Essays on Teamwork

Enthusiastic, newly graduated registered nurse with excellent people and communication skills and dedicated work ethic. Possess demonstrated medical procedure competency. Over 9 years responsible customer service / interaction.

- 6+ years experience as a Criminal History Records Specialist for the Arizona Department of Public Safety; - Adept at prioritizing/managing deadlines. Excellent time management; minimal supervision needed; - Computer literate. Proficient with MS Windows Operating Systems; - Efficient service provider with high levels of accuracy; - Dedicated to providing excellent care and highly effective as a team worker. Thorough physical assessments; - Strong communication skills, written ...

The following is a brief analysis and reactions that I can give about this informative journal written by Peter Haberl.

Analysis Haberl reports on the famous Olympic, a very competitive tournament usually conducted after every four years. He says that it gives participants an opportunity to be celebrities, get a lot of media coverage, get quick riches and become so successful. Therefore, according to him, an Olympian must utilize this chance to produce their best in this prestigious game. I think, they should understand that their opponents are also well prepared. He says that there are many classes of Olympians: underdogs, tourists, surprise and favorites. To him, he believes that all the US athletes must play the role of ...

Purpose / Objective

The CIRT or Computing Incident Response Team is the urgent response team for information security events at XYZ Union Bank. This team is crucial to defending XYZ Credit Union Bank\'s company electronic emails facilities. This policy provides the Chief of Information Security office, who manages the CIRT, with the power to develop recommendations and requirements to meet the protection needs of users and to protect the systems of the bank. Support from all areas of the XYZ is vital to the CIRT's success. The following plan suggests those using Financial institution processing sources regarding ...

A master’s student reflection paper about the leadership and human development course and the overall experience in the University of Greenwich

My experience in the University of Greenwich has been very educative. The University of Greenwich has influenced my perspective in life. The leadership and human development course has enabled me to explore my leadership qualities by being involved in team work. I was very shy and could not stand in before people to deliver a speech or even pray. I would use someone to say it for me. The confidence to address people and issues came as a result ...

The PMI’s Project of the Year Award recognizes and honors successful projects and the teams that employed superior elements of project management. The eligible projects must have a budget of more than $100 million, be of any type and industry, from all over the world and demonstrated exemplary project management principles. The 2008 Project of the Year Award went to Hatch, an engineering consulting Company based in Ontario, Canada (Project Management Institute, 2008). The Sorel Tracy, Quebec, a Canadian metallurgy company was seeking to increase the capacity of their highly sought after commodity while it was still in operation. The ...

The sports apparel company is aspiring to enter the international market (China) to drive its sales and revenue. The local market is at saturation level and the company has been forced to seek a foreign market to sustain profitability. The population in Shanghai city is the target market. As the business development manager, it is one’s responsibility to put in place the relevant structures such that the company will be venturing into that market in two years time (by 15th April 2016). The sales and marketing department will send a team of personnel in the target market to assess the ...

Managers are known as individuals who are entrusted the operations of an organization by the owner or the board of directors. They are supposed to undertake different roles, which define their impact into the organization. There are a wide variety of duties that managers should undertake in a bid for excellence of n organization. The manager should represent the image of an organization and should never be ignorant of the duties entrusted to them. However, the duties of the manger may vary on the bases of their functions in an organization.

The first functional role of managers is administration. Through ...

Reflection of Personal Team Experience

Reflection of Personal Team Experience

Overview

The development of teams could be gauged in terms of standards that contribute to the achievement of defined goals. The current practice team project is to build shelters for the homeless. The team is composed of five (5) members: Gary (me), Jennifer, Mirin, Tan, and Kunar (the team leader). The current discourse hereby presents a reflection of the personal team experience through relaying issues that delve into participation level; the task and relationship issues; team member roles--task, leader, facilitator; and the decision-making, as well as problem–solving styles.

As a team member, I was tasked with ...

Employee participation in decision making is used to refer to the process whereby employees are part of the decision making committee. They do not only take orders from their bosses, but are also consulted in the process of making a decision regarding the running of the firm or business entity. Their opinion is sought before the management can pass any decision.

