Category: Essays

Nonverbal Communication

In this assignment, you will study how nonverbal communication plays an important role in managerial communications.

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research on nonverbal communication.

In your professional experiences, you may have experienced managers that were not great at communicating with you as employees. For one reason or another, the manager was unable to effectively communicate with his or her employees. A large part of communication is not what the manager says, but his or her nonverbal communication and listening skills.

Discuss a situation in which you had a manager or other leader who was not good at nonverbal communication or was not an active listener.

Based on the situation and your research and readings, answer the following questions in a minimum 1000-word posting:

What was the conversation about? Explain the details that led up to the conversation and the main topic of the conversation.
Why do you feel the leader or manager was not actively listening? What did the leader or manager do in regard to nonverbal communication to show you that he or she was not actively listening or was not effectively communicating with you?
How did you react to the situation?
What would you have done differently if you were the manager?
Analyze a minimum of three outside sources from the Internet that are reliable and deal with nonverbal communication that a manager could use in order to improve his or her active listening skills and body language in conversations such as you discussed. Based on your analysis, make recommendations on how the manager could have handled the situation

As we move to complete our project/proposal, the most important consequence is the evaluation of that project by the grantor. Therefore, clearly understanding how a grant is evaluated should be at the forefront of a grant-seeking institution. Research evaluation criteria for any three grants, then summarize the principle evaluation criteria among the three grants. Assess how you would approach authoring a grant differently based on your research, along with any strategies you would propose to better learn the evaluation criteria that your grant will be judged against before the grant is written and submitted. Be sure to explain your reasoning.

N.B: Must be at least 500 words

For this assignment, continue your role as the administrator of the organization you created for Assignment 1.

PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR IN-TEXT CITATION (CITE WHERE THE INFORMATION IS COMING FROM THROUGHOUT THE PAPER)

**AT LEAST 6 AND HALF TO 7 PAGES WITHOUT TITLE PAGE AND REFERENCE***

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

Create a mission and vision statement for your organization. Determine three (3) specific strategic goals that align with the ideals in those two (2) statements.
Recommend one (1) specific adaptive strategy or combination of adaptive strategies that would be most effective in ensuring that the organization achieves its strategic goals. Support your recommendation with examples of the successful application of the recommended strategy or strategies.
Outline three (3) service delivery and three (3) support components that will be necessary elements of the organization’s value chain geared toward achieving the strategic goals that you identified. Examine, in detail, the main reasons why the delivery and support components of the value chain that you identified are essential to the achievement of the organization’s goals.
Suggest one (1) specific approach to maintaining the selected adaptive strategy or strategies in order to ensure that the organization achieves its mission and vision.
Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites to not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Differentiate between strategic management, strategic thinking, strategic planning, and managing strategic momentum.
Examine the organizational value chain, including the components of the service delivery and support activities.
Analyze the roles of and the relationships among organizational mission, vision, values, and strategic goals, and why they are called directional strategies.
Apply analytic skills to define strategic problems, generate and evaluate strategic alternatives, and develop implementation tactics.
Examine the nature of directional, adaptive, market entry, and competitive strategies.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in the strategic management of health care organizations.
Write clearly and concisely about strategic management of health care organizations using proper writing mechanics

For this assignment, you will be describing methods for locating an individual to give funding, researching the individual donor, and writing a letter (two to three [2-3] pages) of request to an individual funding representative (donor). Refer to the basic proposal components discussed in Chapter 2 of the Geever textbook. This solicitation letter of request will require you to be concise, polite, informative, and more informal with a friendly tone and the right flow of information than a proposal. Use the Internet to locate sample letters of request and methods of researching individual donors.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

Assess existing or typical methods for locating an individual to provide funding.
Create one (1) method for locating an individual to provide funding. (This method can be a hybrid of multiple methods or a completely new method.)
Evaluate existing or typical methods for researching an individual donor based on the textbook and information you gathered on the Internet.
Create one (1) method for researching an individual donor. (This method can be a hybrid of multiple methods or a completely new method.)

Create a letter of request that addresses the five (5) main points of a letter of request (ask for the gift, describe the need, explain what you will do, include budget data, and close.)
Include at least three (3) references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Analyze the major segments of the grants community: the Federal Awarding Agency, the Pass-Through Entity, and the recipient.
Design a proposal by learning how marketing, analysis, planning, designing, estimating, and publishing play a part in the process.
Develop a working familiarity with responsive bidding.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in grants management and proposal writing.
Write clearly and concisely about grants management and proposal writing using proper writing mechanics

Write a one to two (1-2) page essay in which you:

Identify the most important step in the student’s guide to research that you would need in order to analyze bullying.
Define the identified critical step of research in your words.
Explain how bullying relates to one (1) of the following topics:
the agents of socialization (i.e., family, teachers and school, peers),
formal organizations (i.e., conformity to groups),
different types of deviance (i.e., everyday deviance, sexual deviance, or criminal deviance).

Provide a rationale for your response

What are some of the educational claims of popular tablets, laptops, and mobile devices? Do you believe that these claims are valid? Can such devices increase accuracy and speed of research projects? What advantages and disadvantages do you see in online research? How might you plan a research project to find the best and most reliable academic resources for a project? How do your approaches differ from those of your classmates?

