PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Importance of Continually Improving Knowledge and Practice improvement of knowledge and practices is of great significance; it is my responsibility as a senior care assistant and team leader to ensure constant professional development in my field. Continuous improvement in the practices and the skills involves taking measures necessary to keep the knowledge and skills at par with the latest updates in my field. Continuous improvement in the practice and knowledge is essential since it assists the professionals to remain informed with the vital skills, information, knowledge, and training. Also, being up to date as a team leader and senior health care assistant is critical since it aid in influencing other members in my field of world (B.R.W., 2014). The up to date information helps me to act as a good role model among my juniors (Bryar, 2016). A continuous improvement of the practices and knowledge helps the employees or the subordinates to carry out their roles more effectively. This is, in turn, effective in the advancement of the health care services in my organization. 1.2 Various Potential Barriers…
Strategic Management Part A. A). A firm that is focused on achieving a competitive advantage in the marketplace, a Business-Level Strategy can be an essential tool to the organization as it offers a method of providing value to consumers through the exploitation of the company’s significant competencies. Differentiation is one of the generic strategies, and it is precisely utilized in my company as we aim to make sure that we are always distinct from our competitors both in terms of business structure and operation (BCG Careers: Interactive Case Library, 2020). My company chose this strategy because the firm is interested in the broader customer base regarding our uniqueness. The organization focuses on building several unique elements such as superior quality, design and customer service to secure more customers. Even though the company will charge a higher price to compensate for the expense of being unique, customer satisfaction is guaranteed. B) After setting a business-level strategy, the most efficient way of attaining the firm’s objectives is by designing a reasonable functional level strategy. These are the relevant duties and actions as…
Strategic Management across Cultures Introduction Diversity, as defined by Ozgen et al. (2017), refers to recognizing and accepting individual differences irrespective of their gender, age, race, and ethnicity (p.3). With the increased migration and globalization, managing diversity in organizations is important. In the workplace, conflicts can arise due to cultural diversity. Companies operating across the globe are continuously forced to reconstruct their strategies in order to include diverse employees in order to reduce the issues of discrimination (Barak, 2016). Most organizations adopt diversity to become open to change. Improving and increasing workplace diversity has become an important issue for strategic managers in recent years due to the recognition of how the workplace is changing. As noted by Anglim et al. (2019), valuing and managing diversity is an effective way that can help in improving workplace productivity. In this regard, strategic management across cultures is a concept that should be given significant attention by strategic managers in order to improve the productivity of employees and the overall competitive advantage of the organization. This essay will discuss how to convince local workers…
Journalism as a Profession in the 21st Century World Journalism undoubtedly appears to be one of the hottest trends in career lines today. A substantial percentage of the youth and millenials are choosing to prefer ‘journalism’ as their ideal industry of profession. The reason why journalism has come to light even more significantly in the twenty-first century is because of evolution and advancements. The art of journalism and reporting is no longer confined to collecting mere data, news and information. The expressions of today’s professionals in the field of journalism have become much more opinionative, valiant and unbiased. The significance of media is only growing in all aspects of industries, society as well as human lives reviving as a necessity. Take a look at some of the justifications that demonstrate journalism as a career option for the aspiring youths of the 21st century. Journalism is more versatile than ever before As said by Suzanne Chandler, one of the most popular broadcast journalists and photo journalists who have spent more than 35 years in the industry, aspiring journalists have immense opportunities to…
Essential Skills a project manager needs to have to be an effective communicator As a project manager, one needs to have practical communication skills to lead people well. These are the two communication skills required from a project manager: Active listening- a project manager should have the capability of listening and understanding other members of an organization. Keenly listening to the words of other minus interruptions, asking queries and comprehending all the non-verbal cues bear some meanings to the project managers. Through active listening, persons get to open up. And with active listening, various misunderstandings, as well as conflicts, might be resolved amicably (Zulch, 2014). Open-mindedness: for a project manager to be efficient, he should enter into any discussion with an open mind. With that, it would be capable of listening and comprehending the views of other people instead of only getting their points across. The manager would be willing to engage in any conservations leading to productive and honest outcomes. How important is a global mindset for communicating in today’s project environment? Why Nowadays, in the project environment, it…
