...2016 Do one thing at a time #16 Doing one thing at a time is not a very good skill for me. On a scale from one to ten and one being the worst I would have to say that I am at a two. For me that means I have no clue what that even means any more now that I have children. I have three children, go to school and work two jobs. Don’t get me wrong I would love to be able to only do one thing at a time but it seems to be impossible with what all I have to deal with and do in a days’ time. With that being said if I ever wanted to do one thing at a time I would have to learn how to do it all over again and get out of the mindset that I need to get everything done and get it done right away. I am willing to try to learn it all over again but chances are I will have to practice when the kids are not home so I do not get distracted. The other thing is I need to not watch tv when I am doing other tasks or even doing homework. This would be the biggest problem for me is always having the tv on where ever I am at. * Switching between tasks takes time even if we are not aware that it does and what our minds are required to do (page 75). It also says in some cases multitasking can be very dangerous (page 76). Chances are you can and will get more done and be safer if you just focus on one task at a time (page 76). It says in the book it would be a very good skill for me to learn if I have small children (page 76) which I do have one small child. She is a one year old. Doing one thing...
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...is your self orientation? Before doing this survey I believe I a balanced x and y manager. I try to see the good in every employee and believe people have their own way of doing things. Sometimes you need to handle certain employees different ways to get them to work properly and correctly in a timely manner. After doing the survey I was not very surprised it gave me a score inbetween both x and y of a 22 and 23. I believe that was because I am a very understanding person i try to see the best way in satisfying employees as well as customers. This will show me how to deal with customers and my employees from here on. Chapter 3 Chapter 3 survey was about morals and ethical actions. As a person I believe for every action there is a opposite reaction. With the choices you make you need to ensure that they are morally and ethically right for people and or a company. If you hurt a person with a decision that should not be done. After doing the survey I believe it came out to what I expected. I am a understanding person I try to do the best for other people and the company. Sometimes I will make poor judgement calls but over all as a person and employee I try to think of my actions and make the right decision for both parties. Chapter 4 The chapter 4 assessment is going to cover the globe aspects. I believe strongly in having set guidelines and keeping out future generation in check. Yes we have to be generous and so on but you also need to keep things in check. With how...
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...I will be using a Christmas dinner service in the restaurant as an example of a usual service, what the waiters would do before service, what attitude the waiters should have towards the guest and the impact on the restaurants reputation if the guest experience poor customer service. Preparation- Preparation is vital when preparing for service, without preparing all the plates, tables and menus there wouldn’t be no service. There are different roles of miser on place that need to be completed my members of front-of-house before service. It is essential that I don’t arrive late else this could have a negative effect on the whole service and could slow it down. I should arrive wearing the correct uniform, which would be all blacks, smartly dressed and clean. A smartly dressed waiter could reflect the restaurants standard of hygiene. It is important that the head waiter assign different role to the members of the front-of-house team so everyone knows exactly what their job is, and to ensure all the jobs are completed correctly. Cutlery All cutleries must be counted correctly so that every guest has the right amount of cutlery on their table without doing this a guest could have the wrong cutlery. All cutleries must be polished and laid out on the tables once the tables have been set out. Crockery All pieces of crockery must be polished, counted so every guest has the right crockery for their table. Once policed, the starter, main and desert bowls that need to be hot must...
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...Registered Nurse I have to know all about the Nursing process and rountie. I also have to know how to do all the Nurse work such as vitals, surgery, exams and much more. In order to succeed in becoming a registered nurse I have to make sure I pass my college classes and do right. Also, I have to know every single step there is to become a registered nurse. It is going to be a bumpy road to become a registered nrse but I will make it there. Being able to become a registered nurse I have to be very responsible when I am doing my work. I have to be responsible for my actions, and have to make sure I am doing your work right. Registered nurses have a lot of responsibilities. I always have to make sure I am responsible for my patients and make sure I am meeting their needs. Being responsible is a very big thing when being a registered nurse....
