...big day and it is up to one person or sometimes a team of people, these people are called managers. All managers must have various traits to be successful, but the most important three are; leadership skills, problem solving skills, and honesty. It was hard for me to pick which three skills where the most important, because they are all so important. I decided to do a survey and asked five people that I knew where managers and five people who where sales associates what they thought where the three most important traits of a manager (see figure 1.1.). Seven out of the ten said leadership skills, and I also agree with leadership being one of the most important. Organization came next with four votes, and honesty came after with three votes each. Problem solving skills came next with two votes then there where a lot of traits with one vote each like; responsibility, prioritizing, understanding, fairness, flexibility, time management, and loyalty. This survey didn't help sway my opinion in which three traits are most important and I actually was surprised in one of my findings. What does leadership mean to you? What comes to my mind is hard work, responsibility, experience, knowledge, compassion, and taking charge. Not everyone has these traits to be a leader. A successful Manager needs to have good leadership skills. If a staff can't look up to the...
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...presenter just to remain in your current job – or find new employment. To achieve this, it’s first necessary to identify what creates an effective presentation and what skills are needed. It is also important to understand that effective presentation skills are not solely for the fortunate few who are naturally good communicators but that effective presentation skills can be developed in anyone and that we all have the ability to learn how to become highly effective presenters. In this article we’ll be looking at some techniques to help you achieve more from your presentations. Key Objectives of Effective Presentation Skills The key objectives that underline a good presentation often include the following: * To establish credibility with your audience * To communicate information clearly to your audience * To persuade and/or influence your audience To achieve these objectives, there are a range of practical skills that you can develop to help you become an effective presenter. We can categorise these skills into three main areas: * The ability to create a clear message * The ability to deliver your message effectively * The ability to fully engage with your audience. An effective presentation should cover all of these three areas, so let’s see how you can achieve this. Presentation Skill #1 – Create a clear effective message A clear message is normally a simple one. You may feel that you have to go into a lot of detail to get your message across but...
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...com/product/ece-313-week-5-final-project/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ECE 313 WEEK 5 FINAL PROJECT The Final Project will illustrate how family-centered programs, theories, and concepts support the early childhood classroom and the child’s family. The family-centered approach asserts that family involvement is important for a young child’s cognitive and social development. The Final Project, which will be presented via PowerPoint, will address the following scenario: You are the director of a preschool program that serves children ages three to five. You are giving a presentation to teachers and parents to encourage partnerships in the education of the whole child. The objective of your presentation is to encourage adaptive skills and to facilitate strategies in which to maximize these abilities that can be taught in the classroom and extended at home. Address the following points: 1. Self-help skills. 2. Pro-social skills. 3. Self-regulation skills. For each of the three skill-sets: 1. Explain the desired skills and how they relate to the classroom and home. 2. Identify and discuss two to three strategies for teaching the skill-set to children in the classroom. 3. Explain how you will help parents to utilize the strategies to reinforce the desired ability at home. 4. Identify and describe a resource (either community or web-based) for the parents to use to continue their learningat home. The PowerPoint presentation must be 18 to 20 slides in length...
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...Leadership is an important component in an organization. The ability to lead effectively is based on a number of key skills, such as communication skills, business knowledge and determination. These skills are highly sought after by employers as they involve dealing with people in such a way as to motivate, enthuse and build respect. How to use these skills are the key to success in business. There are three recent articles (Useem 2010 ; Cappelli et al. 2010 ; Ladkin & Weber 2011) which have analyzed that how to use leadership skills to motivate employees and scrutinized the influences and genre of leadership. The report of Ladkin and Weber reflects on the Hong Kong tourism, whereas Cappelli et al. focus on the experiences study of Indian leaders and the report by Useem reflects on the perspective of the United States military and focuses on a training program of adaptability leadership respectively. This review will compare three articles in types of leadership required and how to use communication, business knowledge and determination to motivate employees. All three texts mention the advantages of suitable communication skills. All authors agree that the reasonable communication with employees can make them more stringent and more efficient and improve the desire of employees to complete their works. Cappelli et al. believe that excellent communication skills can help employees to solve puzzles in them work and eliminate the misunderstanding of employees in their...
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...management skills and to see what level of management would best suit your personality. You will learn the difference in the three categories of management skills and to identify the position that potential managers would likely be fit for. There are three levels of managers which are Top Managers, Middle Managers, and First-Line managers. All managers must have three necessary skills in order to be effective and efficient in and organization which are Conceptual skills, Human skills, and Technical skills. The top-level managers require more conceptual skills and less technical skills. The lower-level managers require more technical skills and less conceptual skills, and all managers require a high level of human skills in an organization because they all have to interact with people. “Many managers get promoted to their first management jobs by having excellent technical skills. However, technical skills become less important than human and conceptual skills as managers move up the hierarchy” (Daft, 2012, p.11). Human skill should be the most important in an organization to avoid a high employee turnover due to poor communication, coordination and motivation techniques. Results The results were: Conceptual skills total score = 28 points Human skills total score = 22 points Technical skills total score = 15 points The results showed a higher total for conceptual skills followed by Human skills then technical skills. My high score in conceptual skill show I have...
