...both Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams at the College of Charleston). I selected job shadowing because it is a very useful activity that allows a person to explore a career that they are interested in by spending time with a professional working in that field. It provided me more insight rather than just reading a job description or even asking an employee to describe what they do. While job shadowing, I was able to ask questions and experience the trials, triumphs, and normal day-to-day activities that Marc Pronto, Candice Jackson, and Amanda Taylor might experience while working in their jobs. I was able to experience how the professional approaches the job, the necessary social cooperation, standard operating procedures, and the tools that I need in order to perform the job successfully. Normally, job shadowing usually lasts only a day, but in...
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...strongly believe that to be proficient in any profession, this is a necessary quality to have to a person, especially occupational therapy. When one enters a job where interaction with people is going to be a major part of it, having patience is key in order to yield positive results. With occupational therapy, there is an immense amount needed when working with children or the geriatric population. It may seem simple to perform specific tasks, but for the individuals receiving therapy, it is almost like they are performing them for the first time, thus...
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...I knew I have always had an indecisive nature but I did not realize it would spill over into higher education. I never thought I’d be the one to say that I have switched my major two times, but I have: from Biology to Exercise and Sports Science to Nursing. Let me explain or better yet take you down the path of my college journey of majors. Before coming to this University, I set up goals into becoming a Dermatologist. I was very adamant about it, passion was at an all time high and knew everything I was supposed to do with help of a mentor. I was enrolled my freshman year as a Biology major. As you’ve heard, medical is really competitive and expensive so undergraduate grades must be in tip-top shape. With a semester of heart retching C’s, dreaded B’s, analysis of my work ethic and distractions I realized that I probably wouldn’t be able to handle the coursework Biology had to offer, my passion and drive was no longer sufficing. I indefinitely just wanted to appreciate my major and actually love it. Going into my second year, my desired course of major was Exercise and Sports Science with a concentration in Physical Therapy. The summer of 2014, the summer before my sophomore year here at Texas State, I went through a phase where I went to the gym or worked out any chance that I got. My body was my drawing board and I was in control of how I wanted it to look, not exactly feel and I liked that feeling. My body begun the chance intensely which developed my interest in bodily...
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...During my senior year at James Clemens High School, I participated in the Medical Academy internship program. In our semester course, we would travel 2 days a week to different hospitals and health care facilities to shadow nurses and get different experiences. Mrs. Collins, the teacher for this course, was a former registered nurse and challenged her students on a daily basis. We had various forms of assignments during this course, but the main assignments were long-form experience writings. I have chosen to write this essay based on my long-form experience writing assignment from one my shadowing days at Huntsville Hospital. This was my most memorable piece of writing because I was so impressed by the nurse constituent that I followed for...
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...I have wrinkly and dry hands. I grew up with eczema and other skin problems that ended up making my hands look as if they were old enough to have grandchildren. I relayed this to an elderly patient I was working with at the assisted living home I interned at as she marvelled at the not far comparison her and my hands shared. The occupational therapist had me do some hand strengthening and mobility exercises with her patients so I sat with an older resident with Parkinson's and we picked up pennies and pinched putty together. The neural issues in her right hand made it difficult to clench and unclench, but it didn’t stop her from holding my hand into hers to tell me that I was doing a fine job interning with her OT and that my old hands were going to do a lot of good in the future. This was my introduction to what occupational therapy did with others and it became my invitation to learn and do more....
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...day I hope to be able to create my own non-profit. The goal for this organization would be to open and maintain teaching hospitals in developing countries that suffer largely from the “brain- drain”. The brain drain is a phenomenon in which intelligent people that want an education leave their home country in search of a better life and prosperous education. These people would greatly benefit their native country if they could learn and practice medicine (often the occupation of choice) there instead of going to Europe or America where there is already an abundance of medical care facilitators. This is non-profit is different from organizations that already exist because existing programs bring in volunteers who come in and take up jobs from native people and as soon as resources are gone have to leave. This is unsustainable in many areas and often leaves the cities in more need then before outside sources had come in. This is not a “feel-good” organization; it is not supposed to make outsiders feel like they are helping and being good people. It is supposed to help the people that already have the ambition to practice and study medicine, be able to accomplish that with residencies and then inspire other people in the area to do the same. The first part of Drucker’s Managing the Nonprofit Organization explains what makes up a good mission and the benefits of sticking true to it. The mission statement for the organization that I have yet to create will probably fluctuate...
