Discussion 1: Course Reflection

Discussion 1: Course Reflection Leaders and managers must possess a wide range of skills, and strong, sophisticated communication is one of the most essential for professional and organizational success. Review the broad range of topics presented throughout the course related to becoming an effective business communicator. For this final discussion, revisit the Class Caf introduction in which you identified some specific learning outcomes you wanted to get from the course. Reflect on whether and to what extent you achieved those learning outcomes. Select concepts or topics that resonated with you during this course and commit to learning more about them. To bring this commitment to life, identify concrete action items that will support your goal to deepen your personal learning experience in the coming year. Then, consider the following: What can you do now to integrate the experiences and insights you had in this course with your personal and professional development goals? What are the most important things you are taking from this course that will shape your future and enable you to leverage communication to make a positive difference? To prepare for this Discussion: Review this weeks Learning Resources, especially: o Fernsler, T. (2017, Jul). The key to leadership: Practice, practice, practice. Nonprofit World, 35, 32. Retrieved from o Froschheiser, L. (2008). Communication, communication, communication the most important key to success in business leadership. SuperVision, 69(10), 9-11. Retrieved from o Hedman, E., & Valo, M. (2015). Communication challenges facing management teams. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 36(8), 1012-1024. Retrieved from o Petty, A. (2015). Learning from your communication mistakes. Government Executive, 1. Retrieved from Reflect on your personal learning throughout the course. Review content from Weeks 1 through 7. Post a cohesive response based on your analysis of the Learning Resources and your professional experience. Be sure to discuss the following: Provide a synopsis of your weekly learning. Supplement your analysis by identifying specific ways in which the weeks topic helps you in your current or future role. o Which content and assignments in this course improved your understanding of managing people and fostering collaboration within your organization or one with which you are familiar? o What impact has your improved understanding had, or what impact do you anticipate it will have on the value you will bring to your role within an organization? o How have the content and assignments changed the way you think of your role within an organization? o How have the content and assignments shaped your goals now, and how do you anticipate they will shape your goals in the future? o How has the content in this course helped you appreciate the role of communication in facilitating positive social change within an organization or more broadly? o How can you be sure you will maintain your personal integrity, regardless of ethically challenging or morally ambiguous situations?

Real Experience of Illness

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GzGjlTVm5JJZDvnixPFnFjd4qMohEBDZ?usp=sharing Task Description: ESSAY LENGTH: 2500 WORDS This assignment requires you to write a 2500 word essay considering the experience of illness as it is related to a real case. “Experience is not an unstable irrational and emotive concept but rather it is the world, it is knowing.” Lumby (1994) “It may be that the most important element of care that we offer….is our constantly deepening respect for the lived experience, and the realization that what we see on the outside may be just a reflection, and often not an accurate one, of the living that is occurring within. The greatest compliment then that may be given to a carer is to be invited into the lived world of a person. Dittman-Kohli (1990) There are more than just physiological aspects involved in how a person faced with a health or capacity challenge experiences an illness, ageing or a disability. We have come to understand that each lived experience has sensory, emotional and cognitive/behavioral elements. A biopsychosocial-spiritual model of illness suggests that the experience is an amalgam/ a complex interrelationship of all these aspects of illness. It is also often something that can be difficult for a person to express in words or break into its component parts. There are many theories concerning how a person constructs his or her internal ‘experience’ of an event or situation. This construction is unique to the individual. In this essay you are to explore the experience of illness through the use of both the theoretical and empirical literature combined with the story of a real experience of illness as offered by a client. Within the first couple of weeks of the semester a recorded interview with a client facing an illness challenge will be placed on the COUN7015 Blackboard site. You are to watch the interview and consider this experience of illness as this client relates it and discuss this experience with respect to both the theoretical and empirical literature surrounding the experience of illness in general, as well as the lierature concerning the particular health challenge faced by this client from the interview. As such you will be offering an analysis according to the literature of this specific case ie., a case study. In many ways this is the form of writing of what may be occurring in your head in terms of therapy process ) as you work with this client (Assessment ‘Hearing the Story – Hypothesis Generation – Further Assessment _Intervention). To remind you of the process you arte thinking through, the document “Process of Therapy Expanation” will put up on the COUN7015 Blackboard site. The essay therefore will have a number of aspects organized in a coherent manner. Below are aspects that you should think about and research and may find valuable when discussing this case: You may consider and discuss what is meant by the term experience of illness (the experience of having a health challenge). Consider the theories and means concerning how an internal experience of illness may be constructed. In other words, how does theory and science suggest that we take the input from the health challenge and internalize it to become uniquely our own. You can exemplify particular theories with pertinent suggestions based on the interview material You may consider the literature associated with how one aspect of the lived experience may affect other aspects of the experience of the person dealing with a capacity challenge (The Story) You may consider the various factors that influence the experience of illness eg., considering all aspects of the biopsychosocial-spiritual model You may consider models that explain some of the behaviors / experiences eg., health beliefs, meaning etc. You may consider and justify what you identify to be the most influential aspects affecting the illness experience of the person in the interview. (This offers a basic case formulation for this case as you see it).Case Formulation) On the basis of what you have heard in the interview, the hypotheses you have developed and the literature, you may suggest other information that you would like to know from this client that you believe would assist in case formulation refinement (Further Assessment) By consideration of the literature concerning people facing the type of challenges as discussed by your client, you may suggest basic approaches to the care you would consider may be valuable for this client at this time and even perhaps in the future. (This may include both approaches offered through you as a counsellor and also broader interventions to people facing such health challenges). (Intervewntion) In writing the case report you would likely offer a brief outline of the case followed by a more indepth analysis of the case linking it, relating it and/or explaining it through the use of the literature. Hence you would be offering literature that is consistent with the experience and also attempting to explain reactions that may not have been consistent with the available literature. It is very important that your discussion and the arguments presented are supported by strong empirical evidence (research studies) not just theoretical and opinion articles
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Health Information Patient Handout

