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Groups are an integral aspect of human existence – individuals belong to groups for their families, friends, jobs, college classes, and social activities. Even so, communicating effectively within groups is challenging and there are processes and skills necessary for leadership, group culture, decision making, cohesiveness, use of technology, and ethical group communication.

Your employer has asked you to present on effective group communication in the organization. You must prepare a PowerPoint presentation, creating one slide for each of the topics below. Be sure to include your speaker notes in the Notes section below each slide. Include a minimum of three relevant citations throughout your presentation.

You may use this template as a basis for your presentation, or develop your own. Feel free to edit, modify, or enhance the presentation in any way you wish. You may even add audio if you like.

Include the following in your presentation:

  • Slide 1: Title Slide
  • Slides 2-3: What is group communication? Provide one example to illustrate the importance of effective group communication.
  • Slides 3-4: What are group networks? Provide one example to illustrate the benefit of group networks.
  • Slides 4-5: What is organizational communication? Provide one example to illustrate a way in which organizational communication affects working in groups.
  • Slides 5-6: Identify two strategies to learn about an organization’s culture.
  • Slides 6-7: Identify two communication challenges facing today’s organizations. Offer two suggestions to overcome these challenges.
  • Slide 8+: References (minimum of 3)

Community and Public Health Nursing

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Today the assignment will be a Power Point on Family Assessment and Care Plan. You will discuss the steps of Assessing a family and also write the diferrent types of dynamics.

For example single parent, blended family (where and adult remarries and become a stepdad or stepmom with kids from previous marriage)

Minimum 15 slides

The assignment will be a POWERPOINT 15 SLIDES on Family Assessment and Care Plan. You will discuss the steps of Assessing a family and also write the different types of dynamics.

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The assignment will be a POWERPOINT 15 SLIDES on Family Assessment and Care Plan. You will discuss the steps of Assessing a family and also write the different types of dynamics.

For example single parent, blended family (where an adult remarries and become a stepdad or stepmom with kids from a previous marriage)

for example, the Hispanic population 1 out of 5 families have a grandmother or grandfather as part of the nuclear family

​You have the single parent blended family which basically involves step-parent and stepbrother or sisters

same-sex family etc.

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I meant single parent and blended family

Create a 12-15 slide presentation that includes detailed speaker notes for each slide. In your presentation, explore the following points: 

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The focus of this assignment will be on the foundation and processes that have been established, bringing the U.S. health care system where it is today. You will also consider how current and future plans for financing and reimbursement are currently impacting cost and access of health care.

Create a 12-15 slide presentation that includes detailed speaker notes for each slide. In your presentation, explore the following points:

  1. How was health care insurance established in the United States?
  2. What is the purpose of different health care insurances? (i.e., private, group, self, public)
  3. What is cost sharing, and how has this impacted health care?
  4. What reimbursement methods are presently used? (e.g., bundled services, fee-for-service)
  5. What are retrospective and prospective reimbursements? What are some positives and negatives of each?
  6. Present and future national health expenditures. Provide a brief overview. How do they influence health care insurance at the present and how will they in the future?

Do not count the title slide or the references slide when determining whether you have met the required number of slides for this assignment.

A minimum of three references, in addition to your textbook, are required for this assignment.

While APA style format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

List 3 qualitative attributes of outdoor sporting goods that the client may want to ask consumers. Make sure 1 of the qualitative attributes is nominal.

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Scenario

Big data is everywhere, and various businesses around the world are driven by big data. While some businesses rely on big data for organizational decision making, this does not mean that the implications and applications of big data are properly used to ensure optimal effectiveness for the organization

For this scenario, you have been appointed as a business analyst for Big D Incorporated, charged with providing authoritative recommendations to the Board of Directors. As the business analyst, the recommendations that you provide will be based upon data calculated from statistically appropriate formulas. Be reminded that you are not the company’s statistician yet. However, as the business analyst, you are therefore responsible for interpreting statistical data and making the appropriate recommendations.

Big D Incorporated was offered a series of business opportunities, and it is your job as the business analyst to provide expert insight and justification for recommendations regarding these potential prospects.

Assignment Details

Big D Incorporated has a business opportunity to provide two different types of information to a new client. As the business analyst, you are tasked to assess the financial feasibility of this opportunity. The new client is a retailer and looking to expand its product offerings. However, the client is requesting Big D Incorporated to assist in the decision-making process.

Prepare a presentation that addresses the following:

  • Explain the difference between nominal and ordinal data.
  • List 3 qualitative attributes of outdoor sporting goods that the client may want to ask consumers. Make sure 1 of the qualitative attributes is nominal.
  • For each ordinal attribute, assign names for the endpoints of a 5-point rating scale.
  • Explain the difference between interval and ratio data.
  • List 2 quantitative attributes of outdoor sporting goods that market researchers might want to measure.
  • Explain the difference between a population and a sample.

5-6 slides with speaker notes (75 word minimum per slide)

Discuss the latest salary statistics for this job—actual salaries, trends, and projections.

