CTR). She cares passionately about her work and enjoys helping others to become cancer registrars and grow professionally. She is a motivational speaker, published author, trainer and netpreneur in the exciting field of cancer registry and oncology healthcare.  Copyright 2010, Michele A. Webb, All Rights Reserved. 

Put Value to Your Thoughts

Are you blessed with an analytical mind?  If you are, you could be a cancer registrar as well.  Cancer Registrars are the information experts in cancer care and the analytical mindset provides a perfect foundation for collecting high quality data.  However, in your workplace people may perceive your mindset as challenging or you as someone who slows the process down until it every aspect is explored or things are “perfect.”  Not so good! 

You don’t want to destroy other people’s ideas or have them tune you out, but you do want theories to be sound, data to be correct and projects to run smoothly.  The cancer registrar’s mind is constantly working and producing insightful analysis.  But others may not be aware of that or even value that. 

Find the best way to express your thoughts or to share information, keeping it short and to-the-point.  Some methods include: writing, one-on-one conversations, group discussions, or presentations.  Instead, put value to your thoughts by communicating them clearly, succinctly and in a such a way that it solves a problem and meets the goals of the group and vision of the organization.

Your Analytical Mindset

Cancer Registrars are usually blessed with an incredible analytical mindset.  In most cases this is a good thing and helps to see the registrar through their day and collecting high-quality data used for cancer surveillance.  However, the cancer registrar needs to be aware of how the analytical mindset is perceived by others and learn to shape and deliver their thoughts in a more concise, “user-friendly” manner appreciated by physicians and staff.  For example: a physician may ask the cancer registrar to explain Collaborative Stage.  The Cancer Registrar could launch into a 3-5 minute explanation giving complete and accurate details on the entire history of Collaborative Stage.  Their intent may be well placed, but the information will likely be lost on the physician because it is too long, too detailed and too complex. 
Cancer Registrars will be far more successful in their work and interactions with others when they make sure that the wealth of knowledge and expertise they possess and the accumulation and analysis of information they share with others is delivered appropriately.  For example: frame your responses so that they solve the listener’s problem, convey a positive application or use of registry data, or answers their question simply, concisely and in as few words as possible.  Avoid using theory or “what if” scenarios and focus on what the physician’s practice needs are.  If the cancer registrar directs the focus away from ‘thinking’ and into ‘doing,’ they will be better served.   

By reframing the analytical mindset the cancer registry will turn their analysis and expertise into action instead of paralysis!