Write a reflection (250-500 words) on how you manage your time

Introduction to Graduate Studies in the Ken Blanchard College of Business – Being a Graduate Student at GCU

Grand Canyon University  

This assignment will help you develop an important skill for college and everyday life – time management. For this assignment, you will keep an informal time log in which you note all your activities for 3 days, from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Then, you will review your activities to identify times when you were not productive. You should use this information for planning ways to make better use your time.

Part 1: Monitor Your Time in Hourly Increments

1. Use “Time Monitoring Worksheet” to write down what you did each hour of the day, starting at 5 a.m. and ending at 10 p.m. Even if you do not get up until 10 a.m., you still need to record 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. as “sleep.”
2. Do not overdo the recording; record the primary activity for the hour. At most, record two activities per hour.

Part 2: Reflection

On day four, review your completed “Time Monitoring Worksheet” in order to take a serious look at how you use your time each day.

Write a reflection (250-500 words) on how you manage your time. Include the following in your reflection:

1. What are some things you can do more efficiently?
2. What are the main items/tasks that take up most of your time?
3. Do you see areas in your daily routine where you can make adjustments to become more productive?
4. Do you have any “black holes” that unnecessarily suck up a lot of your time?

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

Using Student Data for Instructional Improvement

Using Student Data for Instructional Improvement

Following your last lesson, you discover only 60% of your students met the learning outcome. Not only did they demonstrate a lack of understanding through non-written, observable formative assessments, but the data from their assignment as scored through use of a rubric revealed the majority of the class did not meet the objective.
Using one of the two instructional plans you previously created, determine the following:

1. How you will identify particular areas of need/misunderstanding (what will you look for? See Chapter 6 from Ward, Fischer, Frey, & Lapp).
2. How you will address and re-teach with differentiation, so students meet the learning objective?
3. How you will employ students in the process of self-reflection and identifying areas of misunderstanding?
4. How you will reassess for the learning objective?
5. How will these instructional adjustments better prepare them for the impending summative assessment? 

The philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke disagreed on the understanding of political authority, with Locke taking what is commonly called the “liberal” view.

•The philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke disagreed on the understanding of political authority, with Locke taking what is commonly called the “liberal” view. Choose a side (be brave perhaps; take a side you actually disagree with). Using the writings of each given in our class text or at the Websites below, make your case for the side you chose and against the other side. Identify one (1) modern situation in the world where these issues are significant.

Philosophers Debate Politics

•Chapter 24 (pp. 768-9)

•Hobbes: text at http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-contents.html;

Summary at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/; also http://jim.com/hobbes.htm

•Locke: text at http://www.thenagain.info/Classes/Sources/Locke-2ndTreatise.html; General

background of the concept at http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/lesson_plans/pdfs/unit1_12.pdf

Examine and access the components of electronic eavesdropping, including social engineering and explain an electronic eavesdropping cases.

Examine and access the components of electronic eavesdropping, including social engineering and explain an electronic eavesdropping cases. What are the vulnerabilities of electronic eavesdropping?  

The post needs to be at least 400 words in APA format. Please use the link below for resources/sources and refer to Week 3.

https://myclassroom.apus.edu/d2l/le/enhancedSequenceViewer/33136?url=https%3A%2F%2Ff54cbe36-23a9-4505-85fe-e251f80ec34d.sequences.api.brightspace.com%2F33136%2Factivity%2F3361933%3FfilterOnDatesAndDepth%3D1

Assignment: Budget Planning and Control

Assignment: Budget Planning and Control

Due Week 9 and worth 200 points

Before approaching this assignment, be sure that you have watched the following video.

Babycakes, a specialty bakery, is the company that will be considered for all parts of your budget planning and control report. For this assignment, you will develop a three to four (3 – 4) page paper in which you address the following.

1. Briefly discuss the ways a realistic budget will benefit the owner of Babycakes versus having no budget at all. Be sure to use Babycakes as the company and any specific product details in your explanation.
2. Prepare a sales budget for the LA Babycakes store for the 4th quarter of 2016. Present the number of units, sales price, and total sales for each month; include October, November, and December, and a total for the quarter.Use one-half of the Valentine’s Day sales as the basis for a usual day in the new quarter. Use 30 days for each month. Calculate the total sales for each month for October, November, and December.
3. Create three (3) new products, one (1) for each of the three (3) holiday seasons in the 4th quarter. Estimate the sales units, sales price, and total sales for each month. Describe the assumptions used to make these estimates. Include an overview of the budget in the report, presenting the actual budget as an appendix with all data and calculations. Add these amounts to your sales budget.
4. The owner of Babycakes is interested in preparing a flexible budget rather than the static budget she currently uses. She does not understand why, when sales increase, her static budget often shows an unfavorable variance. Explain how a flexible budget will overcome this problem. Use the details of your newly prepared budget for the 4th quarter of 2016 to address her concern.
5. Imagine that Babycakes is facing a financial challenge that is causing the actual amount of money that it spends to become significantly more than its budgeted amount. Include a discussion of your own unique cause of the overspending. Explain the corrective actions needed to address these challenges.
6. Integrate relevant information from at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment.  Note: Please do not use your textbook as an academic resource. Also, Wikipedia and other Websites that are unreliable 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; 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 page length.
• An abstract is not required.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Evaluate management control systems and examine their relationship with accounting and planning, including feedback and non-financial performance measurements.
• Evaluate decision-making tools for capital investments, budgeting, and budgeting controls.
• Analyze financial accounting tools and techniques that convert financial accounting data into information for decision making.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial accounting for managers.
• Write clearly and concisely about financial accounting using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on the quality of your responses, logic and organization of the paper, and language and writing skills. Please review the Rubric for the Assignment: Budget Planning and Control.

