Learning the strengths and weaknesses of your staff can be the secret to unlocking the potential of your department. Each employee will have different skills, experiences, and education. Describe some ways you can go about identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the members of your team.
Learning the strengths and weaknesses of your staff can be the secret to unlocking the potential of your department. Each employee will have different skills, experiences, and education. Describe some ways you can go about identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the members of your team. As a manager, you will be tasked with identifying the strengths and weaknesses of your staff. You will also have to unlock your staffs potential.Following the requirements for discussion posts found in the FEM, describe some ways you can go about identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the members of your team. Provide at least two strategies you could use and describe what these strategies would reveal about your team members.Include one academic reference in your post. Use current APA style and formatting appropriate to the type of reference you provide.The leadership style you adopt with your team will set the pace for how your department functions in the organization.For your initial post to this discussion, identify traits of a strong leader and compare these to the traits of less effective leaders. Which of these traits do you recognize in your own leadership style? Which of your traits would you like to develop further and why?In addition to following the guidelines in the Faculty Expectations message (FEM), include one academic reference in your post. Use current APA style and formatting appropriate to the type of reference you provide.In your initial post, discuss how different systems levels in health care and public health in your own locality influence each other and how they impact health determinants. Suggest ways the various system levels could work together more effectively. Use evidence to explain why you think your suggested changes would improve effectiveness.
Write a program critique that examines a health or healthcare program intended to meet a specific health need by addressing program risks, external barriers and program benefits.
IHP 670 Module Six Program Critique Guidelines and Rubric
Overview
You will complete five program critique assignments in the course to support your work as you prepare for your final project. These assignments ask that you critique a program described
within an identified article located in the modules resources. These articles were chosen because they relate to the modules topics and demonstrate some common problems that programs
encounter. In each assignment, you will have the opportunity to critique certain program components, such as resources, activities, outcome measures, use of feedback loops, assumptions, and
external barriers. Once planners have identified the details for each of the program components, they must step back and assess how those components can best operate within the programs
environment. That involves considering concepts such as cultural competency, systems thinking, ethical practice, and others. You will focus on these different concepts, in turn, through the
program critiques. As you develop your program critique skills, you will be asked to identify areas that could be or need to be improved and offer recommendations.
In this assignment, you will critique a health or healthcare program selected for you. It is the program critique reading in the Resources section of the module. This is the only reading that can
be used for this assignment.
This assignment will help you examine activities used to improve participation in a sexual and reproductive health program. Pay particular attention to the activity that was designed to remove
an external barrier to care. Focus your critique on elements such as the risks involved, the benefits or desired results, and the intended results achieved to evaluate the programs ability to
adjust.
This program critique will help you plan for the risks and external barriers to your program and improve the programs ability to adjust and adapt over time.
Prompt
Write a program critique that examines a health or healthcare program intended to meet a specific health need by addressing program risks, external barriers and program benefits. Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
1. External Barriers to Care: External Barriers to Care: Describe why it is important to identify barriers that impede an individuals or a groups access to care. Consider the following question to guide your
response:
Why do you think the use of vouchers was effective or ineffective in achieving desired results?
2. Program Risks: Program Risks: Describe why identifying potential risks is important in program planning. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
What two risks did the program create?
What actions would you take to minimize these risks?
3. Program Benefits: Program Benefits: Describe what secondary benefits are achieved in addition to the desired results and their importance to stakeholders and the overall program. Consider the
following questions to guide your response:
Why is it important to appreciate these secondary benefits?
How would you let other program planners know about these secondary benefits?
4. Impact on Desired Results: Impact on Desired Results: Determine whether the planned activities achieved the desired results for the program and why you feel they did or did not achieve these results..
Consider the following question to guide your response:
How might the activities be adjusted for improving the programs desired results if the program were to run again in the future?
Note that all the claims in your deliverable should be evidence based. Your citations should be from your independent search for evidence (not from the scenario, textbook, or module
resources) of credible sources and be current within the last five years. You are required to cite a minimum of one source overall. Refer to the Shapiro Library Guide: NursingGraduate
located in the Start Here section of the course for additional support. If you need writing support, access the Online Writing Center through the Academic Support module of your course.
