Competency

Examine the activities and roles of project integration, time, cost, quality, and resource management when managing projects within organizations.

Scenario Information

You are assuming the role of the project manager for a company called SuperPacks to provide a new backpack product with a built-in refrigeration pouch and radio module. Your customer for this project is the U.S. Army, Ground Forces and Special Operations. As the project manager for your team, you will be submitting to your manager a project management report.

Instructions 

You are now in the final phase of being a Project Manager for SuperPacks and need to create a closeout plan on how to terminate or closeout the project. Management has asked you to consider the following checklist below for your closeout plan in a presentation to your team. Your presentation can be created using PowerPoint, Prezi, or any presentation tool. You have been asked to address the following questions in your presentation as you will be giving it to the management team:

1. Create a closeout checklist for your project. What are the key components that you should include?
2. Discuss how you would successfully close out this project, such as verifying project scope, contracts, administration, etc.
3. In your closeout plan, identify the type of termination/closeout process you will use, and explain why that process is appropriate.
4. Consider the control process you plan to use for managing this project to ensure quality is met.

 

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1. Explain the significance of the Enterprise Valuation measure?  Do you think it is useful?  Why or why not?

2.  Using the Enterprise Valuation model (provided by the Instructor) determine the EV of the company that you selected for the Company Analysis Project?

3. How does the EV of the company you selected for the Company Analysis Project compare to the competitors that you included in the analysis?

4. What distributions has the company that you selected for the Company Analysis Project made during most recent three years?  How do those distributions compare to competitors?  Should the amounts be increased or decreased and why?

1. Develop and explain a recommended corporate strategy for the selected company. What competitive strengths does this strategy exploit? How is the strategy different from the current strategy? What are the risks associated with the new strategy and its chances for successful implementation?  If the current strategy is considered to be the best alternative, carefully and thoroughly discuss and explain why? 

• For the selected company, develop and explain a recommended financing strategy. How much additional financing is needed? What should be the sources(s) of that new financing and why?  Estimate the costs of the new financing?  If the current financing strategy is considered to be the best alternative, carefully and thoroughly discuss and explain why?

 

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Discussion 1: Leadership Theories in Practice

A walk through the Business section of any bookstore or a quick Internet search on the topic will reveal a seemingly endless supply of writings on leadership. Formal research literature is also teeming with volumes on the subject.

However, your own observation and experiences may suggest these theories are not always so easily found in practice. Not that the potential isn’t there; current evidence suggests that leadership factors such as emotional intelligence and transformational leadership behaviors, for example, can be highly effective for leading nurses and organizations.

Yet, how well are these theories put to practice? In this Discussion, you will examine formal leadership theories. You will compare these theories to behaviors you have observed firsthand and discuss their effectiveness in impacting your organization.

To Prepare:

· Review the Resources and examine the leadership theories and behaviors introduced.

· Identify two to three scholarly resources, in addition to this Module’s readings, that evaluate the impact of leadership behaviors in creating healthy work environments.

· Reflect on the leadership behaviors presented in the three resources that you selected for review.

Post two key insights you had from the scholarly resources you selected. Describe a leader whom you have seen use such behaviors and skills, or a situation where you have seen these behaviors and skills used in practice. Be specific and provide examples. Then, explain to what extent these skills were effective and how their practice impacted the workplace.

Discussion 2: Your Leadership Profile

Do you believe you have the traits to be an effective leader? Perhaps you are already in a supervisory role, but as has been discussed previously, appointment does not guarantee leadership skills.

How can you evaluate your own leadership skills and behaviors? You can start by analyzing your performance in specific areas of leadership. In this Discussion, you will complete Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment. This assessment will identify your personal strengths, which have been shown to improve motivation, engagement, and academic self-conference. Through this assessment, you will discover your top five themes—which you can reflect upon and use to leverage your talents for optimal success and examine how the results relate to your leadership traits.

To Prepare:

To take the Assessment, visit http://walden.gallup.com. Using the Guidance Document Resource(s) for the Strengths Finder assessment, follow the instructions for setting up an account. If the link does not work, please copy and paste the link into your web browser.

Please Note: This Assessment will take roughly 30 minutes to complete.

· Once you have completed your assessment, you will receive your “Top 5 Signature Themes of Talent” on your screen.

· Click the Download button below Signature Theme Report, and then print and save the report. We also encourage you to select the Apply tab to review action items.