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...are required to write a piece of advice to a group of Level Three business students on the usefulness of innovation management and new product development in an essay format. The topic of the essay is “what skills should a business graduate acquire about innovation management in order to advance their career development and employability”. "We live in a society where technology is a very important force in business, in our daily lives. And all technology starts as a spark in someone's brain. An idea of something that didn't exist before, that once they have invented it —brought it into existence — could change everything. And that activity is generally one that's not very well supported." - Nathan Myhrvold, CEO, Intellectual Ventures From a 2010 interview with Harvard Business Review Introduction In the development of new businesses today, initiatives that spur knowledge-based competitions amplify the importance of boundary spanning activities and tactical coalitions, which cause organizations to focus more on institutional knowledge, system improvement and knowledge management (Quah, 2001). This essay will help the level 3 business school students to understand the required skills about innovation management to to advance their career development and employability. An innovation is something that is new. You are required to write a piece of advice to a group of Level Three business students on the usefulness of innovation management...
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...Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 Conceptual Skill 3 Interpersonal Skill 5 Technical Skill 7 Self-reflection 9 Conclusion 10 Reference 12 Executive Summary Leadership is a topic which consist numbers of subtopic that is very useful in the workplace. For example, leadership styles, managerial skills, power and others. Leadership mainly talks about how a person influences others in order to achieve target goals. In this report, I will briefly explain about what are leadership and the three managerial skills. The three common managerial skills are conceptual skills, interpersonal skills and technical skills. The discussion will include definition and the importance. Finally, it will be followed by self-reflection and conclusion about the topic. Introduction What is leadership? According to the journal, “Leadership vs. Management” by George A. Bohoris and Evanthia P.Vorria, There are many diverse definitions of leadership. Stogdill concluded that “there are almost as many definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted to define the concept”. While Peter Drucker sums up that: “The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers. To gain followers requires influence but doesn’t exclude the lack of integrity in achieving this” (Yukl, 1989). Some theorists believe that leadership is no different from the social influence processes occurring among all members of a group and others believe that leadership is everything...
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...1. What are the three most important ethical principles that you feel organizations should adhere (believe in or follow) to in terms of their staffing philosophies? Why? One of the most important ethical principles that I feel organizations should adhere to in terms of their staffing philosophies is there should be uniform guidelines for the staff selection processes. Another important ethical principle is there should be no evidence of discrimination when implementing hiring and staffing policies. The last important ethical principle is there should be no prejudice when reviewing tests. In order to know there is no biased opinion after tests are reviewed they should become a standard practice. These three principles will allow the staffing...
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...students need to have many essential skills for effective learning. Besides Internet using skills, reading skills, presentation skills, online-learning students should have three more important: Organizational - Time management and Effective Communication Skills. Organizational skills play an important role to the success of every people no matter who we are. We need to sort the order of priority which is the most important, who will coordinate with, or who help us to do it best. This not only gives us time, but also gives us confidence in every works. So, this is very essential for online-earning students as some have to work, some run business at home, or some are busy with housework, caring for children… To arrange right time, right people for right jobs help students more actively in learning. As a certain correlation, time management skills required online-learning students to build schedules of a day, a week or of a month in a scientific way. By that, we could prioritize emergency works, or tests imminent deadline. However, time management skills also requires us to determine the maximum of time we win for solving a problem, helps us to control the time remaining funds for other things. This is extremely important for anyone, not only for online-learning students. The universal truth is "Time never stops". Once we have the means, the tools and the time, the most important factor for effective online learning is communication skills. Talking to Student Service...
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...of listening comprehension as it relates to young children ages two to five. DEFINITION Before we begin, let’s take a minute to discuss the term listening comprehension. This skill can be observed when you read to the children. Listening comprehension can be defined as “the ability to recall and understand information which is presented orally.” This information might be presented through a book, filmstrip, video, or felt board set. EXAMPLES Mr. Fields, the preschool teacher, is reading the book Goldilocks and the Three Bears to the children. After he finishes reading, Mr. Fields asks the children, “How many bears lived in the house?” Rosie shrugs her shoulders and looks confused, but Jeremy exclaims, “Three!” Mr. Fields says, “That’s right, Jeremy. There were three bears in the story. Let’s count them together.” Mr. Fields turns the pages of the book until he comes to an illustration that contains the three bears. The children and Mr. Fields count the bears together. Mr. Fields then asks, “How did the bears know that someone had been eating their porridge?” Albert responds, “Because Baby Bear’s bowl was empty.” Jeremy says, “Because someone told them.” Mr. Fields then uses the book to help the children discover the correct answer. In the above example, Rosie clearly needs more practice with listening skills. Jeremy was able to quickly answer a question concerning the facts of the story, but he had more difficulty with a question requiring problem solving. Albert, however, was able...
