Social Work Practice With Families and Groups
In drafting the schedule of events and the content, there was first an extensive and inclusive discussion session that saw the members of the program and the specialists in the field of psychology and guidance and counselling getting together for in-depth consultation. During the brainstorming session, there were several topics and content that were proposed, prioritized, discussed and then agreed upon for covered age during the 10 weeks session to help the children suffering from emotional problems after the death by suicide of their parents. Once the content and the sequence of the topics to be covered during the session were agreed upon, each member of the team that was to make a presentation and training in any of the ten weeks sessions was duly briefed and charged with doing extensive research on their areas as assigned. There was then a debriefing session for…...
mlaReferences
Cathryn L.C., (2008). Cultural diversity: An Alternative Approach to Understanding Sport Participant Consumer Behavior. Retrieved April 21, 2015 from http://www.thesmartjournal.com/diversity.pdf
Linkner J., (2010). The 10 Commandments of Brainstorming. Retrieved April 21, 2015 from http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/20/brainstorming-ideation-ideas-leadership-managing-innovation.html
Nordmeyer B., (2015). Team Member Performance Evaluation Techniques. Retrieved April 21, 2015 from http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/team-member-performance-evaluation-techniques-14626.html
Rosen M.A., et.al, (2010). Tools for evaluating team performance in simulation-based training. Retrieved April 21, 2015 from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2966568/
Stakeholders and Team Members
In any project, there are a number of stakeholders and team members who have to be considered. If any of these people are left out or ignored, it is possible that the entire project will not provide as much value as it otherwise would have (Certo & Certo, 2005). To that end, it is vital that potential stakeholders and team members are analyzed for any project, so the best ones can be chosen (Post, 2002). With this particular project, the following people should be included in the multidisciplinary team: nurses, doctors, and those in the medical field who work on the same floor and/or in the same wing or field in which the project will take place. That way, everyone who is physically in the vicinity of the project can be a part of it, because it will affect all of them if it comes to…...
mlaReferences
Certo, S.C. & Certo, S.T. (2005). Modern management (10th. ed.). NY: Pearson.
Post, J. (2002). "Redefining the corporation: Stakeholder management and organizational wealth. CA: Stanford University Press.
Environment Scan
Assessment of resources
Team Member One has a handy-man organization that uses a mentor, already experienced in the handyman business, as a resource. By shadowing this mentor, Team Member One will gain a wealth of knowledge and capitalize on years of experience. The team member also has access to military personnel on a government installation. Theses prior relationships with military personnel also aid in growth of his business.
Team Member Two also works on a military installation. This team member's tutoring business benefits from the number of soldiers who require tutoring for military tests that they take to advance their careers.
Team Member Three's main resource is creativity. Sendoutcards is a new company that needs customers. The quality of the product is an asset, but the Team Member will also need to cultivate marketing skills in order to build the market.
Competitive position
Team Member One can offer lower prices in order to compete.…...
Business Class Organizational Behavior
Team Member's Names
Leadership: The affects of retiring baby boomers and the attributes of next generations
Leadership itself is the act or activity of leading a group, while a leader is defined as the individual that influences that cluster of people and achieves a certain objective. There has been much debate and research on the said phenomenon and related aspects.
Theories of Leadership: For understanding, below are the summarized versions of famous leadership theories;
Authoritarian Leadership: An approach of leadership in which an individual uses strong, instructive and strict actions to enforce the regulations, set of laws, actions and relations in the work place. (Organizational Behavior, Nelson & Quick)
Democratic Leadership: An approach of leadership in which the leaders values and utilizes mutual, sociable and participative measures with the group to motivate and get the best out of them in the work place. (Organizational Behavior, Nelson & Quick)
3. Laissez-Faire: An approach of…...
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Debra L. Nelson and James Campbell Quick, Organizational Behavior (Ohio: Thomson, 2006) 148-177.
Michael Z. Hackman and Craig E. Johnson, Leadership (Illinois: Waveland Press, 2004) 35-87.
Paton, N. (22 October 2007), "The baby-boomer leadership vacuum," Retrieved from leadership-vacuum.asphttp://www.management-issues.com/2007/10/22/research/the-baby-boomer -
Richard L. Daft, The Leadership Experience (Ohio, Thomson, 2008) 45-71.
Early Childhood
As Service Coordinator, my role is to explain the IFSP and the IEP and serve as liaison with other people and agencies who are part of the child's plan. The screening process looks at cognitive, physical, emotional, social, and communication development to identify strengths and weaknesses upon which the plans can be put together. Parents' questions could include time frame for the program, expected results, prognosis for success in school, and alternatives if the program does not seem to be producing desired results.
