...Kaplan University Graduate School of Business & Management Self Directed Learning Plan Instructions The Self Directed Learning Plan (SDLP) is a process and document to chronicle your accomplishments and learning steps through the Master’s program and beyond as they relate to your professional goals. The SDLP will help you to identify and target the array of competencies you need to reach your professional objectives and to help you organize your Kaplan Master’s learning experience to suit your career objectives. The SDLP will be a section of your Program Portfolio, so take some quality introspective time to consider strengths and areas of development relevant to your career objectives. We encourage you to contact Career Services for feedback on relevant competencies for your career goal, as well as other insights. By knowing your strengths and areas to develop, you can begin a plan to find out what you need to do to achieve your career goals. We encourage you to continue to reflect on the identified areas throughout the Master’s program. If you feel strength or development area is no longer relevant, you may add another to take its place. At any time, you may also add additional areas. SECTION 1: Strengths to Leverage Step 1a: The most effective and satisfied people align their work with their natural strong points. Identify 3-5 of your key strengths; these could be a competency, skill, ability, knowledge area or personal characteristic. Think about how...
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...personal characteristic. Think about how you can leverage those strengths to be effective in your work, achieve your professional goals, and become a leader in your profession. Step 2: At the beginning of each course in your MBA program, answer the following question either using this template or a narrative format. What do you expect to learn in this course that will help you leverage your strengths? (See Column 2 below). Be as specific as you can, e.g., assume that strength is your analytical ability. You might expect to understand more about macroeconomics so that you can analyze how the housing crisis affects other segments of the economy, such as interest rates or unemployment. At the beginning of the course you are not expected to be an expert in all facets of the course learning; however, you can glean valuable insights from the course description or purpose, course and unit learning objectives, and from unit themes. Step 3: At the end of each course (Unit 6) answer the following questions either using this template or a narrative format. Did you learn what you expected to learn? (See Column 3 below). Was there information or insights that helped you that you didn’t expect...
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...negative in a weak one. The book speaks about this in Chapter two and how the service economy relates directly the the direct region as well as other parts of a country's economy. An important aspect to look at that may not be noticed by all is the service sector AND the population in relation to. Ultimately the population determines the success of a service economy. If you have 1000 employed workers in the industry with a population of only 4000 it will be much stronger than 5000 workers in a region with population of 50,000. With Profesor Levinson's example of Atlantic City it has a very large working forice betweent the Hotels, Casinos, Malls, Outlets and on but with that comes a even larger population. The more money people are getting from working the more money they have to spend and putting it back into small businesses increases the economy within the area. The books post stating “...an outgrowth of service quality is customer satisfaction, measured as the difference between the service that a customer expects and the perceived quality of what is actually delivered.” could not be more spot on in regars to customer service and long-term profitability. When we go out to dinner, wait on lines at an amusement park, purchase something online or over the phone we knowingly or unknowingly form an idea of how the service will be and what to expect. At a restaurant we expect a certain level of service with food and drinks, expect a certain quality and portion of food as well as...
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...the time my students will spend with me. When there is a well thought out plan and students are aware of what is expected, no matter the activity, students will experience effective learning. Centers are an effective teaching strategy that allows self-directed learning amongst students. During a 90 minute reading block, I plan to use literacy centers while I am reading in small groups. This activity will be used every day for the entire year so it will be extremely important for my students to understand the appropriate procedures and my expectations for center time. My first expectation of my students at all center time activities is to use only a 12 inch voice, my second expectation is for my students to respect their peers and materials at each station, my third expectation is to stay on task, and my final expectation for center time is for my students to leave the station tidy and as it was when they arrived. To ensure these expectations are followed, my first step is to organize my materials and teach my students were everything goes. I plan to show my students exactly how I expect the center to look when they are finished with all the materials by having them practice cleaning up. Next, I will...
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..."We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last." (John F. Kennedy). Every generation has similarities and differences from the one before, and the one after their time. The people living through that time determines if they will be known for something great. I believe every generation feels a need to leave a positive legacy to pass on. We as people are constantly advancing in social acceptance but where we grow and excel in some areas we start to lack in others. My parents generation and my own have varying differences on political correctness, biracial couples and being entitled. In my generation being politically correct is a must. Small children just entering the education system can tell you what being politically correct means and if what you are saying is correct or not. The media has made such a big deal over what is okay to say and what is not, which leads most people to be worried if they are offending someone. My generation is extremely accepting, women have rights along with African Americans, and gay couples. Most people want everyone to feel like their lives matter and that they are accepted especially minority groups. In order to make everyone feel accepted we have adopted political correctness so we do not offend anyone's choices, beliefs, race, morals, and sexual preferences. Even though being politically correct is important. I believe society is making too big a deal about needing to constantly...
