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I read everyone’s criticism blogs and it was interesting to read what everyone’s experienced in a work environment. Shelia’s blog was a good read and she added a nice chart that had steps for giving criticism. Most peoples blog’s said to be respectful/say something positive before giving criticism. I believe there are times to be direct and straight forward. It all depends on the type of person you are dealing with and the situation because indirect criticism may breeze over someone’s head if they are being praised too much, feel they have more authority or do not care for what you have to say. I personally would prefer someone to be direct and to the point if I was receiving criticism, so the issue is known and not lost or overwrote by the positive’s/buffer’s.

 

A reason people criticize each other is when people show performance only when someone important is around, but when that important somebody is not around they are the worst employee in the room. This can relate to taking credit of someone else’s work to benefit from it and advance in the company. Alterations of words to make it seem like the individual had an important part to the success of the business not only ruins the atmosphere and morale of the work environment but results to more problems and criticism. Individuals that aren’t receiving the credit they should, may become that slackers because they are not being noticed for their handwork, intellect, or impact.

I think the only way to effectively write a persuasive messages is that the writer shows personal emotions in their message, they also believe in and are knowledgeable about the topic. Without those persuasive messages seem like a scam towards myself. Money is a huge reason people use persuasion. They approach you with a bunch of persuasion that may or may not be true to make commission, more money or simply just more business. It is also very easy to tell when someone is sincere and all in what they are asking for and someone that is just trying to make another $. Society recognizes a business person as a persuasive person when they are really business men and women doing whatever it takes to receive funding, and a majority of the time they try to persuade the seller to do so.

I think using words that do not totally highlight the bad news is the best. Using words like you have to pay the fine instead of saying you were charged $150 dollars is much better. It also does not stick out like numbers do in a letter. Another thing is to mention a promotion or special occurring in the future to make it seem like the individual isn’t losing so much money on the situation or that they can get some of their money off in a future investment. Saying something like our business is having 10 % of storewide next month and we look forward to seeing you back to enjoy tons of savings. Inputting this in the closing may help with giving the individual be less bothered by the bad news.

What are you individually going to contribute to your group’s leadership, work requirements, communication, and decision making (see step 4 above)? What previous experience with group work have you learned from that you can use to make this experience as collaborative and productive as possible?

1. I am going to take over the role as the project manager, I am going to ensure we have proper communication as well as meetups until we present our project. Also to make sure everyone is doing their parts, and if someone needs help in their workload that we all help each other to finish a an outstanding product. I am also tech savvy and am taking speech 251 right now, so I can help a lot with the slide as well as with writing out our presentation if needed. It is important for the project manager and facilitator to remain on top of things. I have found out from previous groups that it is useful to talk about something within the group assignment constantly so everyone stays on track and committed to their part. The thought of the project will never be off our minds until it is turned in.

Explain in your own words your understanding of the formal report project, the peer review evaluation procedure (last page of the Formal Report Project Guidelines/Rubrics) and the step 5 questions above:

• • What aspects of the topic are most important for you to research? Why?
  • What are your best current options for follow-up research on this topic? (For example, new keyword or subject search options, names of experts, or cited studies/books/other sources)

2.  An important topic for myself to research would be how higher tuition college with financial aid are taking the opportunity of a lot of students unable to qualify for financial aid at a cheaper tuition due to funding reasons. Also how unqualified individuals are still receiving financial aid preventing someone else from qualified from receiving the benefit. Finding the amount received by high tuitioned college from financial aid and figuring out the difference from a cheaper tuitioned school.

Review the Team Effectiveness Pit Stop form below, then answer this question: What can I do to help my team achieve 7s on the pit stop form when we fill it out in 3-4 weeks?

3.   It is crucial we all have a part in each part of the project, that way we can all tackle it together and not everyone is left doing a whole part themselves. It also splits up the work evenly, because the slideshow and presentation won’t take as much time as the research and paper. We all need to put effort into each category of the project, as well as communicating often. Communicating often, reminds everyone about the project constantly, even if it is saying something like, how are you doing on your part. By doing that it constantly keeps everyone reminded. As the manager I plan on setting deadlines before the actual deadlines so we have a cushion to sharpen our final product before it is actually due.