In Massachusetts, two agencies that assist children with developmental delays and their families are the Department of Education and the Head Start Program. The Head Start Program assists with early detection and diagnosis; the Department of Education has a tiered support system once children reach school age. Diagnostic testing includes observation, interviewing, and drawn responses. In speaking with parents, it is wise to show results for several…...
DiSC
Motivation Plan
DiSC assessment results: Learning team members
The Division Chief / Intelligence Coordinator Office of the Director for National Intelligence is a high-stress supervisory position that demands a high level of interpersonal intelligence. To lead people in an appropriate and effective manner requires knowledge of the different ways that people think and what motivates different personality types. This acknowledgement is itself at the heart of the DiSC personality assessment. It suggests that there are four basic personality orientations: a dominant (D), interactive (i), steadiness (S), and conscientious (C) worldview. Of course, all people show some characteristics of all four personality types. However, most people have one -- or at minimum two -- which dominates.
Learning team profile: Steadiness
The DiSC profile of the Division Chief / Intelligence Coordinator was primarily that of 'steadiness.' Given that the office is essentially a bureaucratic one, this should not come as a surprise. Steady styles are often…...
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DiSC overview. (2015). DiSC. Retrieved from:
Team Membership
The last team experience that I had was not in a work capacity, but in a volunteer capacity. I worked as a volunteer on a breast cancer funding multi-day walk. Many people believe the walk is the heart of the fundraiser, but I discovered that the walk itself is only a small part of the experience. The real work for the team begins months before the actual walk, as the team comes together, raises funds, and makes plans for their walk.
Group Task ole
The initiator of the group was our friend Lola, whose mother was undergoing treatment for breast cancer. While out with our friends one night, she asked if we would be willing to walk with her to support her mother. She started the group, and she continued to provide direction for the group. She helped suggest the name of the group, Barb's Boobies' Buddies; she kept team members…...
mlaReferences
Engleberg, I. & Wynn, D. (2010). Group membership. In Working in groups: Communication
principles and strategies, 5th Edition. Pearson Education, Inc.
MindTools, Inc. (2012). Leadership skills: Become an exceptional leader. Retrieved from:
Nursing
There are more than two methods that can be used to display leadership regarding an interdisciplinary team even if the person is not in a formal leadership position. One of the methods used can be to always present a positive attitude, even when faced with formidable events or challenges. Presenting a positive attitude at all times allows others to draw strength from your actions and to present positive attitudes that are positive as well.
Considering the fact that most nurses are faced with a very stressful nature and workplace environment it would make sense that anyone who presented a positive nature would naturally be looked upon as someone who could have leadership qualities. One recent report determined that nurses are often "fatigued from nursing work and used such terms as 'exhaustion', 'drained', being 'tired and cranky' and 'zombie like" (Huntington, Gilmour, Tuckett, Neville, Wilson, Turner, 2011, p. 1416) to describe their…...
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Collisson, B.A.; Benzies, K.; Mosher, A.A.; Rainey, K.J.; Tanaka, S.; Tracey, C.; Xu, C.; Olson, D.M.; (2011) Knowledge translation: Prinicples and practicalities for trainees within interdisciplinary health research teams, Clinical and Investigative Medicine, Vol. 34, Issue 6, pp. E366 -- E369
Hallingera, P. & Heck, R.H.; (2010) Collaborative leadership and school improvement: Understanding the impact on school capacity and student learning, School Leadership & Management, Vol. 30, Issue 2, pp. 95 -- 110
Huntington, A.; Gilmour, J.; Tuckett, A.; Neville, S.; Wilson, D.; Turner, C.; (2011) Is anybody listening? A qualitative study of nurse's reflections on practice, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Vol. 20, Issue 9/10, pp. 1413-1422
positive experiences working in teams, and when those experiences were positive and the performance of the team was high or surpassed expectations, it was always because of a few simple rules that are outlined by Musselwhite (2007) and Conant (2012). For example, Musselwhite (2007) points out the importance of seeing the big picture at all times, and not getting bogged down in silly details. The big picture is something that is important to remember for the product or service we are working on as a team, but also in terms of clarifying our role as individuals. The role of the team itself depends on seeing the big picture -- why the company actually needs us to work on a specific task. "Understanding the big picture promotes collaboration, increases commitment and improves quality," (Musselwhite, 2007)
The principles illustrated by Conant (2012) and Musselwhite (2007) include the need for seeing the big…...
mlaReferences
Conant, D.R. (2012). Building effective teams isn't rocket science, but it's just as hard. Harvard Business Review. April 4, 2012. Retrieved online: https://hbr.org/2012/04/consistently-building-highly-e
Musselwhite, C. (2007). You don't have to be Michael Jordan or Mia Hamm to have the skills you need to build and lead high performing teams. Retrieved online: https://www.inc.com/resources/leadership/articles/20070101/musselwhite.html
consultant project linked to personnel training. It will address project impacts on corporate performance, asset and fund allocation for the project, ethical and transformational leadership, and leader response to suggestions by team members.
