Essays on Mentor

What Are the Qualities of an Effective Mentor in Nursing?

Introduction
In the world we have people working in different fields and one important aspect is that as an individual joins a particular field they need to be guided so as to easily adapt to their new environment. The people who provide the needed guidance or who make the transition to a new field possible are called mentors. The people or students joining the nursing field just as any other, need to have a mentor who is supportive and has experience. My interest for this research is to find out the qualities of an effective mentor as it is Continue reading...

The practicum success rate will be due to well calculated prior planning in order to tackle the nurse shortage and promote health care. Mentoring, which is a perfect strategy in bettering the process of retention and recruitment of nurses will ensure transition and socialization from the normal clinical setting (McDermid, 2012, p. 37). Subsequently, the good effects will create and establish job satisfaction or enhanced commitment.
Articulating the mentorship program into practice will entail data collection by observation of the mentor-mentee and vice versa to foster learning conditions (Crookes, 2003, p. 50). In addition, surveys and document reviews will Continue reading...

The reason training schedule is to have a clear plan on the events that will take place during the induction process of the new staff. This will cater for the new hires through the first months of their employment as well as on their jobs with regard to their respective position. The purpose of this training is to congratulate the new staff members on making it through the recruitment process. In addition to that is to make employees feel part of the organization, this will be made possible by organizing a ceremony for them. Therefore, it is recommendable that Continue reading...

Mastering the Skill of a Comfortable Coaching/Mentoring Style

The skill of mastering a comfortable coaching and/or mentoring style is not so difficult for an effective leader. As such, the leader should remind himself of his “absolute absolutes” for effective leadership and professional effectiveness (1) Leadership rooted in humility; (2) Purpose that extends its influence over others; (3) Strategy secured in values and purpose; (4) People – they are your team; (5) Measure – validate what is true; (6) Empower – teach people to do this for themselves; (7) Reward – acknowledge, praise, and respect; (8) Anticipate – be prepared for the next step; (9) Navigate – goes hand in hand with anticipate – be Continue reading...

‘Instructor’s Name’

‘Subject’
Mentor answers report (2)
- What do you like about this work?
The mentor said that he enjoyed the competitive environment his work place provides the most. He also added that he likes that his job provides him with a chance to change other people’s lives, by helping them handle their financial matters. His reply elucidates the need for healthy competition in a work environment. An upbeat work environment will urge an employee to give his best and help both the individual and the company. Trying to perform better than the colleagues, sometimes, bring into fore the Continue reading...

‘Instructor’s Name’

‘Subject’
Mentorship report
- What do you like about this work?
The mentor said that the thing he liked most about his work is a plethora of things like, leading people, working as a team, flexibility to plan his schedule, exercising control over business decisions and building customer relationships. He also adds that financial benefits, such as pay and bonuses, and sense of accomplishment, are two other criteria which he likes about his job.
His answer highlights how personal relationships and self-esteem plays an important role in motivating a person on his job. The mentor clearly enjoys the freedom Continue reading...

Targeted Essential Learning

Specific instructional teaching methodologies are employed in classroom learning environments, across multiple disciplines, in order to achieve maximum learning for early childhood students. (NAEYC 1, 3, 4, 6; INTASC 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9; APTS 1, 2, 3, 4, 6)
- Lesson Plans
- Reflective Essay

Specific Performance/Task(s) (Include cognitive level)

Compile and implement lesson plans that include a range of authentic and engaging activities that support various learning needs and styles. (NAEYC 1.3d)
Design instructional activities and environments through analysis of positive and negative effects of multiple influences on child development and learning. (NAEYC 1.5b)
Create and apply the concept of alignment Continue reading...

‘Instructor’s Name’

‘Subject’
Mentor Response – Power and Politics
The mentor response clearly elucidates how results, more than anything else, could pull people towards accepting a certain plan. Power is nothing but an ability to get things done in a manner which the person exerting the power wants it to be done. So, power does not always mean using one’s position or influence to get things done from others. The mentor, in this case, has made use of rational persuasion as a way to get things done. He had first used his tracker among a small group of employees, and when Continue reading...

