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Part of leadership competency is being self-aware of your own dimensions of leadership. When you can recognize your own skills and behavior, then

you can recognize skills and behaviors in others. Further, after recognition you can apply leadership competency to appropriately and effectively

lead a team to success. Being self-aware includes determining your own competency weaknesses and developing a plan to mitigate those to become

stronger as a leader. Then, you can be the most effective leader possible.
Please complete the “Campbell Leadership Descriptor Survey” (which is attached to the files) and based on this survey write paper answering the

following questions:
1. Categorize your nine dimensions of leadership.
2. Select your strengths that will be most effective in your role as a leader.
3. Prioritize competencies that need improvement.
4. Based on your selected strengths and your prioritized competencies, develop a personal plan for leadership improvement.

Please write the paper between 800-850 words in length.

 

Review the strategic plan example linked in the Resources for this discussion. Address the following:
•Describe the various components of a strategic plan.
•Identify each section and explain its importance.

Your post should contain 250–350 words. Be sure you follow APA guidelines for citations and references.

 

in class, you will wnte a twonpa’jgm y reflection on the documentary China Blue.
~Your reflection will include two parts. Each part should be 1/2 of the. total length of the total reflection:
I”) Use two specific references from Gaudz’um er Spes to make a critique of at least one of Mr.
Lam’s business practices.
2) Discuss whether you are optimistic or pessimistic that working conditions will improve for
workers in factories like Mr. Lam‘s.

What Makes A Leader? Goleman, D.; Harvard Business Review 2004

Leadership is a complex dynamic. To develop successful leadership skills one must couple the more traditional aspects, such as technical intelligence, drive and perseverance with the “soft skills” of emotional intelligence. As students of business, most of your academic education has focused on the technical knowledge necessary to excel. To further develop your leadership attributes, it’s important to understand and address skills that help you manage the many ways you work with others (relationship management) and understanding what makes you “tick” and how you regulate your own behaviors (self-management skills).
This is assignment has two purposes. The first is to challenge you to take an introspective look at the five elements of emotional intelligence and assert your level of skill and understanding of each, then reflecting on actions you can take to address areas in need of growth or improvement.
The second purpose is to offer your instructors an example of your writing skills (grammatical composition skills) and how you express yourself in a formal, business-oriented written communication.
Although there is no right or wrong answer to the assignment, you will be graded on your grammatical and content composition, which includes how you organize and state your points of view, proper grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and command of your vocabulary. You must write to “your audience” Clearly understand from the statements below who you are writing to and prepare your document accordingly.

Setting:
You are being evaluated for a promotion into a leadership position.
The Selection Committee has asked each candidate to develop a “reflection paper” on how they perceive their five skill sets of emotional intelligence. The selection committee expects that each candidate will offer an honest assessment of their skills and has expressed that they expect each candidate to have areas in need of development. They are most interested in how each candidate articulates themselves and what the candidate will do to further develop those areas of emotional intelligence that need to be further developed.

Remember that you are selling your skills, knowledge and experiences while discussing those areas that need further development. You want to be the one person selected for this promotion!
You are writing a business letter to the entire Selection Committee. Format and address it appropriately, as a letter to them.

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i. How has your company done relative to its competitors – does it have competitive advantage
1. Key financial metrics for the industry are important (See Table 1.1)
2. There are often important non-financial metrics for a given industry (e.g. occupancy rate for hotel chains, new customer activations for wireless network carriers, new product releases/patents for technology companies, etc.)
3. Don’t forget metrics that are more important to your industry (it’s OK to use more common metrics like ROA/revenue growth/TWCC, but don’t only present these)
4. Make sure to benchmark (against competitors, against the company’s past performance, and against stated goals (when available; theses may be disclosed in annual reports or investors’ meetings)
ii. How has the current strategy affected performance (remember that some long term strategies entail short-term sacrifices early in their implementation)?

