...were being developed and lessons were being learned. This assignment is similar to what I usually have to write or discuss with many military development classes I attend. I am currently in class away from home to improve my acquisitions program management skills. In just about every class, I tend to sell myself short due to the fear of not knowing about the task. For example, I am currently handling cyber issues in the Air Force and not being an acquisition program manager like the rest of my class. My experience is low and my knowledge of the subjects is pretty rusty. But, project after project, I find myself stepping up more and more while eclipsing the assigned program manager. I understand this is horrible to do but I cannot help wanting to take charge and point us in a better path. Either way, I have taken many self-assessment quizzes for management and the grades are always lower than what my coworkers give me. For this...
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...In the current competitive world, its only who is fit survives i.e. person who work will complete dedication and with immense concentration is almost certain to achieve his or her desired target. Now question arises what’s the motivation behind being workaholics? People who are in business or in service or even government employees have some or the other motivation to work. Business houses wants to work in order to achieve better sales and net profit compared to the last years, with the help of various planning and implementing the same. Person in service works to achieve sales target or the weekly or monthly reports targets in order to get better variables and incentives. Government employee work to help in the development of economy, by making various committees for infrastructure development, social development etc. In the current economic situation companies survives only if it has right entrepreneur. Entrepreneur makes the plans by his innovative thinking and plan is executed with the help of his or her employees. Employees in return get incentive along with fixed salary and entrepreneur gets better profit. One thing in common in all of them is vision, thus they become workaholic to achieve that piece of success which they ever dreamt off. More the person works, more he is near to achieve his or her target. Targets can either be net profit for businessman, sales target or monthly reports target of service man or development of economy and society for politician or government...
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...Technology: 1) In the past years Oxfam has been conducting its impact evaluation, to understand whether its work is actually helping the poor or the needy. Previously Oxfam relied on paper based data collection method which lead to redundancy and many other problems. Then Oxfam started conducting digital surveys by using computer assisted personal interview (CAPI), which helped reduce their paper work and errors. This also involved the enumerators to use the hand held devices such as tablets or smart phones so they can record the responses while they were conducting interviews. Then they used to and are operating in fragile areas where babies born in conflict zones used to die so they developed a portable inflatable incubator for babies where there were no hospitals. Then when Ebola struck in west Africa it was another highlight for Oxfam with the help of clear maps with real time data helped many NGO’s to react quickly and with Vodafone’s backpack technology to provide communication made it even easier to discover and react on areas where there are people in need. So in the past decade technology has played a vital role in helping Oxfam and many NGO’s in making their working easier, efficient and effective. 2) Oxfam is basically a service organization which is helping the poor and the needy all around the world, but they also offer some products like T-shirts and caps online through which they earn money and donate it to the poor. But our main concern that i will talk...
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...scenario is that Violet could easily take a computer for her son and only send 11 computers to the elementary school. These transactions are not kept on record so Violet would be able to do it without anyone noticing, provided the school doesn't know how many computers they should be receiving. Question #2. Instead of Violet jeopardizing her job she could go to her son and explain the situation. Let him know that getting a computer for him is very hard on her own and ask he if could pitch in to help. If her son got a job and used some of his pay to help out it would be easier for Violet to buy a computer. Also, Violet does not have to a buy a brand new computer. There are many ways for her buy a used computer and her son could use that until they can afford a better one in the future. Case #3 Question #1. The ethical issue in this scenario is that David is using his company computer to send personal e-mails which is against company policy. Even though David is not falling behind on work these kinds of e-mails are not permitted and he could get in trouble if he is caught. A lot...
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...and why it would be worth your time and resources. Find two concepts in your text that relate to the change/improvement you envision and use those within your answer. Highlight your terms/concepts with bold or highlighter. Your answer must be at least 250 words. I was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My family still lives there I just decided to move away from home for a couple years but will be returning next spring. Unfortunately in Milwaukee the crime rate and poverty has increased over the years. Every morning once you turn the television on the news is talking about the three murders the evening before. With the increase of crime I would like to see more organizations and people within the community coming together to help focus on those who are less fortunate. I believe this would lower crime rates and homelessness significantly. I care about Milwaukee very much, I was raised here and I hate to overhear other conversations amongst people how scary Milwaukee is, because I just don’t see it that way. In addition I am well aware of the potential Milwaukee has; events like Summerfest and Wisconsin State fair bring outsiders into the city representing Milwaukee. I would like to see more organizations like Hope’s Chest where individuals are coming together to sort out donated items to be resold at very affordable prices. If the people of Milwaukee who are struggling are able to purchase what they need at very low prices there would be no need for crime and people...