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...Name: Steve Chastain Name of Article: How to Prepare for a New Job Orientation, What to Expect at a Job Orientation Name of Journal or Website: About.com Name of Author: Alison Doyle Date of Publication: No date on the article Abstract This article was about how professionals starting a new job can prepare for the orientation process. HR professionals work hard on getting the things together to get you through orientation as quick and painless as possible. There will be a lot of information thrown at you and you might not catch everything. This article describes how to prepare for it, call your employer when you are preparing that helps bridge the gap so nothing is missing the day you go in. Ask questions; don’t be afraid to speak up because someone out there is thinking the same thing. Things to take away from this article are, how to prepare for the orientation itself. Call ahead if you are unsure of what to bring or expect. Always dress appropriately for the orientation, you may have executives that stop in and speak. Show up early and check in, especially on your first day of orientation, after that you can judge when you should show up. Bring something to write with and a note pad to take notes there may not be ones provided for you and you have nothing to write down the information you want to remember for yourself, or even question you may want to ask out of a classroom setting. If you don’t know the tax information off the top of your head have it...
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...some towns risking a ticket or tow by parking on nearby grassy areas and in vacant lots.... Some cities with long-established public transit systems, like New York and Boston, have seen increases in ridership of 5 percent or more so far this year. But the biggest surges — of 10 to 15 percent or more over last year — are occurring in many metropolitan areas in the South and West where the driving culture is strongest and bus and rail lines are more limited.... The national average for regular unleaded gasoline reached $3.67 a gallon, up from $3.04 a year ago, according to AAA. If nothing else had changed, then a roughly 20% increase in the price of gasoline appears to have led to maybe a 10% increase in the demand for public transportation. The cross-price elasticity of demand appears to be approximately +0.5. But these numbers are for now. Remember when gasoline prices were so high shortly after hurricane Katrina? At that point, people did not expect them to remain high, and so there was a much smaller switch to public transportation. The two situations reflect the importance of expectations and the importance of long-run vs. short-run shifts. In the earlier case, because we did not expect gasoline prices to remain high, we did not alter our behaviour much; the cross price elasticity of demand between gasoline and public transportation was very small. In the current case,...
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...a. I expect to find out why there was a war between Christians and Muslims, and what is the holy land and why were they fighting over it. 2. What were the objectives of the crusades? b. I expect to find out why it expanded from releasing the holy land to conquering Spain from the Moors. 3. How many crusades were there and what were the most important? c. I expect to find out the exact number of crusades and why the first four were the most important. 4. What was the crusades timeline? d. I expect to find the dates of each crusade and when they finished. 5. What was the effect of the crusades? e. I expect to find the answer to why did they play a very big role in the Middle ages and how did they effect the catholic church. 6. Who were the crusaders and how were they treated? f. I expect to find the classes of where the crusaders came from and if they had any special privileges. Throughout history the Crusades affected many aspects mostly the Europeans Middle Ages. The crusades went on for almost 300 years and affected the people whom lived there church and many other aspects. Powering religion and the church. Even though many people lost their lives it still plays a huge role. 1. What was the cause of the crusades? The word crusade means holy war, and was caused over the possession of the holy land. For many years Muslims were responsible of the holy land, Jerusalem. Muslims allowed Christians and did not interrupt...
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...kingdom values of love, compassion and faith in the parable of the Good Samaritan? Quote By Mother Teresa: “There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.” – Mother Teresa Biography: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, also known as Mother Teresa, was the third and final child born to her Albanian Catholic parents, Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, in the city of Skopje on August 26th 1910. When Mother Teresa was eight years old her father died suddenly and it left the family devastated. After her father died, Teresa’s family held their religious beliefs tightly and strongly. When mother Teresa was 12 years old she heard call from God to serve God as a nun this meant that giving up all her worldly possessions and her family possibly forever. She thought about if she should be a nun to serve God for five years, during this time she did many religious activities such as singing in the church choir, helped her mother organise church events, and went on walks with her mother to hand out food and supplies to the poor. Finally after 5 long years she accepted to serve God as nun when she was 17 years old. At this time she as read many articles about the work of catholic missionaries in India and she was determined to go there. So Mother Teresa applied to the Loreto order of nuns, based in Ireland...
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...to India and did bachelor degree in aeronautical engineering. On those four years of study I learnt basic concept about engineering and I found it amazingly interesting and thought of gaining more knowledge about engineering. So here I am today for gaining more knowledge on engineering and fulfill out the curiosity that I got about engineering and technology. I am describing the graduate attributes that I attained and attributes that I want to attain. A. Needs, context and systems Until now I have understood the need of a stakeholder as what they state in project to be done. I have interpreted the need of stakeholder as a result they want from project. While doing bachelor degree I was a part of team which completed a project for Taneja aerospace. The project was to analyze vortex creation on wing tips of mig-21 aircraft and its effect at high angle of attack. There we did created a model of aircraft wing and analyzed it at different angle of attack in wind tunnel and also using software called catia and ansys and then we submitted the output of analysis we carried out. On completion of masters degree I expect to advance my understanding of needs of stakeholder for some project by interpreting and identifying what actually is needed and to be done and analyzing that need I want to establish some goals to achieve that need and prioritize on the need of stakeholder that I identified. To attain this attribute I am planning to take the Managing project course as this course helps...