What to Submit
Your submission should be a 2- to 3-page Word document. Also include a title page. Use 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. You should include a minimum
of two sources. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
Module Six Program Critique Rubric
CriteriaCriteria Exemplary (100%)Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%)Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%)Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%)Not Evident (0%) ValueValue
External Barriers toExternal Barriers to
CareCare
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear and
insightful manner, using
industry-specific language
Describes why it is important to
identify barriers that impede an
individuals or a groups access
to care
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors or
omissions
Does not attempt criterion 20
Program RisksProgram Risks Exceeds proficiency in an Describes why identifying Shows progress toward Does not attempt criterion 20
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exceptionally clear and
insightful manner, using
industry-specific language
potential risks is important in
program planning
proficiency, but with errors or
omissions
Program BenefitsProgram Benefits Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear and
insightful manner, using
industry-specific language
Describes what secondary
benefits are achieved in
addition to the desired results
and their importance to
stakeholders and the overall
program
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors or
omissions
Does not attempt criterion 20
Impact on DesiredImpact on Desired
ResultsResults
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear and
insightful manner, using
industry-specific language
Determines whether planned
activities achieved the desired
results for the program and
why they did or did not achieve
these results
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors or
omissions
Does not attempt criterion 15
Articulation of ResponseArticulation of Response Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear and
insightful manner
Clearly conveys meaning with
correct grammar, sentence
structure, and spelling,
demonstrating an
understanding of audience and
purpose
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors in
grammar, sentence structure,
and spelling, negatively
impacting readability
Submission has critical errors in
grammar, sentence structure,
and spelling, preventing
understanding of ideas
10
Professional SourcesProfessional Sources Incorporates more than two
professional, current (within
the last five years) sources, or
use of sources is exceptionally
insightful
Incorporates two professional,
current (within the last five
years) sources that support
claims
Incorporates fewer than two
professional, current (within
the last five years) sources, or
not all sources support claims
Does not incorporate sources 10
APA StyleAPA Style Formats in-text citations and
reference list according to APA
style with no errors
Formats in-text citations and
reference list according to APA
style with fewer than five
errors
Formats in-text citations and
reference list according to APA
style with five or more errors
Does not format in-text
citations and reference list
according to APA style
5
Total:Total: 100%
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How is the language environment at the primary level different from a preschool or kindergarten language environment? P
Introduction
Each discussion thread answer question(s) within the discussion thread based on the directions.
Choose 1 question from below to complete for your initial post. Make sure to answer a question that hasn’t already been taken by a classmate to ensure all questions are discussed.
Cited references from the course text are required to be cited appropriately to further support your thoughts. Reflections from personal experience must also be included and linked to the topic of the chosen question for full completion
The initial reflection post must be posted by midnight on Wednesday. Responses must be posted to at least 3 peers by Sunday.
Directions
How is the language environment at the primary level different from a preschool or kindergarten language environment? Please provide specific examples from the classroom environment set-up, routines, materials and activities/lessons for differences between the two aged classrooms.
What phonemes do children typically acquire during the primary years? What are ways in which phonemes are acquired within the classroom environment, materials, activities, interactions, routines, etc.?
Give several examples on onset and rime. How does a childs awareness of onset and rime relate to developing phonological knowledge?
Explain how phonological knowledge and metalinguistic awareness are related to childrens literacy development? Please provide specific examples.
In what ways does invented spelling indicate a childs phonological awareness? And why is it important for primary-age children to develop awareness of the features and uses of academic English?
What will be the impact on national resilience with this framework for the National Security Strategy?
The Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security offered a unique insight into how this cabinet level agency viewed the issue.
The 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) was the document to offer this perspective.
The QHSR is an important foundational document in this discussion as it established multiple resilience goals and
objectives in the areas of critical infrastructure, supply chain systems, and cyber. The resilience of all of these areas,
and other sectors covered by the QHSR is a national imperative. Recent threat activities in the cyber sphere
underscores this need. From OPM, and Home Depot, to EQUIFAX and even the Department of Homeland Security itself
have suffered breaches.
DHS specifically noted in the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR):
This second quadrennial review reflects a more focused, collaborative Departmental strategy, planning, and
analytic capability. The risk-informed priorities set forth in this Review will drive operational planning, as well as
analysis of resource and capability options and tradeoffs over the next four years. The Review also recognizes the
responsibility the Department shares with hundreds of thousands of people across the federal, state, local, tribal,
and territorial governments, the private sector, and other nongovernmental organizations, and provides a path
forward for engaging in public-private partnerships. These are the people who regularly interact with the public,
who are responsible for public safety and security, which own and operate our nations critical infrastructure and
services, who perform research and develop technology, and who keep watch, prepare for, and respond to
emerging threats and disasters.