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...(Gibbons, 2010). However, after the music festival ended, people were stuck in that county which turned into a problem. Homelessness and drugs became a major problem, the young people slept on benches, camped out in parking lots, and searched for food and clothing (Gibbons, 2010). This also became a problem for the townspeople. The young people were getting in trouble with the law because of the drugs. One woman, Gail Varsi, recognized the problem and decided to do something. She first, gave police her home number and instructed them to call her whenever a homeless youth got in trouble. She then reached out to local residents and businesses and together they began hosting food and clothes drives. Family of Woodstock, Inc. was founded with the help of Michael Berg (Gibbons, 2010). Family of Woodstock Inc. is an advocacy group that believes everyone is entitled to receive food, clothing, and shelter. The Family of Woodstock Inc. believed in having non-judgmental attitudes toward others. The...
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...WHEN…THEN….HOW TO HELP PEOPLE WORK THROUGH PROBLEMS Deal with people’s concerns in a supportive way. You can support the person Even if you don’t agree with the idea. You can help the most if you 1. Are predictably present and accessible. 2. Give the other person two-thirds of the available time to talk while you listen. 3. Put everything but the other person “on hold” for that period of time. 4. Listen with the intent to summarize the factual and the feeling content of the employee’s message. 5. Actually feed back the factual and the feeling content of the person’s message, “Sounds like you feel...because....” 6. Allow some time for what the person said to sink in before you make a decision or give advice. The stronger the person’s feelings, the more time you should allow. It may even be appropriate to save the decision or the advice for a later, planned meeting. (But go ahead and set the time for that meeting now--you don’t want to be seen as causing an unnecessary delay.) Avoid emotional triggers. When people are under a lot of stress, they may automatically react defensively to certain emotional triggers. For many people the word “you” is one of those triggers. So avoid the temptation to say, ”You should have....” or “Why didn’t you...?” And for many people, any direct question can have the same effect. You may just be going through a problem-solving protocol when you ask, “What did you say to him right before he lost it?” But a stressed out person...
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...The Help is a 2009 novel by American author Kathryn Stockett. The story is about African American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s. The novel is told from the point of view of three narrators: Aibileen Clark, a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children, and who has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson, an African-American maid whose back-talk towards her employers results in her having to frequently change jobs, exacerbating her desperate need for work as well as her family's struggle with money; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a young white woman and recent college graduate who, after moving back home, discovers that a maid that helped raise her since childhood has abruptly disappeared and her attempts to find her have been unsuccessful. The stories of the three women intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help", with complex relations of power, money, emotion, and intimacy tying together the white & black families of Jackson. A USA Today article called it one of 2009's "summer sleeper hits".[1] An early review in The New York Times notes Stockett's "affection and intimacy buried beneath even the most seemingly impersonal household connections" and says the book is a "button-pushing, soon to be wildly popular novel".[2] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said of the book, "This heartbreaking story is a stunning debut from a gifted talent".[3] The...
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...they were charged with feeding, rearing and caring for their children. Theirs is an American story that is rarely told on any grand, meaningful scale—not one, at least, that defies stereotype and caricature. But recently, “The Help,” a film based on Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling book of the same name, became a cultural touchstone when two of its lead characters, both African-American maids in the then-staunchly segregated Mississippi, challenged viewers to walk their journey—to see, as lead protagonist, Abileen Clark, said, “what it felt like to be me.” To me, ‘The Help’ is this year’s most outstanding and socially relevant motion picture; Viola Davis’ quiet but powerful portrayal of Abileen made us all take notice of a historically invisible class of women and Abileen’s story, along with those of the other maids who rallied with her to tell it, remind us that when we speak, if only in a whisper, momentous things can happen. Of course, the movie, does not come without its controversy: while so many, myself included, questioned then embraced Stockett’s story and actresses Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer earned Academy Award nominations for their roles as the maids who conspired with a young white woman to canonize their life stories, others question why, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for her portrayal as the affable, sassy slave maid Mammy in Gone With the Wind, Hollywood ushered to the screen a movie feting the Jim Crow subjugation of black women. What is lost...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix F Research Plan As part of your Research Plan, you must draft a research question for your research paper. A research question, which is more specific and focused than a general topic, is the question that you will answer in your paper. For example, if your general area of interest is Social Security, a potential research question might ask, “How might low-income families save more money under a reformed Social Security plan that includes personal retirement accounts?” As you develop a research question, keep in mind that you will research sources with both supporting and differing viewpoints. Do not select a narrow or one-sided issue that will limit your research; instead, develop a research question that lends itself to further exploration and debate. |What is your topic or area of interest? |My topic of interest is Drugs. | | | | | | | | | | |In what ways is this topic appropriate for a persuasive essay? |The way in which this topic is appropriate for a persuasive | | ...
