Professional Development Paper

Students will write an individual paper that addresses how they can improve their skills as a team leader and as a team member.  The paper must also provide some concrete, measurable steps for enhancing their skills and knowledge that are supported by at least 5 professional or academic sources using APA citations and reference format.

Format: Typed, double spaced, 1” margins, 12 point Times New Roman font, per APA, and structured as follows:

  1. Title Page
  2. Personal experience and lessons learned from working in teams (including this class)
  3. The effect of your own personality, communications style and preferences, and personal SWOT on the team and its performance
  4. Discuss your experiences dealing with diversity
  5. In light of your personal values and the PMI Code of Ethics, discuss the importance of adhering to legal requirements and ethical standards in team project work.
  6. References page

Length: 3-5 pages total (plus title page/References page).

 
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International Leadership, Communication, and Culture

Moran, Harris, and Moran (2007) noted that multinational corporations face many challenges when engaging in business transactions abroad.  Many of these barriers result from “comprehending communication”—a dynamic exchange of energy, ideas, information, or knowledge between and among people.

Keeping this statement in mind, post your responses to one of the following topics.

  • Describe some of the cultural factors multinational corporations contend with that may hinder their chances of success when operating in foreign lands.  Support your answer using the example of a multinational corporation or a product or a service.
  • Evaluate a management style that could be implemented in order to overcome cultural barriers that impede successful international business relationships.  This style could have positive outcomes, negative outcomes, or both.  Does the domestic management style have to change when going global to overcome cultural barriers?  Why or why not?
  • Describe what may happen when multinational corporations make strategic changes that may ultimately have an effect on the cultural dynamics of organizations.  Research, describe, and evaluate a scenario to illustrate your point.

1 Page Discussion Response

Reference:

Moran, R. T., Harris, P. R., & Moran, S. V. (2007).  Managing cultural differences:  Global leadership strategies for the 21st century (7th ed.).  Burlington, MA: Elsevier.

 
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Professional Development Paper

Students will write an individual paper that addresses how they can improve their skills as a team leader and as a team member.  The paper must also provide some concrete, measurable steps for enhancing their skills and knowledge that are supported by at least 5 professional or academic sources using APA citations and reference format.

Format: Typed, double spaced, 1” margins, 12 point Times New Roman font, per APA, and structured as follows:

  1. Title Page
  2. Personal experience and lessons learned from working in teams (including this class)
  3. The effect of your own personality, communications style and preferences, and personal SWOT on the team and its performance
  4. Discuss your experiences dealing with diversity
  5. In light of your personal values and the PMI Code of Ethics, discuss the importance of adhering to legal requirements and ethical standards in team project work.
  6. References page

Length: 3-5 pages total (plus title page/References page).

 
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Diverse contemporary theatre

Contemporary theatre, both commercial and non-commercial, has seen a huge increase in diversity — diversity among playwrights and their plays, actors, directors, designers and theatre practitioners.  Diverse artists have always shown themselves to be an integral part of theatre and theatre history, though in contemporary theatre they are sometimes referred to “artists of a diverse background” instead of just theatre artists.

These artists come from a selection of groups, cultures and categories including, but not limited by:

Gender-Specific (i.e. Female)

Native American

Hispanic

African-American

Asian-American

Gay and Lesbian

and others

This assignment requires you to…

select one person (playwright, actor, designer, etc.) from the groups listed above

explore, prepare and discuss his or her historical, social and cultural importance to what we call “diverse contemporary theatre” today (the focus here is on theatre not their impact to film, television or music)

Create your response, in the Assignment submission box below (not in the Comments field), as a journal or diary entry.  This response will not be read by your fellow classmates.  The journal should be 1-2 pages long, approximately 400-500 words minimum.  Be careful of spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation…proofread and edit your work as necessary.  Please cite your sources if any are used, including any videos or links used.

 
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