...PMS? Do More! How was your first PMS experience? Was it heart-warming or traumatic? Did you have fun with it or wished it never happened? Are you ready to experience it? Let me tell you – my first experience was terrifying but because it happened I have to learn from it and I can only wish that my own daughter will never experience it. Fellow toastmasters and guests, good evening! Yes, my first PMS experience was traumatic and wet. Uhh, uhhh before your imagination jumps-off this building, let me clear your thoughts of what am I referring to as PMS. It’s my first experience of my dear Papa and Mama Squabble. I was still a little child, well, smaller and sexier than I am today, 6 years old to be exact, when I had witnessed them fought. I was right in front of them, when my mama gripped a bolo, used it to draw a line on the floor and furiously said to my father, “Don’t you dare cross this line or else I’ll kill you!”. Then, a deafening silence enveloped our home. I got so scared that I didn’t notice I wet my pants already. That was worst! We all know that getting into it with our spouse or partner is inevitable, and when you have kids, there’s a strong chance they’ll witness the arguing. So, what do we do? Dr. Judith Sherven, a psychologist and an expert in conflict resolution, author of the book Discovering the Magic at the Heart of your Differences, said that it’s wise and understandable that parents worry about fighting in front of their children, yet disagreements...
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...Learning contract Spring 2015 L. Demarse The Learning Contract The academic credit internship program (Mgt 4801) is designed to contribute to your intellectual and ethical growth by providing a reflective opportunity to apply classroom knowledge and a practical perspective from which to evaluate past and future classroom learning. The learning contract sets for the academic expectations of the internship and guides the internship experience. The school, experience provider (host) and the student develop the learning contract goals to ensure that the student receives an appropriately rigorous learning experience. The learning contract protects the student from serving as an unpaid office assistant, and insures that experience provider will work with the student who takes the experience seriously and conducts him or herself professionally. As you complete the learning contact please pay close attention to the instructions regarding alignment of the objectives. The first objective supports the School of Business learning goals; the second objective related to discipline-specific knowledge you seek to gain from the internship and the third objective addresses your personal aspirations for the internship. You are required to detail the specific learning activities that will assist you in meeting your objectives. Learning contracts that reference “observation or exposure” as learning activities are likely to be sent back for further development. Avoid generalities such as the...
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...I learned to act like them, and to see the world in their terms. For example, I started to wear the standard apparel and gear. As a volleyball player in Ghana, I barely wore knee pads. The only time I wore them was when we played other teams and the District, Regional and National Sports Councils provided them. We always returned the knee pads after play. Knee pads were not easily accessible in Tamale and were very expensive. In Calgary, getting the standard playing gear got me ready and made it easier for me to blend in. Playing with the participants helped me to cultivate knowledge and gain understanding into participants’ actions and reactions that I observed and that they spoke of during interviews. The knowledge I acquired helped me fit in and also had a positive impact on data...
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...candidate profile ------------------------------------------------- Shift: Evening (1 pm to 09 pm) Essential Requirement: * Strong English Communication skills. * Good writing skills with IT Industry knowledge Job Role: * Comprehensive and solid understanding of project life cycles. If you don't fully understand project life cycle already, and are willing to learn from us, prerequisites include infinite energy, patience, resilience, strength, courage, mental capacity and infinite persistence. * Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English. * Capability to work under tight schedule, very long working hours (18 hours+ when situation demands and as long as it demands), keep focus and keep making progress consistently and remain creative under stress. * Not afraid of new, different and unknown rather always naturally longing for such * Enjoy working in a team, be supportive, encouraging and inspiration to the fellows. * Get an idea (your own or received from top management), document it, design implementation plan covering logistical, financial, technical and human resource needs. Devise a realistic yet optimal timeline and then execute to completion on time, on budget and above the expected level of quality. * Fair amount of common sense, high IQ (120+ at the very least), extensive general knowledge (history, cultures, science, geography), sound understanding of how the world works, ability to think with...
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...provide state of the art and high quality education as preparation for study or future employment in positions of responsibility across a worldwide range of ICT, Business, Social and Public Organizations. As well, for high quality of MBA program practical knowledge is very much helpful for the students. So a short trip for few of our students can help to learn them how bookish knowledge actually works practically. As a successful company Syngenta earn huge reputation in corporate world. We already heard about the story of your successful management in factory. Your company make very good practice of CSR. You have a very good environment of factory product line and production plant. We believe if we want to produce potential future business leader or entrepreneur this type of practice from your organization will be an example for all. We select 12 students from different department of MBA program with two senior faculty as a research team to visit a factory for their better knowledge. Syngenta can be the best for this purpose. If you allow the team to visit your factory at 17th April, 2015 for half a day, they will get to see industry best practices. The team will be reached at 10 am on the notified date and back at 2 pm by own transportation. We like to form a harmonious relationship with your organization and we look forward to your positive response in the interest of our MBA students. If you need further information, please feel free to contact us at +88 01914001470...