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...overcome the many obstacles and dilemma that must be faced in the 21st Century workforce. Daft (2012) states that, “Although some management theorists propose a long list of skills, the necessary skills for managing a department or an organization can be summarized in three categories: conceptual, human, and technical”. Although the degree of which the above mentioned skills will be used varies dependent on the level of management within an organization, it is still very important that a manager possesses these skills to perform to the best of their ability. To assess where we are with the three mentioned management skills, we were asked to complete a Management Aptitude Questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of 18 situational style questions of which we were to answer them as best and as honestly as we could. The purpose of completing this survey was to give us an individualized report that would tell us what areas we were strong or weak in as it related to the three management skills: conceptual, human, and technical with the plan to identify areas of opportunity for us as managers. Results After taking the survey, it was surprising to see the end results. In the following three management skills, I scored the following: Conceptual skills: 28; Human Skills: 26; and Technical Skills: 14. This totally showed and displayed the traits associated with a Top Manager as I usually was in many of my previous roles. Daft...
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...Research: Characteristics and Skills of the Forensic Accountant Ellen Lapid LeBlond RES/351 June 15, 2015 Dr. Jennie Wagner Business Research: Characteristics and Skills of the Forensic Accountant I have long been interested in Forensic Accounting, I find this field of accounting very fascinating and in this article the authors are researching what are the important specialized skills and technical abilities of Forensic Accountants. The authors conducted the business research by surveying three groups of individuals: (1) CPA’s who are working as forensic accountants, (2) lawyers who employ the services of forensic accountants, and (3) academics in the field, which are accounting professors. The survey was given to the three groups in a questionnaire format and it was divided into eight sections, which are demographics, areas of specialty for forensic accountant, traits and skills of forensic accountant, credentials for forensic accountants, protocols and abilities, effectiveness of forensic accountants, the need for additional specialization, and educational issues. The authors surveyed these particular groups because they wanted viewpoints from the forensic accountants, who provides the services and the lawyers, who employs their services. They also surveyed the academics because they develop the curricula of auditing and forensic accounting. The authors utilized an online survey program to field out the questionnaire to the three groups and the research...
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... Employee Portfolio: The Management Plan Being a manager at Riordan Manufacturing is challenging especially with three different employees and working particularly with different personalities. So therefore, we are going to talk about their abilities, performances, how different it can be to the organization. The organization is going to introduce you to the important three employees in the process their individual assessment the three employees and introduce you to them. Employees need to have a safe, positive or negative assessment and be able to have the right to know their performances. The First employee Being a manager at Riordan Manufacturing, the first employee I will talk about I will call employee 1. Employee 1 could be the “managerial” of all three. As a dependent, the employee can manage well her own. This employee works well with others, has personal skills and technical skills. She also is important in selecting members for teams and managing. She has high self- esteem, teaches other, positive skills, creative, and is excellent at her job. The second employee The second employee will talk about will call her employee 2. This employee also is an excellent worker. This employee assessment shows that she is emotionally stable and has unique skills. Her skills are secretarial. This particular employee attitude is excellent; she knows it and is very helpful to management and employees. This employee is more...
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...Using ‘Person Centred’ Communication Skills and Models to Help Clients Admitted for the First Time to a Mental Health Hospital Introduction Communication is one way of exchanging information and feelings from one person to another (Bach and Grant 2009). It is transmitted through verbal and non-verbal behaviour. Communication is an essential and fundamental aspect of nursing care (Timmins 2011). It is a major and important part of daily nursing practice in the nurse-client relationship (Sheldon et al. 2006). Communication in nursing is unique and it is different from communication between healthcare providers because nurses are at the start of the healthcare service as they spend more time with the client than other healthcare professionals (McCabe and Timmins 2006). Therefore, nurses have to pay more attention to improving their communication skills for better client care. In order to establish a positive relationship with the client, it is necessary to communicate effectively and subsequently improve the quality of nursing care (McCabe and Timmins 2006). Effective communication is key to a therapeutic relationship with the client. It is defined as a ''purposeful form of communication used in the helping relationship'' (Ruesch 1961 cited in Arnold and Boggs 2007, p18). It is developed by the nurse for the purpose of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating client care (Arnold and Boggs 2007). The establishment of a nurse-client relationship was a key element...
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...particular, this system “would help operations and accounting manage material coordination around the world to ensure (1) efficiency and (2) profitability. It accomplishes these goals by providing insight into predictive purchasing, insight into material availability, and accountability for order execution (Boecking, 2012).” The MRP system will involve technical skills needed by new employees and sufficient training to manage the system. The system will assist in ordering materials and anticipating future orders. According to Slater (2012), “The technique coordinates the ordering and sequencing of materials to ensure that manufacturing production can flow with few (or no) stoppages.” Various human resource functions, skills, and factors are discussed below in order to implement this structure. Three Human Resource Functions There are assortments of human resource functions that are essential in the success of a business. According to Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, and Wright (2014), the functions of human resource management include Analysis and design of work, determining how many employees with specific knowledge and skills are needed (human resource planning), attracting potential employees (recruiting), choosing employees (selection), teaching employees how to perform their jobs and preparing them for the future (training and development), rewarding employees (compensation), evaluating their performance (performance management), and creating a positive work environment (employee...
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