What are we going to sell today.

WCC is a community college, but the quality of teaching and the comfortable size of the community allows teachers to be more hands on in a classroom. The students are saving 1,000’s of dollars by attending our college, and are being taught as direct as a “Private School”.

All of our classes are transferable to all institutions within the University of Hawaii’s system. Based on Statistics of residents in Hawaii, 70% of community college transfer students in Hawaii transfer over to one of the UH institutions. Our credits acceptance rate for Hawaii residents going to a non-resident university/location are at 90% as well. Our campus takes pride in our students receiving an valuable education.

 

 

 

(Statistically inaccurate).

Situation: you are currently the best worker in your division. Everybody else is lazy, incompetent punks or a mixture of all three. You end up doing a fair amount of the rest if your division’s work. But your boss doesn’t know this. You ask for a 10% raise.

Response:

To:Mr. Boss

I would like to personally thank you for the top notch equipment that you have provided the fish department. You motivate me greatly and I believe that the quality and speed of our production is evident of your values and have raised the bars that you have set for our department.

While our department is performing well, the quality of the workers is not equal. I come in earlier than the rest of the department as well as leave later to compensate for the department’s less qualified workers. Some of the workers are habitually late or fail to perform at the expectations that you set for us. I do my best to take over the work that is deemed too hard or that they do not fulfill to expectations to ensure that our department’s quality and standards are upheld.

I believe it would be in the best interest of the department if I was appointed a higher position along with a raise of ten percent to compensate for the increased responsibility. I will continue to follow the values and expectations that you have appointed for my current position, along with the additional responsibilities that we can negotiate.

Dear John,

Our engineering is top notch and we strive to make the best equipment available on the market. All of our parts have been put through rigorous testing procedures, and are of high quality and performance. We do this to prevent individuals from altering our products, by providing high end products, we hope to prevent the installation of aftermarket products.

Upon inspection of your claim and your device, we noticed that your product had been tampered with. Our customer warranty helps to protect our customers as well as our products from aftermarket alterations. Because of the safety seal being compromised; we investigated your claim.

After the inspection of your product there were noticeable alterations to the original product.   Due to company policies we are unable to refund or refurbish your product because of the alteration. We do offer refurbished products at a discount price.

We look forward to serving you in the future with a brand new product or discounted, refurbished product.  Your loyalty means a lot to our company and we hope to continue doing business with you in the future.

I don’t think its possible to be too direct in a message, some situations call for it.  I think the use of words in a direct email can get someone in trouble though. If an individuals is angry or upset and integrate their feelings in the direct message it may get them in trouble and less likely to receive the type of feedback they are expecting. For example if a customer is angry about a situation that had happened while eating at a restaurant and they display their feelings in the letter, the restaurant can easily reject their service next time or give them what they are rudely demanding. Some ways are receiving an answer or hitting a deadline can only be achieved if you are “too” direct.

I did not do so hot on this second Recall Practice and I think its mainly because the group I had worked with tried to come up questions that would trick the rest of the class.  So since my group thought that way, I assumed the other groups were doing the same. Which was not the case when looking at the questions everyone put together. Since my group and I were trying to do some trickery, I was looking for the trickery in every question in the Recall Practice. In the end it lead me to choose the wrong answers on a few problems I knew. I guess the big takeaway is to think of legit questions and to try and not trick the rest of the class because you may be fooling yourself in the end :[.

I missed  ____ works best with audiences who are likely to be receptive to what you have to say (or who are unlikely to view what you have to say as bad news). My answer was none of the above but the correct answer was front loading.

Which of the following about the direct organizational strategy is incorrect? I put it prevents frustration by revealing the message’s main idea early, but the correct answer is It wastes the reader’s time by going into detail after stating its main point.

I felt the questions may have been a trick question at the time so it altered my decision when selecting my answer, resulting in selecting the wrong answers and doing poorly on the recall practice.