The participation criterion is that system that uses voting criterion. Paradox of participation refers to conditions in which two opposing or competing opinions often challenge each other. A good example is the quest of an equivalent work-life. Organizational ...

a. Discuss: 394 i. What can a manager or supervisor do to effectively create a work environment that promotes employee motivation? A manager or supervisor should create a highly competitive and fair environment so that employee motivation is promoted. Initially, it should study its employees well – what makes them motivated and what makes them discouraged and the like. All these qualities and distinctions must be cross examined against the goals and objectives of the organization. The task of the supervisor is to check where is the clear intersection between the highest points of employee motivation and the utmost fulfillment of ...

Teamwork is essential not just in the business world but also in almost all areas of human endeavor, from education, to work, family and romance. Because human beings are autonomies entities with individual’s wants and goals, in order to play on the team of humanity, compromise is necessary. As far back as Aristotle thinkers recognized that humans were social animals with the need to compromise to best achieve their end goals. His ideas and his succinct ordering of them have incalculable influences in today’s world. He had rigid ideas regarding human relationships, happiness, virtues, deliberation, justice and ...

Summary

The relationship between the people working on a project has been overlooked. Most IT professionals rely on software and methodologies than on developing relationships between the members of the project. They overlook the social part of undertaking the project. This is an area that has caused many projects to fail (Levingson p 4). The reason why most IT professionals rely on software and methodologies is that most of the curriculum that they undergo is about software and technologies. At the end of the training, most of the IT professionals Assume that for a project to be considered successful, it has to be ...

Reflective Essay

Myself, along with four other students, comprised a group whose primary duties were to provide consultation for the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) of our university. The primary question was to determine whether or not it was feasible for the university to offer qualifications in management and leadership, as well as how much this qualification was in demand. My experience with the client consultancy project saw my group of five students come together successfully as a team in order to achieve these goals. While there were issues with communication and work ethic that needed to be addressed at first, our attitudes and ...

A successful and effective leader is one who has the potential to mould his/her behavior depending upon the needs of the situation. The cognitive evaluation theory stresses this point of determining the inner needs and desires of an individual. A leader who rates high on his cognitive abilities can be labeled as being conscientious. These leaders can clearly identify what they require and how the task is to be completed. Furthermore, the leader’s cognitive abilities allow them to bring out the best of others working with them. (Silzer)

Controls theory is a branch of the broader concept of ...

What is leadership? Leadership is simply means as the action of motivating a group of people to act or move to achieve a common goal. This meaning of leadership catches the effectivity of becoming a great leader through capturing the importance of the inspiration and action based upon his ideas, but it won’t happen if those ideas cannot be communicated to the group in ways they engages it (Ward, n.d.).

Will some traits make them become great leaders? Depending on the theory traits of leadership, a person who own some natural characteristics tend to become better leaders. According to a research Stogdill ...

Introduction

This study examines litigation reduction in the Centervale Police Department (hereafter referred to as CPD) in light of recent police brutality claims by two minors involved in a scuffle.

Theoretical Framework

Litigations are mainly brought about due to negligence on the part of police officers. Most police departments react to this by implementing an proactive system through which ethics are instituted in the police department to set targets for officers. Once this is done, there is the need for compliance officers to be appointed to oversee the application of these ethics in practice in order to prevent litigation claims and demands. ...

Information on how to use our new product

Phonic frames limited company is pleased to announce the introduction of a new product in the market. The new voice chip has been developed by our team of experts to serve the physically impaired people and help them to be able to walk without use guidance or any other form of assistance from people. This product has been developed by our innovative team as part of the wider program that our development team is exploring to ensure it completely changes the industry for the physically impaired while meeting the ever rising information needs from our broad ...