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... What makes a good role model and how would I ensure that I acted as a role model for employees I supervise? A good role model to me is someone that inspires me and I aspire to be like. A good role model needs to have a positive, approachable demeanour. I believe a role model provides inspiration and motivation to seek out accomplishments. Role models send messages about their beliefs by what they do and say. To ensure that I acted as a role model to my employees, I would always act with integrity. I would listen to what my staff have to say and always make them feel like their opinions and contributions are worthwhile and important. I would make sure that my actions always demonstrated my beliefs and I would always demonstrate a passion for what I do. I would not make my employees do a task that I wasn’t willing or capable of doing. Acting as a good role model for my staff would incorporate in my professional development. 2. What are the traits of an effective leader? Do I have these traits? How would I develop these traits? I feel the most important traits of an effective leader is someone that works honestly, ethically, with integrity, has the ability to communicate, has a strong commitment, and the ability to inspire. Do I have these traits? It is sometimes hard to look inwards at yourself and answer this honestly as we would all like to say yes. I definitely think I am an honest person, I will always say what I am thinking and be upfront with people. The Oxford...
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...personality spectrum my biggest dimension was the giver personality. I think that I need to learn how to put other peoples needs aside so that I can focus on my school work more. I love to help others and will always put others before myself, but when going to school in a distance learning environment that will sometimes get in the way, it is easy to put off school work for other people. I need to designate time away from my husband and children so that I can concentrate on the task at hand in my schooling. That does not mean that I need to neglect my family, I just need to also make time for myself. When doing research on the internet I need to be very careful. It is easy to get into websites that are not ones that I should be using for education research. It is difficult because there are websites like Wikipedia that look like they are credible and good for research purposes, but in fact they are not. Sites like wiki are able to be changed by anyone, allowing people to go in and change information, making it false, or adding information that is not correct in with what is. A good way to know if I am on a good website is if it is .edu, .gov, or .org. I need to make sure I am doing lots of research on any topic to make sure that I have all the facts about that topic correct. The University of Phoenix has a lot of good resources to use for research. They have a University Library that is very helpful when doing research. I can choose different databases to use that will work better...
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...both yourself, on a personal note, and also for the business that you are working for. On a personal level, there are reasons such as a possible increase of income if you get recognised and get promoted as a result of this, you will be able to meet and exceed any personal goals that you may have and also one of the main benefits of continuously improving your own performance is that you will become more motivated to do your job. From a business’s point of view, improvement of personal performance means things slightly different to them. By improving personal performance, one of the main things that this will mean for the business are that you will be able to, and are more willing to; obtain the high company standards that the business have. • On a personal level, one of the main benefits of continuously improving your own performance in a business environment is that you will be more motivated to do your job role and therefore you will enjoy your work more. After all, there is nothing like going to work and really not enjoying it. Also, the more motivated you are to do your work, the higher personal goals and standards you will have for yourself. Me, personally, have very high standards for myself and get thoroughly disappointed if these standards for me aren’t met. Linking in with the previous comment, if you don’t have very high standards for yourself, then your level of performance therefore wont be as high as it could be and therefore your chances of promotion aren’t on the...
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...problems can occur when you do not have proper nutrition. Sometimes those health problems can be genetics. Some problems occur with eating disorders even. It all just depends on who you are. For me I do not have a nutritional problem per say. I have a poor diet. My nutritional needs are that I need to add healthier foods into my diet. Going to eat for lunch every day at Taco Bell, McDonalds, Burger King, or even Wendys is not healthy. When I get home eating a bunch of junk is not healthy either. This causes me not eat dinner. Now all I have in my diet is unhealthy foods. Instead of going out to eat on my lunch every day I should pack a few small snacks. Something small and light like fruit and vegetables. The nutrients in fresh fruits and vegetables are a lot better than the junk I am putting in my body on a daily basis. The unhealthy foods can cause me to gain weight or cause heart problems to be even worse for me. Heart issues are a big health problem that runs in my family. While I pack a small snack for early morning then on in the afternoon it makes it so that I do not over eat either. This is another issue I have with food. If I eat a meal I eat way more than I should. Also when I get home from work I would be able to have another small light snack like crackers and cheese. Even though I had a small snack I will not eat as much at dinner as I might if I eat dinner. I think that by eating the light snacks I will want to eat dinner and I will not eat so much. Finding...
