...Team Development I. Between expectations from superiors and the demands of a competitive marketplace, many leaders look for new innovations to increase the effectiveness of team projects. Strategies on how to improve the effectiveness of our Transitional Team were researched to ensure our organization’s success. A. Members of any group collaboration must remain effective at all times to ensure success of the objectives and goals as in regards to their organization. Strategies for improving the effectiveness of the Transitional Team include: clarifying the team mission, creating a plan/objective, and conducting progress reviews. 1. When preparing for a major change, it is best to clarify the team mission. Each team member must know and can comprehend the mission, and understand their role in fulfilling such mission (Maroney, 2004). 2. After clarifying the mission, we must collaborate to develop a plan which outlines the team’s goals and objectives, provides strategies for fulfilling the team mission, and successfully accomplishing the goals and objectives (Maroney, 2004). Such plan should also include the responsibilities of each member in relation to fulfilling the mission and goals (Maroney, 2004). 3. Throughout phases, we should conduct progress reviews during collaboration to discuss and analyze results and future plans concerning...
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...Empathetic Listening I will be quite honest. This assignment was hard for me on many levels. First, and foremost, not being able to connect with my partner to do the assignment. Secondly, trying to do this assignment with someone not in the class and with a man on top of that was definitely an eye opener. My husband is not one to be very empathetic. We both had a hard time staying focused on the dialog we were trying to create, one reason being my son and the other being that my husband kept taking us off topic. At any rate, to be an empathetic listener one must give the speaker their undivided attention. I failed at this. In a different situation I don’t know that I would be any better, because I am used to the environment of working while listening to a meeting or speaker etc because we are just so busy that we have to multi-task to get things done at my job currently; which could definitely be why I struggled to not multi-task for this assignment. I do feel however, that in an actual case management situation, I would not struggle to be focused on the client in an office setting. I do think I would /should definitely work on asking clarifying questions when I don’t understand something. I too often will not understand something and not ask questions to clarify. If I had been the client in this situation for real I would have been very discouraged. I would have felt like I was not heard and that my problems were not as important as whatever else that was going on. I...
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...Clarification is the skill we use to ensure that we have understood the message of the speaker in an interpersonal exchange. When using clarification follow these guidelines to help aid communication and understanding. * Admit if you are unsure about what the speaker means. * Ask for repetition. * State what the speaker has said as you understand it, and check whether this is what they really said. * Ask for specific examples. * Ask if you have got it right and be prepared to be corrected. * Use open, non-directive questions - if appropriate. Open Questions If your role is to assist a speaker to talk about an issue, often the most effective questioning starts with 'when', 'where', 'how' or 'why'. These questions encourage speakers to be open and expand on their thoughts. As a teenager my father would tell me not to come home late. It seemed my idea of late and his idea of late were different because no matter what time I came home-I was late! When I finally asked him what time he expected me home he refused to name an hour. I never met his expectation because he assumed I would know what late meant. Unfortunately, this was typical of his communication style. I solved it by leaving home at an early age. Don’t make leaving the option of choice for your team. Be clear, confirm understanding and make the outcome possible. Anil: Problem: Failure to clarify the desired results assuming the outcome is understood. Management is often working within a...
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...Hae Won Kang EDUC-U210 11/08/10 Assignment: Paper #1 One of the toughest decisions I made in my life was to decide to go to America and earn a degree here. As a native from South Korea, I barely spoke any English and my knowledge of the culture of the United States was low. I knew it was going to be the biggest challenge in my life getting out of my comfort zone from home and trying to learn at a different environment. But I didn’t have much choice but to deal with it and try to adapt to the new culture as soon as possible. As I read chapter four, I went back in time and thought about the hard times I had when I first came to the United States. One of the most interesting parts of chapter four was about how students experience both of the excitement of a new environment and the loss of some comforts of home. When I read the definition of homesickness and friendsickness, I felt sympathized because those words related with my experience in the past. In year 2007, I decided to come to the United States and earn my degree at Indiana University. When I first came to the US, I didn’t feel any homesickness or friendsickness at first. I was enjoying the new environment trying to learn the new culture and language as much as possible. I was so busy learning, I didn’t even have time to describe homesickness in my life then. But as I got use to the environment, I started to feel the word homesickness and friendsickness. Especially since my home town is a foreign country, it is really...