The use of the appliance remover is also advantageous for this treatment method. This is because it is used with spring of uprighting to provide the movement of the third molars' mandibular. However, elastic chain that is placed between occlusal surface wire of the third molar mandibular and upper jaw's posterior area mini screw, systematically transverses the plane leading to the tipping of the buccal of the impacted molars’ crown, subsequently tipping of lingual of impacted molars’ root and the extrusion of the tooth’s vertical plane (Park, Bae and Kyung). Finally, the orthodontic treatment is an advantageous treatment ...

I can remember the first time I looked out at a sea of faces such as these, filled with ambition and hope. It was during my son’s school’s musical recital. The children were, understandably, very excited to share all of the songs they had learned with their parents. They had even thrown in some of their own improvised dance moves to spice things up. They were already leaders in their own rights. The teachers let it slide because creativity is still encouraged in some places in this dark, dreary world. They were so happy, and full of light. ...

1. According the case of the reluctant workers, the core skills that were at play include team building, leadership and organizational skills. Team building is an important role of the program manager. It involves a myriad of skills needed to identify, commit, and integrate all the task groups for successful project implementation (Kerzner, 2009, p. 149). Team building helps a project manager to build a team that works together towards achieving a common goal. Being a young project manager, Tim did not receive any respect from his team. From the case study, team building comes into play when Tim says that he cannot motivate ...

Management:

The magazines by John Maxwell titled; The Miracle of teamwork depicts how teamwork can attain the goal that seems unattainable . A team of American hockey players were able to beat their opponent by forming a strong team. Researches that have been carried out on team work indicate that many firms, which have adopted team work, have improved their performances. As a result, many firms have embraced teamwork in their operations. Group and teamwork involve different groups of people working together in order to maximize their efficiency so as they can achieve a common goal. Group or teamwork can be organized according to products ...

Trust is very important in today’s business environment. Good business starts from the teamwork and teamwork cannot be achieved if team members do not trust one another.

So, why I trust needed so much to build a successful team? There might be hundreds of answers for this question, but first of all, I would like to say, that, trust is connecting people, and when they trust one another, they can better concentrate on the work. Today, the most successful business teams are like families, where family members trust each other. Team members can rely on their colleagues, and ...

Intensive Care Unit- ICU

Introduction As I walk to work, I often get to wonder how busy the intensive care unit gets. I have worked as a critical care nurse, for the last six years, in the intensive care unit. The acuity of the patients is unpredictable. Patients get admitted with a variety of medical conditions.

An ICU patient faces life-threatening injuries or illnesses that require critical care. It requires a specialized team of health care professionals to provide the treatments and care needed for such patients in the ICU. The team of healthcare professionals in the ICU includes; doctors, residents, interns, APRN's, nurses, respiratory ...

Decision making in an emergency situation is different from that in a business or normal situation. Decision makers in an emergency must select the best course of action based on their experience and situation at hand. The outcome of the emergency response team depends on the decisions made by the incident commander (Huder, 2012). Some of the common problems experienced by the rescue team are recurrent. Response teams in major incidents experience poor planning, coordination, communication failure, poor resource management, and situation awareness. These problems have occurred in several emergency situations and can be attributed to faulty decision making processes. ...

Introduction

The primary goal of any surgery is to prevent infections to the patients. It is thus important for medical personnel to ensure the operating room is sterile and clear of any micro-organisms (Couture et al., 14). This paper will briefly discuss principle of aseptic and sterile techniques. The paper relate the practices of these principle with the movie, scrubs season one.

As mentioned earlier, maintaining a sterile environment in the operating room is the main priority for surgeons. This is important because any activities relating to aseptic and aseptic techniques have a direct effect on the success of the surgical team. ...

Q1. Most contemporary Australian organisations any set of generic best practices'.

Ans. 1. In today’s highly competitive framework, organizations need to develop and maintain competitive advantages and this could be acquired through developing efficient and committed work forces that have the capability to perform in accordance with the specific organizational goals. So strategies befitting institutional context would be appropriate for mobilizing the work forces in to desired action. High commitment human resource strategies are found to be effective in improving organizational performances especially by motivating the work forces to perform in alignment with the organizational requirements. ...