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...Refining Solutions Paper Rosalyn Darisse McGee PHL/458 August 5, 2013 David McCarthy Refining Solutions Paper According to Vincent R. Ruggiero” Refining your solutions means making good ideas even better-that is, making the results of your creative thinking more effective, more workable, more attractive” (Ruggiero, 2009 P. 189). The three steps to follow in refining your solutions are to working out the detail, finding imperfections and complications and making problems. Original Problem The original issue that I had a problem with was the ability to learn the new 787 Dreamliner in order to complete my statement of work in an efficient amount of time. The initial solution was to pair up with someone that was more knowledgeable in that particular area or system and learn it that way. Several reasons that I was not able to learn this airplane with the time frame given were not enough time, systems were more complex than what I was used to, and also there were too many mechanics that were picked over me to get that job to actually learn it. After looking at the solution that I had decided based upon my time frame, and talking it over with some co-workers I had to rethink my solutions to the problem. Initial Solutions Initial solutions that I seem fit that will benefit my time schedule would be to learn the airplane on my spare time. Playing with the airplane while no one was working was also an option, that way I can see which systems affects each other, and also how...
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...My Learning Style Learning styles are part of a mental map that when dissected and analyzed, will help people to understand their learning anatomy, and hopefully will guide their future learning experiences to make the best use of their big and strong learning musculature. To start, the learning analysis and this writer learning styles and strategies will be introduced. Second, a comparison of my own and Vark’s analysis of strategies will be presented, and finally, an assessment of changes on study habits for this writer will be offered. First, our focus here will be the Styles included on the VARK analysis which questions are focus on the way we take-in and give-out information. These Learning styles are Visual, Aural, Red/Write, and Kinesthetic. My learning style is Multimodal (three model) with strongest points on the visual mode which was 12, kinesthetic 10, read/write 10, and Aural 4. As seen by the numbers, none of the three styles stands out. Translating this, it might take longer for this writer to feel confident about the understanding and retaining of the information because involves not only seen something, but , getting examples, pictures about it, writing about it and also having some practice or hands-on, that help to get the best of the learning endeavor. However this allows for flexibility of choosing the best styles for the specific learning experience. Definitely Aural learning style is not a great part of this student learning anatomy because she gets...
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...| Learning and Developing Design | Trisco Foods | | | Contents Executive Summary 3 Recommendations 3 1. Introduction 4 2. Learning Objectives 4 3. On or Off The Job Approach 5 4. On The Job Process 6 5. Off The Job Process 7 6. Program Schedule 8 Conclusion 8 Reference List 9 Appendix A Hierarchy of Need and Learning Objectives 10 Appendix B Learning Contract 11 Appendix C Session Plan Coversheet 13 Appendix D Program Schedule 16 Executive Summary Trisco Foods has a performance gap between the actual performance of syrup makers and the expectations of management to these makers. This kind of performance gap leads to a growth reduction over the last few years with the percentage of 10, which is a big organizational problem to this company. This report intends to design a learning and developing program in order to fill the gap and achieve better performance. This program will include on the job approach and off the job approach. During the design, both on the job method and off the job methods are taken into account and generate a combination to receive a better influence. It is important to evaluate the learning program and guarantee the designed program is applied to the reality, which are considered in the recommendations. Recommendations After the learning and development design program has been designed, it was designed on the basis of meeting the learning need of compliance because they do not have a good understanding...
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...LEARNING BARRIERS |Barriers to Learning | | | |Overfilled class-sizes, economic disadvantages and "learning disorders" are common. Yet underlying all of this, there are three | |primary barriers that keep one from successfully studying a subject. Despite all that has been written on the subject of study, | |these three barriers were never isolated as having such importance in effective education. | |This is not attention deficit disorder, emotional problems, or stupidity at work. This is the emotional or physical reaction a | |student of any age will experience when encountering one of these barriers to learning. | |Students fail to learn because no one has ever taught them how to learn — how to identify the barriers to learning and how to | |overcome them. | | | |First Barrier to Study ...
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...|Name: Gail Faulkner |Date:4-22-2012 | |Unit Title: the study of Water | |Grade Level: PRE-K | |Subject: Science | |Unit Length: 10 minutes | |Brief Summary of Unit | |(Describe the context for this unit within the curriculum, and the curricular aims of the unit.) | | | |What understandings or goals will be assessed through this task? (Students will…) | | | |Will understand how water is a way of life for people. They will also gain recognition of various types of things we use water for.| |The students will develop...
