...Time Management Activities | Trainers Warehouse Blog Home Recent Posts energize learning! Favorites Shop About Contact us Time Management Activities POPULAR LATEST COMMENTS TAGS on APRIL 19, 2011 in ACTIVITIES, ICEBREAKERS Looking for a Time Management activity? Try one of these: The Jar Divide the group into teams and give them each a large glass container. The object is to fill their containers with as much material as they can. The material can be rocks, stones, gravel, sand etc.. (But you can use anything.) The larger materials should be placed in the container first and then followed by the next to the largest, and so on… In this order you should be able to fit the most into the container. You can come to your own conclusion for the activity based on your need. The rocks (due to size) would be the most important items to complete. (Can be home activities…work/life balance.) Then stones would be every day has to finish items. Gravel can be the projects that need completed. Sand could be the extra work that was just assigned to you. Communication and Listening exercises APRIL 5, 2011 Time Management Activities APRIL 19, 2011 Memorable Debriefs (last updated March 2014) MAY 11, 2011 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Activities JANUARY 30, 2012 5-Minute Competitive Games MAY 4, 2012 Search... CATEGORIES I allow the groups to fill their own container without detailed instructions. I tell them ...
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...Time Management My usual pattern for completing assignments is to first gain the knowledge and instructions on what to do for that particular task. Usually I complete the assignment a couple of days before it is due, depending on the level of difficulty. If it is a short assignment, most likely I will complete it the night before. I never asked for an extension on my homework because that’s not how things work. Everything has a due date so I never expected to have an extension on an assignment unless it was directed by the professor. The advantages of doing an assignment early is that you have time to make revisions or changes that can help you achieve a better grade. The cons of completing an assignment the night before is that it causes a person to rush. When an assignment is rushed, that leaves minimal amount of time to improve it. An upcoming assignment is for ENC 1101, a 5-6 page paper that is due on Friday, September 7th. I plan to complete the final draft on Tuesday so I can go to my professor’s office hours to get feedback on my paper on Wednesday. On Thursday, I plan to go to the writing center to get a thorough revision on my paper. The advantages to this method can aid me to improve my essay and get a better grade. As far as I am concerned there are no disadvantages to this. My time management skills can certainly improve. As of this moment I only set time pout to do my homework assignments, and I rarely take the time out to study. In order for me to get...
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...Running head: TIME MANAGEMENT AND TEAM BUILDING SKILLS Time Management and Team Building Skills Dr. Felicia Wilson Shorter University “Team Trial-Pack” Leevirt Agee, Lillie Momon, Kenyoda Pullen & Diane Williams March 27, 2012 Annotated Bibliography of Time Management Article Mpofu, E., DAmico, M., & Cleghorn, A. (1996). Time management practices in an African culture: Correlates with college academic grades. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, 28(2), 102-112. http://search.proquest.com/docview/220529772?accountid=13843 This peer reviewed article was retrieved from the Proquest Social Science Journals database. Written in 1996, it is entitled, “Time management practices in an African culture: Correlates with college academic grades.” It was initially published in the Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science by Elias Mpofu, of Educational Psychology and Special Education at the University of Zimbabwe. Other contributing scholars were Miranda D’Amico and Ailie Cleghorn, both of the Department of Education from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. The article’s basic purpose is to compare time management practices of 472 student-teachers from the Shona culture of Zimbabwe, with practices of western cultures in relation to college grade results. This was done by using 2 western time management models (“The Briton and Tesser” and “The Macan Model”) to correlate Zimbabwean cultural factors along with gender, age, grade point average, and year...