Introduction

Remember the Titans is a movie centered on group development. It is about a Virginia football team that fell under the direct effects of racial conquests. In essence, the school was composed of a team that was characterized by those whites and blacks. In this regard, a new coach for the team was in cooperated into the management of the affairs that was pertinent to the affairs of people. Mr. Boone was a black coach who was appointed to replace the incumbent white coach. However, his leadership in the school team could not yield the expected results from the fact that, some members of ...

While there have been many books, articles, journals and magazines that have discussed and talked about the AFL-NFL Championships known as “Super Bowl”, this paper will basically talk about the specialty of the Super Bowl III, played on January 12, 1969, at the Orange Bowl, in Miami (Florida)[5]. This was a the first championship bearing the name “Super Bowl” and is remembered as one of the most surprising sports event where the great National Football League champions “Baltimore Colts” were defeated by the American Football League winner “New York Jets” [6]. What was so special about the Super ...

This paper highlights the need for collaboration among groups, individuals and organizations in order to understand the performance of public firms. Collaborative behavior has for a long time been central to organizational behavior. Most studies and research before this paper have focused mainly on the collaboration that exists between sectors and organizations. The research carried out in this paper focusses on the effect of collaborative behavior especially among peers, work units, superiors and subordinates on the performance of the organization. Interwork and interpersonal collaborative behaviors are given more priority in this paper. The approach used is based on the fact ...

Process safety in offshore oil and gas industry: a review of the present and future practices

Introduction

Oil and gas industry keeps playing an increasingly significant role in the global economy. Nowadays the world consumes over 30 billion barrels of oil per year, and despite all the innovations in alternative energy, this figure doesn’t seem to decrease in the foreseeable future. Offshore drilling, or extraction of oil through the seabed, is currently no less popular than other forms of extraction. In the Gulf of Mexico alone there are over 3.5 thousand oil platforms in use, and other areas of seaborne oil extraction like the North Sea, West African coast, Brazil, Azerbaijan and Sakhalin ...

How to Manage a Call Centre

Previously, call centers have been viewed as a cheap alternative for customer problem resolution, but they have quickly transformed to effective service delivery channels. Substantial literature has been written on the subject of customer service, but the management of call centre has been almost overlooked (Bennington et al, 2000, p.163).

Team and culture are significant in a call centre. The culture determines values and beliefs in an organization (Sharp, 2003, p.67). Team culture in a call centre sets a specific way of accomplishing tasks. It has been noted that establishing a team culture enables the workers to run affairs smoothly in the stressful ...

Introduction

Forming a team to run a project takes time. Every team has to go through five stages of internal progress of team dynamics as they change from being strangers to becoming a united group with common objectives. These stages are: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.

Discussion

The “forming” stage occurs when the team comes together for the first time. In this stage, members are introduced to one another as they share experiences, background information and interests. It is an opportunity for them to learn about the project and roles they are to play. An example is a project we undertook on ...

The professional Sport Leagues offer important leadership lessons that could be applied in business for attaining improved results. This presentation offers few such examples, illustrating professional players and teams and their leadership skills that brought them success in their activity. When it comes to leadership, it is all about sharing. “The More You Share, the More You Have” seems to be the motto of Peyton manning, the NFL leader of the 2014. As a quarterback, he needs a strong defense team and he consolidates this team, through his leadership attributes. As such, he respects all his team members sharing the rewards ...

An important cog in the performance of the organization is the way in which individuals and teams are managed. After the session I realized that the goals and objectives of the organization depend on the performance of its employees and how effectively they are being managed.

Individual employees have two key objectives when they are part of any organization:

a) Good performance in their jobs

b) To be part of the organization which they admire the most.

In similar way managers also have two key objectives when they are part of any organization:

a) To maximize their job performance

b) To ensure longevity in the firm

A good performance acts as a stepping stone for an individual’s growth in the organisation. Employees therefore engaging in citizenship behavior and are good at ...

