...Creating an Agenda Chris Abernathy SOC/110 John Koehler Creating an Agenda More and more meetings are now and will continue to be conducted without the benefit of being in the same room together. People are working from home or the other side of the planet, and it’s important to make these virtual meetings effective. Virtual meetings, which I define as anytime we discuss something with two or more people outside of the same room, can be done over the phone or on the web. And though there are many advantages to meeting with people in this way, there are also obstacles to making them work well. According to "Working In A Virtual Team" (n.d.), it is more difficult to fully understand each other because even the use of video can hide a great deal of non-verbal communication. We also interact differently when we’re not in close proximity to one another. Distractions abound and can easily be hidden from others. And the ability to build trust and camaraderie are especially difficult. All Meetings Should Include: * Agenda. Nothing frustrates people more than attending a meeting where there is no clear reason for it and no logical progression of topics to be discussed. * Check–in time. Take five minutes or so in the beginning for everyone to say something about what’s going on with them—professionally or personally. This gets everyone talking right away and helps facilitate camaraderie. * Schedule. Start and end the meeting on time, and keep the agenda moving forward...
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...Creating a Meeting Agenda Creating a Meeting Agenda The agenda is the key to a successful meeting - it is the roadmap, the guide, the plan. Studies have shown that up to 70% of meetings either have no agenda or have a poor agenda which is not helpful. In this article, you will see that there are some steps which you can take to make sure your agenda will contribute to making your meeting more productive. There are also hidden advantages. If the agenda is well constructed, you will also spend less time in the meeting and more time actually doing the things the meeting determines need to be done! 1. Remember the key - the more detailed the agenda, the more focussed and generally, the shorter the meeting will be. 2. You cannot expect intelligent decisions if people do not have time to think through the issues before the meeting. Therefore, agendas need to be sent out in advance, not given out at the meeting. People who have genuine desire to reach the best decision, and people who are organised, always have their agendas distributed in time for people to give thought to the issues. 3. Adopt the strict policy that if an item is not on the agenda, it will not be discussed at the meeting. Do not allow items to be raised without notice. Allow only true emergency items to be exempt and allow no other exceptions. Organised people have no difficulty with this. It is only disorganised or "slack" people who object to this because they cannot get...
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...Media is an important part of our daily lives. One aspect of our lives that media has a major impact on is politics, especially the presidency. The media affects the president from his campaign all the way through his term. The media is vital to helping the president shape his image communicates with the public, and set the agenda. The media is an essential tool in becoming a successful President. When a President interacts with the media he will soon benefit from this interaction. The effects the media has on the President begin when the President is campaigning. The President has a staff that helps the President form an image that is appealing to the voting public. The staff works with the media to communicate the image of the Presidential hopeful to the public. The staff attempts to “ (1) control news coverage by controlling media access, setting the media’s agenda, creating pseudo events; (2) blur the distinction between news and commercials in order to increase the credibility of the commercial’s message; (3) exploit the linguistic categories reflecting criteria for newsworthiness and conventions of news presentations through which journalists view campaigns; (4) insulate the candidate from attack; and (5) enlist the help of journalists in responding to attacks” (Jamieson 229) If the staff uses the media wisely then it can help ensure that the Presidential candidate will have a good image with the public. It is difficult for candidates to travel to every city in the country...
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...concerned with the foreseeable results and expectations of all the stake holders of the meeting. The desired outcomes, much like the purpose, are written down and act as a guide or general framework for the meeting. The third step is concerned with allocation or assigning of roles of the facilitator, the overseer, the time keeper and the scribe. These are the primary players and regulators of the meeting who are charged with the duties of setting the agenda rolling. The facilitator is the key regulator of the meeting with the scribe taking down minutes and the time keeper allocating durations for all steps. The fourth step is setting the agenda, a comprehensive statement of the major objectives of the meeting which connect the purposes of the session to the foreseeable results. The last step is concerned with establishment and allocation of time for each item on the agenda. The mining group gold is a process that is effective for all types of proceedings or meetings. The primary roles of the primary and secondary facilitator include creating an open and collaborative amicable environment for the team members to effectively attain positive results under the foreseeable expectations. The primary and the secondary facilitators are as well charged with the duty of preventing possible conflict and solving any...