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...When a firm creates, formulates, and implements a strategy that adds value and competitive advantage that is a strategic business plan. A strategic business plan is the layout or outline that specifies how a firm is going to reach their plans or goals over a certain period of time. The plan can be very specific or very broad. It can focus on one part of the business, as well as a whole focusing on all functions within a company. This plan is important to an organization’s long-term success because it gives the company a direction or purpose in which to set goals and carry them out. A strategic business plan assists a company in providing products and services in a more efficient and effective manner. Without a strategic business plan a firm will have a difficult time maximizing the potential of its resources. New opportunities and key resources for growth or improvement will be limited or perhaps even missed. A strategic plan is important to both small and large businesses. I believe that for any company, no matter the size, it is equally important to have a strategic business plan in place. This will assist in understanding customer needs and be able to adapt to constant changes and new trends taking place within the company. With a successful strategic plan, a company has a great opportunity for becoming very successful. Innovation plays a key role in developing a company that has potential for growth and success. Innovation provides the company with ways to maintain a competitive...
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...students can learn new knowledge and experiences from the studying in the college. There are many teachers, professors with abundant teaching experience who teach students lots of new knowledge and help them to solve the problems in their study. With their help, student can learn a lot of useful basic and professional knowledge which is very helpful for their future’ work. and study. After they finish their study in the college, students go to work in the society and contribute to the different fields. Secondly, students can learn how to arrange their own time reasonably. Before their studying in college, their life often arranged by their parents and their study often arranged by their teachers. It is very different for them to live and study in college, because students studying in college have to arrange their life and study by themselves. They have right to arrange their part time, such as when to get up, when is the sport-time, when to finish the assignment etc. This is very important experience for students’ work and life in the future. Secondly, studying in the college make students having opportunity to live with other student and learn how to cooperate with other people. Usually, people often have uncomfortable feeling to live with a stranger, because they do not know each other...
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...hand, my weakness is that I can easily get confused with a situation that can lead to my hardness in heart and not consider the needs of an individual. This comes with another issue, which is my blind spot; unrealistic in role expectations. Because I depend on people in their specific roles, I forget that they are capable of making mistakes as well. So just because it fits best in a role, it does not mean he or she may have the best answer that fits in that particular role. On the same token, I must hold myself accountable to those who are dependent on me because I can also fail in my own responsibility and what people would expect of me in my role. At the present time I tend to overcome these particular situations in my everyday life and work experiences. I have improved the choices I make by taking my time and thinking things through compared to shooting from the hip. I have set action plans, which best fit my own personal life and my fellow employees that consider their ethical experience....
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...There are many definitions of Organizational Behavior (OB). In order to develop a personal operating definition of OB, I read several definitions to help form a framework of what OB means to me. The definitions I read ranged from the very complex to the very simple. Along with many OB definitions, there are also many different types of research. Mole noted four assumptions that are used in all OB research (2002). 1. Behavior is predictable 2. Behavior is caused 3. Behavior has many causes 4. Generalities can be made Personal Operational Definition With the above assumptions, as well as the concept that OB is a combination of different fields of behavioral sciences, I developed the following operational definition of OB. The study of Organizational Behavior is to observe, analyze and learn, what variables influence individual behavior, at both the individual and group levels, and understand how it affects the behavior of the organization. I will use this operating definition in my organization as we plan to make a major software change. The process is underway to replace the maintenance software system with an updated software so that a purchasing package can be procured that will integrate the two. By observing the behavior of the employees, I will be able to better understand the cause of their resistance to change. I will recommend a cross functional team to address all the concerns and determine what features of the old software are important and should be...
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...Nowadays, people pay more attention to travel as a way to relax. When we start to think about travel, we always know that a new experience lies ahead of us. After we have experienced certain aspects of traveling, we must ask what we will obtain from travel. Does travel broaden the mind? And what are the effects of an extended period of traveling. This, and more, will be answered in the following paragraphs. Travel is not only a way to satisfy your visual, but also a way of broadening the minds of travelers. Of course, there are a great deal of people who choose travel to enjoy nature, spend time with family, have a chance to relax, and other reasons. However, traveling can also influence their thinking. There are a lot of people who agree that after traveling people can get new ideas from ancient culture, architecture design, and locals. There was a research study which was conducted by Raleigh International, which is an organization that helps people to develop new skills, friendship and make a difference in communities and environments across the world. The experiment was done with more than a hundred formal Raleigh ventures from disadvantaged background. Raleigh found that mixing young people from different social background increased aspirations and interest in education and learning. By mixing the different cultures and social backgrounds together it was seen that 81% of the people increased their friendship with people from different backgrounds. 94%...