Introduction

The vast changes in modern and complex health care settings lead to face several challenges by nursing leadership (Reinhard & Hassmiller, 2012). To acquire dynamic roles the nurse leaders need more skills of management to carry out their professional performances. These nurse leaders are also responsible to provide a vision which will motivate the junior staffs and other employees that may help in survival of health care organizations and can achieve high potentials and increased quality in patient care (Spencer et al. 2009). Working in trans-cultural health are requires more skills and effectual communication among all departments and sectors in health ...

Scenario

Marjorie Stevens, an eighty-six year old single mom, decided to move into a large, well-equipped aged care facility (ACF). Her recent stay in respite care resulted from a fall, which led to a hip fracture. While Marjorie’s family has moved some of her belongings to the ACF, she requires an ambulance to transport her from the respite center to the ACF. Something upset Marjorie during the ambulance ride to the facility. Upon her arrival at the ACF, the Health Service Manager of the facility calls for a case meeting to plan Marjorie’s care.

Players

Respite Care to ACF This section ...

Step 1 Focus. The teacher will ask students to evaluate how people reform physical environments with agriculture. The teacher will state the lesson objective: to understand that changing the environment to has many potential positive and negative effects. Some of these are intentional, some unforeseen. Then the teacher will use the historical events to show how similar influences are taking place in the United States today.

Step 2 Input. The teacher will review the five themes of geography, standard of living indicators, economic systems and infrastructures, and introduce the physical geography of former civilized agricultural center that supported ...

Question 1: Eric Ries’ metaphor “diversity is the coal mine of meritocracy”

Meritocracy is term that implies a social system that gives the greatest power and highest social positions to people with the most ability. Entrepreneurs are more in the business of meritocracy than other industries. Decisions made on the basis of merit are executed faster than those based on hierarchy, politics, and titles. When a company fails to have diversity, it is a sign of dysfunction. Diversity is a source of strength for any company or team that boasts of it. Essentially, diverse teams are in a better position to make good decisions than the less diverse teams. It broadens the base of experience and ...

Leadership is a trait that differs from a situation to situation. Leadership, in a simple and small organisation, is different from Leadership in a large, complex organisation. Leaders of large, complex organisations need to build teams that would accomplish any outcome of the desired objective. Organisations need leaders that can collectively function across different business environment including emerging economies, start-up organisations and mature markets.

The globalisation of the business pushes the leaders to address several of these situations simultaneously. During the initial stage of accomplishing a specific objective, the Leader must first make sure that the desired objective or result is measurable and ...

Nursing is a profession like any other that has issues and problems that make the nursing department not to be able to give its maximum in terms of performance. The main problem that this paper is going to look at is related to staffing of the department of nursing. One of the main problems is that most of the hospitals are understaffed. This usually affects the hospitals’ as health care facilities and it also affects the patients themselves. It is important to look into this problem and also come up with solutions to it because it improves patients’ safety. We ...

In the world of business, dealing with other people is synonymous to breathing. Each day, people from all walks of life walk in and out. Being in the company of diverse people is what I enjoy most about being in the business sector. I have worked in a bank for years. I deal with clients and co-workers that at times are demanding. I also worked with teams and I am proud to say that I have handled common team problems with professionalism and respect.

There was an instance in my previous work that I had a debate with my team ...

Question 1

When not handled well, conflict can stifle team work efforts and multidisciplinary collaboration, an element that is very essential in the delivery of patient centered care. Although Rubenfeld & Scheffer (2010) argue that conflict can have adverse effects on patient care, conflict can also be handled differently in order to yield positive results and promote collaboration and interdisciplinary team work. Nelson, King & Brodine (2008) argue that conflicts between nurses and physicians at time arise because of differences in opinions with regards to the requirements for patient care. The enduring hierarchical relations between nurses and ...

Question 1

In a team situation, I generally find myself falling into two different roles which are discussed into two categories.

Part A: Marketing Strategy for Eircom, IrelandWhile working in group work and a group presentation on Marketing Strategy for Eircome, Ireland I had to work with three other colleagues: every team was to consist of four employees. The team had been assigned a common task. In this case, I was acting as the head of the group and was in charge of finances, logistics, overseer and advisory roles. As the person in charge of logistics, I had to ensure ...

