A Virtual Solution

The authors tell the story of how the VECTOR virtual coaching process was developed. They share some of the data and tell about the iterative process of working with virtual coaches to develop and refine the virtual coaching process to work better for coaches and coachees. They introduce each phase of the VECTOR process as well as the ACTIVATE acronym that defines the qualities virtual coaches should develop and foster in order to be successful in their work. This chapter acts as a preview to the chapters to follow – one for each phase of the VECTOR process and a full chapter devoted entirely to ACTIVATE.

Optimize Performance

The O-Optimize performance phase of the VECTOR process is where implementation occurs. In this chapter, the authors tell the story of a child learning how to do a basketball layup as a concrete example for everything that is required in this phase. Additionally, the authors unpack the psychology of working toward a goal, the power of data, and why feedback and progress monitoring are essential during this phase. Finally, there are practical suggestions for how to do the work as a virtual coach during this phase, including questions to ask and how video-based observations play a key role for the coach and coachee to stay focused on the goal.

Resources

Chapter 14 contains many of the resources that virtual coaches can use to facilitate coachee progression through the VECTOR phases. The VECTOR Process Guide breaks down each of the six VECTOR phases and offers coaches a summary of key components, a skeleton agenda, potential strategic questions, and sample activities. A coach can pull up the appropriate guide before their virtual meeting and feel confident knowing that they can lead their coachee toward professional learning success. Additionally, this chapter includes sample coaching logs and a blank template, as well as an administrator report sample and template to further support coach implementation of VECTOR virtual coaching. Throughout the book, the authors referred to the VECTOR Process Guide, coaching logs, and the administrator reports. This chapter describes these three coaching resources in-depth. They also offer examples as well as blank templates for readers to use in their own coaching practice. These templates can also be downloaded at http://vectorvirtualcoaching.org.

Stochastic Behavior of a Two-Unit Parallel System with Dissimilar Units and Optional Vacations under Poisson Shocks

This article examines the impact of some system parameters on an industrial system composed of two dissimilar parallel units with one repairman. The active unit may fail due to essential factors like aging or deteriorating, or exterior phenomena such as Poisson shocks that occur at various time periods. Whenever the value of a shock is larger than the specified threshold of the active unit, the active unit will fail. The article assumes that the repairman has the right to take any of two decisions at the beginning of the system operation: either a takes a vacation if the two units work in a normal way, or stay in the system to monitor the system until the first system failure. In case of having a failure in any of the two units during the absence of the repairman, the failing unit will have to wait until the repairman is called back to work. We suppose that the value of every shock is assumed to be i.i.d. with some known distribution. The length of the repairman’s vacation, repair time, and recall time are arbitrary distributions. Various reliability measures have been calculated by the supplementary variable technique and the Markov’s vector process theory. At last, numerical computation and graphical analysis have been given for a particular case to validate the derived indices.

Mediatization as an international humanitarian space forming factor

The study is devoted to understanding the role of mediatization processes at the present stage of globalization, one of the displays of which is forming the international humanitarian space. In most researches, the process of mediatization is considered exclusively as a modern phenomenon and in many cases is equated with digitalization of mass media. The authors consider that this process has been intrinsic for culture since its genesis. However, in modern conditions it has a certain specificity, to studying of which this article is devoted. Summarizing various points of view on the mediatization concept and essence interpretation, the authors come to the conclusion that the process of mediatization is a fundamental process of mutual influence of the media on various public life spheres, including culture. This leads to mutual changes in both interacting parties and various social practices and methods of communication between representatives of various social groups and strata, and also within these groups and strata. In modern conditions, this process acts as an international humanitarian space forming factor. Being a various-vector process, mediatization leads to both integrating and disintegrating consequences. It acts as an ambiguous and contradictory phenomenon, which determines the need for its comprehensive research and in-depth study within the framework of social and economic sciences.