Category: Business and Management

Cross-Cultural effects on small groups: Choose one country other than the United States or Canada and research the preferred communication style. (The Hofstede cultural dimensions will be a very good start to this.) Discuss how you should allow for the differences in communication styles in a small group meeting between business professionals in the United States and business professionals from the country that you have researched. Be sure to cover communication styles and not just give surface-level differences such as how business cards are handled.
Use link below for sources and references
https://www.davenport.edu/library#node-15163

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The assignment has to be 2000 words with Harvard referencing.

See detailed instructions attached and case study attached to build paper around, must include 2 citations from list below and 1 additional in text citation that is not provided from the list below.
Resources for citations (include at least 2 from the list below ans include one reference that is not in the list below please):
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/umuc/tus/ifsm/ifsm300/2245/learning-resourcelist/introduction-to-informationsystemsinorganizations.html?wcmmode=disabled&ou=1284596
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/umuc/tus/ifsm/ifsm300/2245/learning-resourcelist/what-is-an-informationsystem.html?wcmmode=disabled&ou=1284596
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/umuc/tus/ifsm/ifsm300/2245/learning-resourcelist/business-strategy.html?wcmmode=disabled&ou=1284596
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/umuc/tus/ifsm/ifsm300/2245/learning-resourcelist/does-it-matter-.html?wcmmode=disabled&ou=1284596
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/umuc/tus/ifsm/ifsm300/2245/learning-resourcelist/how-organizationsuseinformationsystemsstrategically.html?wcmmode=disabled&ou=1284596

For your content assessment, you will write a reflective journal about your experiences in negotiation. You will write a similar journal for reflection after each negotiation exercise. To complete this Journal, first you should watch the recorded negotiation that you took part in. In watching the recorded negotiation, you should review the playback noting your own personal conduct. Once you’ve reviewed the playback, your task is to assess your personal strengths and weaknesses as a negotiator as they develop through practice, and look for areas of improvement.
In completing this task, please answer the following questions:
In this negotiation, what were your strengths? How did you go about identifying these strengths? Be very specific.
In this negotiation, what were your weaknesses? How did you go about identifying these weaknesses? How will you work to eliminate them in your next negotiation? Be very specific.
What were the most important takeaways from this negotiation for you? Why were these takeaways among the most important?
What lessons from lectures, readings, and/or class discussions had their biggest impact on you in this negotiation? Why?
In what ways (if any) has this negotiation experience changed the way that you think about negotiation? In what ways (if any) has this negotiation experience changed the way that you think about yourself as a negotiator?
Your journal should be a minimum of two double-spaced pages, well written and organized. This is not a paper, this is a journal, which means research and citation are not required.
Link to recorded negation will be given in chat

This week you will complete your strategic marketing plan for your selected business by identifying customer segments, developing an implementation plan, evaluating communication channels, and determining metrics. You will submit all 3 parts of your strategic marketing plan you have worked on in this course in 1 document.
Access the Strategic Marketing Plan Template that you submitted in Week 4 that contains your completed information for Parts A and B.  
Review your faculty member’s feedback on your Wk 4 – Apply: Summative Assessment: Part B: Strategic Marketing Plan assignment and incorporate feedback into your plan.
Complete Wk 6 – Part C: Market Strategy, Marketing Channels, Implementation, and Monitoring of the Strategic Marketing Plan in the same document that contains your completed Parts A and B.

Scenario
The organization you work for as a director of leadership and learning is looking to create an adaptive leadership toolkit to help improve employee leadership skills and behaviors over the next two years. To begin this work, you conducted a personal leadership self-assessment to take a leadership inventory of yourself. Now that you know areas that you can improve upon as a leader, you decided to create a personal development plan that will identify actionable steps toward improving these areas you’ve identified. Your intensions are to incorporate your personal development plan into the adaptive leadership toolkit to serve as an exemplar that can be used by all people leaders in the organization.
Prompt
Using the provided template, address the following:
Leadership behavior: Based on the results of your personal leadership self-assessment, describe the leadership behavior you scored lowest in and explain how developing this could have a positive impact on your ability to lead.
SMART Goal: Apply SMART goal setting to create a personal development plan that aligns with the leadership behavior you’re looking to improve. Keep in mind that your personal development plan will be used as an exemplar for the adaptive leadership toolkit in Milestone Two. Your SMART goal should address the following:
“S” Specific: Your goal must be specific.
i) State your personal development goal.
ii) Describe the reason for this goal.
iii) Describe the objective(s) needed to ensure this goal it met.
“M” Measurable: Your goal must be measurable.
i) Describe the metric(s) that will be used to determine if you meet this goal.
ii) Describe the metric(s) that will be used to measure performance of meeting objective(s) along the way.
“A” Achievable: Your goal must be achievable.
i) Describe the tools and skills you will need to achieve this goal.
ii) Describe who needs to be involved to allow you to be successful in achieving this goal.
“R” Relevant: Your goal must be relevant.
i) Explain how this goal can be linked to an overall business objective.
ii) Explain how this goal will increase your knowledge and improve your overall performance as a leader.
“T” Time-Bound: Your goal must be time bound.
i) Provide an overall timeline for the completion of this goal.
ii) Provide tangible deliverable(s) with due dates that support the objective(s) you indicated above.
What to Submit
Complete the provided Module Six Assignment Personal Development Plan Template. If references are included in this assignment, cite them in APA format.

