...any, or all, of these questions then you most likely suffer from the effects of attempting to multitask. The reality of our human world is that we are not physically or mentally capable of completing more than one complex task at a time. Let us start by defining the term multitasking. Merriam-Webster defines multitasking as: “The ability to do several things at the same time.” (1) The American Psychological Association (APA) defines multitasking in a similar fashion, but also adds the term “switch” at the end. The addition of the word switch actually tells us volumes about the true nature of multitasking. Studies show that multitasking is actually the human mind switching from one task to another. (4) In general, the switch takes only fraction of a second to complete. This quick switch gives us the allusion that we are performing more than one task at a time, thus multitasking is accomplished, or so we think. In fact, according to a study conducted in 2001 by Joshua Rubinstein, Jeffrey Evans and David Meyer found that participants lost significant amounts of time as they switched between multiple tasks and lost even more time as the tasks became increasingly complex. (9) Scientists have broken the process down into two stages, first “Goal Setting” and second...
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...Perfect Phrases for the TOEFL Speaking and Writing Sections This page intentionally left blank Perfect Phrases for the TOEFL Speaking and Writing Sections Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases to Improve Your Conversational Ability, Develop Your Writing Skills, and Build Exam Confidence Roberta G. Steinberg New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2008 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-159247-4 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-159246-6. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please contact George Hoare, Special Sales, at...
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...start of the day, and completing the most important tasks first. II. Body a. First, a minute of planning the night before can save 10 minutes in execution. Sit down before bed and write down everything you need to do the following day on a post-it or piece of paper. Writing down a list clarifies your thinking goals. i. According to Charles Duhigg in a Harvard Business interview, he says that 40-45% of we what we do is habit. ii. You want to be able to work from a list to get things done and not wing the day as usual. b. Second, set priorities on your list before you start the day working from the 80/20 rule. If you have 10 things on your list make two of them the most important than the other eight. i. Ask yourself, “if I there are two things I need to get done before the end of the day, what would it be?” and those are your two to prioritize for your day. ii. According to Atanu Dey’s article on Economics, Policy and Government, prioritizing is important because we have limited resources, all of which have alternative uses. c. Finally, begin and focus on it and only it until complete the most important task first. All success in general comes from project completion and establishing good habits to do so will help you finish what you start always. i. A lot of people emphasize and praise on the fact that they can multi-task and get more done. However, that entails completing many little tasks to complete one large tasks jeopardizing quality and...
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...and have things in common. We are all dessert lover. When the idea came up, everyone agreed and very excited. During the forming stage, we discussed about our purpose, set and assigned tasks, and established timelines. We don’t have to start forming personal relationships since we are very close. We have known each other for more than 8 years. Then, the need of clarity about our activities and goals as well as guidance how we will work led us to the second stage as “storming”. We have set up a meeting daily to share and confront one another’s ideas. Some conflicts occurred almost in every meeting but, unlike many others, the problems surprisingly can be solved quickly. It’s said that you should “never do business with friends.” I wholeheartedly disagree. After months that we gathered together, we have already proved that it doesn’t always true. At the third stage “norming”, we have set role for each member according to each specialty. One member is assigned to be an accountant while one is a chef and the other is a marketing director. When we successfully established strategy for achieving our goals, we then moved to the fourth stage, which is “performing”, as we are now “performing” very hard towards our goal. At present, our first branch is successfully launched and we also plan to open our second branch by next year. These steps might be repeated again when there are new plans such as for festive seasons. Each member in our groups is unique yet unity. We play more than one role...