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...Explain the term structure of interest rates. What are the effects of rise in risk and expectations on the formation of long term rates? Interest rate within an economy is subject to many factors and as a result varies in relativity of those. The major factors are time period: short term Vs. long term investments, the degree of risk to which its exposed (AAA rated, mortgages, default, zero coupon…). Term structure of Interest rate is a significant tool for investors of bonds but also for policy makers, in terms of having an overview of whether to invest in short or longer term securities. This essay will go on to explain the term structure of interest rate how it is used by investors, the different theories and hypothesis behind it but also how the creation of long term rates effects its relation to risk. The term structure of interest rates also called the yield curve shows the relationship between interest rate and time to maturity of bonds, it is a common method of bond valuation. A graph is used to represent this relationship in relation to long term interest rates and short term interest rates where the maturity of an investment (x axis ) is compared to the interest rate (y axis) showing the yield (rate return) on bonds with the different maturity length. Term structure of interest usually refers to zero coupon bonds which are bonds without coupons (weekly interest rate payments on the bond) which are sold at its face value requiring as a result a fixed interest...
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...and coworkers. Sometimes though, if the values do not match up, it can cause internal conflict for the employee, or even conflict between employees. There are two main ways that an employee can have conflicts with the values, between them and their supervisors or coworkers, and between them and their company. Someone who has very strong values centered on faith will struggle with a company who requires weekend work which might cause them to miss a weekly service. Katherine Dean reminisces about a position she once held where her supervisor pushed them too hard, because he overly valued sales and financial gain, even above family time and a personal life. She felt that his drive towards profit caused competition between employees instead of a positive environment (Dean, 2011) When a supervisor is pushing their employees so hard for profits and time at the office, an employee who is more geared towards family will feel conflict. The employees felt that they were being pitted against each other, when they would...
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...Alan Before you came into my life I missed you so bad I missed you so bad... I missed you so, so Before you came into my life I missed you so bad I missed you so bad... And you should know that Yeah, I, I know it's hard to remember The people we used to be It's even harder to picture That you're not here next to me You said it's too late to make it But is it too late to try? And in that time that you wasted All of our bridges burned down Your stare was holding Ripped jeans, skin was showing Hot night, wind was blowing Where you think you're going, baby? Now I'm at a payphone trying to call home All of my change I spent on you Where have the times gone baby It's all wrong, where are the plans we made for two Yeah, yeah You took your time with the call I took no time with the fall You gave me nothing at all, but still you're in my way I beg and borrow and steal Have first sight and it's real I didn't know I would feel it, but it's in my way I-I've wasted my nights You turned out the lights Now I'm paralyzed (you) Still stucked in that time when we called it love But even the sun sets in paradise Where you think you're going, baby? Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy But here's my number, so call me maybe It's hard to look right, at you baby But here's my number, so call me maybe If happy ever after did exist I would still be holding you like this And all those fairytales are full of *it One more stupid love song I'll...
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...discuss similes, one of the first similes you come across when reading this poem is “The rockets lay, like molar monuments“. This is almost both simile and personification, due to the use of the word “lay” suggesting that they lay the way in which people would, but I will be focusing more on the simile side of things. The part “Like molar monuments” catches my eye the most and gives me a lot more to think about. This gives off the illusion that the rockets were dotted around the place, in no particular order, lifeless and motionless but because of the use of the word “molar”, it suggests that no matter how motionless and lifeless they are, they’re still strong and sturdy. “it was too late, the world ran like a rash” is another simile, this time suggesting that something devastating must have happened for the world to suddenly run off. “Ran like a rash.” Gives the effect that they ran quickly, as if scurrying cautiously, it also shows that the population of the world didn’t just disappear, the spread out across the face of the earth before fading away subtly. I also believe that “it was too late” helps McIlvanney because it gives the readers somewhat of a rhetorical question to consider, did the humans know this was happening? Did they try to prevent it, but failed? Before going further into the structure of the McIlvanneys Eugenesis, I’d like to point out a couple of things. Throughout it, he is continuously warning readers about dangers posed by...