My aim for the proposed project would be: guiding team members in their role choices. I would focus on capitalizing on people's strengths and on the roles they're interested in playing (Writer Thoughts). In doing so, I would aid them in choosing assignments that are capable of meeting their individual goals as well as project goals. Synergy is what I would ultimately aim for.
Impact of Proposed Teamwork Project on Organizational Performance
Coaching or training the entire team simultaneously enables members to understand team dynamics and the importance of teamwork, and choose a role for themselves. In that way, they acquire valuable knowledge on both their area of work and the overall process. Further development ensues, and focus can…...
mlaReferences
(n.d.). Effective Meetings, Your Meeting Resource Center. Teams, how to Be an Effective Team Member. Retrieved August 9, 2016, from http://effectivemeetings.com/teams/teamwork/effective.asp
Hendricks, D. (2014). Forbes Welcome. 6 Ways to Empower Your Employees with Transformational Leadership. Retrieved August 9, 2016, from http://www.forbes.com/sites#/sites/drewhendricks/2014/01/27/6-ways-to-empower-your-employees-with-transformational-leadership/#3b27f1403268
Kercher, K. (2007). Corporate Social Responsibility: Impact of globalization and international business. Corporate Governance eJournal. Retrieved, from http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=cgej
Monahan. (2012). A Review of the Literature Concerning Ethical Leadership in Organizations. Emerging Leadership Journeys, 5(1), 56-66. Retrieved, from http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/elj/vol5iss1/ELJ_Vol5No1_Monahan_pp56-66.pdf
Group Contract Memo
COLLABORATION
Emily Eldridge's View on Collaboration
In her presentation, "Why Collaboration is an Individual Effort," Emily Eldridge is of the view that though individuals may not be naturally inclined to want to collaborate with others, they must make an individual concerted effort to learn to collaborate as collaboration is a powerful tool in our professional and academic careers. Emily uses her own experiences to explain how her views about collaboration have changed over time. When she was in elementary school, she hated working with other kidspeers. Driven by her introversive and perfectionist character, she always wanted to work alone. For her, it was faster as well as more productive and constructive. According to Emily, collaboration is not necessarily a natural ability as often assumed. Some individuals prefer working alone as they usually perceive other people to be slow, or to have nothing to contribute in a group. With time, however,…...
Amazon's culture? What values, beliefs and assumptions is the culture based on?
Success in business today is a combination of factors. As opposed to focusing making the executives feel good about their positions, building culture is about growing talent.
It is disturbing that at Amazon colleagues are inspired to rubbish each other's work in meetings. They work long hours and are held to supposedly high standards; as assumed by the company. There is an internal phone directory that encourages workers to provide each other's bosses with feedback secretly. The workers have expressed concern that it does not serve positive purpose but sheer sabotage (Streitfeld & Kantor, 2015)
Many workers state that they chose Amazon because of the challenge it presented. Others are inspired by the promise to think big and explore what has not been tried out there. Some reported having gained from their stints with Amazon by sparking their careers to…...
mlaBibliography
GlassdoorTeam. (2015, August 18). What It's Really Like to Work at Amazon in the Wake of New York Times Expose. Retrieved from Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/amazon-new-york-times/
Streitfeld, D., & Kantor, J. (2015, August 15). Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace. Retrieved from The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0
Prioritization Matrix and its Alternatives
Priorities, priorities, priorities -- have a sense of your organization's priorities! Although the value of prioritization is undeniably an important one, how does a developer adequately prioritize different tasks and elements of the software lifecycle and general production process? One such a tool is a "Prioritization Matrix." This is a useful technique for developers of new software projects, because a developer can deploy the non-technical framework of the matrix both with his or her team members on the task, or with necessary, with the potential users of the new system. The matrix can be used to achieve consensus about what is important, as it requires individuals to rank problems, issues, and objectives by a particular criterion that is important to the system and to the organization as a whole. ("Prioritization Matrix," 1998)
The democratic aspect of the conventional Prioritization Matrix enables everyone involved clearly see which…...
mlaWork Cited
"Prioritization Matrix." (1998) The Guide to Managing for Quality. Retrieved 10 Feb 2005 at 'Macmillan's Prioritization Matrix." (31 March 2004) Movement as Network: Website. Retrieved 10 Feb 2005 at http://www.movementasnetwork.org/001437.htmlhttp://erc.msh.org/quality/pstools/psprior2.cfm
Team Motivation
Team Dynamics
The team on which the paper is based is a class discussion team that was formed in the curse of the semester to enable us accomplish the various tasks that would be assigned.
