We learned that management members might consider not using tests to determine individual’s personalities, because sometimes only judgments on the individual’s abilities indicate stronger personality traits then personality tests. The team members learned that individuals approach job requirements in different manners; this may indicate the reason why an individual’s personality maybe mismatched with his or her current position. Week Two The team members learned about communication during week two’s readings. We learned that communication is one of the most important factors within the workplace. Communication has four factors, control, motivation, emotional expression, and information.
Consequently, mentoring future leaders finds difficulty for those from diverse backgrounds yet adopting to this change can allow senior leaders to also expand cultural competencies (Olson, & Jackson, 2009). The ethical leader embraces diversity in mentorship that empowers organizational members as they demonstrate fairness and equality (Van Wart, 2008). Applied Leadership Theories This author has taken multiple leadership test, questionnaires, and surveys to determine skills, aptitude, style, and traits. While many leadership theories have been discussed during this course of instruction, many rely on traditional or transformational styles. It is recognized that some leaders naturally react without thought while others work
Using Listening Skills to Resolve Conflict Because we live in a multicultural society we work and interact with diverse groups of people with diverse viewpoints. Conflict arises many times because of misunderstandings and the inability to understand what another person in really saying. Because to this learning to listen critically is the key skill needed to be successful in conflict resolution in a group dynamic. The key skill needed to be successful in conflict resolution in a group dynamic is learning to listen critically. Before we can solve any problems we need to understand some of the causes of conflicts in groups and what exactly conflict is.
Human error is the one of the greater risk and threats in most organizations. No one group can completely control a person’s behavior. For this reason it is important to be prepared to mitigate behaviors of malicious users, untrained users, and careless users. The number one way to reduce user errors is to train users. Once a month, Richman Investments will have a required featured training meeting with our company users to ensure the security of Richman Investments network.
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Executive Summary Project management s is always full of challenges that project managers have to contend with. Whereas experienced project managers are aware are of such challenges and tend to be equipped with tactics of dealing with the challenges from one project to another, fresh project managers are tend to less tactical and are in most find themselves overstretched with such associated challenges. This report focus on Gary Allison who was recently promoted from being a project engineer to project manager. As a young project manager, Orion Shield Project present him with ethical, legal, contractual, and project related issues as he goes about his duty of fulfilling the project requirements. In the process he interacts with different departments individuals from both client and his company.
He provides both facts as well as assumptions about why things have occurred within this large generation of people. His main sources of evidence include: personal assumptions, generalizations, facts, statistics, percentages, and prior life knowledge. He backs up his own assumptions with statistics by stating such things as “85% of hiring managers and human-resource executives said they feel that millennial have a stronger sense of entitlement than older workers.” He continues on to bring evidence to the idea that people within the millennial generation have a lack of loyalty to a company by stating “about 44% would renege on a job acceptance commitment if a better one came along.” Also, “about two thirds of the millennials said they would likely ‘surf’ from one job to the next.” Although a lot of his assumptions about the millennial generations are hard to argue, the real reliability within this article is within the statistics and quotations. Although he does make strong points with his own observations and understanding of the multiple generations his real reliability resides outside of himself. His use of quotes from other well known sources help back up his arguments in his most persuasive way.
Initiating structure, which is primarily concerned for organizational tasks, and consideration, which is the concern for individuals and the interpersonal relations between them. Valuing human resources as well as communicating and listening are directly associated with the dimension of consideration. Being a proactive leader and a risk taker demonstrate the dimension of initiating structure. “Effective educational leaders respond to the human as well as the task aspects of their schools and districts. Effective change requires skilled leadership that can integrate the soft human elements with hard business actions” (Joiner, 1987 p.1) According to Northouse (2009),
Taking care of yourself, communicating effectively, and working on time management will ultimately allow individuals to beat the stress at work. Limiting stress can be as simple as just taking care of yourself. According to a report by Attitudes in the American Workplace IV more than a third of workers (35%) say their jobs are harming their physical or emotional health and 42% say job pressures are interfering with their personal relationships; half say they have a more demanding workload this year than last. (The American Institute of Stress, n.d.) So it’s important to take care of yourself so as not to let the stress harm you physically or emotionally. Make sure to get plenty of rest.
Performing – the final stage when the 'task and the team' combine to provide effective team work. Tuckman's model recognises that teams do not start fully formed and functioning but that they grow and become stronger through different stages and help us to understand the different problems that will occur at each stage of the team development. 2.2 Identify barriers to success and how these can be over come Teams are people working together to achieve a common goal, and relationships among the team are of high importance. The three most evident barriers to team success can occur within any team dispite their common goal - Poor leadership – regardless of the setting or the goal, instructions generally come from management, and if they do not provide adequate direction to all team members this will affect the stability of the setting. Poor communication – good communication is the key to an effective and positive team, it is imperative for the team to work together and grow in strength, sharing all relevant ideas and information within the team.