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...Homework #1: Kristen’s Cookie Company Case 1 6+2+1+9+5+2+1 = 26 mins Resources Activities where needed Time required per unit of work Number of each resource Capacity Kristen Wash and Mix Dish up to trays 6 min 2 min 1 7.5 dozen/hr Bowl Wash and Mix 6 min 1 10 dozen/hr Trays Dish up to trays 2 min Infinite Infinite dozens/hr Roommate Load & Set Timer Packing Payment 1 min 2 min 1 min 1 15 dozen/hr Oven Load & Set Timer Baking 1 min 9 min 1 6 dozen/hr Empty space Cooling 5 min Infinite Infinite dozens/hr The oven is the bottleneck resource. Its capacity is 6 dozen cookies per hour. Because the process’s hourly capacity is 6 dozen, the process’s cycle time is 10 min. Therefore the maximum number of dozens that the process can produce can be given with the help of the following formula: 16 + 10x = 240 x = 22.4 The maximum number of dozens that the process can produce in four hours is 22. 16 + 10x = 60 x = 4.4 λ = 4.4 dozen/hr W = flow time = 26 min = 26/60 hr L = λ W = 1.91 Case 2 Resources Activities where needed Time required per unit of work Number of each resource Capacity Kristen Wash and Mix Dish up to trays 6 min 4 min 1 6 orders/hr Bowl Wash and Mix 6 min 1 10 orders/hr Trays Dish up to trays 4 min Infinite Infinite orders/hr Roommate Load & Set Timer Packing Payment 2 min 4 min 1 min 1 8.57 orders/hr Oven Load & Set Timer Baking 2 min 18 min 1 3 orders/hr Empty space Cooling...
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...six Unit Written Assignment Erica R Watson MT435 Operations Management Kaplan University June 28, 2011 Introduction Albatross Anchors manufactures two different types of anchors to satisfy their wholesale customers. The company once only manufactured the mushroom or bell anchor but when the competition heated up they began producing the snag hook anchor as well, this occurred in 1989. (Case Study) Being that Albatross Anchors is a major manufacturer and that they are continuing to grow it seems as though a bigger more organized workspace is needed to speed up both production and shipment of each anchor order. Question One Carefully review the assignment scenario/case study. From the limited information in the scenario/case study, along with your answers to the unit three written assignment, identify at least three direct and specific long-term and three direct and specific short term operations changes that Albatross Anchor must make to gain a clear and sustainable competitive advantage (provide detailed information to validate and support each recommended change) Long-Term Operational Changes (01) A long term operation change that Albatross Anchor needs to make is building another Administrative office that is detached from the warehouse in order to make it both safe and more efficient for all employees. (02)Installing up to date technology into the warehouse and administrative offices will help to gain business and give the company a more smooth transition when taking orders...
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...know who the speakers were, and last at that time of the day my attention was very slim because of the hussle and bustle of school works. Upon entering the auditorium, I was expecting a marriage councilor or a parish priest to give the talk, but to my surprise it was a couple. They began the seminar by introducing themselves as a couple who has been married for a very long time. Well to me, at least the seminar conductors were experienced and they know what they will be taking about during the seminar. Also, they told us that they conduct the seminar yearly in Don Bosco for a consecutive 8 years already. Upon hearing this, I had a lot of expectations already even before the seminar started. So the seminar started about the whole background of marriage. Of course, there were several scenarios where there are a lot of reasons why a person should or should not get married in the first place. The first thing I remember they told us when they began the seminar is that marriage is not an event, it’s a lifetime commitment. To me the statement wasn’t really a surprise. Being a born-again Christian, I was exposed to the do’s and don’ts of having a relationship. In the seminar, they told us that building a relationship we should always consider marriage. That our reasoning and actions should always lead to a proper and God centered relationship that will eventually become marriage. It should come in at the right reason and at the right time. We should first be able to love ourselves before...
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