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...job since his return as Starbucks’ CEO by creating strategic initiatives in order to return Starbucks to where he thinks the company should be. His vision includes becoming the authority on coffee, engaging and inspiring Starbucks’ partners, igniting the emotional attachment with customers, expanding global presence and making each store the neighborhood’s heart, being a leader in ethical sourcing and environmental impact, creating innovative growth platforms, and delivering a sustainable economic model. Every one of these visions is addressed in some way in his agenda, which shows he has a clear idea of where the company should go and how to get it there. In 2008-2009 the company experiences five quarters of deteriorating sales, but from 2009-2010 had five quarters of improving sales, which shows that Schultz’ transformation agenda has been working. Since Howard Schultz returned as Starbucks’ CEO, he has transformed agenda for Starbucks base on several key elements. First, he planned on slowing new store openings to 73 internationally. Second, 900 underperformed company-owned stores were closed in the United States. The goal of this action was to raise sales and traffic at nearby sales. Around 75% of these stores that were considered underperforming were within three miles of an existing store which shows that their strategy of having a Starbucks everywhere was cannibalizing their sales. The third element of the transformation agenda was raising the projected return on capital...
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...Mass Communication and Theories Jenny Wunderlich Comm 309 November 3, 2014 Introduction Within Mass Communications, there are multiple theories that are presented. Two of the theories are the Cultivation Theory, and The Agenda-Setting Theory. I enjoy this area because these theories lie under media effects. Media effects expands our behavior whether its positive or negative, and has a huge impact on how people become. The media has become a huge part of society and how people live today. There are many forms of media, but these theories specifically talk mainly about television. People start at such a young age watching television and it affects how they are raised and how they percieve life. Theory 1 The first theory is the Cultivation Theory. This theory is a social theory which examines the long-term effects of television. The primary concept this theory is that the more time that people spend absuing television, the more likely they are to conform to the ideas they are watching. This causes a misconception of reality and what is important. For example, when someone is watching a ton of violence, they are more likely to contribute to that lifestyle than one who didn't watch that. In our textbook, it states, “According to Gerbner, violence is one of the major staples of the TV world” (pg. 366). He is concerned that this changes people's beliefs which then alters their behavior and how they act and approach things. There is something called Institutional Process Analysis, which...
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...The systematic institution of racism constitutes a systematic accumulation of effort that goes unnoticed behind the façade presented to the audience. Hidden agendas surreptitiously make the effort to facilitate subordination of the disenfranchised and powerless amidst the easily perceived promising future of equality. In the following response, I will argue the integration of humanist ethical ideologies that illicitly and surreptitiously generate racist ideologies that subjugate the colonized non-Western “other”. Social Darwinism, eugenics, imperialism, nationalism, cultural relativity, and multiculturalism are the main ideas that support my argument which will be subsequently elaborated on. For centuries, the doctrine of white male hegemonic enslavement has dominated, degraded, and dehumanized the disenfranchised and powerless from the privileged. The beliefs, values, culture, and ideology that all these different number of systems of thinking would create the knowledge of humanitarian effort to intervene in trying to justify and clarify racism without question. Universalism helped to fuel the binary opposition of the colonizers versus the colonized. The binary system is far from valiantly subverting stereotypes, such manufactured ideologies are deeply invested in upholding stereotypes, which in turn generates the idea of “difference” and this difference plays a role in sustaining racism. In other words, if words like “progressive” and “civilized” are tied to the group “colonizers”...
