...TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1 2. Background 1 3. Personal Skills, Knowledge and Attitude 2 3.1 My SKA profile 2 3.2 Skill audit 3 3.3 SWOT analysis 3 4. Personal learning style 4 5. Team Engagement 5 6. Personal Actions Plan 6 7. Masters Learning Personal Reflection 8 8. Conclusion 9 REFERENCE 10 APPENDIX 1: PERSONAL SKILL AUDIT 11 APPENDIX 2: LEARNING STYLE QUESTIONAIRE 15 APPENDIX 3: TEAM ROLES PERSONAL INVENTORY: BELBIN 20 1. Introduction Personal development skill plays a significant role in individual’s life. Especially in current society, when studying and working environment become more competitive and tense. Additionally, employees in many big companies now have more power to contribute their ideas for decision making process (Charan, 1999). Therefore, it is very necessary for me to constantly develop my personal skills. As a student, there are many ways for me to enhance these skills such as: classrooms, clubs, student professional organizations, athletic teams, residence halls, the Clarion community, my home community, internship programs, summer jobs… (Humpfreys, 2004). However, just focusing on developing personal skills is not enough. Assessing and reviewing the development of each skill are also significant. In other words, I should have my own personal development plan which will help me to control my progress. The plan will help me review which achievement I have gained, as well as support me to set further goals for making continuous...
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...Many people think that Business is boring and disinteresting; that it’s just about figures and money but what those people do not realise is that it is this very subject that provides us with the knowledge needed to manage our everyday life. My interest in Business stems from the fact that I have been brought up in an entrepreneurial family where I have been constantly exposed to discussions varying from the accountancy of an everyday running business to the marketing of daily new products. The advantages of growing up in a family with a self employed business are that you begin to catch onto business traits from a very early age and I believe I have the experience of doing exactly that. By studying Business I would be able to learn what goes on behind the scenes of running a successful business and knowing that the Business industry is a very competitive and driven trade is what excites and motivates me even more into doing this particular course. As I have previously mentioned my interest in Business derives from my upbringing into a family who currently own 4 successful businesses and a number of different properties; therefore I have always been curious as to the work my parents have to put in, in order to make our businesses a success. You could say it is in my blood and I have certainly absorbed the interest and fascination of how business and commerce works. From an early age I have always been keen in how the business world operates among our everyday lives and to...
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...Introduction Communication, in plain terms is the basis of all relationship. Be it personal or professional, you cannot do without a healthy and effective communication. When it comes to business, communication becomes even more important. This is the pillar on which professional relationships are built. If you want the maximum profits out of your venture, it is essential that you have a healthy rapport with your clients, partners and employees (if any). And how do you build a good rapport? Through effective communication of course! It is said that one of the most important qualities that a businessman must have is communication skills. If you cannot put your message across to the intended audience, you cannot become a successful entrepreneur. Even if you have an independent business where you are not answerable to your boss, you need to have good communication skills in order to churn out the maximum profits from your venture. However, it is not just about talking or writing. True that these are the two biggest means of communication, but an effective one will spill over to wider areas than that. It will include gestures, body language, confidence and most importantly, the ability to pass on relevant information. Good communication also consists of listening skills. A good businessman will have to be a good listener. For instance in a conference or a business meeting, if you don’t listen to what the others have to say, it is unlikely that you will understand the proceedings...
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...Conducting Personal Business on Company Time Because employees tend to spend so much of their weekday hours on the job, they often are tempted to conduct personal business on company time. This can include setting up doctor's appointments on company phone lines, making vacation reservations using their employer's computers and Internet connections or even making phone calls for a freelance side business while on company time. At first glance, this ethical dilemma is fairly clear: It is an abuse of your employer to conduct personal business on company time. But there are shades of gray here. What if your spouse calls to tell you that your children are ill? Is it OK for you to schedule a doctor's appointment? A good rule of thumb is for an employee to check with his manager or human resources supervisors to clarify what counts as an actionable offense in the company. Taking Credit for Others' Work Employees often work in teams to create marketing campaigns, develop new products or fine-tune services, yet rarely does everyone in a group contribute equally to the final product. If three members of a five-person team did all the work, do those three members demand to receive proper credit while pointing out that two members of the team did not pull their weight? This is a thorny question. If employees single out their co-workers in a negative light, it could foment resentment. The same thing could happen, however, if all employees accept equal praise even though only a select few...