Stages of team development
Our group went through the various stages of development like any other groups with the challenges and the progress handled by the member of the group. The following is a summary of the stages that our group went through. Each stage was characterized by the indicated activities and conditions, with some of these characteristics crossing over to the next stage among a few people.
The group structure was a simple one since it is an academically focused group that was formed to meet the specific tasks before it within the semester and eventually disperse as indicated above. There was the group representative who acted as the link between the group and the lecturer. Then…...
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Ann Marie N. & Joyce S., (2009). Group Dynamics and Team Building. Retrieved December 20, 2013 from http://www.wfh.org/2/docs/Publications/Hemo_Org_Resources/Monographs/HOD4_Group_Dynamics_2-edition.pdf
Grant, R.W., & Finnocchio, L.J. (1995). Interdisciplinary Collaborative Teams in Primary Care:
A Model Curriculum and Resource Guide. San Francisco, CA: Pew Health Professions Commission.
Mind Tools (2013). Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing: Helping New Teams Perform
Team Analysis
This team has a number of problems including a strong lack of communication, and perhaps the communication skills necessary to overcome that absence. Additionally, the leadership of the group is relatively weak in character, at least as a leader for this particular team. The team may have the collective, and individual, knowledge and expertise to accomplish the task that has been set before them, however, using that knowledge and experience seems to be completely hindered by the team's lack of cohesion. Although there seems to be a consensus among the team as to which design would work best for the project, no one seems to want to take the lead in asserting what is obvious to the team members. That is where good leadership skills can come in handy.
Team Strengths
The team as a group has a world of experience; academic and professional in nature. Gary, the leader, has successfully…...
When it comes to planning, I typically follow these steps:
1. Define the goal or outcome I want to achieve
2. Break down the goal into smaller tasks or milestones
3. Identify the resources (time, money, people) needed to accomplish each task
4. Develop a timeline or schedule for completing each task
5. Assign responsibilities to team members or stakeholders
6. Monitor progress and make adjustments as needed
7. Evaluate the overall success of the plan and make improvements for future planning efforts
I find that by following this structured approach, I am able to effectively plan and execute projects with clarity and efficiency.
This systematic method of planning....
Title: Embracing Diversity in the Workplace: A Catalyst for Growth and Innovation
Introduction:
In today's rapidly evolving global economy, workplace diversity is no longer a mere aspiration but a business imperative. Organizations that embrace diversity reap numerous benefits, including enhanced productivity, better decision-making, and increased innovation. This essay delves into the importance of workplace diversity, exploring the various dimensions of diversity, the challenges organizations face in promoting diversity, and the strategies they can implement to create a more inclusive and diverse workplace.
Body:
1. The Significance of Workplace Diversity:
Workplace diversity goes beyond race, gender, and ethnicity. It encompasses various dimensions, including age, socioeconomic background,....
1. The role and responsibilities of a grant writer in nonprofits and fundraising organizations
2. Essential skills and qualifications needed to be a successful grant writer
3. Common challenges and obstacles faced by grant writers in the interview process
4. Strategies for effectively communicating your experience and qualifications as a grant writer in an interview
5. Tips for preparing and practicing for a grant writer interview
6. The importance of research and preparation in the grant writing interview process
7. Discussing your portfolio and past grant writing success stories in an interview
8. Addressing questions about your understanding of grant funding sources and proposal writing techniques
9. How....
I. Introduction
A. Attention grabber
B. Brief background about effective leadership
C. Thesis statement: Effective leadership plays a crucial role in achieving organizational goals and inspiring individuals to reach their full potential.
II. Definition and characteristics of effective leadership
A. Definition of effective leadership
B. Key characteristics of effective leaders
1. Clear vision and goal-setting
2. Strong communication skills
3. Ability to inspire and motivate others
4. Decision-making skills
5. Adaptability and flexibility
III. Importance of effective leadership in an organization
A. Cite examples of successful companies with effective leadership
B. Effect on team performance and productivity
C. Improved employee morale and....
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