It should come as no surprise that one of the five QHSR missions is devoted to resilience: Mission 5 Strengthening
National Preparedness and Resilience. It should be noted the Congressionally mandated 2018 QHSR was never
released.
But there are even more agencies, within the Department of Homeland Security such as the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, (FEMA) which released the country’s first-ever National Preparedness Goal in 2011. Again,
another foundational document dealing with resilience.
(Image: https://www.cisa.gov/)
The creation, in 2018, of the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) assed to the national
resilience effort. According to that agencys web site:
We coordinate security and resilience efforts using trusted partnerships across the private and public sectors and
deliver technical assistance and assessments to federal stakeholders as well as to infrastructure owners and operators
nationwide. CISA (n.d.) also delivers insights on these assessments related to current capabilities to identify gaps,
whichalong with an examination of emerging technologieshelp determine the demand for future capabilities (both
near- and long-term).
CISA has developed Sector Coordinating Councils (SCC) that are, self-organized and self-governed councils that
enable critical infrastructure owners and operators, their trade associations, and other industry representatives to
interact on a wide range of sector-specific strategies, policies, and activities. The SCCs coordinate and collaborate with
sector-specific agencies (SSAs) and related Government Coordinating Councils (GCCs) to address the entire range of
critical infrastructure security and resilience policies and efforts for that sector.
Finally, perhaps the document that is most talked about regarding resilience is President Policy Directives-8 or PDD-8.
Within this PDD a vision is presented for nationwide preparedness and identifies the core capabilities and targets
necessary to achieve preparedness across the following five mission areas: prevention, protection, mitigation,
response and recovery. Recognizing that preparedness is a shared responsibility, Presidential Policy Directive / PPD-8:
National Preparedness was signed by the President on March 30, 2011.
At its core, PPD-8 requires the involvement of everyonenot just the governmentin a systematic effort to keep the
nation safe from harm and resilient when struck by hazards, such as natural disasters, acts of terrorism and
pandemics. When you think about it in the purest sense, isnt that what resilience as an element of Homeland Security
really is?
One other Homeland Security resilience issue that has received a lot of focus from DHS Office of Academic
Engagement or OAE is the new Campus Resilience program. Released in April of 2018 this program which was based
on TableTop Exercises (TTX). This effort is driven by active shooter type events.
This policy directive calls on federal departments and agencies to work with the whole community to develop a
national preparedness goal and a series of frameworks and plans related to reaching the goal.
To help resilience get the kind of academic focus that it should the Department of Homeland Security Science and
Technology Directorate Office of University programs has established two academic centers of excellence. One is at the
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Coastal Resilience Center or CRC and one at the University of Illinois
Champaign-Urbana the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute or CIRI. To get an understand of the research that
has done please visit these links:
https://coastalresiliencecenter.unc.edu/
https://ciri.illinois.edu/
Finally, to get a real sense of where the issue of Homeland Security and resilience stands entering 2021 listen to the
speech by Dr. Stephen Flynn, the Founding Director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University, and
one of Americas true experts on resilience. The link for this closed caption Skype speech from the 2020 Maritime
Risk Symposium provides Dr. Flynns perspective on maritime resilience in the face of growing human-made and
naturally occurring turbulence.
As you consider this issue keep in mind that the new Administration has issued Interim National Security Strategic
Guidance. Noted the Congressional Research Service:
In drafting national security strategies, every administration faces central questions about how the U.S.
government should define and advance national security. The Biden Administration argues that the COVID-19
pandemic and other systemic issues, including (but not limited to) climate change and the rise of anti-democratic
authoritarian populism, are forcing the United States to take an expansive view of what constitutes matters of
national security. In so doing, the INSSG articulates some continuity with the Trump Administration in identifying
the challenge that strategic competition with China poses to U.S. national security. (Congressional Research
Service)
What will be the impact on national resilience with this framework for the National Security Strategy? This is what the
Congressional Research Service noted:
How might Interagency Resources be Rebalanced? Since 2001, the Department of Defense (DOD) and U.S.
military have taken on missions beyond traditional warfighting responsibilities (including, but not limited to,
providing more security assistance and assisting with international disease responses). The State Department,
the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Trade Representative, and other agencies
provide critical national security capabilities, but possess narrower authorities and command fewer budgetary and
personnel resources.
