WAO2014

How do you run and operations group? How do you keep operators motivated and happy ultimately keeping them in the group. The operator job is changing fast. The diversification of machines and systems require different skills to operate and troubleshoot them. The physics schedules and new budgets problems are redefining the job of an operator. How do we motivate these operators, maintain their knowledge, and keep their interest on accelerators? Responsibility, team building, part time jobs on other systems (possibly only during shutdowns), are a small sample of items which may be part of the recipe.