Describe how nonverbal feedback conveys powerful messages.
Discussion 1
Nonverbal Feedback
question 1 Describe how nonverbal feedback conveys powerful messages. question 2 Provide an example where nonverbal feedback was used and describe the end result.
Discussion 2
Virtual Organizations
Question 1 Describe the evolution of the virtual organization.
Question 2 What are the pros and cons associated with this design?
Question 3 Provide examples of three technological devices/concepts that have had the greatest impact on virtual organizations.
Required Resources
Text
Baack, D. (2017). Organizational behavior (2nd ed.). Retrieved from https://ashford.content.edu
Chapter 9: Communication in Organizations
Chapter 10: Organizational Design and Change
Multimedia
Films Media Group. (2008). Balance in life and work (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. [Video clip]. In 9 to 5 No Longer. Retrieved from https://secure.films.com/OnDemandEmbed.aspx?token=40875&aid=18596&loid=66935&plt=FOD&w=420
Describe different quality methods within healthcare.
Course Scenario
Chaparral Regional Hospital is a small, urban hospital of approximately 60 beds, and offers the following:
Emergency room services
Intensive care
Surgical care
Obstetrics
Diagnostic services
Some rehabilitation therapies
Inpatient pharmacy services
Geriatric services
Consumer physician referral services
Recently, the CEO has been hearing complaints from both patients and staff, varying from long wait times to rude physicians. You have been hired to design and implement a Quality Improvement Plan to help uncover quality problems and to satisfactorily resolve them.
Scenario Continued
You have been asked to present a narrated visual report for the CEO and Board of Directors on a video conference call to share your major findings and to discuss recommendations.
Competencies:
Describe different quality methods within healthcare.
Explain the basic models of quality improvement in healthcare.
Evaluate the role and importance of patient satisfaction.
Evaluate the role and importance of the patient experience.
Apply statistics to different quality methods in healthcare.
Apply quality improvement methods.
Instructions
Your visual report should include the following:
Types of measurements that will be used.
Overall design of the survey.
Identifies who will lead the QI task force.
Identifies who should be on the task force.
Suggestions for implementing the results of the survey.
Your visual report should be done using Microsoft PowerPoint, or any other presentation software of your choosing that also allows for narration to be added.
APA formatting for the References slide, and proper grammar, punctuation, and form are required.
Review the transcripts provided. Summarize the data, making it as factual and data-supported as possible. Submit a 3-5 paragraph analysis identifying the performance issues and opportunities for Turmeric & Spice Ltd. In your summary, identify documentation that you would want to find to corroborate comments by your interviewees or provide additional information that your interviewees were unable to provide.
Pat Eneewon, a performance practitioner with Turmeric & Spice, Ltd., was asked to meet with the Chief People Officer (CPO) about building a leadership development program. Pat has interviewed Ms, Abley, the CPO at Turmeric & Spice (T&S) and three people recommended by Ms. Abley. Pat has been moved on to another project, these interview transcripts have been provided to you in preparation for you taking over the project.
Review the transcripts provided. Summarize the data, making it as factual and data-supported as possible. Submit a 3-5 paragraph analysis identifying the performance issues and opportunities for Turmeric & Spice Ltd. In your summary, identify documentation that you would want to find to corroborate comments by your interviewees or provide additional information that your interviewees were unable to provide.
Write a 2 page response using APA format, include a brief summary of Pats methodology and any changes you would have made to it.
Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Please include citations to support your ideas.
What protocol do you recommend for this network and what are its advantages?
Nishida Kitchens is a medium-sized company that makes packaged Japanese foods including noodle and sauce combinations. Their foods are distributed to grocery stores and specialty food stores throughout Canada, Europe, and the United States. The company is moving into a new building and has hired the company you work for, Network Design Consultants, to help them create a new network. Before the move, their head network administrator accepted a job with another company and his inexperienced assistant has been promoted as the head network administrator.
Nishida Kitchens has a business and sales unit of 42 computer users. The plant in which the foods are produced, packaged, and shipped has 45 computer users. The company has both Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. The business and sales unit uses Windows 10 Professional workstations. The plant users have a combination of Windows 10 Professional and Red Hat Enterprise Linux computers on users desktops. The company plans to have Internet connectivity available to all network users. Nishida Kitchens has an outlet store across town which provides the public with direct sales of their products. The outlet store also has Internet connectivity on a small network of 12 computers that are running Windows 10 P Professional.
What protocol do you recommend for this network and what are its advantages?
For WAN communications, such as remote communication over the Internet connection, what protocol should be used by the Windows 10 Professional and Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstations? What are the advantages of this protocol?
List specific goals of treatment for this patient.
R.S. is a 32-year-old woman who seeks treatment for a vaginal discharge that she has had for the past month. She is sexually active and has had the same partner for the past 6 months. She reports noticing an odor, especially after sexual intercourse. Her history reveals that she has been using a commercial douche on a biweekly basis during the past year for hygienic purposes in an attempt to prevent vaginal infections. She denies any other associated symptoms. The physical examination reveals a white vaginal discharge. Microscopic examination of the vaginal discharge shows clue cells, and the pH is 5.5.
