A Better Tomorrow

My position as a Team Lead this past year has been a great opportunity to build on my strengths, improve my weaknesses, and develop new talents. Over the past year I have worked diligently on developing myself to become a better employee and coworker. I have tried my best to continue to be approachable and friendly not only with the agents, but also with everyone I come in contact with, in building and in the community during volunteer events. I have strived to make myself flexible and available…

I feel my informative speech was much better than my first special occasion speech that we had at the beginning of the semester. In my first speech, I was very nervous to get up in front of the class and present. I also did not have a very structured speech and it was a bit all over the place in my delivery. This time around, I felt I delivered my speech more clearly and slowly, allowing the audience to understand it better. I tried to make the most eye contact I could and used my visual aid…

found Smart-Words.com which has a ton of transitional words and phrases for every type of transitional situation. Although PaperRater.com said that my use of transitional phrases was a lot better than most students in my education level I still wanted to make some improvements. PaperRater.com rates me slightly better in my transitional phrases but it is still enough to make me…

Working with a group can be one of the most beneficial experiences and horrific experiences when trying to complete a project. As a growing student affairs professional I find that how a team is made up and the personalities of the team members plays a crucial role in how the team will succeed. I will discuss how my different strengths and areas of improvement help me in a group setting and where I see myself placed more than often in group roles. To discuss this topic and my position I will use…

shortcomings got ignored or the problem got solved, but without any documented proof of why this was a problem in the first place. Simpson (2014) states that evaluation is a good way of collecting data about a specific process and that it can also be used to better that same process. She concludes by saying that an innovative workforce is a good way of improving your long term results. Benneyan & Chute (1993, p.35) also acknowledge the importance of evaluation. More specific, they highlight the…

Well that doesn’t always say that you give the best care. There could be a doctor that of course has his PhD but the physician assistant that is underneath him gives better care simply because they show more compassion. Compassion is so imporanti n health care. You deal with so many patients going through tons of different things. If I have a patient at my desk crying because they have received so many hospital bills…

1) a group of people does not necessarily constitute a team. The first and most important task is to shape this group into a cohesive team. First stage in developing a positive and efficient work team involves a series of development strategies, will help to build a productive and positive relationships within the group, as a team. The initial strategy to establish team members to participate in the team goals and objectives, including the mission and vision statement. Mission statement is a…

4.1.1 Empowering service users and equality Based on the theories of neo-classical economics, Greener (2008) proposes two main types of benefits of the promotion of markets in welfare service delivery: empowering purchasing power of service users, and improving competition and efficiency of providers. These benefits of marketisation represent in the field of care for older people. The market provision empowers service users to ‘exercise consumer sovereignty’ (Greener, 2008) through greater…

The medical establishment continues to attempt to reduce the nearly100,000 patient lives lost unnecessarily, annually since the IOM surveillance began reporting this as a problem in 1999 (IOM, 2010). Nursing is attempting to help solve this problem of untimely deaths. In order to do this, Dr. Watson encourages us to make more explicit the reality that if nursing is to survive in this millennium, it has to sustain and make explicit its covenant with the public. This covenant includes taking…

Listening Skills Listening is the ability to communicate a message from one person to another. Listening is the key element of a good conversation. To get information across effectively there should be good listening skills and in order to prevent the wrong information to send one should listen and must be able to interpret the same message said through any form of communication. Listening skills could be useful in business through the communication with external and internal customer by…