
had a choice to pick one of the videos on the playlist and for my paper I chose “Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity”. I chose this particular video because it might be controversial because this paper is to be written for my University. Before I get started I would like to compliment the University of Phoenix on it’s creative style of education geared towards working adults. This is one of the main reasons I chose this University and will go into further detail later in the paper of how…
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personal recommendations from colleagues whose advice I greatly respect suggesting that I should consider completing an MBA program. It’s from these recommendations that I have investigated the idea further to understand what the benefits are of completing an MBA program. I found out that there are many benefits that far exceeded the costs as I was able to compile a long list. A few key benefits from the list are increased creditably from business peers, polished communications skills including written…
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In the passage “The Case for Working with Your Hands,” taken from Matthew B. Crawford’s book The Case for Working with Your Hands, Or, Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good, Crawford makes a case on why our society and economy would be corrected if people chose their jobs based on what they like, not just what is accepted. He bases these claims on self experience. The evaluation Crawford concludes that the economy will be improved by “enlightened self-interest,” is both reasonable…
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OST 289 LN1 Chapter 15 Build Workplace Skills- Research an organization 2. I chose to research Pediatric Therapy Associates and Sports Medicine. This organization has multiple locations in North Carolina, and only in North Carolina. The locations are in Cary, Garner, Raleigh, and Wake Forest, North Carolina. The organizations provides therapy services such as physical, speech-language, occupational, and developmental. They also provide social groups and counseling services. Some additional services…
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improving communication skills are a few of many ways I chose to guarantee my personal and professional success. It wasn’t easy taking the decision to pursue a graduate study, and like all major decisions in one’s life, it comes with challenges, which were of an emotional, financial, and organizational nature in my case. To facilitate success, setting goals is most commonly seen as the way forward. In addition to discussing setting goals and milestones, I will be exposing the challenges met in the road…
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dentistry in an efficient, profitable manner within the confines of a caring and quality environment. Order-taking - Patients should be kept waiting not longer 20 minuteswithout giving option for rescheduling. These enhance the servicequality of her business…
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For as long as I can remember, I could not wait to grow up and go to college. Since then I have had a surplus of ideas of what I wanted to study and what career I wanted to pursue out of college, only recently have I discovered the name for what I’ve been striving to discover: Informational Technology Project Manager. In short Project Managers plan, initiate and manage IT projects. I chose this career because it combines all of my interests and skills into one job; organization, planning, designing…
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doing business. During her first year, they worked with multiple fragrance companies that ensured that they had a diverse collection of new scent ideas. As of recently they had basically dropped the amount of companies they worked with and were actively focusing on only two. Valerie and her team didn’t understand this business practice and voiced their concerns to their boss, Lionel Waters. It didn’t take the team long to realize that Lionel was not to be questioned about whom they did business with…
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comes”, as a student states in the video; nor did I attend 90% of my classes. Even I bought a hundred dollar worth a text book but never completed more than 20% of it. The thousand dollar laptop that I own is being used more for movies than for assignments & journals. Anyway, friends were made even when there was no Internet; whereas we still have people with cell phones & computers making remarkable revolutions in their respective fields. What I mean to say is that Education, Technology and…
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Introduction: The organization that I chose is DeVry Inc. Specifically, I chose DeVry’s online student finance department because I am currently employed in this department. I started here as a Student Finance Consultant in July of 2012 and this is my first full time job after college. In my role, we assist student’s enrolling in courses and help plan how to fund their education. This job can be very satisfying yet frustrating at the same time. I feel that it is a great learning environment…
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