One of our goals for this Masterclass was to provide you with an environment where you could share and explore ideas around the implementation of the circular economy with your SLB colleagues. We also wanted you to be able to develop effective strategies to deal with problems and challenges that you might encounter along the way, as you try to support the organisation’s journey or transition to the circular economy.
In week 1 we asked you to take a helicopter view of where SLB is presently in the shift from linear to circular. In week 2 we asked you to exercises your systems thinking abilities and co-develop a value map with your colleagues to identify opportunities around circular value creation and leakage. In week 3 we asked you to consider with your team catalytic questions, potential opportunities and key priorities for action to move forward in this area. In week 5 we then asked teams to present the results of their discussions and ideas on how to advance CE in different areas of the company. Finally, last week we asked you to produce a short presentation video or text/presentation submission, summarising your key learnings and takeaways from the course.
This week, after all these steps and learning journey, you are now in a position to start developing your personal Action Plan.
Submit
Final Challenge: Action Plan
140 points
Challenge brief
Your Action Plan is a statement of how you will move forward in order to deliver a potential circular economy solution or solutions to SLB.
It is not an Action Plan to solve all the problems/challenges that your organisation faces in transitioning towards circular economy and bridging the implementation gap. It is an Action Plan to solve only one.
It will also draw on your learning over the past 6 weeks, linking in with your:
other challenge submissions and any feedback you received
participation in the various discussions
engagement with the different content – Readers, Case studies, Videos, Webinars
You can either base your Action Plan on the idea(s) that you have been discussing with your Team colleagues, or you can propose a whole new idea, inspired by your learning, and linked to your specific role in the company. Perhaps you can also pick up on one particular element covered in your group discussions and team outputs, and develop that one further, exploring how you could be well positioned in your role to help develop that idea.
Instructions
Your Action Plan should cover the following, as a minimum:
Scope:
What is the problem that your project would be aiming to solve? Include a clear and unambiguous statement of the nature of the problem/challenge.
Timeline:
What would you believe would be a reasonable duration of the project implementation until its launch? Do you have a clearly defined timeline with milestones/dependencies for the stages the project should follow?
Impact on Circularity Metrics:
Were the circularity principles assessed? What would be the business impact in terms of metrics like: % of renewable material; % reuse; % repair; Waste by % .
The metrics above are examples of circularity metrics currently being considered by the company. If these are not applicable to your project idea, what would be good alternate impact metrics for your proposal?
What do you need to succeed?
What are the resources needed to make the project successful?
This should also include a stakeholder mapping, identifying the types of organisational roles that need to be involved (not need for specific names).
Beyond the points above, other suggestions of questions that you could also explore include:
what questions you have asked in order to come up with a potential solution or solutions?
What have you tried so far?
What are your next steps?
What learning can you draw on from the past 6 weeks?
What further knowledge and learning do you require to solve this problem?
Could your Action Plan also solve other problems/challenges that you or the company faces in helping SLB move towards circularity? Are these potential synergies that could be explored with other parts of the company?
Or any other questions… At the end-of-the-day, your Action Plan is your own idea and proposal. It can be as bold or incremental as you wish. It should reflect where you are currently in your role within SLB, what you believe the organisation can realistically achieve and, if that is the case, how you think you could help implement it.
SLB initiated in 2023 a Circularity Incubator Challenge for staff, with participants from previous cohorts in this course being invited to submit ideas for Circularity projects for the company. This involves a shortlisting process to select a number of pilot projects that the company can then support. The company aims to run further editions of the Incubator Challenge, and participants in the current cohort and course will be invited to submit their project ideas to those future Challenges.
Your Action Plan developed for this course can act as the foundation for a future project idea you might want to submit to the company’s Incubator Challenge. The minimum requirements listed above for the Action Plan are similar to the ones used in the Challenge. This should allow you to use this exercise as a formative activity, that you can then continue to explore and develop for a potential future internal submission.
Your Action Plan submission can be in any form you choose – a short written report, slide pack, video, or any combination of these, but don’t over-complicate it!

