Generate recommendations for addressing a complex challenge

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Challenge: Describe your complex challenge and factors that contribute to the complexity of this issue:

Demographics of the individuals/group affected by challenge

Magnitude of the issue in community affected by challenge

Commonly held assumptions or obstacles around this issue

Social conditions that exist specific to this challenge

Cultural or societal issues specific to this challenge

Discipline-specific subject or branch of knowledge

 

Research: You and your mentor have discussed the importance of making your case with evidence-based research, as appropriate to the discipline, that informs your recommendations.

Annotated Bibliography: Select seven resources to analyze that are relevant to your challenge. These primary or secondary sources (conferences, dissertations, patents, journal studies, journal articles, technical reports, articles in scholarly journals, government policies, laws, or legislation) should address the challenge you have selected and inform the recommendations you make:

Identify the source authors and discuss their place in society

Discuss the purpose of the piece and why it was written

Explain the value or ideas behind the content in the source

Address the credibility of the piece (why or why not)

 

Your Methods: Include research that is appropriate to the methods that would be used by the professionals using the particular lenses you choose to address your research question. This may include qualitative data, quantitative data, or both.

Qualitative research that provides context and information on aspects of your challenge and informs your recommendations

Case studies that address issues relevant to your challenge

Comparisons on issues relevant to your challenge

Information on focus groups or interviews that were conducted and tackle questions relevant to your challenge

Quantitative research that is grounded in numerical evidence and informs your recommendations. For example, if your challenge is on quality of water, you would want to have quantitative data from impacted communities, such as scientific data that supports your recommendations.

Survey data

Chi square

Correlation

Time Series

T-Test

ANOVA

 

Recommendations:

Solution: Propose a specific course of action or actions that represent a reasonable solution for your complex challenge, supported by at least five of the most appropriate sources in your annotated bibliography

Applicable methods

Applicable tools or technologies

Necessary resources

Interpretation: Discuss the research and how your interpretation supports your recommendations

What the research says in regard to the challenge you are addressing and recommendations you make

How you see this research as supporting the recommendations you are making

Significance: Discuss the significance and limitations of the research in supporting your recommendations

Geographical global/national/local impacts

Cultural, technological, scientific, etc., aspects

 

Conclusion: Defend the action or course of action you have recommended over the alternatives based on:

Utility of the type of methods or methodologies in addressing previous challenges of this type

Necessary resources, tools/technologies to implement proposed recommendations

Implications of your proposed recommendations

Ethical effects or consequences

Any additional concerns around implementing the specific course of action or actions, if applicable

Public health framework

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Instructions
For this assignment, you will choose one topic and apply a public health framework to it. The topic could be a current policy (e.g. the soda tax), or a crisis (e.g. COVID-19 pandemic, gun violence), or any other relevant current event. You should explain why the topic you’ve chosen is a public health issue and how public health professionals can help address this issue. Please use scientific data to support your framework. Remember that the Philadelphia Public Health Department often provide up to date data regarding public health issues; so feel free to use this information for your assignment (please use the most updated material). This assignment should be 1-2 pages in length. Please use Microsoft word and APA style for this assignment. Please be sure to review APA style writing using the link provided below. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.htm

EXAMINE THE EFFECTS OF CONTEXT ON LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT

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INSTRUCTIONS (Please read the instructions twice and follow all the instructions below in detail and read all the resources before you start the project)
Understanding Lifespan Development

As discussed earlier in this course, development is not something that occurs only in childhood, but is rather an ongoing part of the human experience, from birth to death. Kurse and Schmitt (2001) define lifespan development as a “continuous and active process of coping with developmental tasks, i.e., demands, challenges, and changes that depend on people’s environment and life situation in given phases of the aging process” (p. 4223). It is these environments and life situations that are the unique context of people’s lives.