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... Strengths Personality preferences is always doing and trying to create a Best story that match to the other professional writer did. It makes feel happy if I done with some short story. Strengths is you self consciously regulate what you feel and what you do. You are a disciplined person. You are in control of your appetites and your emotions, not vice versa. You have strong and coherent beliefs about the higher purposed and meaning of the universe. You know where you fit in the large scheme. Your beliefs shape your actions and are a source of comfort to you. * Career Interest It will challenge you to improve your skills, learning and gaining more knowledge for the successful of your career. Always giving mentally exercises for you not to waste your time. * Three College Major That Want to Explore First is career planning because it giving you a knowledge how to Plan, how to make decision, how you be always ready for the problem comes to your life. Second is hospitality management because in your career you have to know what people wants, what they need to which not having any problem from your business. Third is organizing because in career there is always...
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...Exercise 10-2 Orientation is the role that introduces new and current employees to a new position or new to an organization and the job. In larger organizations, the supervisor, along with human resources share the responsibilities of orientating new employees. Smaller organizations usually have the supervisor conducting interviews and the orientation process (Ch. 10. Supervision: Key Link to Productivity. Rue and Byars (2004). Training employees consist of five steps. Getting the employees ready to learn, break down the work into components and identify the key points, demonstrate the proper way the work is to be done, and let the trainees perform the work, and put the trainees on their own gradually (Ch. 10. Supervision: Key Link to Productivity. Rue and Byars (2004). The purpose of orientating and training are to see where the employee stands on skills, information, and attitudes that are required for the job, and where improvements are needed. Placement tests in the hiring process are also crucial. These tests help to evaluate the employee on a more personal level and decide which department of a business they would be more effective (Ch. 10. Supervision: Key Link to Productivity. Rue and Byars (2004). After the hiring process has taken place. Then the supervisor and training personnel can than move forward with the three day orientation and training process. Classroom Training: The first day of the new orientation and training process for all new sales clerks will...
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...Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal Emergency response preparedness: small group training. Part 2 – training methods compared with learning styles Henry C. Wilson Article information: To cite this document: Henry C. Wilson, (2000),"Emergency response preparedness: small group training. Part 2 – training methods compared with learning styles", Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Vol. 9 Iss 3 pp. 180 - 199 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09653560010335112 Downloaded on: 09 December 2015, At: 11:19 (PT) References: this document contains references to 15 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 1307 times since 2006* Downloaded by Arab Open University Kuwait At 11:19 09 December 2015 (PT) Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: Henry C. Wilson, (2000),"Emergency response preparedness: small group training. Part I – training and learning styles", Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Vol. 9 Iss 2 pp. 105-116 Piyali Ghosh, Rachita Satyawadi, Jagdamba Prasad Joshi, Rashmi Ranjan, Priya Singh, (2012),"Towards more effective training programmes: a study of trainer attributes", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 44 Iss 4 pp. 194-202 http:// dx.doi.org/10.1108/00197851211231469 Charles W. Read, Brian H. Kleiner, (1996),"Which training methods are effective?", Management...
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...suggested that she must not have any friends or that she is socially awkward. Ms. Andreade’s point in this article was to disprove that shadowing notion that homeschooling is bad, and to show that in fact, homeschooling, has proven more beneficial to her life than what public schooling had to offer. This article jumped out to me more than the other opinion articles in the Journal due to my similarities with the author. Veronica is a minister’s daughter who is homeschooled. I was also homeschooled through the sixth grade and my dad has been a minister since I was born. The second reason this article stood out to me was that I disagreed with the majority of the article even though I had gone through most of the same confrontations she wrote about with fellow teenagers. In agreement with Veronica, homeschooling can give you a competitive edge in that, you can study without the limitations of your class. The statistics typically show that homeschoolers receive higher grades than those who attend public school. Alternatively, all the interviews I have had so far have not involved the hiring manager looking at my past test scores, but instead, asking me questions to learn how I act in that particular social situation. Every interview has also involved a discussion of my time management and how I remain to be efficient with a full-time job and work. Once I was...
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...suffering, and work to prevent permanent disabilities for their patients” (Us Department of Labor). This interactive career is one of the fastest growing jobs at this time. A physical therapist has the opportunity to work in a hospital, private office, or clinic. Their patients could range from aging woman, an athlete, an unfortunate accident victim, or someone with lower back pain. Saul Wischnitzer projects his research by explaining that it's a physical therapists job to first test then measure the patients’, muscle strength, coordination, motor function, and a range of motion. After a certain number of sessions, the physical therapist must determine a process for the treatment so the patient can regain mobility. They specialized process should help relieve the pain and assure the patient everything will be okay. Working as a physical therapist gives a person the satisfaction of helping people achieve a goal with gradual progress and seeing them once or twice a week. The experience a physical therapist takes away from going to work every day includes meeting new people and having conversation with new individuals. Also knowing that physical therapists earn a good amount of money attracts some people to this occupation. Physical therapy is a modern career that is exciting, challenging, and allows a person to be social. A job in the physical therapy field requires a person to obtain a high school diploma. Certain classes are required to get the bachelor or doctorate degrees needed...
