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Create a workgroup plan that identifies goals, objectives, expectations and KPI/KPAs. This will create a standard for you to organise your time around, delegate tasks, and set and achieve personal targets. Identifying KPAs is essential because they identify the areas that are essential to producing results in your role. 2. When creating a schedule/time-management plan, prioritise your daily tasks. Primary tasks: Tasks that are essential to meet your targets and KPAs. Secondary tasks: Tasks that…

During the summer of 1787, representatives from each of the thirteen colonial states, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, two starkly contrasting groups of state delegates, had gathered to discuss a new Constitution to replace the failed Articles of Confederation. Namely, the delegates had debated as to whether or not the new ruleset should have taken effect, as they possessed highly dissimilar viewpoints regarding the Constitution. There were several Anti-Federalist arguments against the…

Over the course of about a week in social studies class, we participated in a simulation of a simplified version of the Constitutional Convention in which delegates from six states-Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Virginia- attempted to resolve these four issues respectively; Should the national government or individual states have more power?, Should representation in Congress be equal for all states or based on population?, Should slavery and the slave trade…

To address the problems, delegates from five states met at the Annapolis Convention in Maryland in 1786 but, a resolution was not found. In 1787, delegates from twelve of the thirteen states met at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. At the convention, delegates agreed that the Articles should be scrapped and replaced with a new constitution to create a stronger national government and…

Whether we are talking to our friends in the car, asking your teacher a question in class, or giving a presentation for work or school, we participate in a form of public speech everyday. Public speech not only involves the language that we speak, but also our body language and various other characteristics. Dictionary.com says that the definition of public speech is,” the art or skill of addressing an audience effectively.” Yes, public speech has been around since the first human beings, but…

Caucuses operate very differently from the more common primary elections. During a caucus, a state holds a convention where it chooses delegates. Instead of casting ballots and voting, citizens gather within precincts. The people who attend the caucus vote for the candidates available. For a given period, roughly thirty minutes, participants try to convince the undecided as well as those…

the United Nations committee “Canada 150” focused strengthening their economy. Various solutions were proposed, among them increasing education for their citizens. Unexpectedly, the delegates presented the idea of encouraging immigration to increase their workforce. Many were in support of foreigners with delegates such as Penny Oleksiak, General Dynamics Land Systems and Omar Khadr. Penny Oleksiak stated, “[Canda’s] workforce was about to go down…therefore we need to get more immigrants and…

completely up to the delegates allows for a system that works well for those in attendance and not the rules of Congress. Sabato suggests using the Chief Justice as the initial presiding officer at the Convention with his position eventually being replaced with an officer elected by the delegates in attendance. This allows for an official officer at the opening of the Convention to help work out the kinks of the process in an orderly manner. One of the largest issues presented to the delegates…

The Great Compromise consisted of votes in both houses “in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants of every age sex and condition, including those bound in servitude… and three fifths of all other persons… except Indians not paying taxes in each state” It still followed the bases of The Virginia Plan, but small states did not feel like it was fair. A New Jersey attorney general by the name of William Paterson proposed The New Jersey Plan as a substitute of…

Each state has a certain number of delegates available, based on the population and the Congressional representation. Overall, for the Republican Party, there are 2472 delegates up for grabs, and 1237 are needed to win the nomination. As for the Democrats, a nominee must win at least 2383 of the 4765 total delegates. In July of the election year, each party holds a convention to where the delegates vote and nominate their candidate. The winners then move into the national…