We need passionate and highly motivated headteachers, who manage staff by praise and reward and who have the social and interpersonal skills to recognise when staff are not coping or need support.
However, improvements in energy efficiency can be hindered by: lack of knowledge or skills to recognise and achieve potential savings low priority relative to other costs for many users significant upfront costs, long payback periods and the risk that savings will not materialise energy cost subsidies and unpriced externalities such as climate change.
Health professionals should ensure they have the skills to recognise the considerable burden COPD incurs, and the knowledge to treat sufferers effectively.
Moreover, TBAs were believed to have no skills to recognise pregnancy and labour complications, and that sometimes they delayed referral of the woman to the clinic because they did not know when to do so.
The diversity of coexisting complaints emphasises the need for osteopathic training to encompass the common medical considerations for these conditions, as well as developing the diagnostic skills to recognise the signs and symptoms of medical presentations requiring referral.
17 The strong association between somatoform disorders and CMDs highlights the need for primary care providers to be equipped with knowledge and skills to recognise and manage the diverse presentations of CMDs.
Similarly in this study, the majority of participants agreed that screening patients was part of their clinical role and felt they already had the skills to recognise suspicious lesions and refer patients for further investigation.
Teachers must also help trainees develop their metacognitive skills to recognise clinical situations when intuition can be relied upon and when it must be abandoned for or buttressed by analytical reasoning.
In general, most (70%%) old FGD respondents (comprising older mothers) believed that TBAs had enough skills and experience to assist a woman during labour, child birth and that should labour complications occur, TBAs had enough skills to recognise them on time and refer the mother to the clinic.
As women reported sufficient information for maintaining the health of 'my pregnancy', but insufficient information for the regulation of weight gain on 'me', this paradoxical nature of their beliefs could lead to women gaining excess weight, as they may not have the required coping skills to recognise and manage the factors that increase their propensity to consume unhealthy foods.