‘Instructor’s name’

‘Subject’
Mentor Question Responses
Response to question 1(motivation)
The mentor response showcases how the extrinsic and intrinsic motivational factors together provide the required impetus. Here we see how extrinsic factors, such as salary and bonus, coupled with intrinsic factors, such as pride and sense of accomplishment, works together to keep a team and the individual group member motivated. The group member found joy in seeing his plan work, and each member of the group took pride in competing with each other and outclassing their colleagues. They also were happy for each other’s success and that is crucial Continue reading...

‘Instructor’s name’

‘Subject’
Mentor Question Responses
Response to question 1
The mentor response for this question emphasizes on the importance of team harmony and spirit. As mentioned in the response, a cordial relationship among the team members makes work pleasurable. The chapter 5 of our textbook, titled ‘managing groups and teams’ highlights the fact that group experience contributes to the growth of the individual team member. As the response indicates, there are good and bad things in every team. However, there is always a learning experience when you work together as a group. We can find out how our strengths complement Continue reading...

Abstract

This book review examines how Tony Dungy deciphers the role of mentoring by leaders, in creating a lasting legacy of significance and integrity in the business or work of others. Written by a man all too familiar with the glories of NFL success, Tony Dungy experienced an early on and steadfast fulfillment of his own dreams and goals, whether as player or coach. In this collection of tightly woven symmetry Dungy voices a call for leaders to embrace a genuine interest in the people they manage, coach, nurture, and shepherd. Published by Tyndale House Publishers, a well-known Christian company, Continue reading...

Introduction

The management in diversity is recognizing the individual differences and thereby encompassing the acceptance and respect. Organization considers each of its working individuals as unique and thereby respects their individuality. The individuals could differ on many fronts such as ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, age, physical abilities, socioeconomic status, religious beliefs, political views, gender, and other ideologies. The goal of the Human Resource Management (HRM) is to respect these differences and nurture the working environment in a safe and positive manner (Sparrow, 2012).

Problem Statement

HRM tries to go beyond the simple differences, and instead it celebrates the different dimensions of diversity. Continue reading...

In life, a mentor is one of the important people who serve as an objective advisor and confidant with who a mentee can be open to discuss various issues. It is worth noting that a mentor is not a molder but rather someone who inspire and serve as role model. In fact, a mentor is a source of experience and information from which a mentee can learn from. My life mentor came as part of my academic life, and we have always bonded and focused on something deeper. Education can be one of the difficult activities and it calls Continue reading...

Part 1: Introduction

When it comes to mentoring, most people think of when they think of mentoring: a spontaneous, casual relationship where a senior person takes a junior person "under his or her wing" and then give them some long-term counsel and guidance. In my own life, I have a position of being senior staff nurse and midwife. I have over 12 years of experience with being a nurse and delivering babies. However, as far as education goes five of those years it took five years to become a nurse. Then I specialized specifically in midwifery which took a year. I have Continue reading...

Impacts of the implementation of a mentoring program that utilizes essential elements of effective mentoring on the level of job satisfaction and retention of faculty in a school of nursing
Research has revealed that the reasons that might cause nurses to abandon nursing practice and education could include inadequacy, feelings of stress, anxiety, disempowerment resulting from horizontal violence, and oppression (Rhodes, 2012). Other factors could also include general apathy with regard to collegial support, low morale, reduced resources, heavier workloads as well as higher patient insight. This research describes the responsibility of a mentorship program as one that assists Continue reading...

Mentoring is an empowerment and development tool that is used to encourage people to optimize their potential, develop their skills, and to improve their performance. There are different models of mentoring. Examples of models include; One-On-One mentoring, Resource-Based mentoring, Group mentoring and Training-Based mentoring.