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...NT2799 NSA CAPSTONE COURSE TEAM AGREEMENT & WORK PLAN [COMPANY NAME] [Date] I. TEAM AGREEMENT A. Individual Contribution This document should be a guide for individual tasking for the current team assignment. Through your chosen collaboration platforms and tools, each group member must individually enable your instructor to determine your level of involvement and contribution to the final team product. Individual team members who do not document their level of team involvement and contribution to the final team product may have their individual grade reduced, at the discretion of the instructor. Each group must seek and acknowledge their instructor’s preference on this point. B. Desirable team behaviors Examples of desirable behaviors are punctuality, effective "listening," no harmful "group think," systematic documentation of important team communications and decisions, etc. C. Submission of Final Document Team members will post all individual contributions to the team assignment in the team study group conference. Team members may find it helpful to use email to improve timeliness for review of deliverables. Your team should ensure that the final assignment that has been reviewed by all team members before submission to the instructor. Each member must upload the final paper in the dropbox under the assignment tab. D. Team Contact Information |Member Names |Telephone Numbers ...
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...Accepted Policy Conclusion 1. Current status of the No Late Work Accepted Policy in organizations No Late Work Accepted Policy ‘No Late Work Accepted Policy’ is a plan of action adopted by an institution or an individual in order to make firm the manner in which individuals manage their roles (Jha 22). The major aim of the policy is to ensure that individuals complete a task assigned within a given deadline. The policy has many merits. Primarily, it ensures that an individual keeps time. Thus, time management forms an essential ingredient of the No Late Work Accepted Policy and is particularly crucial in managing an individual’s career, and the improving an individual’s life (Jha 24). The No Late Work Accepted Policy seeks to ensure that individuals remain focused on an assigned role. The primary intention of the No Late Work Accepted Policy is to prohibit individuals from misusing the leniency previously accorded to submission of assigned tasks. Many people treat late tasks as an exceptional occurrence, as a result, many people have developed the habit of procrastination until the assigned task is overdue and the consequences may relate to penalties and minor sufferings (Tagg 8). The policy is beneficial as it exerts pressure on individual to adhere to the deadlines provided. On the other hand, the policy acts as an effective measure to prohibit lateness in submitting...
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...article was very helpful because it showed and explained to me the key elements that are needed when conducting a good strong job analysis. This article showed me that I needed to include both essential and non-essential task descriptions. It also gave specifics on the type of equipment that would need to be used and physical demands as well as many other things to include in my analysis. I was honestly hoping this article would help me more. Though I found some of it useful, it didn’t really help me understand what exactly I need to do to gather the information needed in the job analysis. The second article I found was by Jody Wheaton. Her article is all about how conducting a proper job analysis can improve your business. In the article she describes different ways to actually conduct a job analysis. The thing I took from this article was mostly the importance of actually doing research into the job. Because of this article, I actually sought out the HR department and found out what kind of things they would actually need in an HR reception/assistant position. I wanted to know what kind of equipment they would be using and what exactly they would like that person in that role to do. Jody Wheaton states that “Knowledge, skills, abilities, work behaviors, tasks associated with the job, competencies and cultural aspects of the organization should all be part of the data collection process.”2 I was able to add some of these aspects into my paper as well, allowing it to be a little...
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...necessary): 1) Define effort-driven? Effort-driven is when you assign or remove people from a task. This causes the task to either lengthen or shorten the duration basing it on the amount of resources assigned to it. When this is done, it does not affect the total amount of work for a task. 2) Under what circumstances would you turn off effort driven scheduling? One circumstance would be with complex tasks. These require highly skilled resources or are very complex in general. In this case, adding more tasks would slow down the team rather then speeding it up. Another circumstance is when there is a uncertain or undetermined amount of work for a task. 3) Use a real-world example of when you would make a task as a Fixed Duration type task? An example of this if you needed to use a painter to paint the bedroom of a house for 4 days, which would be a grand total of 32 hours. The other painter broke his arm and is unable to paint the second bedroom so you need to assign the same painter to room number two. You can assign the task of the second room to the painter as part time (50%), a total of 16 hours. 4) What is the formula for calculating duration? Duration = work/units 5) What are the eight preset work contours (hint: In the Task Usage view right click on a resource name an open the assignment information box) and what are the procedures in applying them to a resource on a task? (1) Flat- This is a default contour that has an even distribution of work (2) Back-loaded-...