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...Have you ever wondered what it was like in the south during the 1960’s from a black woman’s point of view? Kathryn Stockett’s The Help gives people the chance to see the Civil Rights Movement from the eyes of the maids living in the Deep South in the early 1960’s. The Help was about the lives of three different women living in Mississippi during the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. The first woman, Aibileen, was a black maid who had to deal with the struggle of just losing her son due to the unequal treatment in the world as well as take care of a white family who did not respect her as an equal. Another maid, Minny, had the trouble of dealing with an abusive husband and all her children as well as finding a job where she would work well. The last woman in the book, Skeeter, was a white woman who had just come back to town and, when seeing how these maids were being treated along with remembering how much she loved her maid as a child, decided she wanted to do something special to help these maids get recognized for everything they did to help support these families. Therefore, the three put together a book with stories entirely written by black maids that Skeeter eventually was able to publish....
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...I recently got an email from a founder that helped me understand something important: why it's safe for startup founders to be nice people. I grew up with a cartoon idea of a very successful businessman (in the cartoon it was always a man): a rapacious, cigar-smoking, table-thumping guy in his fifties who wins by exercising power, and isn't too fussy about how. As I've written before, one of the things that has surprised me most about startups is how few of the most successful founders are like that. Maybe successful people in other industries are; I don't know; but not startup founders. [1] I knew this empirically, but I never saw the math of why till I got this founder's email. In it he said he worried that he was fundamentally soft-hearted and tended to give away too much for free. He thought perhaps he needed "a little dose of sociopath-ness." I told him not to worry about it, because so long as he built something good enough to spread by word of mouth, he'd have a hyperlinear growth curve. If he was bad at extracting money from people, at worst this curve would be some constant multiple less than 1 of what it might have been. But a constant multiple of any curve is exactly the same shape. The numbers on the Y axis are smaller, but the curve is just as steep, and when anything grows at the rate of a successful startup, the Y axis will take care of itself. Some examples will make this clear. Suppose your company is making $1000 a month now, and you've made something...
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...an individual may have a personal problem that is interfering with their work performance. There are “red flags” in an employee’s behavior that can be used as indicators. There is usually no single event, but rather a noticeable pattern of change in the employee’s behavior, attitude or work activity. Individually, these signs may seem harmless enough but taken together they may represent a serious problem. It is important to avoid ignoring the initial indicators. These are some of the signs that might help you identify an employee who has a problem. Work Related Unable to concentrate on work and complete the given task/activities on time. Errors in the task completed Making excuses for substandard work Procrastination, inability to concentrate Self Major changes in personal appearance, attitude or behavior Problems with family, friends, co-workers, legal issues, financial issues Heightened anxiety, overly defensive 2. Have you come across any such individual/s at your organisations? YES 3. How have you handled the situation? A ONCE-to-be valuable and productive employee unexpectedly starts turning in less than an acceptable worker. More often than not, the root cause of such dramatic behavioural change is troubles - either personal or professional. Most employees develop some problems at some point of their careers, which negatively influence their work, standards, morale and attitude. The genesis may be job-related, like frustration...
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...Human Service Professionals and Helping Skills Sara Ouellette BSHS/305 May 23, 2016 Cassidy Hawf Human Service Professionals and Helping Skills In our society today there is a great need for helping professionals being able to work with individuals as well as their families and communities. The dysfunction that starts in a single family can spread to affect many people throughout a geographical area. Helping just the one individual sometimes is not the answer because without correcting their surroundings, what you do to help them will be in vain. Once reintroduced to the situation that they had been removed from for treatment or help they will revert to their old ways and behaviors that brought them to you in the first place and thus a vicious cycle will begin. It is important to know your client base and what helping services will work best to get positive results. The Helping Process There are infinite ways of helping people. There are however set practices that all helping professionals learn and will use in their day to day interactions with their clients. There are five stages of the helping process that can be applied to every client: 1. Physical setting and review – Before your client ever arrives you should make sure that your space is inviting and comfortable. It should put your client at ease and make it easier to talk to them. You also will have gone over any files that have been provided to you so that you have a back ground on your client...
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...treatment program for men and women adults to help them learn how life without drugs and alcohol. The environment I currently work in is a fast paced environment where anything can happen at any given point. This field consistently makes changes to their policies and licensing requirements. These all vary from the company to the field and insurance company your dealing with at that time. I am currently in school to receive my Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration to eventually own my own rehab in the near future. Companies I Would Like To Work For I’ve been working in this field long enough to realize that this is my passion not just my job. I have the proper training and certifications to move forward in this field and work for a higher end facility. The staff understands the need for privacy in a supportive environment. This high end facility offers a resort like experience. Each facility offers different amenities but this facilities offers much more for the individual like yoga, hiking, and aquatic therapy. Depending on the level of treatment that you are requesting or in some cases required to take this will determine the level of care and what will be required of you. The second place that I would like to work for is called Reflections Rehab. This treatment center is in San Francisco and tailors to the executive career workers that are still attending their daily life with the help of a sober coach to be by their side to help them make better decisions in life. They...
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