How does national resilience get impacted or does it? Is there a direct connection between the NSS and national
resilience?
Review the librarys help with searching, and then locate five published articles that have used case studies as the research method in one or more areas you are interested in researching.
Review the librarys help with searching, and then locate five published articles that have used case studies as the research method in one or more areas you are interested in researching. All five examples can be from the same area of interest (e.g., bullying in classrooms), or from five different areas you are considering for further research.
After locating your articles, report on each study as noted below:
Report the full reference in APA style
Interpret the aim of each study.
Explain the focus of the case in each case study.
Explain the method of collecting data (e.g., face-to-face interview, focus group).
Report the sample size.
Explain why the authors chose to use the case study approach. If the authors did not justify their use of the case study approach, offer your reasons for the authors selected method.
Conclude with any new or unexpected findings from each study. If the authors did not report this directly, what do you think the new or unexpected information was? It is acceptable to indicate that you did not believe a study added anything new, but be sure to justify your arguments.
Support your assignment with your five selected resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Analyze the formal properties of any artwork that interests you. The artwork chosen can be any unique painting,sculpture, or photograph that has been publicly displayed in a gallery or museum.
Analyze the formal properties of
any artwork that interests you. The artwork chosen can be any unique painting,
sculpture, or photograph that has been publicly displayed in a gallery or museum. See
below for LOTS of further overviews and tips. Please feel free to ask any questions.
FORMAL ANALYSIS PAPER LEARNING OBJECTIVE: the goal of a formal analysis
is to explain how the formal elements of a work of art affect the representation of the
subject matter and expressive content. The emphasis should be on analyzing the
formal elementsnot interpreting the artwork.
A formal analysis includes an analysis of the forms appearing in the work you have
chosen. These forms give the work its expression, message, or meaning. A formal
analysis assumes a work of art is (1) a constructed object (2) that has been created with
a stable meaning (even though it might not be clear to the viewer) (3) that can be
ascertained by studying the relationships between the elements of the work.
To aid in writing a formal analysis, you should think as if you were describing the work of
art to someone who has never seen it before. When your reader finishes reading your
analysis, they should have a complete mental picture of what the work looks like. Yet,
the formal analysis is more than just a description of the work. It should also include a
thesis statement that reflects your conclusions about the work. The thesis statement
may, in general, answer a question like these: What do I think is the meaning of this
work? What is the message that this work or artist sends to the viewer? What is this
work all about? The thesis statement is an important element of the analysis that sets it
apart from being a merely descriptive paper.
Choose a country within a trading block and Submit a marketing country report on your country of choice.
First, Choose a country within a trading block and Submit a marketing country report on your country of choice.It can be any country you are interested in, that you would like to travel to, or conduct business in. The choice of foreign country will not be graded (there are no wrong options) but try to avoid your own country, or a country in which you are near-native. On the other hand, it may help later on if you know someone from this country but this is not required.
For this assignment, you must Submit a marketing country report on your country of choice. This country report will be informed by your own research on the country itself. Keep also in mind the trade block it belongs to, because that will be useful for the Economics section.
The structure recommended is to have separate sections for Demographics, Economic and Cultural facts. In total, it should be a short (approx. 2 single-spaced pages) bullet-point report of facts, one or two visuals are welcome if relevant.
At the end, summarize the main points in the form of a PEST Analysis table. As a reminder, here you will list uncontrollable factors important to the success of any foreign business in that country.
The challenge of this assignment is in summarizing an entire human community and reducing it to a considerably short list of sentences, numbers and visuals. You will be graded on how comprehensive but concise your report is, how marketing-relevant and insightful your data is, and how much the report demonstrates effort put into researching and understanding the foreign culture.
Write your answers in a Word document or another text processing file and submit the file here.
Explore the relationship between research questions and data collection methods. You will also explore the benefits and drawbacks of specific data collection methods.
Overview
In this assignment, you will Explore the relationship between research questions and data collection methods. You will also explore the benefits and drawbacks of specific data collection methods.