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...Che99 / A41 Grp.8 “Life under the bridge” Story Line: I. What is the documentary about? * Give the viewers first of what they are about to see * Also, let the viewers know about, where did the documentary took place II. Introduction of the place * Background story of * Background story of the people living there III. Main topic will take place * Since when the started to be filled with IV. Interview with the residents * Describe their living * When did they start living there * What made them live there * What problems do they encounter every day, in terms of financial, job, education, social, environmental, health, etc. * What solutions (alternatives) do they make to surpass each problem that they encounter everyday * Are they knowledgeable about the programs that the government has for them? If yes, what are those programs that they know and if not, why so? * Does the government gives help to them? What are those? How well did it help them? V. Summarization of the problems the interviewee had said and clarify them, if possible, to the person who is in the position of clarifying (agree or disagree to it) them. (Government officials, could not be the official who has the highest rank) * If possible, we would ask the side of the government official/s about the said problem * Clarification can also be done by the documentarians in terms of showing some proofs / evidences like...
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...CECC Evaluation as We Care Foundation Board Member Susan Miller University Of Phoenix BSHS 451 Program Design and Proposal Writing Linda N. Latham, MFT October 26, 2010 CECC Evaluation as We Care Foundation Board Member We Care Foundation is in receipt of the grant request for the amount of $5,000. Whereas some of the guidelines for such a request have been followed, there are a few areas that need clarification before We Care can submit funds to the organization. The first item needed is a proof of tax-exempt status as a 501(c) (3) organization. According to the grant proposal policy set up by We Care Foundation for all funds proposals, requests cannot be accepted for capital expenditures, tuition, scholarships, fundraising drives, emergency relief, or endowments. In the budget breakdown section of the proposal, we request a more detailed breakdown in the areas of non-personal and educational equipment. As noted on our request guideline we do not fund any capital expenditures and, we need more clarification on these costs before we can accept the proposal. Credibility The credibility of CECC is also a question that needs to be answered with more clarification. CECC has been around for six years and that is quite an accomplishment. However, are there any other awards or recognitions that CECC may have received after the award from CDBG in 1994? The type of service provided by CECC correlates...
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...Often times, employees overlook the importance of the benefits with which they are provided, or are unable to determine the real value of these benefits. They can easily be confused by all the literature, especially when company changes providers or offers additional coverage options for a plan. With all of the confusion, no wonder employees seek out endless clarification from HR and other benefits professionals. Not only is organization spending significant portions of the budget to provide a benefits package, countless hours are taken out of your HR and employee benefits professionals' days attempting to clear up the confusion and clarify misunderstandings . Different ways organization can communicate the value of benefits package. • Identify the benefits provided. Sounds simple, but all employees know what benefits they are provided? Healthcare is the benefit most everyone thinks of—and its value is considerable. But how about other “hidden” benefits that may provide? • Explain the value of each benefit. Every benefit has a value. communication program should be comprehensive enough so that any employee in organization can calculate the value—either in a dollar amount or as a percent of his or her pay—of each benefit provided. • Provide various methods to teach the value of benefits. Some basic methods to use in your education program include one-on-one meetings with expert consultants, group meetings, and Internet or self-enroll methods. Other ideas to supplement...
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...The Most Important Characteristic of a Successful Group In my opinion the most important characteristic of a successful group is the Information seeker. It asks for clarification, facts and current information about the group. An information seeker is a very important person in a group because it has the ability to clarify any arguments, ideas and opinions with ease. A very good example of clarification would be that a person in the group will come up with many brainstorming ideas and opinions and is the job of the information seeker to organize and clear every theme so everyone in the group can understand what the topic is being discussed. One of the main problems in a group is that many of the group members sometimes don’t understand the material that is being discussed and more often feel very lost in the process, the information seeker does notice these problems and minimizes it’s stated in the paragraph before, the information seeker gathers facts and current information and it makes it easier for everyone in the group to understand everything that is being discussed. The information seeker also wants to stay current on the topic so it also incorporates a lot of current events regarding the information given. It is very important for an information seeker to keep every opinion and facts in order so the group can get a better understating and keep good moral in the group. In conclusion I do believe that information seeker is the most important characteristic of a successful...