For the Strategic Audit you will be performing a check-up on the condition of a company of your choosing and using what you learn to make strategic recommendations going forward. The link between the past (in particular: how the company has performed over time with an emphasis on competitive advantage-which means you have to think of performance relative to others), the present (in particular: the current strategy and trajectory), and the future (in particular: what type of strategy would best enable the company to achieve or maintain competitive advantage in light of the internal and external environment) is key. For each section make sure you tie back to the company’s strategy.

For the presentation you can think of yourselves as a team of consultants who are presenting your strategic audit to the company’s board of directors and top management team (CEO, CFO, COO etc.). Presentations should be about 10 minutes long and cover the four main parts (strategy, performance, external, and internal analysis) and the conclusions and recommendations.

For the written report, each section should be about a page long (excluding tables and figures) with 1-2 pages for the conclusion and recommendations for a total of 6-7 pages.

Below is a guideline of what you can include in each section. You do not have to stick to this guideline rigidly, but everyone should address points with bold typeface.

I. Executive Summary
i. A brief description of the company and industry (present general facts you think here and try not to include them in the rest of the report)
ii. An overview of the industry/industries in which your company operates
iii. Key information from the 4 parts of the audit that you will expand on in the body
iv. A short description of your conclusion (to be linked with the strategy/performance/internal/external analyses later, and expanded upon in the conclusion)
II. Audit
a. Strategy Analysis
i. What is the company’s current strategy?
1. Try to go a more in depth than the two generic strategies (differentiation/cost leadership)
2. For diversified firms think about major business units’ strategies, the overall corporate strategy, and how they fit together
ii. How does your company’s strategy compare to the strategies of its competitors?
iii. How well has the company done in pursuing its strategy/has it changed parts of its strategy?
b. Performance Analysis
i. How has your company done relative to its competitors – does it have competitive advantage
1. Key financial metrics for the industry are important (See Table 1.1)
2. There are often important non-financial metrics for a given industry (e.g. occupancy rate for hotel chains, new customer activations for wireless network carriers, new product releases/patents for technology companies, etc.)
3. Don’t forget metrics that are more important to your industry (it’s OK to use more common metrics like ROA/revenue growth/TWCC, but don’t only present these)
4. Make sure to benchmark (against competitors, against the company’s past performance, and against stated goals (when available; theses may be disclosed in annual reports or investors’ meetings)
ii. How has the current strategy affected performance (remember that some long term strategies entail short-term sacrifices early in their implementation)?
c. External Analysis
i. What is the current industry structure/level of competition (perfect competitionmonopoly) and what are the consequences (See Table 2.7)
ii. Use at least one of tools described in our textbook (6 category description ofthe general environment in Figure 2.1, Porter’s 5 Forces, PEST,GDPest, etc.)
iii. What are the opportunities and threats related to the external environment?
iv. How does the external environment influence the company’s strategy?
d. Internal Analysis
i. What are the key resources and capabilities for your company and are there resources/capabilities it needs to acquire/develop? In what part of the supply chain are resources/capabilities deployed?
ii. Analyze whether the key resources are VRIOand the consequences (See Table 3.3)
iii. What strengths and weakness exist due to the internal environment?
iv. How does the internal environment influence the company’s strategy?
III. Conclusion
a. Strategic Options Identifications and Evaluation
i. What works what doesn’t and potential fixes?
ii. Try to describe a couple different paths the company could pursue and what the advantages, disadvantages, and risks exist for them?
b. Recommendations to the Board of Directors
i. What should the company do going forward?

“According to the American Marketing Association (AMA) a brand is a name, term, sign, symbol, or design, or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competition” (Keller, 2013, p. 2). Liberty University is also a brand that must be managed with care. In a paper of at least 500 words demonstrating course-related knowledge of brand management, answer the following questions:

” How would you define the Liberty University brand?
” How would you expand on the Liberty University brand and focus on a Christian customer base?
” How would you maintain the Liberty University brand image but still market it to non-believers?

Your paper must be in current APA format and include at least 1 biblical integration and at least 2 scholarly references, 1 of which may be the course textbook.