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...Motiv Emot (2009) 33:343–352 DOI 10.1007/s11031-009-9143-3 ORIGINAL PAPER The combined effects of goal type and cognitive ability on performance Gerard Seijts Æ Dan Crim Published online: 18 September 2009 Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 Abstract We tested the combined effects of goal type and cognitive ability on task performance using a moderately complex task. Business students (N = 105) worked on a 24 min class scheduling task. The results showed that participants with higher cognitive ability benefited more from the setting of a performance goal as opposed to a learning goal. The reverse pattern was true for participants with lower cognitive ability. Performance goals were more effective for participants with higher cognitive ability vis` a-vis those with lower cognitive ability. The correlation between goal commitment and performance was positive and significant as was the correlation between cognitive ability and performance. Keywords Learning goals Á Performance goals Á Cognitive ability Á Performance Introduction More than a thousand studies have shown the positive effect of goal setting on subsequent task performance (e.g., Latham 2007; Locke and Latham 2002). The most difficult goals produce the highest levels of effort and performance (e.g., Locke and Latham 2002). Moderators or boundary conditions for goal setting include ability, feedback, task complexity, goal commitment and situational constraints (e.g., Locke and Latham 1990, 2002). Pinder...
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...Knowledge Management ▪ Ancient ▪ Collaboration at the organizational level ▪ Could revolutionize collaboration and computing Helps organizations ▪ Identify ▪ Select ▪ Organize ▪ Disseminate ▪ Transfer Important information and expertise within the organizational memory in an unstructured manner Knowledge ▪ Understanding gained through experience or study ▪ Know-how or familiarity with how to do something ▪ Information that is contextual, relevant, and actionable ▪ Accumulation of facts, procedural rules or heuristics ▪ Knowledge is INFORMATION IN ACTION ▪ Actionable (relevant) information available in the right format, at the right time, and at the right place for decision making (TIWANA2000) ← Fact – statement of some element of truth about a subject matter or a domain. Example: milk is white, sun rises in east. ← Heuristics – rule of thumb based on years of experience. Example: strike on independence day in our state ← Intelligence – capacity to acquire, improve and apply knowledge. ← Experience – what we have done and what has happened in past in a specific area of work ← Common sense – natural ability to sense, judge or perceive situations ; grows stronger over time. ← Memory – ability to store and retrieve relevant experience at will, is part of intelligence. ← Learning – is knowledge or skill that is acquired by instruction or study Knowledge Types ...
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...researches for each question in order to get a concept idea. Then Idea and information presentation is become next step, this is good, because the information sharing and discussing always relates to different opinion between different peoples. I got much information I didn't know it before and other members mentioned during the meeting. The most impressive one is ‘What do we know? What do we need to know? How are we going to find out? And who is going to do it?’ The four simple sentences help me to find more critical thinking, so I put it in every question as benefit. Furthermore reflections is about the work we have done, so firstly, let’s talk about what is meant by Humanitarian Aid, our group have searched a lot of definitions and other knowledge that relates to and may give a definition for it. My initial concept to find the meant of it is to separate the words Humanitarian Aid, so Humanitarian can be defined as (a person who is) involved in or connected with improving people's...
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...more about it. The process of learning was performed in such way, that students were willing to interact and learn with fun. From the beginning it was anxious, it was not clear what was expected from me, the assessments seemed to be impossible to do. But with every lesson the level of confidence with subject was rising. My first assignment was a test, which supposed to be taken online. It was a high motivator to study and read the textbook. The test covered all the topics, which were taken in semester one, and it was challenging. Unfortunately I have got low grade in it, and I strived to remedy on my next exams. In one of the assignments we were supposed to work in groups. That was our first experience of teamwork. The theoretical knowledge that I gained previously has been applied in this task. We created our fictional product for E-Portfolio. It was a perfume “PHY”. In this assignment we worked on 4P’s of marketing mix: we introduced the product. Perfume industry was chosen due to its high profitability worldwide and in the Middle East particularly. Then we looked for the correct promotional method and the place. And finally we worked on pricing and distribution channels. That was the part I preferred the most. We analyzed the marketing mix from the concept of what do our customers want. Everything learnt so far in this module, was applied in this particular exam....
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...to create different activities. Throughout the adult learning theory there have been three changes from volume to volume but one thing that has remained constant is the transformational learning (TL). In the first chapters of adult learning theory transformational learning was more or less describing theory, but in the twenty- first century it is based on research. Researchers from the twentieth century believe that adult learning theory was surrounded around individual learner, how that learner processes information, and how learning allows the person to be more empowered and self-sufficient. In the present day “adult learning was understood as cognitive process, one in which the mind took in facts and information, converting it all to knowledge which then could be observed as subsequent behavioral change.” Adult learning can be effective in more ways than one. This example focuses on adult learning with the use of games. One advantage for learning with games is that it is a hands-on experience which can also motivate individuals to learn....
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