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...The basics of management ethics begins with hiring and placement in the proper place in the business. If placed in the wrong department, there could be definite repercussions. There can also be repercussions if you hire the wrong person. Evaluating performance is also very important, recognizing and praising excellence and using proper discipline plus terminating poor performers in the business, as well. As a manager there must be no discrimination. This could be based on race, religion, sex, color, ethnic background, or age. Most problems seem to revolve around the age group, it seems, from discussions that I have noticed and there are several techniques that may be used to offset the problems that are set around having a younger manager. It is important that a manager is seen for the performance assets that they carry and not the age that they have achieved their skill levels. Supporting your management team when an employee will do nothing but keep your team strong and build a great relationship between you and others that you work with, management, or not. Performance evaluations are a great way to know where you stand in the company, gain a raise, and let the managers know what value you are to your part of the company. It can be a positive or a negative experience. Either way, it is necessary to having a structured company. Another part of the organization is discipline. It is difficult to discipline employees, but it is necessary and as long as there is...
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...“Worldview, Philosophy, Faith and Ethics” Reading ARTICLE 1: What Is a Worldview and Why Is It Important to Me? The first set of questions in part 1 asked you to evaluate the extent to which you seek to apply faith, values, and philosophy to your personal and business decisions. To really have a sound foundation for ethical decisions, we have to have an understanding of how our worldview influences the decisions we make and how we perceive reality. Too often, we barely understand what our worldview is all about and how it impacts decisions. As such, our decisions in life may or may not be informed by sound principles. This is true even for Christians, who may even have unbiblical ideas influencing their worldview. The non-Christian faces a different challenge: trying to make sense of life in a meaningful way without a Biblical, theistic starting point. All of this will be discussed in the series of article for this assignment. Defining Worldview • A worldview is the intellectual, emotional, and perhaps even spiritual framework by which we apprehend reality and assign meaning to life. • Everyone has a worldview; it may not be very developed, but nevertheless, everyone is approaching life based upon one. The Worldview “House” • To speak metaphorically, our worldview is the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual “home” in which we live all of our lives. It may change drastically, undergoing serious renovations or damage as we go through...
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...prices during the war and afterwards despite a small raise in the price, Rockefeller would not raise the price too high as to not attract new competition. This reduction in prices contributed the greater social wealth of the country. Rockefeller’s purchase of the refineries also produced positive results. Those former refiners who were entrepreneurs had this buyout money and could move on to other ventures. This would free up their capital and to help move out the production possibilities of the nation. This obviously would increase social wealth and lifestyle of the country. I do not think contradiction exists between Rockefeller’s personal and business ethics. He gave away about 550 million US dollars during his lifetime. Most of this money was given to foundations and organizations. Many people have criticized the business methods that he used in developing his vast industrial empire, but his contributions to the welfare of humanity form and equally important part of his...
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...After graduating high school, I never had an immediate plan or intended major of what I wanted to do. I started off working full time and taking general education courses at College of DuPage. At the time I didn’t have any guidance or help from my family and always felt like the black sheep. After taking intro to business courses, I truly enjoyed marketing. I fell in love with the innovation and creativity forces that were driven behind branding, promoting, and selling. During my newfound epiphany, I worked at goodwill. Goodwill is a not for profit business that strictly builds its capital and success from blind donations. For 40 hours a week I would dig through perpetual garbage bags filled with clothes from target, Walmart, and come across...
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...Midterm Conducting personal Business on Company Time Business 323 Professor Christine M. Seymour 26 March, 2013 With increasingly demanding jobs and workloads increasing in quantity, add to that a limited time in employees’ schedules, a lot of personal business and personal errands are now being run from the comfort of the office during company time. This is an observation that has been made by both employer and worker and has been embraced to some extent, though other employers have decided to punish the culprits perpetrating the development. In this exposition, the causes and in general, the above topic as a whole will be expounded. The workplace has become so hectic these days that workers find it hard to lift their fingers off their work stations and work areas. It has become so demanding to the extent of workers taking some unfinished assignments home in the evening after a long day’s work. Though it started as some isolated case, it is now commonplace to find employees carrying huge diaries and paperwork back home to complete the task away from the office. In her article Paul (1998) gives the example of Arlene Price, a Systems Analyst by profession. The individual attests to the above fact by saying that in her view the difference between work tine and her own time has become blurred to the extent that she can freely walk out of the office and majestically stride towards the massage parlour...