Part 2

Locate an advertisement or commercial that implies research study results. Describe the claims made, and discuss how differences in sampling of the population might create biased results. Discuss what could account for the bias results

To help you to discover your own leadership style and preferences, the self-assessment exercises will prompt you to identify personal knowledge by self-reflection and provide a foundation for developing leadership skills. There is not any right or wrong answers for the self-assessments; answer honestly for the best results.

Complete Chapter 6, Self-Assessment 6-1 – Listening Skills, (pp. 188 of the course textbook). Be sure to use the reflection document you prepared.

Compose a total 200 word minimum reflective perspective summary about your results. Consider the questions below:

Did you expect your score to be high or low? Any surprises? Are your stronger or milder points an asset?
Does the self-assessment scale or rating accurately describe a trait, characteristic, behavior, cognition, or another aspect of your listening skills? If so, which one(s) and why. If the self-assessment is inaccurate then how do you account for the difference between what it measures and your leadership style?
Based on the result of this self-assessment do you need to make a change as a listener that will improve your skills and make you a better leader? How would you start to make this change? If no change is needed then how do you plan to use the information from the assessment?

Your self-assessment summary should be a comprehensive and well-organized analysis that clearly relates the self-assessment measurements and results to your personal leadership style, traits, characteristics, behaviors, and cognition. The analysis should be clear and readable. It should be grammatically sound, and free of spelling errors. This is one of many leadership self-reflections in this course

Curriculum design and Evaluation d4

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Based on your general experience as well as on your group project work, respond to the questions below.

Part I

What is the ideal composition of a curriculum evaluation team?
What are some rules that will help an online curriculum evaluation team stay on track?

Part II

When and how often do you think curriculum should be evaluated?
Who do you think should make that decision?
How would such an evaluation take learning theories into account when reviewing curriculum?
How will the organization’s educational philosophy impact the review and the team? How will you manage this impact?

The Session Long Project (SLP) is a series of essays on contemporary logistics issues, as they affect an organization of your choice. It may be an organization you work for, have worked for in the past, or one that interests you. Read ahead through all four SLPs: when selecting an organization, be sure to pick one for which you can find all the information you’ll need.

Each SLP consists of two activities:

Activity 1 (Assessment Phase)

Describe and discuss how your organization is affected by the logistics issues discussed in the module.

Activity 2 (Improvement Phase)

Describe how your organization could address the issues more effectively.
SLP 1 Assignment

Activity 1 (Assessment Phase)

Describe the organization you’ve selected, discuss where the unit responsible for logistics resides in the organizational chart, briefly describe the duties and responsibilities of the logistics unit, and note the level of recognition senior management gives the unit.

Activity 2 (Improvement Phase)

Assess if and how logistics operations could be more effectively and strategically integrated into the organizational structure. Explain.
SLP Assignment Expectations

Comprehensively discuss the logistics functions of the organization. Develop, explain and justify a scheme for performing those functions more effectively, with particular attention to the roles of senior management. Your scheme should be solidly grounded in the material discussed in this module.

SLP General Expectations

Since this is a capstone course, you are expected to make full use of your detailed understanding of the material covered in this course, as well as earlier courses (LOG301, LOG302, and LOG401). You should display highly developed critical, analytical and expository skills.
Don’t write in checklist form. Integrate the information you find into a well-constructed essay.
You may not find specific information relating to this assignment. In that case, you will need to “fill in the gaps,” using your understanding of the company you’re analyzing, plus the sources listed on the Background Info page.
Style and format must comply with the Writing Style Guide. (TUI Guide, n.d.) This is not an English course; however, errors in spelling, grammar and style will be penalized.
Provide citations and references. Use of APA style is encouraged, but not required. Please see the TUI Writing Guide, or visit the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL, 2015).
There is no page requirement. Write what you need to write, neither more nor less.
Upload your SLP before the end of the module

To help you to discover your own leadership style and preferences, the self-assessment exercises will prompt you to identify personal knowledge by self-reflection and provide a foundation for developing leadership skills. There is not any right or wrong answers for the self-assessments; answer honestly for the best results.

Complete Chapter 3, Self-Assessment 3-1 – Your Behavior Leadership Style, (pp. 71-72 of the course textbook). Be sure to use the reflection document you prepared.

Compose a total 200 word minimum reflective perspective summary about your results. Consider the questions below:

Did you expect your score to be high or low? Any surprises? Are your stronger or milder points an asset?
Does the self-assessment scale or rating accurately describe a trait, characteristic, behavior, cognition, or another aspect of your leadership? If so, which one(s) and why. If the self-assessment is inaccurate then how do you account for the difference between what it measures and your leadership style?
Based on the result of this self-assessment do you need to make a change in a leadership behavior or cognition (way of thinking) that will improve your skills and make you a better leader? How would you start to make this change? If no change is needed then how do you plan to use the information from the assessment?

Your self-assessment summary should be a comprehensive and well-organized analysis that clearly relates the self-assessment measurements and results to your personal leadership style, traits, characteristics, behaviors, and cognition. The analysis should be clear and readable. It should be grammatically sound, and free of spelling errors. This is one of many leadership self-reflections in this course