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...Training needs: Training needs can generally be classified as either individual or group needs. 1. Individual needs may relate to orientation (induction) training, initial (basic) training, remedial training (to correct perceived faults - this situation is an alternative to recruiting new staff), refresher training (such as in company policy, safety, fire drill) or personal development. 2. Group needs, on the other hand, refer to the need for a number of employees to change their behavior collectively. Examples include team-building exercises designed to increase group cohesion or introducing new technical information to a group. TYPES OF TRAINING NEEDS Training can involve the changing of employees' – 1. Knowledge 2. Skills 3. Attitudes 4. Behavior To ascertain the appropriate requirements of each job carry out a TNA in terms of these four factors, which are described below. Knowledge - facts, procedures, principles and basic skills. Training which involves improvement of knowledge is tending to move more towards the use of self-instruction methods. Skills - aims to change the behavior of the trainee, usually by seeing and hearing the new skills, practicing them and receiving feedback on progress. Attitudes - this is the hardest factor to alter, as it is affected by many variables outside the training process, such as the manager's behavior, company policy, the peer group, etc. Examples of attempts to change attitudes could...
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...David Jonas- Foundations of Business Coaching Final Paper- MY COACHING MODEL Introduction to My Business Coaching Model Throughout this course I was able to learn, practice and reflect upon a variety of coaching models, techniques and exercises. Each individual expert we were lectured by or studied had their own unique method that they had applied in their career and, in turn, educated other aspiring coaches about. Each had different levels of effectiveness that were subjective to each member of our class. Of all the many definitions of coaching that there are, the one that I like the best is John Whitmore who says that effective coaching is “unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance”. The prevailing theme that I took from the array of best practices studied was that each individual scenario and/or coach must determine how they can mold their coaching methods and process to best fit their own style while simultaneously also being able to cater to the specific needs of the subject(s) whom they will coach. The one common thread between all of the potential methods is that the goal is always to maximize the performance or results of the person whom you have offered to coach or are tasked to coach for any given period of time. The key is always to maximize the individual’s potential through achieving the desired results. I learned that the proven methods or techniques of an effective coach in one situation could need to be modified for another coach in...
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...this life’s. Although it’s not a simple yes or no answer, it can be simplified. Whether they want to attend a state university, local community college, or a private school it’s all the same. It depends on what degree is perused and what field Is College Worth It? College has always been a gateway to a better future ever since the mid-1600’s. Prosperous students have lined up to attend college. In recent events, the cost to attend college had risen 130% from fall 1982 to fall 2012. It raised speculation about attending college or not. All though college education is the same, the financial aspect made all the difference. College offers higher pay grade with a crippling student loans, better job opportunities without any guarantee for a job. A diluted college degree but more jobs require a college degree and the college stress can lead to health problems but can afford better health insurance. College can be worth it depending on the degree is pursued and if the field is in demand. Attending college will give people the opportunity for a higher pay grade. On average the higher degree is pursued, the higher annual salary will be earned. An Associate’s Degree is worth $170,000 over a lifetime than a high school diploma while a Bachelor’s Degree is worth $30,000 more per year. (Greenstone, 2013) Although people make a living with a high school diploma, they’re not making livable wages. In 2008, the poverty rate for a Bachelor’s Degree was at a 4% rate compared to a 12% for a...
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...complete the assessment activities and submit them as a single document, using the template provided. Where you are asked to complete a non-text based activity (e.g. a PowerPoint presentation) you should submit this as a separate document. The file name should be as follows: NameUnitCodeAssessment e.g. for this unit JAndersonDPPAssessment Assessment of the Unit The learning outcomes for this unit are assessed in the following ways: 1) Completion of the assessment activities in this pack 2) Attendance & contribution at the workshop event(s) 3) Completion of Participant Pack for this unit The following table explains how the learning outcomes for this unit will be assessed, and uses the following codes: PP – Participant Pack ‘Exercise your Brain’ number 3 etc. IHR – IHR/ Work Based Report AA1 – Assessment Activity 1 |Learning Outcome |Assessment Criteria...
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