One-On-One Mentoring

This is the most widely used mentoring model. It involves a mentor, the person doing the mentoring and a mentored, the person to whom the services of mentoring is offered. This type of mentoring model involves a one on one interaction between the two, therefore, creating a rapport between them.

Group-Based Mentoring

This model requires the mentor Continue reading...

Introduction:

The implementation of a mentoring program that utilizes the essential elements of effective mentoring impacts the level of job satisfaction and the retention of faculty in a school of nursing in many different ways. A mentoring program that utilizes the essential elements of effective mentoring impacts the level of job satisfaction because it encourages the mentor to teach the rewards of being a nurse this increases job satisfaction for both the mentor and the new staff member. When a mentoring program that utilizes the essential elements of effective mentoring is introduced it impacts the level of job satisfaction because Continue reading...

Summary of the Article

The article entitled “Interactive Writing Beyond the Primary Grades” written by Heather Wall and published in The Reading Teacher in 2008 presented crucial information that focused on interactive writing through the experiences of the author in her traditional primary grade classes. The author explained the theoretical framework for interactive writing, which reportedly originated in 1991 through a group of educators and researchers in the Ohio State University . The rudiments of interactive writing were therefore expounded to aptly describe that the writing process entailed a collaborative and participative approach through enjoining the students to write while analyzing adherence to grammatical Continue reading...

Although professional learning is viewed as something which takes place outside the conventional workplace, the truth of the matter is that professional learning takes place every day as instructors take time to reflect on their professional practice and share ideas aimed at improving student outcomes. Nonetheless, in the quest to increase the effectiveness of professional learning, various models have been designed with the objective of getting positive impact on valued student incomes. The models differ in content and structure, and from self-paced initiatives to well-structured initiatives which may earn an individual formal qualification.

Coaching and Mentoring

In today’s world, peer-network mechanisms Continue reading...

What I Dream of Accomplishing During My Career

In my career, I dream of completing my Business program in management. The skills of management that I will acquire in this course will enable me to influence and change management approaches in the business world. Further, I wish to develop my skills to an extent that as a manager, I will cause change in the organization that I will work for by positively motivating employees and enhancing teamwork among the subordinates and superiors.

My Where I see myself in Five years

In five or ten years, I see myself having a family and being a business owner, such having my own Laundromat called Omo International Laundry. Continue reading...

How do you respond to each of these perspectives?

Steve is the founder of CH but does not clearly understand the value of a mentoring program in the company. Being the founder of the company, Steve should be among the top people who should attend training and development programs. Steve is concerned with strategic growth of the organization, a position that requires frequent training and development career talks. By signing off to the program, Steve gets a chance to receive skills of how to develop new strategic growth plans different from those of competing companies. In addition, the mentoring program will enable Steve explore more into the business Continue reading...

- What is the title of the film, what (brief summary) is it about (subject, topic)?
The film is called Unmistaken Child and focuses on a Tibetan Buddhist monk’s search for the bringing back to life of his teacher and mentor. The main character who is Temzin is a very humble and quiet person is involved in the search for the child who is the reincarnation of his teacher and mentor. Unmistaken Child is a very powerful film as it shows a lot about Tibetan culture and direction.2. Why did you choose this documentary to view? What did Continue reading...

President/Executive Board Member

David Miron is one of the executive members of McBer which is a company in Boston and holds the position of Vice-President while David McClelland is the chairman and founder of the same company, but works at Harvard University as a Psychology Professor. They both authored “The Impact of Achievement Motivation Training on Small Business”. In this, Miron and McClelland (1979) argued that entrepreneurial training is essential for motivating businessmen in order to facilitate them in achieving their goals and improving their level of performance. Further, Miron and McClelland (1979) claimed, “businesses managed by the trained men grew faster Continue reading...

