Throughout your education, you have been asked to research topics and write papers, engage in thought-provoking discussions, consider diverse perspectives, and a host of other challenges that have required you to use both your discipline-specific skills as well as your soft skills. These are called transferable skills, and are skills that you develop that can be transferred and applied within your chosen career. Transferable skills are highly valuable and essential for career success.

Throughout this course, you have been working on a project that allowed you to demonstrate your understanding of the transferable skills. It is now time to submit your project/assignment and add a transferable skills reflection.

To complete this assignment, you will need to do the following:

Part I: Compiling Your Exemplar Project

• Compile all of your completed course project assignment deliverables. Place them in the proper order, and save them in a single Microsoft Word document.

Part II: Transferable Skills Self Reflection

1. In a minimum of 1 full page, using Microsoft Word, write an essay (full introduction and conclusion), which includes the following:
   • Describe the knowledge, skills and/or attitudes regarding each of the transferable skills that you’ve gained as a result of completing this particular project/assignment.
   • Discuss the ways that you are going to incorporate the transferable skills (the transferable skills that you showcased in your exemplary project) into your work within your chosen career field.
   • Describe your future goals based on the transferable skills that you’ve chosen to showcase.
   • Write your paper utilizing proper tone, spelling and grammar.
2. Once you have completed your reflection assignment, add it to the end of the document you compiled in part I. The self-reflection should be the last few pages of your exemplar project. If done correctly, everything will be one document!
   
3. Save the compiled document to a folder. Then, zip or compress the folder, and submit the zipped folder to the drop box.

Note: For help with zipping or compressing your files, please visit the How Do I Zip Files? page.

Save your assignment as a zipped folder.

Module 5 Assignment 2a: Interview Doctoral Researchers

Please note that this assignment is to be completed in two parts. M5A2a is to be completed and submitted to the M5A2a Submission Area and responses to M5A2b are to be posted to the M5A2b Discussion Area.

During this course, you have begun to understand that a dissertation is a multi-faceted research project. You may have heard of the term ABD (all but dissertation). There are a sizeable number of doctoral students who have completed their coursework, passed their comprehensive examinations, but never have completed their dissertations.

You may wonder how this might happen. For example, were these students who did not complete their dissertations really scholarly impostors who did not possess sufficient knowledge and skills? What can you do to avoid this?

This assignment requires you to interview two people who have successfully completed doctoral programs.

Your goal in this assignment is to carefully consider and organize the body of your paper around these three key ideas:

• What most assisted your interviewees in completing their major research projects or dissertations?
• What challenges did your interviewees experience?
• What specific recommendations do your interviewees have for successful completion?

Use the following guidelines as you conduct your interview to help you achieve the above three goals:

• Select individuals to interview, if possible, who are not AU faculty or staff members, since one purpose of this assignment is to broaden your perspectives regarding conducting doctoral research.
• Each interview should take 30–45 minutes, depending on how responsive your interviewees are.
• You may conduct your interviews in person or by phone.
  Prior to meeting your interviewees, develop 10–15 interview questions you will ask each of them that will hep you to address the above three goals. It is important to ask the same questions to both.
• The first question or two should help you understand their research topics and why the topics were of interest to your interviewees. In addition it could be very useful to your research to ask questions like these: What tips do they have for locating good materials, especially research articles? How long did it take the interviewee from start to finish? What resources were required, such as technology, postage, and other costs? Another important area of information concerns the role of the committee chair and the committee members.
• Several questions should be asked to help you explore what assisted each person the most in completing the research or dissertation.
• Trying to understand the challenges each interviewee faced will also require several questions.
• As you conduct each interview, you may ask related, follow up questions to help you better understand each interviewee’s response, such as: “Could you give me a specific example of what you meant when you said …?” or “Could you provide a little more detail about …?” This will help you provide details in your paper as well as enhance your understanding of the challenges faced.
• Toward the end of your interview, ask what recommendations each interviewee could provide to help you be successful in the completion of your dissertation.
• In order to capture the information from the interview, be prepared to take detailed notes. Some students even request permission to tape record their interviews so they can replay and listen to them to better understand the information provided by each interviewee.