Interdisciplinary relationships are a joint communication and decision-making process with the aim of better health care need of the target population. Effective interdisciplinary relationships reduce costs and advance patient satisfaction, while humanizing overall health care worker satisfaction. Working together as a team brings specific capabilities of each discipline that focuses on the care of patients and eliminates any weaknesses of other teammates. The interdisciplinary relations enhance fast and accurate medical performance. This relationship may include a physician and non-physician provider team and a physical assistant and a nurse practitioner. Interdisciplinary relationship becomes a compound process that needs deliberate knowledge passing and combined sense of for ...

The report is about the response and preparation of American authorities incase Ebola hits the American soil. Already, a Liberian man has died in Dallas because of the disease and several nurses who attended to Ebola patients have also been infected with the disease.

Some of the measures which have been taken include the formation of a 30 person team that will respond to an outbreak of the disease in any part of the country. The team is undergoing high level training at Fort Sam, Houston in Texas. In case of an outbreak in any part of the US, the ...

[Contact Name] [Company] [Address]

Dear [Contact Name],

I am happy to attach this letter in response to the position of the Registered Nurse at Dominican Hospital available on your website and the one I would love to apply for. Starting from the moment I attended my first lecture I was driven by the desire to serve the public good by delivering compassionate health care to the communities in a nationwide health-care institution, such as Dominican Hospital, that can really make a difference. Once I came across this job opening I felt absolutely sure that the position at your hospital is a perfect fit ...

Business

Organization Redesign CARE is an international nongovernmental organization that helped many people right after the Second World War. However, the organization’s mission changed as the time goes by, as there are existing challenges that many are currently facing. It aims to fight the global poverty and to stop the spread of disease. These missions are being addressed by different country officers of CARE. However, the organization’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Helene Gayle, aims to improve their effectiveness by redesigning the organization. She wanted the whole organization to act on their mission as one. ...

Similarities between North American and Japanese Working Styles

Both North American and Japanese working styles suffer internal conflicts, ineffective communication, and poor decision making structures. Decision makers in Japanese companies created teams of consensus that led to slow decision making while in North American companies workers rushed into projects without enough planning. Managers in both situations provided indirect feedback leading to poor communication (Shah, Iqbal, Razaq, Yameen, Sabir, & Khan 127).

Differences

Japanese companies have different cultural attitudes to racial and gender diversity than North American companies do. Women in Japan are less take charge and outspokenly driven than women in North American companies, because their culture teaches ...

Nursing Capstone

In order to successfully complete a nursing program, it is important to have nursing practice experience at a well-established as well as recognized medical institution that offers an opportunity to implement theoretical nursing skills learnt at learning institutions (Antrobous and Kitson, 1999). Nursing leadership is a vital role in the nursing workforce so as to effectively provide evidence based and client centered care and staff empowerment. Being a nurse team leader is a necessity to the nursing profession that leads to growth and empowerment. After all, nursing responsibilities are rapidly transforming and it is important to be updated to the current and standard requirements ...

Introduction

The leaders of today currently work in an environment that requires them to be collaborative. This is especially the case in the education sector where leaders are expected to show extreme collaboration in order to achieve the goals and objectives of education. Collaboration means co-labor in order to achieve common goals and often involves working across personal boundaries and exhibiting reciprocities of value. Collaboration requires the crossing of boundaries and establishing trust between different members of a given education setting. It involves joining the assets and resources of different stakeholders of the education setting and using them to ...

Introduction

Starbucks is no doubt a brand name in the United States and beyond. In fact, the Company is ranked the largest coffeehouse globally. The organization, whose name is synonymous with quality coffee, has made a name on the international scene for various reasons; more especially the fact that it has engaged in a number of strategic alliances, and the prominence it gives to teamwork in its internal environment.

Effective Work Groups and Teams

Speaking of teams, Starbucks encourages the existence of both formal and informal teams in the workplace (Pahl, 2008). The company appreciates the importance of teamwork, which is among the leading contributory factors in its ...

