...BCOM-3950 October 21, 2015 Informative speech outline Specific Purpose: To inform the audience how to enhance credibility when making conversation at work-related social events. Central Idea: To inform my classmates how to enhance credibility when making conversation at work-related social event by engaging in a conversation, being honesty, and keep confidences. Introduction: I. Today I would like to inform you on how to enhance your credibility when making conversation at work-related social events. Dr. Victor Fund said, “A good leader is probably no different in any culture in the sense that a good leader must have credibility.” II. Gaining credibility at work is very important. It will determine if you will move up or stay in the same position within a company. There are many ways one can go about to enhance credibility, however I would like to talk about three key points that I found will be more useful. III. First I will talk about how to engage in a conversation; second I would like to express the importance of being honest and third keeping confidences. During work-related social events we must take advantage to network with colleagues. However, it can be hard to actually engage in a conversation, especially if you are shy. But we have to step out of our comfort zone and overcome our fear. Body: I. Ways to engage in a conversation is to look approachable, begin with a question and show interest and give compliments. According to Healthguidnace...
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...consists of many small bits and pieces of wisdom passed down from King Solomon to his people during his reign. Proverbs was written in a way that the interpretation for each little piece could be taken in a different way depending on the circumstances which has allowed these bits of wisdom to stand the test of time and still be viable today. The whole book doesn’t flow well together but should rather be read in small pieces at a time. Proverbs 12:16-22 don’t flow perfectly well together but are some of the verses I try to keep in mind throughout the day. Proverb 12:16-22 holds a main theme of dealing with the dishonest. It says: 16 The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult. 17 Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit. 18 There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing 19 Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment. 20 Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy. 21 No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble. 22 Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are his delight. The author of Proverbs was very good at using literary devices to make a mental picture for the reader. He uses terms such as “lips” instead of mouth to make his point clearer and more impactful. The rough point of these verses is that lying is bad. You can see that in 12:19...
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...Academic Honesty: [Belinda pinchek] Axial College University of Phoenix Abstract The focus of this discussion is on the importance of maintaining academy honesty, which is a requirement of all students of Axial College of University of Phoenix. Each student is responsible for the way they conduct themselves while attending the University of Phoenix. Realizing that a part of being honest is to make sure that all your assignments are in my own words and all of the thoughts and ideas of the works belong to me is critical. If I am going to use another person's work or words I must respect that person by giving them credit for their work. Morals are a very important factor in the learning process. I should show more consideration by being completely honest about my works. All I need to do is to read remember and Universities guidelines on Academic honesty, and Student Code of Conduct. I will remember in all that I do maintaining academy honesty will be a golden rule for my own personal benefit. The Importance of Maintaining Academic Honesty Beginning with my admittance to the University of Phoenix, which I am excited and proud to be a member of, I was made aware of the University's policies against plagiarism and all other forms of academic dishonesty. I have carefully reviewed many sources including documentation from the University of Phoenix and articles from our online library, as well as done independent study online and in my local library to confirm I fully understand...
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...Linde expects to be treated in her new marriage. Christine is first introduced in the play as someone lost because she has “no one to live for anymore” (9). Christine is seen here as being fulfilled by living for others. Consequently, she shows the submissive role a woman “should” play in society’s ideal marriage at the time. Contrasted with the first act’s need for someone to serve, act III shows Christine wanting a more active role in her marriage. When speaking to Krogstad about their future, she explains, “a woman who has once sold herself for another’s sake, doesn’t do it a second time” (78). Because she had previously put her needs after everyone else’s, she therefore does not want another marriage of submission to others. While Christine’s previous marriage was full of suppressing her needs, she now strives for an equal role in her marriage. Christine hopes for a marriage of shared responsibility, different to her relationship...
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...to go home. Regardless of the reason the action occurred, the teacher proceeds to have a thorough discussion regarding the topic of honesty and goes forth to discipline the child in school as well as contact her parent at home to make them aware of the situation and to recommend they generously speak to their student so that the behavior is not repeated again. In this paper I look to explore the different levels of honesty and evaluate if it is as black and white as it seems. When is it Lying According to Merriam-Webster the definition of honesty is: 1. The quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness. 2. Truthfulness, sincerity or frankness. 3. Freedom from deceit or fraud. The commitment required to realize these simple terms is more clearly implied in a second definition, drawn from Funk & Wagnails Standard Handbook of Synonyms, Antonyms and Prepositions: "One who is honest in the highest and fullest sense is scrupulously careful ^o adhere to all known truth and right even in thought." So how can you tell when something is true or not? According to Miller (2001), she states to let a story go by that is too fanciful to be real. More than likely, everyone knows it is not true, and you can all smile about it and maybe even joke about what a great story it is,...