Collate the information gathered from your interviews. Write a three- to four-page analysis comparing and contrasting the information from the two interviews. Do not present the analysis in a question and answer format.

Consider the following as you write your paper:

• Introductory Paragraph: Begin your paper with a purpose statement and a map of how you intend to organize your paper. Using the 3 main goals listed above as broad themes/categories with sub headings could be a most useful way to organize this paper. Be sure to also include in this introductory paragraph the name of each or pseudonym [if confidentiality is needed] as well as the basic nature of their research or dissertation study.
• Your paper should be an analysis of the interviews and a comparison of their experiences, not just a summary of each specific question asked.
• Attach your interview questionnaire to the end of your paper.

By the due date assigned, post your interview analysis in Microsoft Word format to the Submissions Area.

Name your file W7000_M5_A2a_lastname_firstinitial.doc.

All written assignments and responses should follow APA style in formatting and attributing sources.

Please make sure you review the elements of the grading criteria and associated points carefully and make sure your assignment has addressed all the elements and in enough detail to merit full points.

******PLEASE NO PLAGIARISM

******DO NOT CITE ALOT OF SOURCES AND CALL IT A PAPER

********PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS

Assignment 1: Training and Development in Small Businesses

Due Week 4 and worth 240 points

Select a small business with which you are familiar. Imagine that you have been called into that business to provide a consultation on training. Create a comprehensive training proposal for the business.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

• Analyze key elements of training and development geared toward improving the performance of the specific small business for which you are consulting.
• Predict three to five (3-5) potential challenges that the managers or owners of the business could face in addressing organizational performance.
• Justify the effects of detecting organizational gaps in small business, providing examples to explain the rationale.
• Propose a competitive training strategy that will improve the position of the business in the market. The strategy should include, at a minimum, an agenda of training activities, rationale for instructional strategies used, and the return on investment (ROI) that will be gained from the strategy you have developed.
• Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources
• Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
  • Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
  • 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 is not included in the required page length.
  • Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze concepts, meanings, and trends in training.
• Justify the importance of aligning training with organizational strategy.
• Evaluate theories associated with learning, motivation, and employee performance.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in training and development.
• Write clearly and concisely about training and development using proper writing mechanics.

Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

Hi I have to make a decision making Brain Storming post based few scenarios. I have all materials. I can share the materials; and for now i am attaching questionnaires.

• Using your own words and based on this week’s readings, define what is meant by the term problem and decision. Clearly explain HOW they are different.
• Look at each of the five scenarios below (I attached the scenarios). Identify and discuss if each is problem or a decision. Explain HOW and WHY.
• Pick one of the scenarios and explain in detail the process you would use in answering the question at the end of the scenario. For example, would you make a pros and cons list, go with your gut, ask for help, etc.? Make sure that you are specific in your response.
• You must use course material to support your responses and APA in-text citations with a reference list.

No copy paste. matching ratio should not exceed 5%.

I want new text answer, not copied or rephrased.

DO NOT COPY from slides or fellow student.

Requirements:

Follow APA-style referencing. Your answers MUST include at least 1 outside references (other than the slides and textbook)

Use Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font.

Questions:

Critical Thinking

Q1-
Good communication skills are essential skills for both our daily and professional lives. In your point of view, what are the characteristics of a good communicator that managers looking for? and what values can businesses receive from hiring people with good communication skills? (Marks: 2.5)

Q2-
Evaluate your communication skills, sort out your strengths and weaknesses. Describe one of your weaknesses, how it prevents you from being a good communicator? How do you plan to work on that weakness before you look for a job? (Marks: 2.5)

Writing Exercise

Q3-
Write a sample Letter/ Message taking into your consideration the following points: (Marks:5)

• The purpose of your writing.
• The audience
• The structure of your writing (outline)
• The clarity of your writing (details and example)
• The three important writing decisions (tone/ word selection/ length)

Answers: