Carmen Uscatu: How can I read the room?
Carmen Uscatu, the President and co-founder of Give Life, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“How can I read the room?
Winter Intersession, Second year of the Master’s in Global Child Health at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Leadership Course with Ashveena Gajeelee and Khaleel Seecharan.
Reflection of the Day:
- How can you do and continue to do things with intentionality?
- How can you read the room?
- How can you navigate through the various roles that you and others play?
- How can you separate yourself from the role you are in and not take others’ attacks personally?
About Functional Roles of Group Members:
Kenneth Benne and Paul Sheats were pioneers in the study of group dynamics and roles within groups. They identified many different roles that individuals can play in a group setting, classifying them into task roles, personal and/or social roles, and dysfunctional and/or individualistic roles.
Whether we like it or not, everyone can play each of these roles, intentionally or not.
Some of these roles include:
- Initiator-Contributor – Proposes new ideas or ways of approaching group problems.
- Information Seeker – Asks for clarification, facts, and relevant information.
- Encourager – Praises and supports group members, creating a positive atmosphere.
- Harmonizer – Mediates conflicts and reconciles differences among group members.
- Aggressor – Criticizes and attacks others, often in a hostile manner.
- Blocker – Opposes and resists the group’s ideas and efforts.“
Carmen Uscatu is the President and co-founder of Dăruiește Viață/Give Life, one of the most well-known NGOs in Romania and the NGO that has started and has implemented the initiative #WeBuildAHospital – building a children’s Hospital for scratch, exclusively from donations and sponsorships, a Hospital dedicated to ensuring multidisciplinary care to children with severe diseases, with a focus on cancer. She started volunteering in her free time before founding Dăruiește Viață, in 2012, with the purpose of drastically changing the way medical care is provided in Romania.
By the end of 2023, Dăruiește Viață had invested over 76M EUR in the public health system, implementing infrastructure projects, donating medical equipments, and supporting patients and medical staff. The Hospital built in Bucharest is currently functional, treating children in the following specialties: oncology, neurosurgery, surgery, ICU and operating theatre with 5 operating rooms. In addition, the Hospital will include in the near future a transplant department and a radiotherapy department.
Besides the Hospital, Dăruiește Viață has modernized and brought to nowadays standards oncology departments for children and adults in 8 hospitals across the country, has built 20 clean rooms thus tripling Romania’s transplant capacity, has built and equipped two laboratories for in-depth diagnosis of leukemia, has built two modular ICU hospitals during the pandemic and has donated over 17 tons of PPE. The Hospital project continues with the NGO planning to develop the project into the first pediatric medical campus in Romania.
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ESMO 2024 Congress
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ASCO Annual Meeting
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Yvonne Award 2024
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OncoThon 2024, Online
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Global Summit on War & Cancer 2023, Online
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