1. Describe the difference between coaching and counseling, mentoring, and discipleship? What makes Christian Life Coaching distinctive from secular life coaching?

2.

Case Study 1: Use appendix A to complete the Graph of Life (Collins, 2009, p. 355).

A Case Study is the first part of the thread. You will make up a case study about a client whom you are seeing. You will use this client in all four Case Studies, which will give you four sessions with the same hypothetical client at the end of the course. You must give a clear description of how long you have been seeing the client and the issue that led your client to meet with you. Please use The Quick Reference Guide to Biblical Counseling (Clinton and Hawkins, 2009) to help you create applicable client scenarios. Focus on the less clinical issues listed in the table of contents to find the most applicable topic, such as: Decision Making, Burnout, Discouragement, Money Crisis, Parenting, etc. Give some background information on the client. What are the client’s goals? How would use this assignment and what you learned from this assignment with the client? The Case Study should include information regarding why you are using the specific required exercise with your clients, the potential benefits of this exercise, what the client learned as a result of completing this exercise, etc. 2. Write a Reflection. Write about your experiences with this assignment. What did you learn from the assignment? Was this a useful exercise for you to do with yourself? What are some action points that you will implement in your life as a result of the outcome of your assessment? Could you see yourself using this on a client in the future? What did you learn from incorporating the assignment with a fictitious client?

Critical Success Factors in Project Management

Analyze the relationship of the project sponsor and manager during the project management lifecycle.

Write a 1,750-word paper identifying at least six reasons for project success and failure. Provide examples of how organizations overcome challenges associated with project failure and describe best practices of project management utilized by the manager to ensure success.

Include four to six scholarly references in addition to texts used in the Project Management concentration.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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Acquiring and Managing Project Teams

Write a paper of no more than 1,750 words, identifying at least six best practices for acquiring, developing, and managing high-performance project teams. Address similarities and differences between managing local and virtual teams. Analyze best practices for managing high-performance project teams. Provide examples of how project managers manage teams to ensure success. Explain considerations when parts of a project are accomplished by outsourced work.

Include four to six scholarly references in addition to texts used in the Project Management concentration.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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Final Project Management Plan

Write a paper of no more than 1,400 words, addressing the following items:

• How changes to the project scope, timeline, and budget are managed and reported
• How project cost and schedule performance is measured and reported
• How project quality is managed and reported
• Reasons why your project could be closed
• Closure processes you use for normal completion, such as having objectives met
• Ethical considerations you may have to make through the project lifecycle and ways to respond

Explain the processes that must be in place to effectively manage each aspect of the project and your rationale for selecting techniques you plan to use.

Include scholarly references in addition to texts used in the Project Management concentration.

Include components produced in earlier weeks and shown above.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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Scenario: Imagine that you are the vice president of operations at a production or service organization. You have noticed that your organization’s current operations strategy is not supporting the challenges that the organization is presently facing. In order to maintain a competitive edge, you must address these challenges with your Chief Executive Officer immediately.

Select an existing production organization. Analyze the organization’s current vision, mission, business strategy, operation strategy, supply chain, total quality management, just-in-time philosophy, forecasting method, statistical technique, facility location, work design, project life cycle, and project management. Note: You will need this information in order to complete this and subsequent assignments.

As you collect the information for Assignment 1 and Assignment 2, remember that in Assignment 3 you must prepare a presentation for your Chief Executive Officer.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

1.Evaluate key elements of the selected production or service organization’s operational efficiency with its operational strategy. Determine three (3) tasks that do not align with the operational strategy. Determine the weaknesses that are evident in each task. 2.Formulate a new operations strategy for the selected organization based on the four (4) competitive priorities (i.e., cost, quality, time, and flexibility). 3.Analyze both the structure of the competitive priorities and infrastructure of the production process. Develop three (3) new enablers that are aligned with the long-term plan of the selected organization. Evaluate three (3) pros and three (3) cons of the new enablers. 4.Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. •Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

• Analyze the differences between service and manufacturing operations management to identify planning considerations. •Formulate an operations strategy to conduct production or service operations. •Explain how an operations strategy impacts product design and process selection. •Use technology and information resources to research issues in operations management. •Write clearly and concisely about operations management using proper writing mechanics.

Assignment 2: Technology and Innovation

Assignment 2: Technology and Innovation

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Analyze major technological innovations from the last five (5) years to determine the most significant innovation for entrepreneurs. Provide specific examples of how this new technology has encouraged new business creation or growth.

2. Speculate about the next big technological innovation and how entrepreneurs will use it to create new businesses.

3. Use at least two (2) external sources.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

· Analyze how technology is used for innovation.

· Use technology and information resources to research issues in innovation and entrepreneurship.

· Write clearly and concisely about innovation and entrepreneurship using proper writing mechanics

 

Question 1

 

Explain the role a supervisor plays in workplace safety, and in your own words, describe additional actions a supervisor can take to reduce unsafe acts by subordinates.

 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length per question. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style.