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...1. How should you as the leader make decisions to resolve the situations in the survey? I should make the decisions based on the readiness level of the group, since according to Levi (2014), the appropriate style depends of the readiness level of the group, which refers to the skills of group members, their experience with the task, their capacity to set goals, and their ability to assume responsibility (p.191). 2. Do you have a preferred leadership style? Based on the result of the survey, I got 3 points for supporting leadership style, 2 points for both coaching and delegating leadership styles, and 1 point for directing leadership style. The result indicates that my preferred style is supporting, which emphasizes less on task, but more on relationship (Levi, 2014, p.191). 3. How flexible are you with your leadership style? In which situations is this leadership style most appropriate? * I think I can use different leadership styles for different circumstances. Here is my experience that led a team in my undergraduate school. In 2009, when I was a freshman, I joined a club called Professional Association in my college. One year later I was selected to be the leader of one of departments in the association. In 2010, my department had three main activities: held a seminar of internship experience sharing, organized a Flea Market in school, and invited Meizu Co. Ltd. and China Unicom to make a career talk. We had to write a proposal for the activity...
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...internal controls. It will also tell why they are important not only to companies, but why they are important to investors, creditors, and even the public too. Internal controls are a serious of methods and measures that companies put in place to insure that errors or irregularities in the accounting process do not happen very often. In every company there is a chance of having one or more employees who are dishonest and may take from the company. Internal controls helps to keep this from happening on a regular basis. Internal controls have two primary goals. The first primary goal is to safeguard a company’s assets. This goal is to protect a company’s assets from being misused without permission, theft, and even robbery. The second goal of internal controls is to improve the consistency and correctness of a company’s accounting records. Internal controls accomplish this goal by decreasing the threat of errors or irregularities in the financial accounting process (Internal Controls, 2012). These two goals help make companies trust their employees and investors feel confident in their decision to invest in a company. Internal controls have not always been enforced. This is the reason for the collapse of Enron, Tyco, etc. The Sarbonese-Oxley Act (SOX) has helped make internal controls a requirement for all publically traded U. S. Corporations. SOX forces companies to pay attention even extra attention to their internal controls. The Sarbonese-Oxley Act makes...
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...Efficiency Chapter 8 .......................Prepare Thoroughly Before You Begin Chapter 9 .......................Do Your Homework Chapter 10 .....................Leverage Your Special Talents Chapter 11 .....................Identify Your Key Constraints Chapter 12 .....................Take It One Oil Barrel At A Time Chapter 13 .....................Put the Pressure on Yourself Chapter 14 .....................Maximize Your Personal Power Chapter 15 .....................Motivate Yourself Into Action 2 Chapter 16 .....................Practice Creative Procrastination Chapter 17 .....................Do the Most Difficult Task First Chapter 18 .....................Slice and Dice the Task Chapter 19 .....................Create Large Chunks of Time Chapter 20 .....................Develop a Sense of Urgency Chapter 21 .....................Single Handle Every Task Putting It All Together 3 Preface Thank you for picking up this book. I hope these ideas help you as much as have helped me and thousands of others. In fact, I hope that this book changes your life forever. There is never enough time to do everything you have to do. You are literally swamped with work and personal responsibilities, projects, stacks of magazines to read and piles of books you intend to get to one of these days as soon as you get caught up. But the fact is that you are never going to get caught...
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... | Daytime | | Evening/Mobile | | Email address | | Company name | | Training date(s) | | Training location | | Trainer’s name | | Assessment due date | | Date submitted | | Submission Date | | Resubmit 1 | | Resubmit 2 | | Purpose of the assessment The purpose of this assessment task is to assess evidence for part of a unit/s of competency which in full will lead towards a nationally-accredited qualification I acknowledge the following (all boxes need to be ticked) ❏ The assessment process has been explained to me ❏ I am ready to commence the assessment process. I have been advised of the assessment requirements, my rights and responsibilities as an assessment candidate, and I choose to be assessed at this time ❏ I understand which unit/s to complete, evidence I need to provide, and how to complete this document ❏ I understand my right of appeal, and this has been fully explained to me ❏ I have discussed with my trainer any special needs that should be considered when undertaking this assessment task | Candidate declaration - By signing/dating below, I declare that 1. I have been advised of the assessment requirements for this unit of competency, have been made aware of my rights and responsibilities as...