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...was wrong but he wouldn't tell me. During a test, he asked me if he could copy my work. This case is about honesty and I explained to him the importance of honesty. I advised him not to cheat because cheating wouldn't do him any good and that sooner or later, that doing of his will probably backfire on him. Body The Basic Human Values to be upheld was Honesty. Honesty feels like something you don’t come by often these days, but in the realm of human values, it is extremely important. The idea of staying true to oneself can often feel intimidating and impossible, but what most people fail to realize is that it is not the act of simply telling the truth that makes someone honest rather the quality of person who is being honest. An honest person is often straight, upright, sincere and fair and being an honest person brings more reward to the soul than the damage a lie could do. So if my bestfriend cheats, it also affects some bits of his characteristics and his image. "Hosea 12:7 A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, He loves to oppress."... In this Biblical text, it is understood that when he does something bad, he affects the people around him and surely, my bestfriend wouldn't want that. "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God." and in this statement, it also understood that if you are honest with yourself and with others, you are pure of heart and you shall see God. Recommendations I would advise him not to cheat because...
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...professional success of an individual or a company. A business that is run in a dishonest way might meet with short-term success, which is often the motivation for being dishonest, but unethical practices often have unexpected consequences and lead to the downfall of a company.Honesty in our daily life should be our most important value. Dishonesty in the can be found in every coner of our lives. It can be found in our government, our companies, and even our families. Maintaining honest attributes in out lives is difficult in a world that is full of corruption, lies, and secrets. Because of these traits hose who are honest stand above the crowd. Your honest behavior may inspire others to stand up with you or cause others to try and look down on you for your honesty. The only true person that you have control of their honesty and interity is yourself. John D. MacDonald gave this inspiring quote, ” Intergrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or charge.” Trust between coworkers and between a business and its customers is essential for creating a healthy business environment. People who are consistently honest in their dealings with others develop an ongoing trust because people believe that they are worthy of that trust. Dishonesty that is discovered by others can have consequences far beyond the importance of a particular lie, because others will then question what else that this person has said that was untrue. Doing business in a dishonest manner, even...
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...accomplish. Unfortunately, being an ideal leader is not as easy as most people expect. An ideal leader would typically fall under the category of a nearly faultless person who possesses various characteristics that would be difficult to find in any one person. Those characteristics needed in an ideal leader may be summed up into three words: vision, honesty, and inspiration. An ideal leader should have a vision that benefits everyone. Their vision should be an inclusive vision that does not exclude people, but rather includes anybody that is willing to work hard to reach their goal. This ideal leader should be able to strive toward his vision while making sure he remembers the importance of honesty. Those thrown into today’s business world are easily misled by assuming that their leader is always being honest simply because of the authority in his or her position. The ideal leader would exemplify pure honesty and remember the importance of trust. The final characteristic of an ideal leader is his ability to inspire. An inspirational leader should aim to take his followers to a place that they could not reach alone. Many leaders are not inspiring their followers toward a unified goal; their own personal aspirations tend to be their priority and that does not include their followers. The ideal leader should be able to unify everyone’s aspirations and inspire them to achieve their goals. A strong, ideal leader in the simplest form, has a broad vision, is honest to themselves and...
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...Basic Issues: • The goal is to continue to grow 50 percent and add 50 stores per year. • Each store needs to fill all four roles in each location. The roles are sales associate, selling supervisor, assistant store supervisor, and the store manager. • BTG is currently recruiting employees through employee referrals, Internet sourcing, DSM compensation readjustments, BTG retail recruiters, newspaper ads, and store generated leads. • BTG is looking for talkative, outgoing, energetic, motivating, honest people who enjoy sales and have a positive attitude. • A large percentage pf the staff voluntary turnover occurred in the first four months of employment. • A higher turnover after eight months was partly due to termination because of underperformance. Immediate Issues: • Some locations are built and sitting unstaffed. • More locations are being built up yearly; this can mean more unstaffed locations. Importance/Urgency: Importance | |I |II | |LOW |Training | | | |III |IV | |HIGH |Like sales and dealing with people |Outgoing personality | | ...
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...Discussions A. Description of the subject……………………………………………………………………………………………….. V. Conclusions and Recommendations…………………………………………………………………………………………… Bibliography………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Appendix………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. CHAPTER I Introduction This dissertation aims to document the prevalence or presence of honesty among Filipino, which will be represented by the PLM community. Background As defined, honesty refers to a facet of moral character and connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the simple deeds of not lying, not cheating, being genuine, sincere, loyal, fair, and upright. An honest person tells the truth and does not hide anything. Miguel de Cervantes if often quoted as having said, "Honesty is the best policy." This statement explains that it is important to be truthful and to never cheat or steal and in connection to that, It is well known that Filipinos are...