NOTE: Please keep your report. You will need your results for future courses. 

· Reflect on the results of your Assessment, and consider how the results relate to your leadership traits.

Post a brief description of your results from the StrengthsFinder assessment. Then, briefly describe two core values, two strengths, and two characteristics that you would like to strengthen based on the results of your StrengthsFinder assessment. Be specific.

Assignment: Personal Leadership Philosophies

Many of us can think of leaders we have come to admire, be they historical figures, pillars of the industry we work in, or leaders we know personally. The leadership of individuals such as Abraham Lincoln and Margaret Thatcher has been studied and discussed repeatedly. However, you may have interacted with leaders you feel demonstrated equally competent leadership without ever having a book written about their approaches.

What makes great leaders great? Every leader is different, of course, but one area of commonality is the leadership philosophy that great leaders develop and practice. A leadership philosophy is basically an attitude held by leaders that acts as a guiding principle for their behavior. While formal theories on leadership continue to evolve over time, great leaders seem to adhere to an overarching philosophy that steers their actions.

What is your leadership philosophy? In this Assignment, you will explore what guides your own leadership.

To Prepare:

• Identify two to three scholarly      resources, in addition to this Module’s readings, that evaluate the impact      of leadership behaviors in creating healthy work environments.
• Reflect on the leadership      behaviors presented in the three resources that you selected for review.
• Reflect on your results of the      CliftonStrengths Assessment, and consider how the results relate to your      leadership traits.

The Assignment (2-3 pages):

Personal Leadership Philosophies

Develop and submit a personal leadership philosophy that reflects what you think are characteristics of a good leader. Use the scholarly resources on leadership you selected to support your philosophy statement. Your personal leadership philosophy should include the following:

• A description of your core      values
• A personal mission/vision      statement
• An analysis of your      CliftonStrengths Assessment summarizing the results of your profile
• A description of two key      behaviors that you wish to strengthen
• A development plan that      explains how you plan to improve upon the two key behaviors you selected      and an explanation of how you plan to achieve your personal vision. Be      specific and provide examples.
• Be sure to incorporate your      colleagues’ feedback on your CliftonStrengths Assessment from this      Module’s Discussion 2.

Use below resource for reference

arshall, E., & Broome, M. (2017). Transformational leadership in nursing: From expert clinician to influential leader (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

• Chapter 1, “Expert Clinician      to Transformational Leader in a Complex Health Care Organization:      Foundations” (pp. 7–20 ONLY)
• Chapter 6, “Frameworks for      Becoming a Transformational Leader” (pp. 145–170)
• Chapter 7, “Becoming a Leader: It’s All About      You” (pp. 171–194)

Duggan, K., Aisaka, K., Tabak, R. G., Smith, C., Erwin, P., & Brownson, R. C. (2015). Implementing administrative evidence-based practices: Lessons from the field in six local health departments across the United States. BMC Health Services Research, 15(1). doi:10.1186/s12913-015-0891-3. Retrieved from https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-015-0891-3

Resources for the StrengthsFinder Assessment Tool

Strengths Finder: Gallup. (2018). Retrieved from https://walden.gallup.com

 

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Unit 3 DB: Describing what needs to be done and finding people to do it in our organizations. (HRM)

Are job descriptions a worthwhile tool for organizations these days or are they too limited?  Have jobs become harder to define as they’ve become more multi-focused?  How do we find the right fit between what the requirements of the work truly are and what the candidates say about themselves?   How can the very definition of the job help us find the right people?

In this week’s discussion question, state your observations about how we can arrive at a good, workable job description and how we can use that to attract and find the right candidates.  Should a job description be very specific or should it be more open-ended so that we don’t miss some good candidates?  Find sources that support your views.

In your experience with on-line job sites, what good things have you seen that make it easier for a potential candidate to use?  What difficulties have you seen in using these sites to look for a job?   What piece of advice might you give to a company person who wants to post a job on-line to find people?

Unit 3 Forum: Crimes (LAW)

1. Do you agree or disagree with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Berghuis v. Thompkins case (textbook, pages 173 – 175)?
2. Is the majority or the dissenting opinion more convincing?  Please explain.

 

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Within nursing, the patient’s perception is recognized as the   patient’s reality. How does this way of knowing in nursing fit within an objective or subjective paradigm of the world? Explain your reasoning. 

 

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