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...Based on an analysis of the last six months’ sales, your boss notices that sales of beef products are declining in your chain’s restaurants. As beef entrée sales decline, so do profits. Fearing beef sales have declined due to several newspaper stories reporting E. coli contamination discovered at area grocery stores, he suggests a survey of all area restaurants to see if the situation is persuasive. a. What do you think of this research suggestion? b. How if at all, could you improve on your boss’s formulation of the research question? There are many possible reasons that beef sales may be declining. Of the many possibilities the e coli contamination could be one of them but I would be cautious of assuming the situation is due to e coli news coverage. First I would also clarify the objective of the research. I would have to assume that my boss isn’t concerned that the local population isn’t eating enough beef. I would have to assume that the beef sales translate into something else that concerns my boss, such as a lower margin per entrée or lower revenues being generated by the store. Clarifying what the actual problem is would be my first step. Before surveying area restaurants I would begin with analyzing the data collected at my establishment. Are the customers in our store choosing options other than beef or do we just have fewer customers? An issue could be that customers are looking for healthier options. There could also be a local vegetarian or vegan...
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...How a teacher in a nursery uses four different communication skills and applies values of care I went into a preschool and I was observing how a teacher uses tone of voice, tone of pace, clarifying and posture. All of these skills are briefly described how they used the communication and what will happen if they didn’t use that skill. All of these examples I used are from what I observed and I didn’t use names I made them up to maintain confidentiality. Tone of voice: Tone of voice means the way our voice response and the way we speak to others, this means what we say might not be important but how we say the words is really important, tone of voice is really important because it defines quality of a persons voice, for example our pitch, volume and characteristics of our voice. There are lots of different types of tones in our voice and they happen naturally for example: when you’re angry you speak quickly and really loud, having a chat/conversation with friends our tone changes to a clam, slow and lots of different types of tone which puts people to an ease, flat tone of voice is usually depressed and exhausted and when ever a person is talking another person can figure out what kind of tone you have and that tone often reflects your mood. Teachers in a nursery use tone of voice very effectively they use that by being calm to everyone for example: when Dylan broke some toy the teacher try make him understand that what he did was wrong in a calm/friendly tone this is useful...
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...human medicine, nutrition is the science or practice of consuming and utilizing foods. Eating too much fat can increase the risk for a number of health threats. Fat contains 9 calories per gram. That means fat packs more than twice as many calories as carbohydrates and protein, which both have 4 calories per gram. The body needs fat to survive, but it’s wise to eat this important nutrient in moderation. (Mehmetz, O. 2010) Milk fat has the most complex fatty acid composition of the edible fats. Milk products contain up to 16 nutrients that are essential for health. Calcium, vitamin D and protein are some of the nutrients in milk products that keep the body functioning properly and could help reduce the risk of certain diseases. (DairyNutrition. Consulted 2010.) Cultured Milk Cultured Milk is a probiotic dairy product made by fermenting a mixture of skimmed milk with a special strain of the bacterium Lactobacillus casei Shirota. This standard cultured milk contains 18g of sugar for every 100g, but comes in 65 mL bottles. The benefits of this cultured milk consumption are supported by an array of scientific studies. Those could range from maintenance of gut flora, modulation of the immune system, regulation of bowel habits...
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...Introduction: Centrifugation is a process used to separate or concentrate materials suspended in a liquid medium. The theoretical basis of this technique is the effect of gravity on particles in suspension. Two particles of different masses will settle in a tube at different rates in response to gravity. The centrifugal force generated is proportional to the rotation rate of the rotor and the distance between the rotor centre and the centrifuge tube. There are three general classes of centrifugation which is low speed, up to about 5000rpm, high speed machines of up to about 25000rpm and ultracentrifuges which will turn at up to 100000rpm. Another form of centrifuge in laboratories is microcentrifuge. It is very common and simple machine used with 0.5 or 1.5ml disposable plastic tubes. Most of these machines generate between 10000 and 13000rpm. Many microcentrifuges only have settings for speed (rpm), not relative centrifugal force (rcf). Consequently, a formula for conversion is required to ensure that the appropriate setting is used in an experiment. The relationship between rpm and rcf is as follow, g=1.118 x 10ˆ-5 rs² where g is the relative centrifugal force, r is the radius of the rotor in centimeters and s is the speed of centrifuge in rpm. Objective: 1. To determine the relationship of speed of centrifugation with the coagulation of milk which separate from the mixture. 2. To separate coagulated milk from the mixture of fresh milk and acetic acid by centrifugation...