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...due to the dishonest business ethics that took place within the company. The article explains the Sarbanes- Oxley act that passed in 2002 and why the act came about and the importance of the Sarbanes- Oxley act to the corporate business world. LEGAL ISSUE In the article there were many legal business issues that arise within the company Enron. Most of the legal issues that were mostly common in Enron were fraud. Enron were very misleading to their shareholders and employees and were being dishonest about their earnings reports while telling their employees to invest only in Enron as well as the embezzlement of money from the firm. The end result of Enron’s legal issues lead to their bankruptcy and furthermore the Sarbanes –Oxley act that took place to ensure less fraudulent activities within corporate companies. MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE The legal issues affect business tremendously; it can cause the business to lose almost everything because of the unethical way business is being conducted. In the Enron scandal many issues could have been avoided by simply being honest with their earnings reports as well as remaining ethical by not trying too hard to get ahead and compromising their corporate image. If Enron would have not compromised their business ethics and did things the honest way to get ahead they would have avoided bankruptcy and their employees and investors would have not been affected by the scandal. The SOX Act has a great effect on the...
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...success of this experiment, I would say it was effective. This experiment became more than just a project; it developed into a deeper understanding and acceptance for individuals who have a history of substance use. Throughout the four weeks, I learned three important lessons. The first lesson I learned was the importance of a support system for individuals who are going through substance withdraw. There were times throughout the month that my desires to use the stairs were high and in the third week I relapsed. However, the support I received from friends gave me the courage to continue the experiment. On the other hand, there were occasions that friends decided not to support my new lifestyle. Some friends encouraged me to take the elevator and would say, “I will not tell”....
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The IMC campaign title is “HONESTHESIA: Be the Cure” which came from the medicine drug “ANESTHESIA”. It aims to “inject” or to put into the mind and in the heart of the students the value and importance of honesty during elections in order to reduce “pain” or to reduce the dishonesties and lies to happen during election. Elections have been practiced a long time ago; it’s one way for people to exercise their suffrage to vote to appoint their desired leaders. Philippines as a democratic country used election to appoint officials like senators and president. But with every election, news about vote buying, malicious tampering of votes, fraud and other dishonest acts increases. These kinds of acts are a start of an impending problem called corruption. To prevent corruption to take place, we need to take action first on our elections and make it clean and honest. Our team has come up to a campaign called “HONESTHESIA: Be the Cure” which aims to increase honest individuals and young voters to stop dishonest acts during school and nationwide elections. Our goal is to: 1. To provide awareness about honesty to students within 6 months 2. To teach the true value and importance of honesty during elections within 6 months 3. To increase by 10% the students who will value and practice honesty during elections every year after the campaign is implemented 4. To decrease dishonesty and corruption by 10% every year after the campaign is implemented The major...
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...different manor than most other companies. It will be looking at the way they retain their best employees and how the training has a different approach than some other organizations, and how they approach to talent management and their development. Also if OCBC’s approach would work with different organizations and operations or if it is just something that may be useful in the banking or even in their location for their employees. When looking at OCBC Banking some of the things that seem to differ greatly compared to other organizations is their drive and commitment to be open and honest, also the way they attempt to train their employees and the length of time those employees spend in training. This is time consuming and the expense of such a training period has to be expensive but employees will know what the company is doing and wanting to achieve, and they also get cross trained by being moved to different departments. They have a set up three-year training program that watches all of the employees learning accomplishments during their first 3 years of tenure. Each Employee has the opportunity to expand their skills and knowledge through OCBC’s in house training programs, course and other management development programs (OCBC’s website). This is a very well designed program but it would take a lot of Human Resources time and effort, and most organizations would not want to go to this extent and would probably not want the expense. When looking at other organizations...
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...to make a profit. It may take a little longer for a social-responsibility oriented company to net profits, however, receiving acceptance from the public early on often provides greater return to those companies. Body I have chosen to focus on Comcast Cable as a profit-oriented business. While I could not find a company that openly admits to being solely profit oriented, I can’t help but classify Comcast Cable as being such. Ever since Comcast was founded in 1963 by Ralph J. Roberts, Daniel Aaron and Julian A. Brodsky, I have witnessed nothing but takeover after takeover. I often classify Comcast Cable as a monopoly and during recent research, it is evident that I am not the only one. By definition, a monopoly occurs when a single seller dominates trade in a good or service for which buyers can find no close substitutes. A pure monopoly occurs when a firm possesses unique characteristics so important to competition in its industry that they serve as barriers to prevent entry by would-be competitors. (Kurtz, D. 2010, p.78) I have recently learned of a local lawsuit that was filed against Comcast Cable, in which Comcast is being accused of attempting/intending to establish a monopoly in the Philadelphia market. The contents of this lawsuit hope to prove that Comcast struck multiple deals with other competitors to own a market. (O’Donnell M. 2011, September 01) As I am a resident of Philadelphia, it is my personal belief that these allegations are 100% accurate. While...
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