David Miron is one of the executive members of McBer and Company in Boston and holds a position of Vice-President while David McClelland is the chairman and founder of the same company, but works at Harvard University as a Psychology Professor. They both authored “The Impact of Achievement Motivation Training on Small Business”. In this, Miron and McClelland (1979) argued that entrepreneurial training is essential in motivating businessmen in order to facilitate them in achieving their goals and improving their level of performance. Further, Miron and McClelland (1979) claimed, “businesses managed by the trained men grew faster by a Continue reading...

Summary of selected Shadow Experience

For the record, I was not expecting to learn a lot of things about sales, marketing, and merchandising strategies in this shadow experience. The opposite of what I was expecting happened because I, in fact learned a lot, particularly in the field of economics, marketing, and merchandising. In this sales call strategy report, I will discuss the different things that I learned from a real-life sales person working for the Ocean Marine Yacht Club in Hallandale. The line of product and or service being offered is directly related to properties and real estate. The first time I came into Continue reading...

Introduction

Occupational health and safety involves the development of a culture that promotes health and safety within the workplace. Promotion of healthy and safe working conditions within the workplace is important both to the employees and to the employer, as well. To the employees, the probability of suffering harm from their line of occupation is reduced, additio0nally, the risk of contracting a medical condition from their occupation is minimized. To an employer, the damage to the organization occasioned from OHS failures is minimized. Some of the liabilities that an employer can accumulate from poor OHS practices is insurance claims from Continue reading...

Introduction:

A personal philosophy of ethical practice using core values and essential principles and practices for doctoral research in the field of education should encompass intent, practice and the final use of the materials. To conduct oneself ethically involves more than doing the right thing. Ethical conduct must include acting in the right spirit. Setting out with the right intent and obeying the rules is not sufficient, ethical conduct must also abiding respect and concern for other individuals.
Ethical conduct for doctoral research in the field of education is particularly sensitive and demanding. Unlike research undertaken for commercial purposes, education Continue reading...

Introduction

People differ in their ability to cope with the conventional education system. Some students are unable to cope with not only the academic standards but also the behavioral standards in most of the conventional education institutions. The NOVA educational system was developed to meet the educational needs of such students. Most of the students in the NOVA schools have a form of disorder e.g. behavioral, psychosocial or even have some special needs (Project Achieve 1). However, some of the students are victims of bullying who find it hard to cope with the students in the conventional education system thus Continue reading...

More often than not, project implementation does not proceed in the exact manner envisioned by the implementer. There are many factors that could positively or negatively influence the project in unexpected ways. Such a scenario also leads to digressions from best practice. Thus, it is important to monitor the implementation, establish the root cause, and proactively manage arising issues to ensure success. During the evaluation, opportunities for improvement should be explored with regard to managing implementation issues.

Issues in Implementation and Data Gathering

Financial considerations are a very real threat to implementation. There are costs associated with in-service education, learning needs assessment surveys, documentation, evaluation, Continue reading...

It is now recognized that new teachers need mentors to help them transition from the classroom and student teaching experiences to the professional role of teachers and their new responsibilities. Whereas during their training student teachers were supported and forgiven for lapses or errors while under the supervision of a senior teacher, now these new teachers are required to take both the praise and criticism of parents, principals and superintendents. In addition, there has been a recently developed movement in the U.S. of teaching based on standardized testing to insure that each grade learns the same material no matter Continue reading...

Developing Consultancy Skills

Dealing with stress from work has become a concern that affects the employees’ private lives but also their professional results, interfering with the quality of the job performed. This is a rising concern, especially in the large organizations that are dealing with tight deadlines and that give their employees a high level of autonomy and responsibility. This is a problem faced also by Fast Soft Logistics (FSL) company, an organization activating in the logistic industry, providing services for various events. The activities associated with this industry are often highly demanding as the customers’ requests are permanently increasing and many Continue reading...

I. Introduction
It is with no doubt the Federal Government is the world’s leading purchaser of goods and services, with an estimated yearly purchases of more than $425 billion. To ensure that everyone benefits, the government has particularly encouraged small businesses to place their bids on contracts for some of these supplies. In effect, Federal agencies are demanded to initiate contracting goals, with a minimum of 23% of the entire government purchases meant for small firms (Knerly, 2).
All small businesses willing to engage in business with the government do so with the aid of Small Business Administration ( Continue reading...