Part 1: You are an assistant manager with (chose from the fields below) and although your firm has a good community image in the area, you believe they should increase their social-responsibility portfolio by partnering with a nonprofit organization (use the list below as a thought springboard).
Employment Choices
So that your report and presentation will be meaningful, select an employment area of interest to you. Such as:
• Criminal Justice–This area can be open to any area of criminal justice whether prison system (adult or juvenile), child advocate office, etc.
• Legal Office
• Court system
• Business–This area can be open to any area of business: accounting, management, marketing, etc.
• Medical
Nonprofit Organization suggestions — Use the suggestions below as a springboard for your nonprofit organization. I would suggest that you research the existing nonprofits in your area as you make your selection.
• Youth Villages
• Metropolitan Drug Coalition
• Helen Ross McNabb Center
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving
• Family Justice Center
• Community Legal Center
• United Cancer Support Foundation
• American Heart Association
• Susan G. Komen Foundation
The paper should address the following:
1. Company’s need to establish goodwill through partnering with a nonprofit organization – Discussion should include the benefits or merits that being socially responsible will have on your company’s image. Make sure that you have adequate research to support the information you present. Remember that without textual, published support, your discussion will only be an opinion.
2. Name and factual information about the nonprofit organization you have chosen. In order for the persuasion element to be more impactful, the goals of your company and the nonprofit should align. For instance, if you have chosen to work for a medical facility, then a nonprofit that has the goal of improving health would be a good selection.
3. What role do you recommend that your company take in support of the nonprofit organization? For example, will your company only support the organization financially; will your company assist with planning and participating in fundraisers; will you attend or host planning meetings, etc?

For this assignment, you will focus on Stakeholder Lessons Learned.  Note that the Lessons Learned process is a signficant part of every project and should always be held, and the results documented.
This assignment is a two-part submission to have you look at the Lessons Learned process, how important stakeholders are in this process, and to identify the value produced.  Please review the Week 5 slides about Lessons Learned.  We will review/discuss them further during our Week 5 meeting.  Note the use in the slides of the terms “Plus” (something we did well and want to continue) and “Delta” (something that didn’t go so well and we’d like to change/improve)
Part 1:
Review this article Download this articleand select one of the projects (not the DIA, which you’ve obviously already worked on) to be the focus for this assignment.  Note that the article identifies all of these projects as failures, so there should be a signficant amount of Lessons Learned that can be obtained from whichever project you select
Analyze the case and any additional supporting documentation you can find. Based on your analysis, assume you’re running a Lessons Learned session at the end of the project, and provide the following:
An Overview section regarding the case you’ve selected
Identify at least two (2) stakeholder-related issues with this project that would be discussed during the lessons learned session. For each of the issues that you identify, answer the following:
What was the primary issue with the Stakeholders that apparently caused this issue? Be specific when identifying the Stakeholder or the Stakeholder Group.
Was there a specific conflict issue that caused it? How did this conflict negatively impact the project?
What could have been done by the PM/sponsor to resolve this conflict?
Specific to each issue, what is your recommendation for future projects, so this type of issue doesn’t occur going forward (a Delta)?
We tend to focus on the negatives during lessons learned sessions. Based on your analysis of this project, what is one POSITIVE lesson learned (a Plus) from this project that you would recommend continuing to do going forward?
Part 2:
Specific to the DIA case that we’ve used in this course:
Select one (1) Stakeholder GROUP (not an individual) that you identified as part of your identification and analysis processes and indicate why you’ve selected them:
How will you implement lessons learned sessions for this group? For example, when will you hold the session(s)? How many sessions will you hold? Who will be invited?  What do you see as the primary areas to focus on? Do you anticipate any conflict as part of the session? Feel free to include anything else you expect to occur in the planning or execution of this Lessons Learned session.
Since many of the DIA stakeholders will be included in future projects targeted at improvements, expansion, etc. at DIA, explain how you will use the outcomes from your Lessons Learned session to help improve future DIA projects using your selected Stakeholder group in particular.
I would recommend the following format for this assignment:
Part 1
Project Overview
Stakeholder Issues to be Discussed at Lessons Learned
LL #1
Primary Issue
Conflict?
Recommendation
LL #2
Primary Issue
Conflict?
Recommendation
Positive (Plus) LL from this project
Part 2 – Specific to the DIA case that was used throughout this course:
Stakeholder GROUP you’ve selected and why
How will you implement lessons learned sessions for this group?
How will you use the Lessons Learned results for future projects?

How do you know which economic, political, and legal system is more effective? How would you compare the development of the two countries? 
• How would you measure the economic success of a nation?
• Why is GDP/capita not a sufficient measure of the success of a nation?
• Other than economic indicators, what are other ways to measure how developed a nation is?