How can emotional intelligence help you overcome life challenges and achieve your goals?

We all encounter challenges. Some challenges presented to us are simple to handle, while others can push us far beyond the safety of our comfort zone. Yet for many of us, overcoming challenges can ultimately make us stronger, more resilient, and better capable of managing change, no matter how stressful such changes might be. In dealing with challenges, we are able to develop our personal coping skills and level of grit. Such skills are essential to not just survive, but thrive in the face of adversity.
For this discussion, begin by reviewing the Psychology Discussion Rubric, as it is designed for this program. Later in this module, you will use this rubric to complete a self-assessment of how you think you performed on your first discussion. Review this now to maximize your success.
For your initial post, complete the emotional intelligence test in your webtext. This short survey covers various aspects of your emotional life and takes about 3 to 5 minutes to complete. It is important to be honest while also having fun with this activity. Use your results to answer the following questions:

Based on the emotional intelligence test, in what EI domain is your highest score?
Do the results reflect your current opinion of yourself, or did the results surprise you?
How can emotional intelligence help you overcome life challenges and achieve your goals?
How does awareness of your EI score relate to any of the following programmatic themes:

Self-care
Social justice
Emotional intelligence
Career connections
Ethics

Remember to respond to two peers while being respectful of and sensitive to their viewpoints. Consider advancing the discussion in the following ways:

Post an article, video, or visual to reinforce a peer’s idea or challenge them to see their point from a different perspective.
Engage in conversation with your peers around EI. Consider asking a question or sharing your personal experience. Also consider asking advice from a peer who has a strength in a domain in which you have opportunity to develop.

To complete this assignment, review the Psychology Discussion Rubric.
You will also need:

If Blue Wood Chocolate and Kilgore Custom Milling are to develop a risk management framework, who should lead the process at each company?

 Chapter 18 presented special risk management issues with Blue Wood Chocolates, and chapter 19 presented various financial risks at Kilgore Custom Milling. If Blue Wood Chocolate and Kilgore Custom Milling are to develop a risk management framework, who should lead the process at each company? Should a Chief Risk Officer (CRO) be appointed? If so, to whom should he/she report and have access to? How could smaller companies without the resources for a dedicated CRO deal with ERM? What is the role for the board in such a process? 

Evaluate three issues faced in the panel discussion presented in the scenario. Discuss effective and ineffective characteristics of team behaviors in the observed scenario. How effectively did this team work together?

Start with an introduction.
Complete the body of the transcript by using examples from the interaction between the team members in this scenario, and respond to the questions that follow in a 2- to 3-minute audio-based response. *Make sure to integrate one source (or more) from the readings and your own personal experiences.

Evaluate three issues faced in the panel discussion presented in the scenario. Discuss effective and ineffective characteristics of team behaviors in the observed scenario. How effectively did this team work together?
What three suggestions do you have for the team to engage in professionalism?
In the observed situation, who do you feel should take leadership? Why? What are the benefits of having leadership on a team? What are the concerns of having leadership on a team? In this situation, what would you do to lead the team?
What three strategies do you have for productivity when working in teams?

End with a conclusion
Properly cite/reference one of the class readings in the transcript and orally during the audio recording.
Create an audio recording of your transcript. The recording should be 2–3 minutes in length. There should not be background noise, and the recording should be done in one sitting and submitted as one file.

https://kapextmediassl-a.akamaihd.net/artsSCi/Media/CS212/2002B/imagine_you/story.html

Explain consequences that a health care agency might encounter without internal and external assessment.

APA format, in-text citations, references include
Part 1: half page
A brief description of the types of internal and external assessments used by the agency ElderFirst Care for marketing new health programs. Then, explain consequences that a health care agency might encounter without internal and external assessment, and why ( See attachment).
Describe two examples of formative evaluation for health programs that you might use in your marketing plan.
Describe how you will include formative evaluation methods in designing your health care services marketing plan and explain why. See attachment

Provide 2–3 examples of President Obama’s use of presidential powers in the last 18 months. Identify and discuss the public policies that have been at issue using these presidential powers.

Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.
For the next four weeks, you will be working on a single essay. In this essay you will select an important issue or problem, research this issue, and then propose a solution. Each individual project will take you through the writing process – from the question that first inspired your research to your final draft in phase 5. Your phase 2 Individual Project is the first step towards this final paper.
The first step is to choose a topic that you are interested in writing about. Choose a topic from the following list:

Gang violence
Border security
30 Million Uninsured Americans
The collapse of the housing market
The crisis of American Education
The college football playoff system (BCS vs. Playoffs)
Increasing use of Medical Marijuana
Low turnout of American voters

Once you have decided on your topic, formulate a research question to narrow it. Ask yourself: what is the specific problem you will be writing about and what is the solution to that problem? Performing research will help you to narrow your topic and find outside sources which will support your proposed solution. For this assignment, you will create an annotated bibliography of the outside sources that you find.
What is an annotated bibliography?
An annotated bibliography is a brief list of the sources you plan to use in your research paper. This list is presented in APA formatting. You will present the source and then include a paragraph that explains what it is about, how it relates to your topic, and why it is important to your paper.
To create your annotated bibliography:
Choose 3 to 5 outside sources, two of which must be from the CTU Library. Create an APA formatted reference list of these sources. Finally, write one paragraph for each source describing the source, how it relates to your topic, and how it will help you write your paper.
Your Individual Project should contain the following:

A properly formatted reference page with 3 – 5 reliable sources
Proper in text citations

In addition to these structural guidelines your individual project should also contain the following:

A cover page
Headers
Page numbers
Be double-spaced using 12 point, Times New Roman, Arial, or Courier fonts.

 
 
 
 
 
American Government
 

400-600 words

Details:

Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.
Within the executive branch of the United States government, the president has powers can influence public policy. In this assignment, you will be tasked with examining those powers.
Assignment Guidelines:

Address the following in 400-600 words:

President Barack Obama has acted based on Executive Authority on a number of occasions during his Presidency. His administration has often cited the inability of the legislature to reach agreement on policy issues because of politics as the reason for taking executive action.

Provide 2–3 examples of President Obama’s use of presidential powers in the last 18 months.
Identify and discuss the public policies that have been at issue using these presidential powers.

Have Presidential powers evolved over time, or were they a result of a major event? Explain in detail. Do you believe that the evolution of Presidential powers is a positive for our democracy, or does it infringe upon the duties of the legislature?

What happens when feelings are perceived as being thoughts?

watch the movie  twiilight of the Gold first 
This is a paper on Logical Vulnerability. 
Pick one character from the film who is using a defense mechanism. You can pick any defense mechanism except rationalization.Pick another character who is experiencing cognitive dissonance.Pick a third character who is engaging in rationalization.Then justify why you think each is the case.
 
What happens when feelings are perceived as being thoughts?
The Problem of Rationalization 
Source Material: “Rationalization” 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_%28making_excuses%29
What happens when we project our fears as “facts”?
“Defense Mechanism”
What happens when assumptions conflict?
The Problem of Cognitive Dissonance 
Source Material: “Cognitive Dissonance” 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_mechanism
 

Describe the challenges the company may have faced by choosing to utilize business analytics that the other company did not face.

Assignment 3: Benefits of Business Analytics
 
Business analytics can provide a significant benefit to organizations. If the organization utilizes business analytics and analyzes the data correctly, they will be able to make informed decisions that will benefit the organization in many ways. They could use it to make decisions to address not only short-term company goals but also long-term strategic planning.
 
Using the library resources and the Internet, research two businesses within the same industry; one that utilizes business analytics and one that does not. Select at least 2 scholarly sources for use in this assignment.
 
Respond to the following questions:
 
1.Compare and contrast the two companies in terms of their use of business analytics to improve their position in the industry. You may select an organization you currently work for or one that you worked for in the past.
Provide your rationale as to whether or not the use of data analytics has helped the company accomplish its goals.
2.Describe the challenges the company may have faced by choosing to utilize business analytics that the other company did not face.
3.Make assumptions based on company history where required. Utilize at least 2 scholarly sources in support of your assertions.
 
Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in appropriate and accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
 

In what ways have you successfully applied data analysis to the improvement of information systems, patient care, and organizational outcomes during your course of study? How will you apply what you have learned to your DPI project? 

synthesize and reflect on their learning and prioritize work for their DPI project.
Directions:
To complete Part Two of the DNP comprehensive assessment:
Use the information collected in the competency matrix from Comprehensive Assessment Part One to address the following prompts as directed. Each response Your responses should concisely demonstrate synthesis of knowledge gained in the program and the relevant application of knowledge into your practice. You are further required to cite relevant and specific evidence from your coursework to demonstrate your achievement of these programmatic outcomes and corresponding competencies. 
Outcome 1:
A DNP must integrate and apply appropriate nursing and science-based theories to evaluate and analyze health and health care phenomena and develop and implement innovative practice approaches.
In what ways have you integrated and applied nursing and science-based theories in your coursework and practice during your DNP course of study? How will you apply what you have learned to your DPI project? Cite specific evidence from your coursework and practice immersion hours in your response.
Outcome 2:
A DNP must provide the leadership to develop and implement health care and organizational policy based on regulatory and other external and internal factors and drive effective change within organizations.
In what ways have you demonstrated leadership in the development and implementation of policy or policy change and contributed to quality improvement during your DNP studies? How will you apply what you have learned to your DPI project? Cite specific evidence from your coursework and practice immersion hours in your response.
Outcome 3:
A DNP must be able use information systems to mine, analyze, and apply data for the purpose of improving information systems as well as patient and organizational outcomes.
In what ways have you successfully applied data analysis to the improvement of information systems, patient care, and organizational outcomes during your course of study? How will you apply what you have learned to your DPI project?  Cite specific evidence from your coursework and practice immersion hours in your response.
Outcome 4:
A DNP must be able to articulate and implement strategy and to advocate for the ethical and equitable deployment of care delivery models for improvement of individual, aggregate, and population health management. 
In what ways have you articulated, deployed, or advocated for such strategies in your coursework and practice immersion hours? How will you apply what you have learned to your DPI project? Cite specific evidence from your coursework and practice immersion hours in your response.
Outcome 5:
A DNP must be able to evaluate practice outcomes and use research, national benchmarks, and other relevant findings from evidence-based practice to design, direct, utilize, and evaluate quality improvement methodologies that lead to improved patient-centered care.
In what ways have you evaluated practice outcomes and participated in quality improvement initiatives in your coursework and practice immersion hours? How will you apply what you have learned to your DPI project? Cite specific evidence from your coursework and practice immersion hours in your response.
Self-Reflection:
Based on an evaluation of your learning to date, assess your readiness for undertaking your DPI project. How has what you learned in your coursework and practice immersion hours and application of learning in your practice informed your approach to your project? What do you need to revise in your 10 Strategic Points document and/or your Draft Prospectus to successfully implement your project? Reflect on your progress to this point and outline the steps necessary to successfully complete your DPI Project Proposal for the Institutional Review Board (IRB) in DNP-955.

Provide at least five examples of exploratory topics you would want to gather more data around, and how you would use that gathered information to craft a business storyline around the value that can be gained from your solution.

A customer that you were recently introduced to is considering beginning an RFP process to replace the solution they’ve had for 8 years and that we acquired 2 years ago. What questions would you ask to better understand the situation?  How could you turn this into an upsell opportunity?  Please provide at least five examples of exploratory topics you would want to gather more data around, and how you would use that gathered information to craft a business storyline around the value that can be gained from your solution.

Describe at least three (3) items that an organization’s IT / IS department should consider when an organization’s strategy calls for the use of SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS.

Assignment 4: Virtualization and Cloud Computing World
Due Week 7 and worth 100 points
The popularity and rapid adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) by a number of organizations has impacted internal IT / IS departments. These services provide a virtualization infrastructure that covers data storage, networking, desktop computing, mobile computing, and so on.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

Describe at least three (3) items that an organization’s IT / IS department should consider when an organization’s strategy calls for the use of SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS. 
Evaluate the ways that SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS are used to reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase Return on Investment (ROI).
Create SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS architectural diagrams using Microsoft Visio or an equivalent such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
Examine the impact to the IT support personnel when an organization embarks on the strategy stated in Question 1.
Analyze three (3) considerations that the organization’s management should be aware of. 
Examine three (3) security issues that could arise from this type of an infrastructure.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
Include charts or diagrams created in Visio or an equivalent such as Dia. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.