To prepare: Select a health issue of interest to you. Identify the audience or population that you seek to educate about this issue. Search the Internet to find credible sites containing information about your selected topic. Review the two health literacy websites listed in this weeks Learning Resources. Focus on strategies for presenting information. To complete: Design an educational handout on the health issue you selected. Include a cover page. Include an introduction that provides: An explanation of your issue and why you selected it A description of the audience you are addressing In the handout itself: Develop your handout in such a way that it attracts the attention of the intended audience. Include a description of the health issue and additional content that will enhance your message (i.e., key terms and definitions, graphics, illustrations, etc.). Recommend four or five sites that provide clear, valuable, and reliable information on the topic.

Critically analyse which type of hedge fund it would be best to add into an international portfolio currently consisting purely of bond investments.

Provide an answer to ONE of the assignment titles below: Critically evaluate the main explanations for the Forward Premium Puzzle. Critically evaluate the benefits and risks from including a private equity fund into an international portfolio currently equally weighted between equity and bonds. Critically analyse which type of hedge fund it would be best to add into an international portfolio currently consisting purely of bond investments. “The international capital asset pricing model is an appealing theory but has little practical use.” Critically analyse this statement. The coursework counts for 40% of the overall mark for this module. Word limit: 2500 words excluding tables, references and appendices. Assignments in excess of the word limit will be penalised. Marks will be awarded for: Knowledge, Understanding, Analysis, Evaluation and Structure & Clarity.

Exploring the Visual Language of Display

Task: This course was designed carefully. The first six weeks introduced you to the basic theories and thinkers who contribute to our understanding of display, and the basic histories of display. The last six weeks introduced you to the basic ways we work with display as: designers, curators, advertisers, marketers, and managers. Weeks 1 6 were planned to go with weeks 7 11.Consider week 6 and the content covered that week: Twisted Sisters: Semiotics and Dialectical Material in Parody and Guerrila Advertising. Theorists: Marx, Foucault, Levinson.Consider, also, the content covered that week: Stereotypes and Statements in Branding and Advertising.Do you see how they were meant to go together?This assignment asks you to work with these pairings from week 6. You are to write a 3,000 word illustrated report USING THAT OPTION and with the following structure: – Introduction (500 words) – Theory, History and Method (1,000 words) Your Spring Break assignment helped you do this already! – Discussion and Illustrations (1,500 words) The report is to be based on the following scenario: ? REFERRAL Scenario: You are to consider the images used in the week 6 lecture and any other examples of parody brands, guerrilla marketing, and spoof advertisements you would like to include from your own research. Choose your favourite of each (1 parody brand, 1 instance of guerrilla marketing, and one spoof advertisement). One of EACH. What do they say, do, and contextualise? Guidance: ? What visual and illustrative techniques were used in the displays? ? What references will you use in considering them? (. historic, artistic, theoretical, etc.) ? How was gender, gendered images or stereotype used? ? How did the display use design, location, space, lighting, colour and typography? ? Apart from the object/item/brand what else will be displayed (. what ideas, lifestyle, politics, etc. was suggested?) ? How and who does it engage? ? Are the displays direct or subtle, and what is the difference in terms of its reception? ? What political statement is made/discussed with this material?