Week 12/13 Unit Seven - Module 26 & 27

Directive

• Answer these questions within your course journal.
• Identify the date you enter answers
• Label journal entry as: Quiz - Module 10
• Submit for review when complete
• Identify page number or outside resources of answer - but answer with your own words

Questions

1. What do you need to know about yourself to job hunt?

2. What do I need to know about companies that might hire me?

3. What do I do if I have a major weakness?

4. What is the hidden job market?

5. What is an informative interview and the benefits of conducting informative interviews?

6. What types of resumes are there? When do you use the various types?

7. How do you create a scannable resume?

8. How should you prepare an online resume?

9. How do you polish your prose?

10. What are the key words/terms of your industry to input into your resume (outside source required)?

Week 13 - Quiz, Module 12

Directive

• Answer these questions within your course journal.
• Identify the date you enter answers
• Label journal entry as: Quiz - Module 10
• Submit for review when complete
• Identify page number or external resource of answer - but answer with your own words

Questions

1. What is the best persuasive strategy?

2. What is a blogger? Provide an actual example (social networking site).

3. When is the best time to use a direct request pattern?

4. How do you organize a problem solving message?

5. When using the word "problem" for analysis of the problem - what are the letter's meaning?

Week 12 Quiz - Module 11

Directive

• Answer these questions within your course journal.
• Identify the date you enter answers
• Label journal entry as: Quiz - Module 11
• Submit for review when complete
• Identify page number or external source of answer - but answer with your own words
  
  

Questions

1. What are the most common kind of negative messages?

2. Identify various types of negative messages.

3. What is the best way to give bad news to customers and others outside of your organization (external stakeholders)?

4. What are the for steps to organizing a negative letter?

5. What are the four steps to giving bad news to superiors (internal stakeholders)?

6. What are the three steps to organizing a negative Memo to peers or subordinates? Provide an example.

Week 11 - Quiz - Module 10

Directive:

• Answer these questions within your course journal.
• Identify the date you enter answers
• Label journal entry as: Quiz - Module 10
• Submit for review when complete
• Identify page number of answer - but answer with your own words

Questions

1. When PROBLEM is used in Analysis of the Problem what does each letter stand for? Paraphrase meanings.

2. What is the best method of sending a thank you note in the business world. Why?

3. How do you organize information and positive messages?

4. When should I use reader benefits in informative and positive messages?

5. What is a web browser (use outside source)

6. What is "netiquette" and netiquette rules?

Week 11 - PowerPoint Drill - Classroom Activity & Homework Assignment

Directives:

Week 11 (Friday)

11:00 - 11:20 - Time
1. Pick teams - Four/Five members
2. Sit together
3. Take the Online Self-Discovery tests (links below)
4. Complete all the directions regarding test

11:20 - 11:45 - Time
1. One person in the group go to the PowerPoint prompt
2. Slide #1 - title: Team Dynamics - Individual Performance
3. Slide #2 - List team members
4. Slide #3 - Identify type of test taken
5. Slide #4 - Type all members names and outcome of their test score

Homework: Team Divides workload (Review text module that discusses PowerPoint presentations).

1. Research Terms: Team Dynamics, Introvert, Extrovert, Team Building (to be inserted into PowerPoint during W12).
2. Design graphics/fonts/style of the PowerPoint
3. Communication Methods: Explain the traits of an (a) extrovert (b) introvert, and what is the best way to 'deal' with each type in a team setting (to be inserted into the PowerPoint during W12).

NOTE: Email PowerPoint to each other and instructor (alorenzo@centralstate.edu). Save to external flash drive. There will be a total of two saves: W11/Friday & W12/Monday.

Tools: Internet, Course Journal, Flash Drive, Email, PowerPoint. Course Text

Online Self-Discovery Test

Directive A

1. Take the quiz: Are You An Extrovert or An Introvert?

2. Insert quiz results in course journal.

Click on link : http://blogthings.com/areyouanextrovertorintrovertquiz/

Directive B

1. Take the quiz: What career will suit your personality?
2. Insert the first few lines.
3. Print results


Click on link: http://quiz.ivillage.co.uk/uk_work/tests/career.htm

Week 12

Monday - Sit with your team and add information gathered from homework assignment.

Wednesday - Group Presentations

Friday - Group Presentations. Maintenance Day - Bring Project Profilo and add copies on Online Profile material, Bring current resume to be printed and added to your Project Profilo.

Week 13

MODIFIED FORMAT

Monday: Groups: "Rise" - Speak Up - Harmony

WEDNESDAY - BREAK

Friday - Groups - Extra Extroverts = The Approachable

NOTE: Groups should be able to show us individual notes.

