Skills Essays

TEST THE ABILITIES WHOSE DEVELOPMENT YOU WANT TO ENCOURAGE For example, if you want to encourage oral ability, then test oral ability. This is very obvious, a straightforward matter of content validity, yet it is surprising how often it is not done. There is a tendency to test what it …

A growing trend in organizations is to create teams to accomplish business objectives. However, forming teams without sound business reasons may be detrimental. Creating a teamed workforce should be a reflection of a strategic business decision. “Teams are a means to an end, not an end in themselves” (HR Magazine, …

In this assignment I will be looking at how to negotiate with my learners and how to do this ensuring that each learner reaches their goal. I will also be looking at how to include my learners in their sessions as well as integrating the functional skills into their subject …

Whether leaders are born and not made is a discussion that has been debated for centuries and yet it still divides opinion today. Like many, on receiving this assignment my instinctive gut response was that they are! However, over the course of my exploration into the subject matter and in …

Most common Leadership Types are: – Autocratic leadership. – Bureaucratic leadership. – Charismatic leadership. – Democratic leadership or participative leadership. – Laissez-faire leadership. – People-oriented leadership or relations-oriented leadership. – Servant leadership. – Task-oriented leadership. – Transactional leadership. – Transformational leadership. Autocratic Leadership Autocratic leadership is an extreme form of …

This essay discusses a clinical skill in which I have become competent during my placement in care home. I will use a reflective model to discuss how I achieved the necessary level of competence. Reflection can make a sense of the familiar and taken for granted situations and is an …

How might understanding the client’s past decision making experiences inform your work as a career counselor? Why? Based on the presentation provide by Dr. Warren, it is fundamental to address the client’s background to fully understand where the client developed their decision making skills and how their environment influenced the …

Reading means many things to many people. It can be one of the most rewarding, preoccupation of the individual his horizons and making it possible to partake of means accumulated experience and achievements through the ages. It is an active dialogue between the author and the other reader and it …

How Information Literacy Influences Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership in Project Management (PM) According to the Project Management Institute (2012), “Project Management is the application of knowledge, skills, and techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently. It’s a strategic competency for organizations, enabling them to tie project results to business goals …

Subordinates would describe me as conscientious, dependable and loyal. I can be counted on day or night to help resolve professional or personal problems and/or challenges. My supervisor would describe my followership as dependable, loyal and a self-starter. I have good communication skills both with my supervisor and subordinates ensuring …