Based on your assigned readings and videos, share how this course might impact your leadership style and skills to improve employee engagement, retention, and ultimately operational excellence.

Critical elements to achieving Operational Excellence are employee engagement and high performing teaming. Leaders play a large role in creating workplace environments reflecting an organization’s mission, vision, and values. Some may consider The Great Resignation as confirmation of leadership failure.

Based on your assigned readings and videos, share how this course might impact your leadership style and skills to improve employee engagement, retention, and ultimately operational excellence.

300 words

why is our national culture so much more likely to ignore domestic violence against men than against women?

According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ncadv.org), one out of every nine men in a relationship in the United States is a victim of domestic violence. So often in our culture, we forget that men can be victims of this form of aggression. As with male victims of rape and other sexual violence, men are much less likely to report the crimes.

First Response Post: Regardless of your personal background, heritage culture or ethnicity, you are all members of our shared American culture and your voice and perspective is as relevant as anyone else’s in this regard. Answer the following question: 

Taking a larger national perspective (rather than a personal heritage or ethnic cultural perspective), why is our national culture so much more likely to ignore domestic violence against men than against women?  When women are the perpetrators, why are we so much more likely to excuse the crime? 

Assessment 4: staff training session

Develop a a 10-15 slide audiovisual presentation to introduce staff personnel to the new or upgraded Telehealth technology that was the focus of ASSESSMENT 1,2, and 3. 

**This assignment requires a audiovisual presentation, therefore, powerpoint must have speaker notes so that I can complete the required recording.

Define the contrast principle, its value in the negotiation setting, and how it can contribute to a win-win outcome.

address all of the following critical elements:

1. Define the contrast principle, its value in the negotiation setting, and how it can contribute to a win-win outcome.

2. Using the contrast principle, outline two potential negotiating tactics that you would recommend Sharon Slade use in the negotiation meeting with Alice Jones. The gambits should help reach an integrative (win-win) outcome. Include examples to illustrate each gambit.

Explore some of the changes in U.S. families and reflect on the evolution of the American family as portrayed in television

This assignment provides you the opportunity to explore some of the changes in U.S. families and reflect on the evolution of the American family as portrayed in television.

Families have been with us for a very long time. It is probably true that the family is changing faster than any other social institution (Bianchi and Spain, 1996). U.S. families are changing in response to a higher divorce rate, a fast growing blended family structure, and the desire for women to have more career options and to provide better lives for their children.
Television is a  powerful medium that has continually reinvented images of the American family over the past sixty years. Arguably, television has created an idealized image of the American family and not always a realistic depiction of what the typical family structure looks like. Obviously, media is a powerful agent of socialization that often dictates what we ‘think we should be doing.’ However, as times have changed, so have the images of family on television. This assignment will explore some of those changes and ask you to reflect on the evolution of the American family as portrayed in television.
The assignment begins with “Father Knows Best” (1954-1963). Here is  for this show that gives a lot of information about the show, its characters, and content. I want you to read one of the magazine articles on this website from TV Guide that was published during the time the show was syndicated. You will want to make some notes about what you learned about the show including audience reception, characters, and the content of the show.
Next, you will watch a full-length episode of the show (these can be found on or on ). You will then begin a content analysis of the show and you will do this for two other shows as well.

Here is what you will be looking for in the episode(s):
Gender roles and family structure (mother, father, children)
Parents as figures of authority
Children (manners, obedience to authority)
Content of the show (what message was the show trying to send to the audience?) How is the content reflective of the average American family at the time? (or not)

Choose one sit-com episode from the following list of sit-coms from 70s and 80s, watch in its entirety, and follow the same episode guideline questions above:

One Day at a Time
All in the Family
Good Times
Cosby Show
Family Ties
Married with Children
Finally, choose one of the following contemporary shows to view, following episode guideline questions:

Modern Family,
Parenthood
Gilmore Girls
Now, you will synthesize all of the analysis you have done from the TV Guide article and three episodes of tv from different decades into a 2-3 page paper.