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...Introduction to World Trade Organization (WTO) The WTO is the single international organization that is operating worldwide and it deals with the trading rules and regulation between the countries around the globe. The organization majorly supervises and opens up the trading activities that are taken place among the countries. There are the agreements and the negotiations that are signed by the number of the trading countries around the world and are approved within the WTO’s parliaments. The aim of the services provided by the WTO is to assist the manufacturers and the providers of the goods and services and the importers and exporters to carry out their business. The WTO is administered by its member governments. All the chief decisions are carried out as a whole by all the member ministers or by the ambassadors or delegates of WTO. The meeting among the ambassadors is regularly carried out in Geneva. The organization is also highly concerned with the dispute resolution processes among the trading countries; therefore the organization enforces the participating countries to comply with the trading laws and rules that are set under the WTO agreements. Roles played by WTO There are various roles related to trading activities that are played by WTO. It is the responsibility of WTO to evaluate and regulate the national and international trade policies and to make sure that the established trade policies are consistent and are relevant and transparent through the surveillance...
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...Caroline Fodale English 121 Professor Mount 03/04/2015 Snap Into Reality We constantly hear we are in the ‘age of technology’. It’s crazy how much technology we use on a daily basis. It has become so routine to have technology incorporated into our daily lives that we don’t realize how much we rely on it. Who would have thought Pixar’s animation Wall-E could have so much technological awareness incorporated into the plot. The director of Wall-E created this movie with a universal message of what will happen to our society over time if we do not stop relying on technology. Thousands of years have passed that we have lived with technology, and it has worked in our benefit in many circumstances. However, it has become an addiction, distraction and a nuisance to our society. Society craves the latest technology, and we want more. I will admit I can’t last without my cell phone. Unlike the past however, humans are buried in technology in which we depend on. Cavemen many years ago survived without technology; why is it now that we have become so reliant on it? Just as the passengers on the Axiom in Wall-E, we are controlled and driven by technology. But, what will society do if technology takes a turn for the worse and goes against us? In the film the robots on the Axiom turned against the passengers to assist Wall-E and Eve in saving the Earth. One-day robots could ultimately turn on society and we will be left with nothing to do. Technology is assisting society in becoming...
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...responsibility in developing a strategic plan while considering stakeholder needs and agendas. *include at least one example of a company overstepping ethical boundaries for stakeholder agendas, and what types of preventative measures could be taken to avoid this type of situation. Solution Loss of employment and retirement funds, double bonuses, tax evasion, and the dark side of office politics are some of the challenges affecting organizations like a virus causing professionalism and efficiency to be questioned. Walker and Lanis (2009) found that an organization influences and is influenced by the society within which it operates (Cengage, 2009); therefore, an organization needs to take into consideration issues such as product safety, regulations, legal, ethical and economic responsibilities to the society within which it functions. One of the methods which could be used to do so is to integrate ethical and socially responsible techniques in an organization’s strategic plan whilst taking into consideration the needs and agendas of stakeholders. This concept is supported by Drozdenko, and Jin (2010) who suggested core values and beliefs exhibited at the strategic level influences decision making and outcomes throughout an organization. The objective of this research is to explain the role of ethics and social responsibility in developing a strategic plan while considering stakeholder needs and agendas, including an example of a company which overstepped ethical boundaries and...
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...Running head: LEADING AND PARTICIPATING Leading and Participating in Discussions in Small Groups or Teams Steven L McGee Group and Organizational Behavior Christine E. Philips, Ph.D. MHR Group 236 Trevecca Nazarene University Leadership is not dictating, it is about keeping the group focused and motivating members to do their best during group activities. According to a study by the Hay Group, a global management consultancy, there are 75 key components of employee satisfaction (Lamb, McKee, 2004). Trust and confidence in top leadership was proven to be the single most reliable predictor of employee satisfaction in an organization. When a person doesn’t respect the people in a leadership position, complications in tasks will arise. An example of this would be in the workplace when a leader is delegating responsibility to employees, and the employees do not respect him or her. The task will be completed; however, the quality or production will not be as good as it would if the manager was appropriately respected. Trust and respect go hand in hand when leading any group, whether it is in the workplace, school, or just a casual event. Aside from trust and respect, a leader has the ability to set the morale in a group. Being aware of the mental and spiritual shape of your teammates plays an important part in leadership. Leaders can shape morale by compassion, and by listening to other group members before adding their thoughts and ideas. By listening to others...