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...Behavioral Influences and Leadership Styles LET1 / Task 2 WGU Task A: Before determining which style of leadership the current CEO and the two possible successors exhibit, we must first define each of the three types in the given scenario. The first type of leadership we will discuss is a Level 5 leader. A Level 5 Leader is basically selfless, very humble, and believes that by respecting his workers, he will bring out the best in them and bring success to the company. A Level 5 Leader is one that will give credit where the credit is due so to speak and will willingly take the blame for any mishaps or shortcomings instead of pawning off the blame onto his subordinates. The next style of leadership is the Transactional style. The Transactional Leader is one who believes in the setting of clear concise goals for his employees. He also believes in a punishment or reward system. If a goal is met then he rewards his employees but if they fail to reach the goal then they will be punished. Lastly, there is the Transformational style of leadership. The Transformational Leader identifies with his workers. He is a type of visionary and leads his employees through inspiration. His employees will usually be loyal to this type of leader and work hard to meet his goals. The current CEO in the scenario is a top notch Level 5 Leader. He has led the company to a 128% increase in stock and placed them in the “black” to show a profit. He is ambitious but maintains his integrity while moving...
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...from a task. This makes the tasks to either lengthen or shorten the duration basing it on the number of resources which are assigned to it. When it’s finished it doesn’t affect the total number of work for a task. 2. Under what circumstances would you turn off effort driven scheduling? b) A circumstance in which I would turn off the effort driven scheduling is in complex tasks? The reason why is because it requires highly skilled resources or they could be very complex in general. So if you add more tasks it would slow down the team rather than speeding it up. 3. Use a real-world example of when you would make a task as a Fixed Duration type task? c) The real world example of when I would make a task as a fixed duration type task is about painting my house. If I needed to us a painter to paint the bedroom of a house for 4 days, which would be a total of 32 hours. But the other painter broke his arm and isn’t able to complete the second bedroom so I would have to assign the same painter to the second room. I could assign the task of the painter that broke his arm as part time (50%) to a total of 16 hours. 4. What is the formula for calculating duration? d) The formula for calculating duration is Duration = work/units 5. What are the eight preset work contours (hint: In the Task Usage view right click on a resource name an open the assignment information box) and what are the procedures in applying them to a resource on a task? ...
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...MC 2014-15: PGP I/PGP-ABM I MC Individual Assignment-II Release Date: 19-8-14 Submission Date and Time 04-09-14, 6:00 PM Instructions 1. This is an individual assignment (not group). 2. You are required to develop VBA solutions to the following two problems and submit the solutions as a single xlsm file on Moodle. 3. Your solution must be as general as possible – clearly state all assumptions. The VBA code must be neat, and well documented (introducing appropriate comments) 4. Submit your assignment file on Moodle well on time to avoid system congestions or break-downs during the last minute Problem 1: Tourist spots in London As a tourist in London you want to visit 7 spots and minimize the time spent on visiting these 7 spots. The details of the 7 spots including their ID, time to see the attraction, and opening time are given to you (Range A3:D9 in given spreadsheet). Note that you want to visit each spot only once. Range B13:H19 in the given spreadsheet contains the travel time (in minutes) between any two spots, 9999 stands for infinity. For example: travel from 2 to 5 (Trafalgar Square to Tower Bridge) takes 22 minutes. You can assume that all other times (wait times for transport, queues for attractions etc, are already accounted for in the sightseeing time and travel time). The subroutine calc_schedule uses this information to calculate the route to...
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