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...Employees Tiffany Robinson Dr. Barr Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance January 24, 2010 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Employees can reasonable expect to have privacy in the workplace when it comes to telephone calls, voicemail, e-mail, text messaging on employer provided cell phone, and their company assigned computer. For example, employers may monitor calls with clients or customers for reasons of quality control purposes; however, under federal case law, when an employer realizes the call is personal, he or she must immediately stop monitoring the call. (Watkins v. L.M. Berry & Co., 704 F.2d 577, 583 (11th Cir. 1983). Employees are given some protection from computer and other forms of electronic monitoring under certain circumstances. Union contracts, for example, may limit the employer's right to monitor. Also, public sector employees may have some minimal rights under the United States Constitution, in particular the Fourth Amendment which safeguards against unreasonable search and seizure (www.privacyrights.org). In cases where there is no specific statute or code that creates a right to privacy, privacy is determined by the “reasonable expectation of privacy”. This is a concept which basically asks if, in the particular circumstances, it was reasonable to expect that certain conduct or communications would be considered private. Determining whether there was a "reasonable expectation of privacy" typically...
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...LaViolette’s testimony in the following way: “I feel like she`s just a man hater…she`s clearly prejudicial, and she just reads that she doesn`t like men.” This criticism, valid or invalid, is also present in professional critiques, couched using terms such as “feminist perspective” and even extends to the personal reviews that can be found on Amazon.com. One reviewer, asked the question “did she ever meet a man who was not an abuser?” Obviously, the impression of Ms. LaViolette, as being a man hater, is legitimate in the minds of many people. She has left that impression with many readers and viewers of her work. This is not to say that Ms. LaViolette is a man hater, just because a number of people think her so. That would be unfair. It would be fair to say this. Her behavior, her writing, her court testimony, has left a significant number of people with the impression that she is a man hater. I don’t know if she is a man hater or is not. If she is, this is America and she has a right to hate men if she wants to. I don’t know that she hates men, hates Republicans, hates Democrats, hates the New England Patriots. I also, do not care to know. As I have said, she has a right to hate anyone she wants or for that matter, no one. So why did I start this article by talking about the fact that she is leaving this...
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...colors, pigment, location of the leaves, amount of nutrients in the leaves, nitrogen, carbon, and sunlight absorbed. 1c. None of the leaves may vary they could all be able to gain the same amount of nutrients. Leaves would all decompose at same time. In a natural forest, the leaves vary in the amount of nutrients gained, this could effect the time leaves fall off the tree and could effect how fast a leaf decomposes. Also in a natural forest there are decomposers out in there and help speed up decomposition rates, rather than being all at the same rate in a plantation. 1d. The leaves may not decompose at all and rather become preserved or they may decompose fast. Most likely the leaves will get beaten up and stuck on branches and have a slow decomposition rate. 1e. Well you would expect them to vary, due to temperature change over seasons, the nutrient levels in the soil, amount of rainfall, sunlight, moisture level, species that are present, decomposers that are present to speed up decomposition rates. I would expect places that are warmer and with more moisture such a Virginia to have a higher decomposition rate rather than places in New York or Carthage. I would expect these two places to be very similar and not have much difference in decomposition rates, but it could be different as the New York does get more moisture from the ocean and the Great Lakes adding to precipitation. It all really comes down to moisture and precipitation. 2i. Mass that was lost...
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...I always expected to attend college as soon as I had graduated from cypress wood high school. What I did not expect was to spend the next three years recovering from a thyroid disease. During that time, I was unable to attend my college classes in person so I focused on strictly online courses. Furthermore, I was on a lot of medication to maintain my thyroid levels to normal and I felt more comfortable under my own roof during this difficult time. It would take until the spring of 2015 were I finally felt ready to take a class in person. I started slowly and took a physical education class for that spring. My thought process was to get used to being around others again and since it was a physical education class lose a few pounds in the process....
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...a few surprises in the story that I did not expect before beginning to read. One of the surprise endings was that the scholars from a university could conclude human sacrifices in order to prevent future earthquakes. During those times there were a lot of strange laws and customs such as not eating bacon. Not eating bacon was cause for suspicion. In the story, there were two Portuguese citizens taken because they did not eat bacon. The characters, Dr. Pangloss was taken for being out spoken and Candide was taken for being Pangloss’ friend. The two Portuguese citizens along with another citizen were burned alive, while Dr. Pangloss was hung and Candide was flogged. All part of this ritual sacrificial ceremony was to prevent future earthquakes. Unfortunately, the ritual did not stop anything. On the day of the ceremony there was yet another earthquake, which implied the rituals did not work. The earthquake seemed to be more devastating than the first one and the only one to survive the ordeal was Candide. The biggest surprise would come later in the next chapter when Candide and Dr. Pangloss was able to reunite. It turns out in the story that Dr. Pangloss did not die from hanging. He was able to live and had a story to tell. Dr. Pangloss was to be burnt along with others, but heavy rain stopped them from starting a fire. He was to be hung, but the hangman did not know how to properly tie a noose. Since the rope was so wet it did not close around Dr. Pangloss’ neck...
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