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...the world. It is how every organization is built. The environment in an organization is created by organizational culture, behavior, diversity, and communication. The culture in an organization guides the actions of all the employees through shared values and beliefs. Diversity is the differences in race, gender, ethnicity, and how well it is received in the organization. Additionally, communication is also important, if there is an absence of communication it creates barrier between employees, hindering creativity, and disrupting the work environment. The organization that I had worked for in the past is a great example of an organization behavior gone wrong. It is 6:00 AM on Monday my alarm rings, I turn it off and try going back to sleep. When it dawns on me, I am starting my new job today. I get up quickly and get ready to head out. I am so excited and nervous at the same time that I am shaking. It is five minutes before 8:00 AM. I park my car, and head through the employee entrance. As I walk in I see the same woman that I saw on the 16th June 2010 when I came for my interview, I walk up to her and introduce myself. She turns around and says “good morning.” Than points to a door to my right; it says manager on the door. I walk towards the door, as I am about to knock and the door opens. A tall woman comes out, wearing way too much make up, high heels, and a very short dress. “Noni Mars, come in, take a seat” she says. “You must be Disha, Pete told me you were coming...
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...life is all about being prepared. Young people attend school to prepare them for the next stage in their life. Pre-School prepares toddlers for elementary school, elementary prepares children for High school, and High school prepares young adults for the work force or college. School is designed to prepare people for the next stage of their lives, I think of it as practice. I am in college to prepare for a career and not a job, my education is the difference between being happy with my work and working to live, as of now I am not fulfilling my duties as a student. I often ask myself why am I here, sometimes I ignore the question other times my answer varies from “to make your dad proud” or to “prove your mom wrong”. Neither of those answers is honest or is a product of consideration and deep thought. The actual reason why I’m here is because this is the only way I can get to where I want to be in life. I want to teach preschool and I am here to prepare and educate myself on what it takes to be an educator. I am going to be honest, I am a very lazy person and if I am going to work I want to be doing something that I actually enjoy doing. I want to live to work and not work to live. I don’t want to work hard at something and my only reward is the money at the end of the day, I want to go home and be proud of what I’ve spent my day doing. I feel like money is often mistaken with happiness so people worry less about what makes them happy than what makes them money. I can’t...
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...building classic cars is what I do. This is where the work that you do means everything and it can leave you with nothing. The business is not hard to get into, but surviving can have its difficulties. The people that make up the classic car world are all people that can work with their hands. Working with my hands is what I am best at and I love to show the talent I have through building classic cars. These “classic cars” consist mainly of cars that are below the 1980’s. The cars that I choose to work on are between 1930 and 1980. That is a large time frame when you think of how long cars have actually been around. Through those fifty years there are different makes and models of cars, and thousands of very rare cars. Building a classic car can be done a bit differently, there are cars that are driven quite a bit and there are cars that are hardly ever driven. The cars that are hardly ever driven are considered to be the show cars. These cars are my main focus on building, because these cars cost a lot more to build. With show cars there are large amounts of time spent on every little details of the car. And with a car that is driven a lot it is not perfected at all of the details because it is made to be used and not shown. Although cars are made to be driven the show cars have so much money and time put into them that they are not driven and their owners do not take any chances of something bad happening to the car. The choice of just doing show cars can be made...
