Describe a crisis situation in which you, or someone you observed, provided effective leadership.

Use course materials, e.g. readings/mini-lectures to support your comments.  Describe a crisis situation in which you, or someone you observed, provided effective leadership.  Briefly describe the situation, the leader, and how  leadership solved or improved the crisis situation.  The essay should be at least 5 pages in length, typed double spaced. APA Format Times New Roman 12 point Font

Resources to use

VideoLink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEZD5Ou7TeI

 

Discuss the five phases of project management.

Unit I Project

Instructions
In Unit I, you learned about the relationship between project management and accomplishing organizational strategic objectives. One way for the company to showcase this relationship is by creating a strategy map. A strategy map is a visual representation that showcases the company’s strategy on a single page. It is also used to communicate how the project aligns to the big-picture strategic objectives of the company.
Throughout this course, you will be basing your assignments on a hypothetical project for a local nonprofit animal rescue, Lucky Me Animal Rescue. The animal rescue organization has asked you to be the project manager for their annual outdoor adoption event.
For this assignment you will start with an introduction and then address the prompts listed below.
Discuss the five phases of project management.
Explain what tasks or processes would be completed in each phase. Include identification of those responsible for task or process completion.
Correlate the phases, tasks, and processes to the four elements you laid out in the strategy map.

Then, you will establish a strategy map for your project. The strategy map must include the following elements listed below.
Business need: Explain what is prompting this project and the need for action. Summarize why this is considered a project and not a task.
Analysis of the situation: Identify the organization’s strategies, goals, and objectives.
Recommendations: Explain why the project should be undertaken and how it will meet organizational goals.
Evaluation: Describe the plan for measuring the benefits the project will deliver.
Your strategy map must encompass one full page—no more and no less. The essay portion of this project must be a minimum of two pages in length. You must use at least three sources to support your essay portion of this project, one of which may be our textbook. All other sources must be peer-reviewed or academic in nature.
Your strategy map should be appended as an appendix to the written document and submitted in the assignment area of the Blackboard as one document. Appendices, other supporting materials etc. are added after your reference list. Appendices are labelled, for example, Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C, etc. Each appendix starts on a page of its own. Appendices and other supporting materials should not be submitted separately in the Blackboard.
Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including the title page and in-text citations and references for all sources that are used.
This  Sample Formal Essay provided by the CSU Writing Center shows the type of formatting that is expected for this assignment.

 

 

Calculate the average return and standard deviations.

For the project please do the following:
Please watch the following video if you haven’t already and review folder in SAKAI Project625_DueDec16th.

The video should help you with getting started on the project.In summary,

A. Choose your stocks that you would like to use. DO NOTE USE any of the securities that I went over in the video namely Amazon and Walmart. I would prefer you use stocks across sectors.
B. Download data (MAKE SURE your have CONSISTENT DATES FOR ALL)
READ INSTRUCTIONS IN PROJECT attached for frequency (daily) and span.
C. When you download the data, you will come up with a files in CSV format. SAVE the sheet as an EXCEL file default is csv.
D. DELETE ALL columns except for “Adj Close” column and LABEL it.
E. DO the same for ALL your stocks and and for SP 500 (MAKE SURE your have CONSISTENT DATES FOR ALL) SP 500 DATA can also be downloaded FROM FRED https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SP500
F. Calculate the average return and standard deviations. OPTIONAL (I will not cut off point if you do not annualize): Although you are not required to, I would prefer if you “annualize” them. To “annualize” Daily returns, either simply multiply your daily returns by 250 or use the formula: Annual return equal [(Daily return+1)^250]-1 since we are assuming 250 trading days in a year. Our assumption again is there are approximately 250 trading days in a year.
https://www.fool.com/knowledge-center/how-to-convert-daily-returns-to-annual-returns.aspx
To convert daily standard deviation into your YEARLY, multiply daily standard deviation by the square root of 250
“Therefore, if the daily standard deviation is 1.1%, and if there are 250 trading days in a year, the annualized standard deviation is the daily standard deviation of 1.1% multiplied by the square root of 250 i.e. (1.1% x 15.8 = 18.1%)”
https://www.fool.com/knowledge-center/how-to-calculate-annualized-volatility.aspx
Again this is optional and if it gets confusing skip “annualizing”
2. Draw the graphs and the cross correlation matrix as I have illustrated in the video
3. Using the returns that you calculated above, calculate the portfolio rate of return using the weights that you wish or create an equal weighted portfolio (25% each).
Remember the formula is W1*R1+W2*R2+W3*R3…+Wn*Rn
4. Break the dataset are the instruction in the project and c ompare the returns of the individual securities and the portfolio during the entire period, pre COVID-19 and during COVID 19 periods.

5. Please review the hand out which shows you how to calculate the Betas (attached). Use the portfolio beta formula to calculate the date of the portfolios.
W1*Beta1+W2* Beta 2+W3* Beta 3…+Wn* Beta n

 

Give an example and describe a time when you have used research in your practice or describe a time you should have used research to inform your practice.

Write a 300- to 500-word initial post, organized into multiple paragraphs, in which you:
Give an example and describe a time when you have used research in your practice or describe a time you should have used research to inform your practice.
Explain how research drove your practice in your example. Consider: How did it help you reach a decision? How did research inform any suggestions you offered to the service users or your peers? How did research influence how you handled the situation?
Explain your experience with library research and how you foresee using it in your research process.

I was a social work therapy intern for two years at an LGBTQ+ community center.

What are the key issues that are relevant to the health issue?

Unit 6Policy Brief Presentation

 

Instructions
Use your previous assignments to identify a policy related to your chosen health issue and create a Prezi or PowerPoint presentation that focuses on the development, needed change, or implementation related to your health issue. Policy briefs are overviews of issues that are intended to inform policymakers.  The presentation should be succinct, colorful, and designed to catch the attention of a busy policymaker. See the attached document below for more information.
The presentation should have the following structure:
Executive Summary
An overview of the problem, why change is needed, and your recommendations for change
Introduction
A clear statement of the problem, its causes, and why it is important
What are the key issues that are relevant to the health issue?
Approaches/policy options
Summarize facts, issues, contexts.  Provide facts or examples that support the need for policy to change/impact/solve the issue.
Recommendations
Provide recommendations on development, implementation or changes that need to be considered to solve the health issue. Provide specific steps and reemphasize the importance of this change.
References
Each content component will have one or two slides.
Include a title and references slide
Use bullet points rather than paragraph form. The target audience is a policymaker, not a medical professional, so keep scientific jargon to a minimum.
Upload to your completed assignment to the ePortfolio from Unit 1 by Sunday night at midnight CT, for course objective #1. Failure to submit to your ePortfolio by the due date will result in a zero for this assignment.

explain why these disruptions happen, and how.

Supply Chain Disruptions and Myopia

We have seen a number of supply chain disruptions during Covid. The two articles attached to this discussion help to explain why these disruptions happen, and how. Some of the reasons may surprise you. For example, some book publishers have had to delay books because the supply of paper pulp is being used up for packaging by firms like Amazon. Please read the two articles attached here and discuss their implications for the aviation industry.

 

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Americans Have No Idea What the Supply Chain Really Is

Behind shipping delays and soaring prices are workers still at mortal risk of COVID-19.

By  Amanda MullLinks to an external site.

A line of plastic bags with "sold out" printed on them

Matt Chase