As discussed last week, people’s social locations and positions in their environments can have lasting effects on their development. How these contexts shape people’s lives change as they age and encounter and become parts of new systems. As people get older, they may also view their context in different ways than they had as a child. For example, you may have a different connection with your religion when you are a child than you do when you are an adult.
As an MFT, you will work with clients throughout the lifespan. This can involve helping clients navigate lifespan transitions, such as getting married or becoming parents. Working with families, you will also need to navigate the interactions of different life stages within a family. For instance, helping a client through raising children while also caring for elderly parents. Having a strong foundation in lifespan development will help you to do this.
Reference
 Kruse, A., & Schmitt, E. (2001). Psychology of education in old age. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences (pp. 4223-4227).
Select one stage of the family life cycle (e.g., emerging young adults, couple formation, families nearing the end of life). Consider how this stage would be similar and different for people with different cultural backgrounds and social locations (e.g., of different races, economic status, religion, sexual orientation). In your paper, you should:
*Identify which family life cycle stage you selected.
*Identify two hypothetical people you will use to compare and contrast. They should differ in at least two social locations (i.e., a heterosexual Black man with a gay Latinx man).
*Discuss how your therapeutic approach might differ for these two clients based on their cultural background and social locations.
*Consider your own personal cultural and diverse contexts, and how they shape your position as a therapist and your attitude during your therapeutic conversations. How might the awareness of your privilege/struggle benefit the therapeutic endeavor when working with clients?
Length: 3 pages
References: Include a minimum of 2 scholarly resources.
The completed assignment should address all of the assignment requirements, exhibit evidence of concept knowledge, and demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the content presented in the course. The writing should integrate scholarly resources, reflect academic expectations and current APA standards.
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RESOURCES
Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives McGoldrick, M., Carter, E. A., & Garcia-Preto, N. (2016). Expanded family life cycle: Individual, family, and social perspectives (5th ed.). Pearson Allyn & Bacon. Read Chapters 2-12.
 On Fathers and Sons and Love DeBose, C. (Director). (2015, January 1). On fathers and sons and love [Video]. SOC Media Films. Watch Video.

Business Aspects of Pharmacy

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Purpose: To develop a business plan for a sustainable new pharmacy service allowing pharmacists to expand their role, fill healthcare gaps and provide high quality comprehensive patient care.

 

Instructions: Suggest couple business plans utilizing the core components described in the article titled “Writing a Business Plan for a New Pharmacy Service” by Randy McDonough. Be sure to include your mission statement in the appropriate section for each business plan suggested.

Suggest 10 business plans (10 ideas only) and write a mission statement for each one.

Example:

  • Business plan Idea:

Mission statement:

 

  • Business plan Idea:

Mission statement:

 

And so on

Journal on Covey’s book

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Journal on Covey’s book

Instructions

 

Habits 1-3 will be collectively graded

 

Habit 1: “Be Proactive: Principles of Personal Choice.” Identify and briefly describe a professional attribute/characteristic that is affecting your school or work environment and/or performance negatively and that you would like to change to a positive attribute.

 Habit 2: “Begin with the End in Mind: Principles of Personal Vision.” After identifying and describing the negative professional attribute you would like to change, identify and describe the positive attribute that it will be replaced with and what it will look like when performed/operationalized.
Habit 3: “Put First Things First: Principles of Integrity & Execution.” Identify the steps you will take to change/replace the negative attribute with the positive attribute. Create a brief timeline for these steps.

Habits 4-7 will be due on 1/31/23 at 8am

Habits 4-6 collectively graded

Habit 4: “Think Win-Win.” Using anonymity, identify a list of obstacles (persons, places, or things) that keep you in your negative behavior pattern in the Journal on Covey’s book. Determine what can be done in your “Circle of Influence” to eliminate obstacles to facilitate your positive behavior/attribute.
Habit 5: “Seek First to Understand and then to be Understood.” Approach the persons, places, or things that are obstacles to your positive attribute. Put yourself in their position/shoes, and describe why these persons, places, or things are obstacles to your growth.
Habit 6: “Synergize.” Once you have explored the point of view and the reason the persons, place, or thing is an obstacle, identify how you might collaborate together to build on the difference.
Habit 7: “Sharpen the Saw.” Prioritize the actions you have identified that must be accomplished to build upon and change the negative trait to a positive trait. Begin with the top priority action, if you have not done so already. How have you been renewed?

PLEASE SEE THE RUBRIC AND PDF ATTACHMENT OF THE BOOK

Please make references and/or paraphrase excerpts from the book and tie it into the personal reflection.
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The Descriptive Outline and Essay about: A Storm

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The Descriptive Outline and Essay:  A Storm

  • Your assignment here is to first submit an outline for this paper (see sample outline). The format of the sample outline must be the same as the model. The content of the outline in the model may however, be similar to the model’s, just as long as you change at least one of the three of the required topic/points
  • See attached document for possible descriptive topics. You may choose to either write about a person, a place, or an object. To assist you in developing your descriptive outline and essay, I have attached worksheets.

