To become a more effective leader‚ incorporating my desire to strengthen my Situational Leadership style‚ I feel I need specific benchmarks to track my progress. I also feel I need tools to aid me in this growth. The foundation of Situational Leadership is constant evaluation and change‚ which can become confusing and overwhelming for new leaders. The two SMART goals I have created for myself will help. The first is very specific. In my job as a Clerk 1 in Revenue Collections‚ we are tasked with
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Bradley Barn 1.) What are the salient situational factors? • My daughter is allergic to tobacco smoke. • The waiter made a big mistake or careless error in seating preference. • The business men where in the wrong area (non-smoking). • Selecting the restaurant should have been carefully reconsidered because of the allergic reaction to tobacco smoking. 2.) What is the most appropriate conflict management strategy? The most appropriate conflict management strategy would be to avoid forcing
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Caldecott Award Winners Locomotive Written and Illustrated by Brian Floca This book tells the adventures of a family on a journey across the transcontinental railroad. The author/illustrator‚ Brian Floca‚ gives the reader a look into the past‚ describing what it was like to ride a locomotive in the 19th century. He used muted colors which I found beautifully soft and feel the illustrations would draw the reader into the pages. My favorite part of the book is the book flap‚ when opened kids will
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Horses are amazingly beautiful and sensitive creatures. Horses require not only understanding and patience to have a horse as a pet‚ it also requires a whole lot of care. Herd Mentality: Observe horses in the herd system‚ each horse’s welfare in the wild depends upon an instinctive submission to the discipline of the herd. The instinct is for immediate action. To the horse‚ action is survival. When horses live in an herd environment‚ they often take turns sleeping and standing guard for any predators
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O Level Literature – “Horses” by Edwin Muir The titular creatures in “Horses”‚ despite being rather ordinary animals‚ are viewed by the poet as shocking‚ overwhelming‚ and somewhat divine. Every element of these horses is made to look awe-inspring and godlike‚ inciting both reverence and fear in the poet. The opening verse depicts the horses using words like “terrible‚ “wild”‚ and “strange”‚ as well as them being “Like magic power on the stony grange”. Already‚ we are given an idea of how the
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The result was its 787 Dreamliner and a return to being the world’s largest airplane manufacturer. Similarly one key to the success of a manager is their ability to switch‚ or flex‚ styles as conditions change. This is commonly referred to as "situational leadership." Every organization has a variety of work force‚ different type of contingencies and every situation calls for a different type of approach. There cannot be a fixed solution for a similar type of problem. Yes but definitely there can
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LDR/531 October 26‚ 2012 Mike Kraynik Situational Leadership Situational leadership is an adaptive form of management introduced by Kenneth Blanchard and Paul Hershey in 1969 (Schlosser‚ 2012). This specific leadership style requires managers to analyze scenarios and evaluate the skill level and
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Irony in “The Lottery” Irony‚ generally described as expressing something different from or opposite to a literal meaning‚ is used as an underlying theme in Shirley Jackson’s short story‚ The Lottery. As an age-old tradition‚ the lottery is one in which a single person in the town is randomly chosen‚ by a drawing‚ to be violently stoned by friends and family. The main example of irony throughout the story resides within the fact that the word lottery suggests that the winning villager is going
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five types of transitions that a person can experience. The transitions include developmental‚ health illness‚ organizational‚ situational‚ and multiple (Situational Transitions Class Notes‚ 2012). A situational transition in particular is when a person experiences a reshaping in their lifestyle (Hampton‚ 2010). That being said‚ immigration is considered to be a situational transition. Today in western cultures‚ immigration is commonly seen. Although many of us may not realize‚ immigrating is difficult
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Irony Matt looked on as Mr Lensher was handcuffed by the police. The wrinkles on his face were suddenly so detailed that Matt suspected if he had made the right decision. Aged sixty‚ a sentence for theft would have caused to die in jail. Ironically‚ Matt could remember the exact same words Mr Lensher once told him‚ "No matter how old or young a person is‚ or whatever reason he has for committing a crime‚ if he breaks the law‚ he deserves to be punished. " It was these exact words that made Matt
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