Prompt
Look back at the research questions you submitted for your Milestone Three assignment in Module Five and select an appropriate data collection method for each question. Consider what data you will need to answer each question and whether the data method is appropriate for getting the data you need. Consider both benefits and drawbacks to each method. Review the Module Four Resources in both Key Types of Data Collection and Social Science Data Collection Types for helpful information for completing this assignment.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Explain your choice of data collection method for each question from your Milestone Three assignment. Include answers to the following:
What data method did you select for each question?
What data do you need to answer each question?
What characteristics of the chosen data collection method make it appropriate for collecting this data?
Explain other benefits and drawbacks of the data collection method you chose for each question from your Milestone Three assignment.
What are other potential benefits of the data collection method you chose for each question (that is, ways it will make the process easier or ways it might improve the results)?
What are potential drawbacks to the data collection method you chose for each question (that is, potential gaps in data, possible difficulties in the research process, possible negative impact to the results)?
Describe how critically analyzing your issue/event in globalization has informed your individual framework of perception.Consider how it has altered the way you perceive the community around you and/or the world.
Overview
For this assignment, you are going to compose a narrative of your research experience. You will draw a conclusion from your experience and communicate to your audience why what you said was important. That is, what is the importance of the research journey for you or for others? Focus on a take away from your research journey and focus on the events that led you to draw this conclusion.
Expectations
This assignment allows you to reflect upon and narrate the experience and the value of the research process. It is open form, and as such, the expectations for how to approach the topic itself is largely dependent on your own personal experience. The thesis, or conclusion, you have made about the research process can be featured as a sentence in the introduction or it can be delayed until the last paragraph where you discuss the larger implications of your experience.
Requirements
Length: a minimum of 750 words
Document Formatting: MLA formatting: Heading (name, assignment name, course name, date), original title, header (page numbers), line-spacing (double-spaced), 1margins, and 12-point font size, Times New Roman or sans-serif font. Underlined thesis statement.
Include a subheading for each section of this story: (1) Introduction (2) Research Process (3) Journey
Genre/Style: Reflection, exploratory, and narrative. This is a genre of writing that is hybrid and borrows from several genres listed above. Tone can be informal or formal with a focuson being reflective, introspective, and thoughtful. There should be an introduction to the background of what led you to the project, a body that maps your experiences, and a discussion that suggests the importance of the journey to you and others. You may use “I” or a first-person pronoun.
Sources: No sources are required; however, if part of your narration reflects upon how one piece of research changed your initial opinion, that source should be mentioned in text and cited properly at the end of the assignment. MLA formatting is required if any source is introduced.
Social media is a communication channel for organizations of all sizes. Many of us have personal social media pages that allow us to keep in touch with friends and family. Explain 5 ways to grow your business through blogging.Businesses use the medium differently.
The Power of Social Media and Marketing
Social media is a communication channel for organizations of all
sizes. Many of us have personal social media pages that allow us
to keep in touch with friends and family. Explain 5 ways to grow your business through blogging.Businesses use the
medium differently.
SLP Required Readings
Pros and Cons of an Instagram Business Account (2020)
5 Ways to Grow Your Business Through Blogging (2020)
SLP Assignment
Begin by selecting a company and researching their social media
pages such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
a. Start by using the attached APA 7th template for this assignment.
b. Provide in your introduction a brief overview of the social media
companies that support your chosen organization.
c. Compare and contrast the similarities and differences in what
these social media platforms provide for your selected company
(Cite Sources and Support your Work).
d. Determine if these social media organizations provide a valuable
service in helping your selected company enhance or improve its
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reputation, image, and overall consumer experience (Cite
Sources and Support your Work).
e. Conclude with an opinion on how well your selected organization
uses social media for advertising services, products, community
partnerships and support.
SLP Expectations
1. The minimum length requirement for this Module Case
Assignment is 2 full pages (excluding Title and Reference pages)
to include 2 scholarly sources.
2. Provide an APA-formatted title page. Use the APA 7th
Assignment Template.
3. Include an introduction, a body using 2 scholarly sources cited to
support your work, and a conclusion that aligns with your
purpose statement, summarizes each section, and then wraps up
into a final thought.
4. Provide an APA7 formatted References Page (See APA 7
References section).
5. Upload your paper to the Case Dropbox before the assignment
due date.
6. Proofread your work.
Also, see the guides below for APA and Student Support Services:
Student Support Resources
Trident APA LibGuides
Understanding Plagiarism
Grading Note:
At Trident University International, rubrics are used for grading.
These rubrics specify the points available for each component of an
assignment. Points are earned based on the level of the work