Diagnosis: Bacterial Vaginosis
1. List specific goals of treatment for this patient.
2. What drug therapy would you prescribe? Why?
3. Discuss specific patient education based on the prescribed therapy.
4. List one or two adverse reactions for the selected agent that would cause you to change therapy.
5. What OTC or alternative medications would be appropriate for this patient?
6.What dietary or lifestyle changes should be recommended?
Respond in complete sentences, 2-3 paragraphs. APA format Work must be supported by peer-reviewed article published within 5 years.
Discuss the importance of an educator identifying individual learning styles and preferences when working with learners
1. Provide a summary of your learning style according the VARK questionnaire
2. Describe your preferred learning strategies. Compare your current preferred learning strategies to the identified strategies for your preferred learning style.
3. Describe how individual learning styles affect the degree to which a learner can understand or perform educational activities. Discuss the importance of an educator identifying individual learning styles and preferences when working with learners.
4.Discuss why understanding the learning styles of individuals participating in health promotion is important to achieving the desired outcome. How do learning styles ultimately affect the possibility for a behavioral change? How would different learning styles be accommodated in health promotion?
write an essay that argues who is the tragic hero in the play: Antigone or Creon?
In the Lecture Notes for Greek Tragedy, you learned the 8 qualities that make a character a tragic hero, according to Aristotle. Using those qualities, write an essay that argues who is the tragic hero in the play: Antigone or Creon? You do not need to discuss every quality, just enough to make your argument.
What are servant leadership behaviors and what do they mean to followers?
First, please review this two minute video about Servant Leadership.
Servant Leadership video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKk0AaaFqtU&feature=youtu.be
Servant Leadership Video link
Then, answer one of the following two questions:
1 What are servant leadership behaviors and what do they mean to followers? Drawing on your own leadership experiences, what needs to be considered when applying servant leadership to practice?
OR
2 Discuss authentic leadership. How it is different from other theories of leadership?
Describe the model and the reformed school into a learning organization.
Students, parents, teachers, principals, central office staff, superintendents, and school board members all play important roles in school systems. Use the Internet to research a school district in your area and use the information you locate to complete this assignment. Imagine that you are a teacher leader and you have been asked to supply ideas to the selected school district to help it transform into a learning organization with more effective leadership practices. You will research one reform policy to assist in changing your district into learning organization. Write a proposal to change your district into learning organization.
Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:
Briefly (one (1) paragraph) describe the size and setting of the school district. Propose a new model in your reformed school. Describe the model and the reformed school into a learning organization.
Evaluate the relationship of the selected policy to historical and traditional methods of adopting school reform policies. How could you change or modify this policy to assist in creating a learning organization?
Propose and describe three or four best practices of effective leadership in the learning organization.
Propose the modifications that you would like to make to the existing school reform policy. Determine three (3) ways to implement the desired changes and lead the change of the policy.
Provide one (1) suggestion that will help to transition the each of the following stakeholders (all 7 below) from their current role to their role in a learning organization.Then pick 5 of the 7 stakeholders to discuss how each stakeholder supports the transition from a traditional bureaucratic model to a learning organization.Describe the Learning Organization and Models impact on students and staff.Then describe how the school would work for students and staff using the proposed model.
Students
Parents
Teachers
Principals
Central office staff
Superintendent
School board
Describe the Learning Organization and Models impact on students and staff. Then describe how the school would work for students and staff using the proposed model.
Include at least three (3) references with (1) of these needs to be from a peer reviewed journal. Note: Make sure references are no more than five (5) years old from material outside the textbook.
Discuss the disclosure requirement on accounting policies, and identify at least two (2) examples of the most commonly required disclosure
According to the textbook, the goal of financial reporting is to report financial information that is transparent and complete and truthfully report the financial performance of a company. Investors and other interested parties need to read and understand all aspects of financing reporting.
Use the Internet to research Verizon Communications financial statements, annual report, notes to the financial statements, presidents letter, and management discussion and analysis from the most recent year in order to complete this assignment.
Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:
Discuss the disclosure requirement on accounting policies, and identify at least two (2) examples of the most commonly required disclosure. Explain the key ways in which the examples you provided are useful to financial statement users. Analyze Verizon Communications disclosure on accounting policies, and give your opinion on whether or not the information is helpful for decision making. Provide a rationale for your response.
Explain the importance of the management discussion and analysis section of an annual report. Select three (3) items from Verizons management and discussion analysis of the annual report that could be useful to potential investors. Provide three (3) specific examples of how the three (3) items you selected could influence a potential investors decision to invest in Verizon.
Describe segmented information, and explain the way in which companies determine segments. Identify at least three (3) advantages and three (3) disadvantages of segmented financial data. Give your opinion on whether or not the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Outline the manner in which Verizon segments its financial data. Suggest key actions that Verizons management can take in order to improve the companys segmented financial data. Provide a rationale for your response.
Analyze the various types of auditors reports, and determine the impact that the auditors report has on a companys ability to obtain financing from a bank. Identify the type of auditors report issued on Verizon, and speculate the manner in which you believe banks will perceive Verizons auditors report.
Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
