Personal reflective leadership plan

Leadership effectualness is the major goal of all leaders. Leadership is all about integrity, mission, vision and principles. It is the ultimate power to be in a position whereby you can motivate other people through your deeds and words. Ethical leadership is motivating other people ethically in ethical directions. Leadership is all about knowing your main values and having the impudence to live up to the common good service. By having an effective leadership plan one is in a good position to come...

Global Head of Marketing and Communications HSBC Bank

Singapore Dear Tony On November 13th 2010 10,000 people are expected to converge in the Singapore Art Centre and participate in the unveiling of Hope  Glory. Touted as a conceptual circus Hope and Glory is one-of-a-kind multimedia arts project being presented for the first time in Singapore by the well known Honk Kong based artist Simon Birch. Heralding a new and innovative approach to installation art, the exhibition will be held between 13thNovember to 30th December2010. It hopes to challenge...

Oil Spills and Underwater Life

Information is a great solution for prevention. How true is this phrase The social animal called man is blessed with air, water and land and co-exists with the other species forming an eco-system. Water being one of our essential needs is very necessary for our survival and we have been learning about it from time to time. Water covers two thirds of Earths surface and houses great variety of plants and animals. The beauty of this underwater life is beyond comparison and thus underwater life is a...

External Stakeholders

The external key stakeholders of the Institute for Family Health are listed below in approximate order of decreasing saliency. Our Brysons and Knoxs analyses indicate the potential to engage new external stakeholders. In the sections below, we have highlighted the roles and relative importance of our external stakeholders and how to enhance their contributions to the organizations success. We have also mentioned where relevant, the opportunities to engage new stakeholders and the criteria our stakeholders...

A Plan for Positive Influence

Keeping team members motivated is part of a managers job. A team consists of people from different backgrounds and different personalities. They each have different attitudes toward the work and other team members. An understanding of the different personalities of the team members is essential in dealing with personality clashes and other problems that may result from the interactions of different people. Dealing with People of Different Personalities Different sociologists have come up with different...

Describe and discuss how culture is constituted, maintained, and altered via communication

Communication plays a crucial role in constituting, maintaining and altering culture. Through effective communication, cultural values, norms, and beliefs are passed from generation to generation. According to available psychological evidence, character and behavior of the young generation is typically influenced by the character traits of other members of the community. This has the implication that failure in ensuring effective communication of culture significantly compromises our societal values....

The potential benefits of conflict

Identify and explain the potential benefits of conflict Conflict is beneficial in a number of ways. First, it is through conflict that members of the community acknowledge and resolve unethical behavior. By this, conflict in an organization serves the crucial role of promoting awareness among members of problematic situations that exist in an organization. Another benefit of conflict is that it motivates members to consider, appreciate to find solutions to problems, a factor which brings positive...

Internal factors within us that can hinder listening

Our ability to listen effectively is compromised by a number of internal factors. First, being emotional during a conversation negates ones ability to listen. It is commonly asserted that the receiver during a conversation must be aware of their emotions. For example, engaging in messages that are offensive to the listener threatens a potential breakdown of the communication process. The second factor hindering communication is failure to allow the sender to finish before giving a response. It is...

Intercultural communication

Intercultural communication is the process of exchanging both meaningful and non-meaningful information across people of different cultures and in a way this reduces misunderstanding and it enhances mutual respect (Bennett, 1998). In the modern world, we have a variety of cultures living with us so one must learn to cope. It is important for a person to be conversant with simple things like the greetings, knowing their types of food and the things that to them might appear inappropriate (Bennett,...

Intercultural communications

With the advent of globalization, borders have been transcended, so much so that the workforce has become truly global. The market for labor now goes beyond nationalities and in fact tries to encompass as many cultures as possible in order to harness the synergies created by multicultural diversity. This is turn has created a multitude of management and Human resource issues that seek solutions in organizations communications strategies, to manage and satisfy all employees regardless of  their...

Continued operation of North General Hospital

The recent enactment of the healthcare bill was meant to streamline the operations of the healthcare sector that has been regarded as deficient in different ways. In deed, the industry has witnessed many deficiencies including increased number of people without healthcare coverage and near bankruptcy of healthcare organizations. As we enter into the transition period, there is tension since the impact of the healthcare care bill is still unknown. Since the system may remain as it is for a long time...

Language and Communication

Communication has no specific description but main essence of it revolves around conveyance, exchanging, giving or sharing of ideas  information. Communication can be both verbal and nonverbal. Communication takes place all around us in school, colleges, homes, markets and most importantly businesses. Businesses use communication in Public Relations (PR) to maintain image of company toward public, organizations, and programs and to gather employees, customers, investors or even general public....

Communication strategies

A persuasive text is a writing that can cause somebody to believe the truth about something, and has power to tempt action or believe. Duo process theories provide an account on how an occurrence can occur in to different ways. Verbalized explicit processes or attitudes may change with persuasion. Persuasion is found everywhere and the persuaders make one to believe them, get what they have and trust them (Larson, 2009). They use languages or images that make one believe or take an action. The following...

The Transition Challenges Faced by International Biology Students

This project aims to carry out an in-depth survey of the experiences of first-year international students as they make their transition to the discipline of biology. It will assess the extent to which international students integrate and put up with the different teaching and learning environment. In addition, it will comment on the elements that can hinder such integration and adaptation. The findings of this research may be of relevance across the educational sector. Free interaction with the...