 

Question 2

 

Describe what employers can do to improve the employee’s transition during repatriation. Explain some of the reasons why an employer would bring an expatriate home early.

 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length per question. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style.

 

Question 3

 

Describe the types of unsafe conditions that are the primary focus of OSHA standards. Explain how these standards are enforced by OSHA.

 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length per question. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style.

 

Question 4

 

Describe the types of HR-related risks realized by most small businesses. Explain with an example how PEOs can assist small businesses with these risks.

 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length per question. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style.

 

 

MHR/6451 Unit VIII Discussion Board

 

What is your opinion of this course? Did it meet your expectations? What suggestions can you offer for improvement of this course for future students?

Write a 200- to 300-word response to the following DB question:

Consider the following statements: “The problem with risk analysis is that it is possible to imagine virtually anything going wrong on a project. Where do you draw the line? In other words, how far do you take risk analysis before it becomes overkill?” How would you respond to this observation? Please use examples to support your opinion.

 

Citing credible reference materials, including your course textbook(s), is highly recommended when providing your response.

 

Unit VIII Essay

Compose an essay explaining “termination through starvation.” Discuss the role that ego, power, and politics play in this form of termination. Your essay should consist of no less than three pages, and all references and in-text citations should be shown

in APA format.

 

Assignment 1: Innovation from Google’s Free Food Strategy

Google is widely known for its workplace creativity and innovation within the technology field. Its search engine is the most extensively used search tool in the world, its data analytics are revolutionary, and it continues to raise the bar for innovation and design with Google Glass, smart watches, and mobile phones. Google has been featured in dozens of technology and business magazines.

Additionally, Fortune Magazine’s list of the “Best Companies to Work For 2014” has ranked Google number one (#1). This ranking is largely due to employee benefits such as free meals, dry cleaning services, video games, massage therapy, in-door gyms, shuttle services, and affordable daycare services for employees.

In addition to your textbook, review the following articles and videos about Google’s work culture in preparation for this assignment:

• “How the Googleplex Works” by Jonathan Strickland, located at http://computer.howstuffworks.com/googleplex2.htm
• “Google Employees Reveal Their Favorite Perks Working For The Company” by Kevin Smith, located at http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-favorite-perks-2013-3?op=1
• “At Google, Hours Are Long, But the Consomme Is Free” by Sara Kehaulani Goo, located at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012300334.html
• “Google interns’ first week” (5 min 50 s). Video Source: Google. (2013, June 4). Google interns’ first week [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9No-FiEInLA
• “Google Great Place to Work Entry” (2 min 46 s). Video Source: IABAustralia. (2008, April 30). Google Great Place to Work Entry [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2nfZPsd794

  Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1.       Briefly describe Google, its mission, and its business model.

2.       Analyze the types of people that work at Google, with respect to the business culture of the organization. Indicate one to two (1-2) qualities that define a leader at Google, and determine the typical background of a Google employee.

3.       Identify two (2) examples of services or amenities that Google provides to its employees, interns, partners, and visitors. Next, examine two to three (2-3) ways in which such free services and amenities create an organizational culture that fosters creativity and innovation. Note: In the context of business, “creativity” means having the ability to conceive something new and original, including ideas, imagination, and things that are outside of the box. “Innovation” is the implementation and execution of something new, including products, technology, services, and business models.

4.       Discuss Google’s organizational culture, and determine whether or not you would prefer to work in this type of environment. Indicate whether or not Google’s company culture would help you to perform your tasks with a greater degree of creativity and innovation. Provide a rationale for your response.

5.       Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

   

  The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

   

 

• Describe the primary functions of management (planning, organizing, leading, controlling) and the associated skills, tools, and theoretical approaches that can be used to accomplish these functions.
• Explain the principal theories and the various approaches to management that have evolved over time and their application to current management situations.
• Explain the decision-making process management uses to develop viable courses of action to a variety of management situations.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in management concepts.
• Write clearly and concisely about management concepts using proper writing mechanics

   

Essay Outline

NOTE: This paper integrates material and ideological conditions. Be sure to balance the two in your paper. Avoid the mistake of placing more emphasis on material conditions simply because they involve three authors. It may help to think of the paper as 40% on ideological conditions.

Material Conditions: Polanyi refers to the emergence of market society as “the great transformation”(Polanyi, Kit #16). Discuss what characterizes market society and show why this transformation is so significant. Include a few points about how market society differs from the structures of previous social organizations in order to stress the importance of this development (Heilbroner, Kit #15 and Polanyi, Kit#16). Also, present some of the changes that take place in the workplace (Rinehart, Kit #17).

Ideological Conditions: Describe the worldview of people in market society according to Weber. Discuss this in terms of the connection between the “Protestant work ethic” and the “spirit of capitalism” (Weber summarized by Bendix, Kit #18).Explain the importance of these ideological conditions for the emergence of market society.

Conclude by summarizing why the shift to market society is a fundamental transformation. Include both material and ideological conditions in this conclusion.