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...Personal Worldview & Business Ethics Paper Liberty University BMAL 560 January 25, 2015 STEP 1 To what extent should personal religious beliefs impact our decisions about business ethics? Personal religious beliefs should impact all decisions about business ethics. If your beliefs are truly mandated in your life, then you have no choice but to be fair and honest about your business decisions. Business decisions can sometimes be difficult and harsh, but that is no reason to comprise the integrity of what you believe in. In 2012, Summers & Summers concluded that from the “Christian worldview”, God is the source and creator of all things. This means that God has provided all the resources we need in order for those needs to be satisfied. Our task is to use these resources properly. (pp. 30). Psalms 24:1 tells us “The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters” (NIV). To what extent do your personal religious (or non-religious) beliefs about life impact your sense of business ethics and personal decision-making? The extent of my owm personal religious beliefs about life impacted my sense of business ethics and personal decicion-making. As a new Revenue Agent for the Internal Revenue Service, my on-the-job trainer told me to always assume the taxpayer was a liar. I was not able to do that. I always let the records speak for themselves and I counted on my good...
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...Name of the Business: Personal Postbox Service 1. What's the business all about? The business's goal is to providing proxy package receiving service for personal usage. It will be some kind of service similar to postal office's post box, however this service doesn't require strict procedure to acquire personal post box. If you join our service, you'll get personal post box number and key for using the service. When you receive mail or package, it will be delivered to your postbox. 2. What's the unique selling point of the business? Unless you stay home most of the time, getting your package directly from delivery man is almost impossible. So you often experience finding your package in front of your house door or waiting for days for the delivery man to come back. To prevent many problems such as loss or exposure of your package, we provide the differentiated receipt service. It would be also ideal for people who doesn't want their housemates intruding their privacy. Unlike the post office's complicated process to acquiring post box, our service doesn't require any kind of conditions. Also, the post office provides mail receiving service only, ours provide package storage service. You can rent the postbox for half a year or more and you can take your package which is kept safely at any time you want. 3. Who's your target market? people who are worried about information spill such as home address. people do not want their family to know the content of package...
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...Over the past 15 years I have attended dozens of business events. I had such a thirst for learning that I have participated in seminars, workshops and courses of different classes which together represent for me a real business school. If I did accounts of how I invested money, perhaps surprised me, because it's probably a lot of money. At the same time I wonder where I would be today if I had not made that investment in me. business School One of the experiences I remember most pleasure was a few years ago when Ismael Cala Guatemala was in my town I told my 15 years. "Son put on your suit and tie because today we will go to a very special event" . Without asking is arrangement and that night we were there, together listening to great...
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...Choosing a degree in Economics is a result of my interest in knowing why economies are they way they are and how capital markets operate. Studying economics at A level further strengthens my will to go further in the subject. Coming from a fast developing country, Nigeria. My interests tend to lean towards macroeconomics and learning how an economy can be driven forward. With the knowledge gained from an economics degree, I intend to someday be a part of the process of driving the Nigerian economy forward. In terms of career paths I intend on entering the commercial world and being a part of a fast growing sector of our economy, such as banking. I would eventually like to run a business of my own. The other subjects I am studying at A Level provide a good grounding in skills and knowledge for this course. The knowledge gained in geography has sharpened my analytical skills as I have learnt to gather and evaluate data. This will be very important for my research skills. Politics is valuable as it helps me look at issues from different angles, improved my essay writing and most importantly, keeps me on top with contemporary world issues and offers insight into how/why political choices are made by governments around the world. My interest in the subject goes beyond the classroom, as I have recently become an avid reader of the economist and financial times. I also read the famous ‘the undercover economist’ which raises questions such as why the gap between rich and poor countries...
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...The first week was off to a good start! I feel like there was a lot of information to be learned, but I read through it and made it to the end. After all the readings and post this week I have a new perspective on the international business world. I still stand firm in my belief about keeping business in America. I also think the work and parts should remain to be purchased here. Keep Americans first is my logo. However, with that being said I know now after the first week it is sometimes better to step out of America and buy. This does keep companies open and running to keep employees working while still making a profit. This is sometimes a choice that has to be made in the best interest of the company. Companies want to make a profit and...
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...Unit one: Principles of personal responsibilities and working in a business environment Assessment You should use this file to complete your Assessment. * The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document, either onto your computer or a disk * Then work through your Assessment, remembering to save your work regularly * When you’ve finished, print out a copy to keep for reference * Then, go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure it is clearly marked with your name, the course title and the Unit and Assessment number. Please note that this Assessment document has 8 pages and is made up of 7 Sections. ------------------------------------------------- Name: Gerald Newton Section 1 – Know the employment rights and responsibilities of the employee and employer 1. Identify four main points that would be included in a contract of employment. If possible, use an example contract to support your answer (feel free to obscure any confidential information). As I do not have a current contract of employment of my own I have downloaded a template of a contract and attached it at the end of this document as evidence 1. A. Names of both parties: Employer and Employee (Evidence 1 part one on form) B. Job Title and key responsibilities (Evidence 1 part 3a and 3b on form) C. Salary and any other benefits i.e. company car (Evidence 1 part 5 and 6 indicating when you...
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