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...values. Many students found that the results were exactly as they would have thought. They used these results to evaluate their readiness to be a manager who is also a leader. This comprehensive paper will discuss many of the issues that were brought to light. I will assess personal leadership. Power, motives, influence and values are some key components that make up a leader’s character. Leadership application will also be discussed. I learned there is a place for holiness, justice and love in the workplace. Also learned was that a principle centered leader can make a huge impact on employees. The author will also reflect and assess what has been learned about leadership through taking this class and doing the activities, exercises and projects. Leader Interview I interviewed an executive from Gorman-Rupp, Scott King. This man has recently been promoted to the Vice President and General Manager of the Mansfield division. He has been with the company nine years and this is his fourth promotion. He is 40 years old. He responded to the questions presented via email. He believes that leadership develops with experience. That there are both good and bad examples that are learned from watching others and being led by others. There are two experiences he looks back on as having been especially valuable in developing his leadership style. The first was a great one. He had a boss who had simple ways that...
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...What is Personality? As we all know everybody's heard the term personality, and most of us can describe our own or our friend's personality. What most don't know, however, is that personality is one of the most theorized and most researched aspects of psychology. Almost everyday we describe and assess the personalities of the people around us. Whether we realize it or not, these daily musings on how and why people behave as they do are similar to what personality psychologists do. Personality concerns the most important, most noticeable parts of an individual's psychological life. Personality concerns whether a person is happy or sad, energetic or apathetic, smart or dull. Over the years, many different definitions have been proposed for personality. Most of the definitions refer to a mental system -- a collection of psychological parts including motives, emotions, and thoughts. The definitions vary a bit as to what those parts might be, but they come down to the idea that personality involves a pattern or global operation of mental systems. Here are some definitions: "Personality is the entire mental organization of a human being at any stage of his development. It embraces every phase of human character: intellect, temperament, skill, morality, and every attitude that has beeen built up in the course of one's life." (Warren & Carmichael, 1930, p. 333) "An individual's pattern of psychological processes arising from motives, feelings, thoughts, and other major areas...
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...1.0 INTRODUCTION Practical training is one of the requirements to be fulfilled in order to obtain a degree in UiTM and need to attend by all students who are taking Bachelor in Accountancy program. The duration is about six month which is started from 4th February 2014 until the end of July 2014. Each student in this field is recommended to do practical training in audit firm because as they enter the last semester, they will understand more about audit and by participation in this program, students are able to put into practice about their understanding during the past six semesters’s learning and implement it into the real working life. For my practical training, I have chooses Skrastin Lim as a place to gain knowledge as much as I can. This company is a private limited by shares under the Companies Act, 1965 in Malaysia. This firm situated at No. 10-2 Jalan BK5A/3B, Bandar Kinrara 47100 Puchong, Selangor Darul Ehsan. The company is domicile in Malaysia. The principal activities of this company are all kinds of management and consultancy services, including auditing, taxation, accounting and company secretarial. Skrastin Lim was established by Mr. Lim Jit Swee and Ms. Leong Yee Him. Both of them are Chartered Accountants from United Kingdom, London. Mr. Lim Jit Swee is one of the members of Malaysia Institute of Accountants (MIA). His experienced in audit, management and taxation is more than 20 years. Although this company only have 10 staff including 3 trainees, they still...
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...Reference 20 Introduction Some managers inspire, some motivate, and others fail miserably to engage their employees. The entertainment industry seems to have created the ultimate formula for the "bad manager" character, so why can't real managers understand how to be effective? When employees choose to leave a position, it's often because of their manager or relationships with people in their working environment. People quit people, not jobs. Management is a Process. It includes four main functions, viz., Planning, Organising, Directing and Controlling. The manager has to Plan and Organise all the activities. He had to give proper Directions to his subordinates. He also has to Control all the activities. The manager has to perform these functions continuously. Therefore, management is a continuous and never ending process. For an effective manager he should be in a position to co-ordinate, all the activities that take place within their departments. In today’s business dynamics, the success and continued survival of any business in dependent upon owners, managers and subordinates having a combination of a leadership savvy, good judgment based on knowledge and information and responsible ability to steer a business in the right...
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