Review the required readings for this week, along with the feedback you received on your Week One, Week Two, and Week Four Individual Assignments.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word analysis of your graduate-level writing skills. Include the following:
A summary of the feedback that you received on your Week One, Week Two, and Week Four Individual Assignments.
An analysis of your individual strengths and weaknesses in writing.
A detailed plan for refining areas for improvement in future assignments.
Directions: Please answer each of the following questions and provide examples from the text, if applicable. Each response should be at least two paragraphs in length composed of five to seven sentences and be written in complete sentences.
1. Briefly explain why the ability to work effectively in teams is so important in business.
2. Briefly describe the contents and importance of a meeting agenda.
3. What is telepresence?
4. List at least three benefits of effective listening in business.
5. Briefly describe the three roles nonverbal signals play in communication.
6. During a meeting with coworkers, your mobile phone rings. Should you answer it? Why or why not?
7. While having lunch with a client, what should you do with the business papers you brought to discuss? Why?
8. Briefly describe at least three advantages of a diverse workforce.
9. What is ethnocentrism and how can it be overcome?
10. Explain the difference between a high-context culture and a low-context culture and provide at least one example of each.
11. Before conducting business in another country, why is it worthwhile to learn common phrases in the native language even if your clients there will speak English?
12. A new employee who speaks English as a second language has just joined the design team you lead. You notice that she often looks confused during conversations. Describe at least three useful strategies for this situation.
The Research Paper will be a comprehensive research review of the significant principles of management communications used to successfully achieve organizational objectives. For this assignment of a minimum of eight pages, you need to integrate material from the readings, multimedia, and class discussion boards, and also reflect on professional experience where possible. It is mandatory to include research from the classroom text as well as from six scholarly sources to support your views. Consider the validity of your resources carefully before using them in academic papers. Use at least one professional example to address the topics below.
The following components must be included in order for the paper to be complete:
Explain effective communication norms in a business setting.
Describe the role of interpersonal communication both as a manager and as an employee. What specific techniques have you used to overcome barriers to communication? Be sure to specify your role in the communication.
Explore the role of international and intercultural interpersonal communications in today’s global businesses.
Describe both verbal and nonverbal management communication.
Explain approaches for effective written management communication.
Analyze various approaches for engaging an audience during a presentation and encouraging active listening.
Describe effective methods of conflict resolution.
Analyze techniques for leading teams and group meetings.
Analyzing an Historical Debate
For this assignment, you will analyze an historical issue from the first half of U.S. History (pre-1877). You will need to compare at least two opposing perspectives on that issue.
Part I. Introduction
1. Describe in general the issue that is debated:
For example, you may analyze the importance of this issue important to the culture, economics, political system, or social structure at the time.
Part II. Historical Debate
What is the main argument in each perspective? On what points do they agree or disagree?
Analyze the evidence that is provided to support each thesis: What types of evidence are used? Does the evidence support the thesis?
Part III. Conclusion
How did the reading(s) change the way in which you understood the subject?
How are the issues presented in the reading(s) still relevant to you today? Please explain how your personal background and life experiences might influence your perspective on this topic?
Imagine that you have been asked to tackle a current national or global issue. How would you use the readings to help you do so?
E-Learning for Training and Potential Barriers
In Chapter Five of the textbook, e-learning as a method of training is discussed. In Chapter Six, potential barriers of e-learning readiness to implementing e-learning as a training method are examined. In a two- to three- page paper (excluding the title and reference pages), examine e-learning and the barriers. Include the following in your paper:
Describe e-learning as a training method.
Describe the potential barriers of e-learning readiness.
Analyze how e-learning readiness has affected your success at Ashford University.
Explain what a trainer can do to prepare learners for e-learning.
Build a Project Procurement Management Plan
For Your Selected Course Project, identify what will need to be procured, when the purchase order for each item or service will need to be released, when the item or service must be delivered by the vendor from which it is being purchased, the budget for each item or service, and any issues that may affect the procurement of each item or service.
Support your paper with a minimum of three (3) scholarly references.
Length: 6-8 pages not including title and reference pages
Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards
In 1,200-words, Research a minimum of 4 typical business plan models.
Compare and contrast these typical business plan models.
Describe the strengths and limitations of these models.
Compare these models to the business plan models in either Microsoft Project or Apple Merlin.
Select the model that you believe will work best for your assigned CLC Business Plan; explain your rationale for this selection.
Health Information Systems Topic Selection
thoroughly assess the problems or issues that were identified in the case as well as the solutions or conclusions that were made regarding the case. Next identify and describe a related health information systems topic that encompasses a health care information systems issue; choose one that you feel would be a gap (a breach) or parity (a value) in or to the case. The topic should align with the selected case, for example: systems data collection or patient privacy/breach of patient privacy. Then, write a thesis statement and introductory paragraph explaining the issue to which you plan to propose a solution; include the topic you chose, its relation to the selected case, and the specific gap or parity you identified. Your thesis statement and introductory paragraph should be 300 to 600 words (one to three pages) in length and must provide a rationale for why you chose this health information systems topic. You must utilize at least two scholarly sources, including a minimum of one scholarly source Additionally, you must answer the following questions:
If you were in charge of addressing the issue within your selected case, what would your leadership role entail with regard to the proposed project?
Why is this topic important to health information systems quality?
What is the issue or quality identified? What improvements are needed? What features are identified?
How does this impact patient care?
How does it impact management and staff (the organization as a whole)?
What are the current conclusions drawn from the case?
Assignment Preparation:
Activities include completing the SkillSoft® course, independent student reading, and research.
SkillSoft® course, “Cisco DESGN 2.1: Network Design Methodology Overview.”
Assignment:
Develop a matrix that identifies specific departmental needs for a company that you are familiar with.
Include the types of communication needed for each department such as email, web use, etc. and then estimate the amount of network traffic that would be needed to meet business needs.
Use information gained in the SkillSoft® module and additional outside research including your course texts to determine reasonable estimates.
Provide an overall total needed for the organization which will impact the ISP connection that will be needed, as well as equipment and software.
Write a 2- to 3-page paper to explain your estimates.
Note. You must do additional research that includes a minimum of two additional sources in addition to use of your texts.
Assignment 2.2: Liberty Challenged in Nineteenth Century America Final Paper
Due Week 10 and worth 140 points
You have already developed a thesis statement and an outline in which you explored the peculiar institution known as slavery. Now you will develop the final paper in which you explore your main points in detail.
Introduce your paper with your previously crafted thesis statement.
Describe two (2) outcomes of the 3/5ths Compromise, Missouri Compromise of 1820, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott Decision. Note: Be sure to provide two (2) outcomes for each legislation.
Suggest three (3) reasons why slavery was and is incompatible with our political and economic system.
List three to five (3-5) driving forces that led to the Civil War.
Use at least three (3) academic references besides or in addition to the textbook. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do 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:
Recognize the main factors that led to America’s early development.
Identify and discuss the different ways that the heritages of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction have shaped America’s history.
Summarize and discuss the ways that formal policies of government have influenced the direction of historical and social development in the United States.
Examine how changes in social and economic conditions and technology can cause corresponding changes in the attitudes of the people and policies of the government.
Specify ways that women and minorities have responded to challenges and made contributions to American culture.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in American History to 1865.