Technology Practices for Sustainable Innovation

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Technology Practices for Sustainable Innovation
Instructions
  • Technology Practices for Sustainable Innovation: For this week’s assignment, you will create a video presentation by using the Kaltura CaptureSpace tool located in NCUOne. To access the video capturing tool, follow the tutorial found in your Books and Resources for this Week.
  • For this assignment, you are asked to read the story about Progressive Insurance (Megson & Hammer, 2004) as a foundation for your presentation. Your task is to act like a business reporter covering a story for a business news network. You are expected to provide a summary of the human resource, technology, and process improvement efforts explained by Megson and Hammer, and then, provide a grade of A-F on the company performance. You are expected to give a grade on each of the summary elements and then an overall grade of the company’s performance. Your news story and grading should be no more than 5 minutes. You are expected to submit a transcript of your video. Feel free to be creative with your video as this is your news story to tell. Please keep in mind that while you are not expected to note your sources in your video presentation, you are expected to cite them in your transcript. You should reference at least 4 resources for this assignment using sources from the Library.
  • Length: Your video should be no more than 5 minutes.
  • References: You may reference any of the other resources provided in your reading this week.
  • Your video presentation should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.
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Business Prospectus Work Plan for A Cafe Shop

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Instructions
DEVELOPING A WORK PLAN FOR A CAFE SHOP BASED ON A BUSINESS PROSPECTUS PROPOSAL THAT IS ATTACHED.
  • Please follow  the appropriate document design and content requirements that I attached.
  • Prepare a work plan to guide the writing of your business prospectus. This work plan should be formatted as a memo and include the following sections:
  • A statement of the problem that is planned to solve with the cafe shop and/or the opportunity that the  cafe shop stands to take advantage of, such as a lack of a particular service and/or product.
  • A statement of the purpose for the business prospectus itself
  • A description of the audience for the Business Prospectus Work Plan for A Cafe Shop: Describe the needs, values, and attitudes of the people you envision as the audience for the prospectus. What kinds of logic, reasoning, and evidence will they find convincing? What will the prospectus need to do in order to convince the audience to invest with you?
  • A discussion of the tasks involved in writing the business prospectus. This section should include the following: a summary of the research
  • A detailed schedule of tasks, including start and end dates. Be sure to outline each task.
  • A preliminary outline of the business prospectus.
  • A list of any references you cited in your business prospectus work plan. These citations should be formatted according to the most recent APA guidelines. For examples of APA style reference citation.

The Business Prospectus Work Plan for A Cafe Shop should be 2-3 pages, single-spaced, written in memo format, block style. Be sure to use headings and/or lists to group, organize, and signal content. Do not use underline. Sources should be in APA format.

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Ten Forces that Flatten the World

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Ten Forces that Flatten the World

In his excerpt Ten Forces that Flatten the World, journalist Thomas L. Friedman identifies forces that have contributed to the ever-increasing globalization. He explains the impact to communities, businesses, and the world at a faster and larger scale.

  • | Access the article and watch the embedded videos contained: Flatteners of the World:
    https://flatworldbusiness.wordpress.com/flat-education/previously/flatteners-of-the-world/

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Select at least one of the forces in the article that resonates with you and that you believe has impacted your global view of technology.
  • Give at least two examples with detailed explanations of how you have been affected either positively or negatively or both.

 

 

Towards one Philips

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“Towards one Philips: simplifying the organizational structure”

Imagine that you are a consultant responsible for developing Philips’ “Vision 2025” strategy to present to Frans van Houten (the CEO). Based on the case provided above, write a max. of 2-page essay to explain how you envision Philips’ “Vision 2025” strategy. Some tips:

Make sure to cover the following points briefly:

  • Core competencies and the current strategy of Philips
  • Your reflection on the type of leadership you think would be the best for Philips
  • Your reflection on whether the current organizational structure makes sense
  • Your ideas on how Philips can keep renewing itself under the current economic conditions, especially considering the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Be creative. As in the exam, you can make reasonable assumptions.

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