Investing in human capital has become an essential investment in many organizations today. Training is directed towards maintaining and improving current job performance while development programs seek to develop skills for future jobs. Both managers and non-managers may receive help from training and development programs but the mix of experience is likely to vary.
“Training may be defined as a systematic attempt by the management in the organization’s development process (ODP) to enable employees to perform their job effectively”
There are two main types of training which include induction and job training. induction training enables newly recruited employees Continue reading...

Education: Principles of Supervision

a. 3. Opportunities to observe and discuss expertise
My Personal Connection / Detailed Explanation: Opportunities to observe by and discuss expertise with my supervisor is worth the waiting after some ample time for preparation. Most, if not always, I have to sufficiently design and craft my learning plans prior to delivering them. Then, anytime I get observed, I know that I have prepared in advance, not only my lesson plans for my different classes, but to show also that I have mastery of the topics and use of appropriate teaching methods and strategy. While facilitating the lesson, I have Continue reading...

Film Studies Paper – Star Wars

What is the point of a teacher, aside from the obvious work of teaching? Is he merely there to talk about things in a hypothetical manner? Is he there to pass on things that he has learned even if they mean nothing to him? Is he there to take credit and blame for all of his student’s achievements and failures?
These questions have always buzzed around the heads of teachers and students since the dawn of time but one thing that is known about this profession is that there is nothing more rewarding in such a stressful job Continue reading...

Community Resource Analysis for Juvenile Offenders

I. Scope of the issue

The selected community

The community of focus is spans across the United States. The population of focus within the community is juvenile offenders. This constitutes of youths below the age of 18 handled by the juvenile justice system. Within communities, behaviors of the youths are shaped by the social interactions and cultural norms presented therein. Senior members of the society play an important role of displaying desirable behaviors for the youth to emulate in addition to monitoring activities within the community. Most delinquencies within the population of focus, juvenile offenders, are accounted for by young males.

Population and Existing resources

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Greetings! My name is [Name of Applicant]. I am applying for admission to [Name of University]'s Graduate School Entrepreneurship and Management Program. I strongly believe that completing this graduate program will prove mutually beneficial to me and to other people in the long run due to five main reasons: my skills, my work experience, a desire for lifelong learning, a service-oriented attitude and a penchant for duplication.

First, I know I possess the requisite skills to meet the demands of your graduate school program. The time I Continue reading...

Transitioning Mary McClain from high school to college needs to include discussions with the staff at the college so that the staff is familiar with Mary and her assistive technology (AT) needs to be successful at college. The second strategy to help Mary be successful at college is to assign her a mentor at the college. The mentor could be another special needs student who has been at the college longer than Mary has and can help Mary learn where she needs to go to have her needs met.
Let us assume the technical college Mary wants to attend Continue reading...

Based on Module 9, describe what failed in the orientation process. Be specific and use examples based on case study.
An orientation program was normally initiated with an objective to introduce the new joiners to their jobs in a formal manner. A new employee comes to know about different aspects of their jobs through a proper orientation, as it elaborates on the information that an employee receives during the selection procedure. The main purpose of an effective orientation program is to introduce the new employee to the organization as a whole, to its co-workers and their work units, apart Continue reading...

Nurses face unique stresses and circumstances at the workplaces which lead to high nurses’ turnover. As at 2008, the nursing turnover stood at 55% to 60%, a feature attributed to poor nursing leadership that did not offer support to the nurses, outrageous working demands and poor relations amongst the nurses. To cater for these deficiencies, human capital strategies and leadership training need to be promoted so as to create a positive working environment that reflects the demands of the nursing practicum. The leadership training strategies should encourage the development of a positive working environment by equipping them with knowledge Continue reading...