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...from Milk Adapted by R. Minard (Penn State Univ.) from Introduction to Organic Laboratory Techniques: A Microscale Approach, Pavia, Lampman, Kriz & Engel, Saunders, 1990. Revised 3/20/2000 PreLab Exercise: Draw a mechanism for the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of the acetal bond in lactose; see reaction below. Hint: your textbook may be of some help; first identify the functional group that is undergoing a reaction and consider the catalyzed used. H HO OH CH2OH O O H OH H2C OH O HO HO OH OH H2C OH O HO HO + HO OH H2O OH CH2OH O HO H + D -Galactose D -Glucose OH α-Lactose: D -Galactose+ D -Glucose Introduction: The Chemistry of Milk Milk is a food of exceptional interest. Not only is milk an excellent food for the very young, but humans have also adapted milk, specifically cow’s milk, as a food substance for persons of all ages. Many specialized milk products like cheese, yogurt, butter, and ice cream are staples of our diet. Milk is probably the most nutritionally-complete food that can be found in nature. This property is important for milk, since it is the only food young mammals consume in the nutritionally significant weeks following birth. Whole milk contains vitamins (principally thiamine, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, and vitamins A, D, and K), minerals (calcium, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, and trace metals), proteins (which include all the essential amino acids), carbohydrates (chiefly lactose), and lipids (fats). The only important elements in which milk is seriously...
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...No.: IIHM14AHM054 Yoghurt – its true origins haven’t been found out yet. What we do know about it is that it was used during the pre-historic times. It was believed that yoghurt was first discovered by a shepherd who preserved his milk in containers made from animal hides and stomachs and forgot about it. And when he finally remembered, he found that it changed its form to yoghurt. Yoghurt is a fermented milk product which is produced by controlled fermentation of milk by several bacteria. The bacteria - Lactobacillus and Streptococcus – are responsible for breaking down sugars present in milk to lactic acid. In short, yoghurt is fermented milk, in which fermentation where fermentation is carried out by bacteria which produces lactic acid. The production of yoghurt may seem simple, but it has to be produced in a totally controlled atmosphere. First of all, the milk which is going to be used for production of yoghurt is pasteurized. This is done in order to help the cultures remain alive after fermentation to act as probiotics. The milk is homogenized to get the right consistency and then it is rapidly cooled to 42oC. The starter cultures are then added to the milk and is left for incubation for around 6 hours. During this period, the milk is becomes acidic and the fermentation is stopped by cooling the mixture below 7oC. Flavours are added at this stage to make varieties of yoghurt and are then sent for packaging. Youghurt must be consumed within 40 days of production...
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...Development Board of India (NDDB).It’s one of the key players of the Indian dairy industry. It’s products include liquid milk, flavored milk, ice cream, lassi, dahi, mishit dahi, white butter, table butter, ghee, cheese, edible oils (under the name of Dhara),UHT milk and Fresh fruits and vegetables (under the name of Safal). Market size and competition: Current market value of drinking milk and related products in India stand at a whooping sum of approximately 400 billion. Milk products have shown a steep growth due the increase in the number of health conscious individuals in urban as well as rural areas.Further the introduction of products such as soy milk,flavoured milk and probiotic yoghurt has helped in forstering the increased rate of growth. Although Amul is still remains the big shot in Indian dairy industry but other leading companies like Nestle,Reliance,Danone and Go have also surfaced with some of their revolutionizing products. In all of these competitions,as far as the geographical distribution is concerned,Mother Dairy holds its leading position in Delhi NCR region with around 69% of market share. Source: Euromonitor International March 2013 “Drinking Milk Products in India” https://www.euromonitor.com/dairy-milk-products-in-india/report Supply Chain: In Mother Dairy modus operandi, the milk is firstly collected at village level,followed by the collection at the district level and then at the state level.The accumulated...
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