Introduction

If I were to judge my leadership style, I would most definitely agree that it is participative in nature. Why I say so is because I believe that two or more brains is better than one, and so, to overcome any contingencies that may arise during operations, I look at the collective views of the feedbacks from my team members that are discussed before taking any management decision-making. Of course, there are other styles of leadership management that are equally effective, but I am happy giving my team members the privilege to involve in decision-making. By inculcating a ...

Discussion 1

According to FDU Magazine (1999), three out of every four American workers report stress associated with their employment with the United Nations’ International Labor Organization stating the epidemic is global. The effect in the United States is approximately $200 billion annually. A Wall Street Journal(Mantell 1999) survey reported one third of employees consider quitting their jobs due to stress and 14% actually did.

The major medical, behavioral, and psychological consequences of distress are:

- workplace violence - an estimated 60% of lost work days are related to stree - increased health care costs of approximately 75% to 90% - mistakes in production - employees ...

A Reflection

The key message George is transmitting to the reader is that marketing is not only an affair of those perceived to be marketers in an organization. The author sees this as a stereotype and encourages us other department in any organization to get into marketing in order to achieve the goals of any organization. Another important message the author brings out clearly is the idea that marketing is “equal to product promotion” (Gresham, 2010). To him marketing also includes promotions and advertising and he emphasizes that these are key elements for any product to reach the level ...

According to Spoon and Schell (1998), in the Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, they have noted that people can learn in different ways using different techniques. And the most outstanding feature is that every person has got a different mix of learning styles. For instance some people will prefer dominant style of learning whereas others may find that they prefer using varied styles depending on the context (Jackson, 2010). As researched by Spoon and Schell (1998), there are seven different types of learning styles that a student can use in a learning context.

- Others may prefer to use ...

Communication is a fragile, delicate process we often take for granted. In many cases, we do not even realize we are communicating. Most of us believe to communicate we must speak, but this is untrue. We are technically communicating all the time. Verbally, nonverbally, through our movements, and even when we are still, everything that we do communicates something to those around us. The communication process is so complex is can often begin to cause problems for us and those we communicate with. One of the most common places communication problems occur is in the workplace. Superiors and subordinates sometimes ...

Question 1

The nursing profession requires a high level of competency among the professionals. This is because competency could be the factor influencing the patient outcomes in health facilities. In my organization, competency is assessed based on the core competencies in nursing. Although there are no formal tools developed for measuring competencies in my organization, the use of these core competencies in daily nursing practice is closely monitored. One of these core competencies is ensuring that the care provided is centered on the patient (Rubenfeld & Scheffer, 2010).

This entails respecting the values of the patients, ...

Ahead of its time, IDEO’s shopping cart did not receive a positive feedback when initially designed and launched in 1998, as it did not made it into the stores at that stage. It did, however, entered the stores under a reshaped formula, but based on the IDEO’s prescribed formula, later on, hitting the large supermarkets like Carrefour. In this case, in terms of innovation, IDEO demonstrated visionary leadership, although the company was not later on the beneficiary of the success that its designed shopping cart registered. Looking at this situation from an entrepreneurial perspective, there can be ...

Leading virtual teams is very different from leading onsite teams. Virtual teams are much more challenging to manage compared with onsite management. Virtual teams have several benefits to the office and the individual. For the individual, being a member of a virtual team and working at such give the individual a comfort to work wherever and whatever way is comfortable to the individual. If the individual is comfortable working in his bed then the management does not give a damn as long as he can deliver the required outputs. He can work anytime except on scheduled meetings when he ...

- Governance and Board Relations

In governing an organization and in inducing change, it is important to consider the different factors that may positively or negatively affect the organization in reaching its goals. That way, the entire team or from a larger perspective, the entire organization would be able to make the necessary contingency plans in case something goes wrong because if there is even the slightest chance that something would go wrong, then something probably will. The main or key question that will be answered in this memorandum is how the organization can redesign a new nonprofit resource development strategy. Clearly, the previously implemented strategy ...