Week 10 - Quiz Module 9, Unit Three

Directive:

1. Answer quiz questions in course journal
2. Submit for instructor review when quiz is completed
3. Pen must be used
4. Title of quiz must be used
5. Add the text page number or outside resource used to influence your answer(s).

Questions

1. How do you set up a letter? Diagram and narrative required
2. What courtesy titles should be used?
3. How should you set up memos? Diagram and narrative required
4. When do you send a letter? When do you send an memo?
5. What letter format do you prefer? Why
6. What are the differences between block format for letters and the formats for memos?

Week 10 - Online Profile Presentations & One-on-One meetings

Monday - Online Day/Study Labs

Wednesday: Online Profile Presentations
Students: Renalt Turner, Brady Smith, Trevor McGee
Students: Assigned by Instructor - Tamra Edwards, Brianna Robinson,Felicity E. Ellis,Gaberilla Ruffin, Arielle Betts, Janae Miller,Ralph Jordan
Friday: Online Profile Presentations
Students: Mario Riley, Samual Boahen, Toniejha Payne, James Booker, Aesha Dominquez, Giannic Hicks, Jerron Brandt, Lee Tab
Students: Assigned by Instructor - Victor Walker

NOTES:
Students who are have not signed up for presentations will be presenting on WEDNESDAY. Each presentation will be a maximum of five minutes.

Students have had three weeks to prepare and complete this task - this portion of the assignment is officially closed Week10.


One-on-One meetings: A number of students have signed up for one-on-one meetings with the instructor. The most available time remaining is Wednesday evening after 5:00pm.

Quiz - The instructor has decided that the remaining course content quizzes will be posted on line, allowing the students to reference course text book. These quizzes will be independently submitted by the students. All quizzes must be entered into the course journal.

Week 9 Preview

Monday - Holiday

Wednesday - Dean's Meeting (all students must attend). Lorenzo will be in attendance

Friday - Review of individual student's online profile project. Be ready to share with the class - using the main computer screen.


Homework

1. Continue reading the chapters assigned (refer to class notes in journal)
2. Quiz - Instructor will post two quizzes within week 9 for you to enter into your journal. Each quiz will be worth 50 points. Students can submit these exams for review anytime within week 9 &10. Quiz material will be derived directly from text. Hint: know your main headings and side-bar information.
3. Continue developing your online employment profile. Come to Friday's meeting with questions if you are blocked. This weekend one of my collaborative partners recommend we visit; job.com website. Let me know if this helps. We can review the site in class.

Week 8 - Online Profile Project

Directive:

This is the second part of a three part series of developing communication skills for the industry you are seeking employment in.

1. First part - Career Search - completed
2. From your first part of this project, student goes back and performs an online research from the expert in the field they presented, and revisit their online profile. Students view the terminology as it relates to your current skill level and future job search.
3. You start drafting the content of your online profile in your journal. Think business bio.
4. You build a blog, video, website that can be activated online.

Note: This is the second week that students have been engaging in this process. This has been designated as a homework assignment with in class assistance. In class assistance does not imply that the instructor is responsible for your projects success.

Week 7 - Students were given one period to perform search and find proffesionals in their field to mirror.
During week 8 one class period will be designated as a lauching day for your online profile.(10/9/09 Friday).
During weeks 9 & 10 all projects will be completed and shown in class.

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The following online sites as examples of the content required for your online profile project.

Sample Web site page:

http://www.mcaronline.com/default.asp?id=151

Hospitality (student's content must be longer than this example)
http://www.raheservices.com/about.html


Tourism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson


Management:
http://www.darrenmonroe.com/wordpress/?page_id=2

Safety:
http://www.statepatrol.ohio.gov/ColonelBio.stm

Week 7: In class quiz... Unit Two -Modules 6/7/8

Week 7
10/2/09
Friday

In Class Quiz

Directive:
1. Open your course journal and write the 'housekeeping' directives from the power point.
2. Review the 10 plus 1 questions.
3. In your journal write the answers (do not write the questions).
4. Bring journal to instructor for her check-off.

1. Definition of You-Attitude: You-Attitude is ....................
2. Five Ways to Create You-Attitude............
3. Definitions of Impersonal Construction: Impersonal construction........ Passive verbs..........
4. 10 negative words to avoid when writing in business are ..............................
5. Five Ways to Create Positive Emphasis...................
6. Definition of Hidden Negative....................
7. Definition of Reader Benefit is..............
8. Criteria for Reader Benefits are..........
9. Psychological Description is..........
10. Extrinsic and Intrinsic Rewards are?

BONUS 1-10 possible points

Describe Maslow's hierarchy of needs (narrative and graphic).