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...concerned with the foreseeable results and expectations of all the stake holders of the meeting. The desired outcomes, much like the purpose, are written down and act as a guide or general framework for the meeting. The third step is concerned with allocation or assigning of roles of the facilitator, the overseer, the time keeper and the scribe. These are the primary players and regulators of the meeting who are charged with the duties of setting the agenda rolling. The facilitator is the key regulator of the meeting with the scribe taking down minutes and the time keeper allocating durations for all steps. The fourth step is setting the agenda, a comprehensive statement of the major objectives of the meeting which connect the purposes of the session to the foreseeable results. The last step is concerned with establishment and allocation of time for each item on the agenda. The mining group gold is a process that is effective for all types of proceedings or meetings. The primary roles of the primary and secondary facilitator include creating an open and collaborative amicable environment for the team members to effectively attain positive results under the foreseeable expectations. The primary and the secondary facilitators are as well charged with the duty of preventing possible conflict and solving any clashes in ideas which are likely to distort the focus of the meeting, in light of this they...
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...concerned with the foreseeable results and expectations of all the stake holders of the meeting. The desired outcomes, much like the purpose, are written down and act as a guide or general framework for the meeting. The third step is concerned with allocation or assigning of roles of the facilitator, the overseer, the time keeper and the scribe. These are the primary players and regulators of the meeting who are charged with the duties of setting the agenda rolling. The facilitator is the key regulator of the meeting with the scribe taking down minutes and the time keeper allocating durations for all steps. The fourth step is setting the agenda, a comprehensive statement of the major objectives of the meeting which connect the purposes of the session to the foreseeable results. The last step is concerned with establishment and allocation of time for each item on the agenda. The mining group gold is a process that is effective for all types of proceedings or meetings. The primary roles of the primary and secondary facilitator include creating an open and collaborative amicable environment for the team members to effectively attain positive results under the foreseeable expectations. The primary and the secondary facilitators are as well charged with the duty of preventing possible conflict and solving any clashes in ideas which are likely to distort...
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...Creating Shared Value Wednesday, October 17, 1.15pm Moderator Dr. Robert S. Kaplan Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, Harvard Business School Panellists Gustavo Hernandez Executive Vice President, Pemex Exploration & Production John W. Walsh Founder & President, COPD Foundation Michael Kavanaugh Director, Respiratory Boehringer Ingelheim Sikha Singh Director of OSM & HR, Executive Ship Management Creating Shared Value: A Short Overview Bob Kaplan Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College Amanco: Triple Bottom-Line Reporting We must generate economic value while operating in a framework of ethics, eco-efficiency and with social responsibility to improve people's quality of life. Regions: South America MEXICO CENTRAL AMERICAN REGION (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama) BRAZIL COLOMBIA ANDINAR (Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela) 3 Amanco’s Strategy Map 4 From CSR to Shared Value Shared Value Sustainability Corporate Social Responsibility 5 How Companies Create Shared Value Definition: Companies create shared value when they enhance their competitiveness while advancing economic and social conditions in the communities in which they operate Examples of creating shared value: (Amanco illustrates #’s 1 and 2.) 1. Introduce new products and markets to meet societal needs (nutrition, energy and water conservation...
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...century. I knew I wanted to incorporate inquiry based learning. “According to the standards for the twenty first century. According to ??? inquiry based learning “stimulates critical thinking through the use of learning activities that involve application, analysis, evaluation, and creativity. Being that the state of SC does not endorse any library standards. I turned to the AASL standards as well with the standards for their subject level. Use talyor text for reference I discussed with Marjorie about possibly having students research their favorite animal using Encyclopedia Animal Britannica. Students would research answering questions then creating a presentation using Google Slides sharing it with their classmates. Marjorie thought this was an excellent idea. Students would have the opportunity to think and research along with creating a presentation using technology. In elementary level students only attended library once a week since they are on a fixed schedule. Therefore, before starting the unit I explained to the students they would be researching their favorite animal. I wanted to get a quick general idea on how many students have used DISCUS in the past. Much to my surprise many of the students had not had much experience using them. I asked students if they could define what a database and the difference between databases and the internet. I also posed the question why should you use databases vs searching Google. I remind students they can access DISCUS at home...
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