Prompt:
Per Ch. 11, migration and the results of migration are visible everywhere. We need, however, to seek out a deeper understanding of what drives migration. According to Lechner, migration is a result of individual rational choice shaped by various “push” and “pull” environmental factors. Please provide some examples of how one or two of these “push” / “pull” factors influence migration to and from various countries.

Possibly Helpful Resources:

–Mourdoukoutas, P. (2011) Why China’s Rich Want to Immigrate to America. Forbes. September 11. http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2011/09/11/why-chinas-rich-want-to-immigrate-to-america/

–Destination America. PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/usim_wy_03.html

– Why do people migrate? BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/migration/migration_trends_rev2.shtml

You should feel encouraged to use outside sources, beyond the book, and those given above. Some of you may have personal experience of migration (or the experience may reside in family members). OK to interview family mambers or use your own personal experience, as appropriate.

Length: no more than 250 words.

1- Respond to the following Classmate’s Post about the following essay: Thomas Lord’s essay “What? I Failed? But I Paid for Those Credits! Problems of Students Evaluating Faculty” (pages 93-97).
Required Textbook:
Ballenger, B. (2015). The curious researcher: A guide to writing research papers (9th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson. ISBN: 9780134498263.

Classmate’s Post: (Is gonna be attached as a file.)

INSTRUCTIONS:
2- On your response, you must explore your peers’ work and help him determine whether he has accurately quoted and paraphrased material from Lord’s writing. Also determine whether the citations and reference entries are correct.

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Assessment Task 1: Select a topic, research, and summarise a relevant journal article
Assessment Task 1 is an individual research and critical analysis task that is based on a topic that has been selected by the group. Each student has the task of finding an academic research article on the chosen topic. Each student needs to find (research), read, analyse and write a summary of that academic journal article. Restrict your search to an article published in the last five years in an academic, peer reviewed journal. If you are uncertain if an article is appropriate or not, talk to your tutor before beginning your work.
A template for analysing and summarising the journal article is included below. Students are expected to type up the final version of the individual journal article summary using this electronic template. The assignment must be submitted on the electronic template via Turnitin. Use of the La Trobe University Library Database (http://www.latrobe.edu.au/library) would be very useful for this assignment.
You can choose an article from the journals below. Other relevant journals can be found on LMS. Also, The following journals may be helpful in researching particular topics or in keeping up-to-date with contemporary research in IHRM. Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resources, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, International Business Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business.
Please reference any material you use which is not your own. Please ensure you acknowledge the source of the references by using the Harvard Referencing Style.
Refer to: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/referencing-tool/harvard/style-notes/ for tips on acknowledgement, referencing and plagiarism.
You must use at least six (6) refereed journal articles as references. Access to the La Trobe University online journals (see: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/) is a useful resource. Avoid colloquial language and spelling, grammatical and typographical errors. Repeated errors of this kind will be penalised. Assignments must follow the specified word length, although a tolerance of 10% is allowed without penalty.
Assessment Task 1 –Individual task – ‘Individual research and critical analysis’

Student Name:

Student ID:

Tutorial (Day & Time):

Topic:

Author(s):

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Etc.
Year of publication:

Volume, Issue, Pages:

Title of Article:

Title of Journal Publication:

Identify at least three key issues, concepts (ideas), propositions or theories that have been discussed in the literature review. How have these issues informed or influenced the current paper and its research questions? (Paraphrase – i.e., use your own words)
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Etc.
Discuss the data collection and analysis methods:

Who was studied in this research?(Paraphrase – i.e., use your own words)

List and describe the research findings: (Paraphrase – i.e., use your own words)

How has this research study contributed to knowledge ofyourchosen topic?(Paraphrase – i.e., use your own words)

What suggestions/recommendations are made for future research: (Paraphrase – i.e., use your own words)

References (Using Harvard referencing style)

(Words count: 1000, NOT including references)

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Describe and research the topic including current issues (if any) and challenges in United States related to the chosen topic. Present a brief

introduction of the topic and convince the reader that the paper is interesting. Present the most current facts about the selected healthcare topic.

Must use at least five scholarly sources. (Wikipedia is not accepted) Use page headers and numbers, level headings, and in-text citations, following

all APA formatting requirements.