Career Investigation Report 1.0 Introduction The Australian labor market has over the years continued to experience an employment growth that is stronger than expected that has allowed the unemployment rate to remain at 5% (Ponomareva & Sheen, 2018). As such, the Australian economy has met the full employment definition of the Reserve Bank. The Australian labor market is clearly robust with most of the employment coming from full-time employment. However, according to Rodgers (2017) part-time employment continues to offer considerable source of employment to the majority of the Australian residents. However, even though the rate of unemployment is considerably low at 5%, the Australian labour market is faced with the challenge of underemployment. Underemployment refers to the condition whereby people are employed at jobs that are inadequate according to their skills and training or employed at less than regular or full-time jobs, or where people are employed in jobs less their economic needs (Barnichon & Zylberberg, 2019). Despite the promising state of the Australian labour market, a majority of the Austrian workers are underpaid, which historically has resulted in more…
Career Plan Current job Salary My career plan is to become a professional guidance counselor. I researched this career in terms of job availability and salary variances in various states. According to the US Bureau of labor statistics, the average annual income of a guidance therapist is 60,160. However, when it comes to states, the pay varies. For example, in Florida, the yearly wage of a guidance counselor stood at 50, 350 dollars. On the higher side, depending on the organization, position, and years of experience on the job, one could be lucky to get 75,940 dollars, while the lowest wage stood at 35,510. A scrutiny of the career in other states showed that California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, and District of Columbia were some of the highest paying states when compared to the national average and the Florida mean wage. The guidance counselor’s contributing significantly to boosting the nation’s wellbeing. On that note, students like me who want to reach the heights of this career must be ready to work hard and get our degree certificates so that…
International Olympic Game Rio 2016 Olympic Games Rio 2016 provided amazing days to global sports class and city celebrations. The athletes had an incredible performance with the first-ever Refugee Olympic team being talented and had a human spirit. Olympic Games Rio 2016 was an indication of the power of sports as a unity to the world and a clear demonstration that variation can be supplemented to us all (Radnedge, 2015). The worldwide Olympic partners embraced their ongoing support through giving support to crucial assistant and product to the committee organizing the event and helped in the provision of both games and Olympic values by the renovation of marketing energizing. Nowadays, the Olympic Games are one of the most successful global media events. Sports associated with the Olympics are not only entertainment occupations but also a trustworthy business. In the sports world, marketing and promotions are essential tools for profit generation. Olympic Games Rio 2016 explored issues of marketing mediated effects and development of the game property. This study analysis 6p’s of marketing used in Olympic Game Rio 2016 as price,…
Leadership Interview Paper Introduction Evelyn Jones is the Nurse Supervisor at Amita Health Saint Mary’s and Elizabeth Hospital. I met her while on clinical rotation at the hospital, and her assistance proved invaluable. She is an able leader, keen on excellence and compassion to both her patients and those under her leadership. I chose her for this interview because I felt I could learn more about her leadership values and find out how she handled the different aspects of leadership that she is exposed to. The information I acquired from her is both thought-provoking and inspiring. She revealed that a leader can firm in her position and still be emotionally intelligent enough to empathize with the different situations of people under her leadership. Her opinion on leadership is valuable and sound and forms the basis of discussion of this paper. Leadership Innovation Nurses are the part of hospital staff that interact the most with patients. The way they handle patients determines the patient’s opinion of the hospital. Also, different patients have different personalities, which makes it up to the nurse…
leadership and management theories while examining their similarities and differences Introduction There exists a controversial debate linking the concepts of leadership and management especially in the context of organisational background. Most individuals use both terms interchangeably without understanding their differences in the real situation. In a close perspective, academic theories helps scholars and philosophers to recognize the differences between leaders and managers either in the political or economic settings. According to Goleman, a psychologist, the concept of leadership to largely entail the attribute of “emotional intelligence”, which makes it distinct from management. From the Goleman school of thought, “emotional intelligence” comprise essential elements including but not limited to motivation, self-informed, empathy and self-regulation (Goleman, 2017). The psychologists emphasises that without such traits it is difficult for individual to be good leaders upon their followers. Also, leaders should have the vision regarding their company and anticipated results at hand. It is a reflection that leaders inspire, motivates and encourage their counterparts in efforts to achieve the intended goals by the firm. Different scholars have come up with subtle definitions regarding…