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Select one fashion career path (it does not have to be a career discussed in this week’s lecture) and create a PowerPoint presentation outlining what has inspired you to pursue a career in the fashion industry.

Address the following four main topics:

  • Why fashion? What do you value? What inspires you? What would you like to express as you pursue a career in fashion?
  • Job description: Include a definition of the fashion career you hope to attain, typical duties, working conditions, and the kinds of knowledge, skills, and education needed.
  • Salary: Discuss the latest salary statistics for this job—actual salaries, trends, and projections.
  • My career at its end: What will your career look like at its end when you are preparing to retire?

Presentation should include 5–6 slides in PowerPoint, plus title and reference slides with speaker notes (75-word minimum per slide).

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For this assignment, you will need to become familiar with specialized business intelligence (BI) software, and then download the software. Complete the following steps to begin:

Consider the following scenario, continued from Unit 1 Individual Project:

Big D Incorporated needs to prepare an assessment regarding the feasibility of making a recommendation for expansion into another market. As the business analyst, your assignment is to prepare a short presentation for the Board of Directors that apply concepts learned in Unit 1 and concepts from Unit 2 to make the necessary recommendations and justifications for those recommendations. You will need to compare and contrast the varying markets to make the best recommendation possible. Complete the following:

  • Download the reports for the United States from this Web site. The Web site provides free demographical services where one can choose from a variety of criteria and generate reports based on the U.S. Census data. This particular file contains 4 reports:
    • General Summary
    • Census Trend 1980 to 2000 Summary
    • Occupation and Employment Summary
    • Income Summary (based on the entire United States)
  • Download the reports for zip code 60614 from this Web site. This particular file contains 4 reports:
    • General Summary
    • Census Trend 1980 to 2000 Summary
    • Occupation and Employment Summary
    • Income Summary based on the U.S. zip code 60614
  • Using all 4 demographic reports (General Summary, Census Trend 1980 to 2000 Summary, Occupation and Employment Summary, and Income Summary) for the United States and zip code 60614, prepare a 1-page summary slide explaining how your territory differs from the national profile. Feel free to note anything that you found surprising in the data.
  • Use the BI software you choose to depict information from these reports.
  • Prepare a presentation of 4–5 slides of your major findings. You may group a category of data from the Total United States and zip code 60614, and create a graph to show how they differ. The presentation should have at least 2 graphs and a headline that summarizes a key takeaway from the graph.

Your presentation should include 5–6 slides in PowerPoint, plus title and reference slides with speaker notes (75-word minimum per slide).

For assistance with the usage of Tableau for analysis and reporting, review and use the instructions below. Those should be helpful if you are having problems with the software usage or data. However, you do not need to use Tableau. For BI software usage such as Excel, resort to using the Help functions and other resources on the Internet and in videos to learn how to use Excel to create graphical presentations including table usage.

The instructions to create a bar graph in Tableau (optional) or in another BI software are as follows.

  1. Download the BI software.
  2. Create your Tableau Public Account.
  3. Click the download link for the 60614 file (file will open in Excel).
  4. Click the download link for the U.S. file (file will open in Excel).
  5. The following are some options:
    1. Create separate demographical worksheets (e.g., Educational Attainment or Household Income). Include zip code and U.S. data.
      • See a sample of the file available with column headings and extraneous blanks.

SEE ATTACHMENT

  1. Create a file with data organized without extraneous rows and columns but including headings.
  2. The idea is to clean up the file before usage. Separating files and worksheets may be the best way to make this happen
  3. Note that in the real situation, when using BI software, you will want to ensure that your data are clean and that you have similar data in your files.
  4. Save the file(s) on your computer.
  5. Open Tableau. Then do a File > Open > Open on your saved file.
  6. At the bottom of the screen on the left, click on the little box next to Sheet 1 (looks like a bar graph with a plus in the top left corner).
  7. Under “Measures” (on the left), you should see “Chicago” and “U.S.” Click on “U.S.,” and pull it into rows at the top of the screen. Then, click on Chicago and pull it over into rows.
  8. Under “Dimensions” on the left, you should see “Household Income.” Click on “Household Income,” and pull it into column.
  9. In the second column from the left, you should see “Measures.”
  10. In the top right corner, you should see a “show me” box illustrating ways you can view the data based on the values you have chosen. To do side-by-side comparisons, put your cursor over the rightmost picture on the third line with the side-by-side blue and orange bars. Click on it. Your graph should appear on the page. You can play around with how you want to portray your data.
  11. To save in Tableau Public, click File > Save to Tableau Public as… > give the file a descriptive name. You will be asked to log into Tableau Public using your e-mail and password.
  12. When your graph is saved in public, at the bottom right, there is a download button. Decide how you will save the file. (You can create an image and name the .png file. It will be saved in Tableau Public.)
  13. After the file is saved, open the .png file, and edit or copy the graph.
  14. Open your PowerPoint file, and then paste (special) it on the slide. You can adjust the size.
  15. Repeat the same in Tableau opening of any other prepped and cleaned file.

Note: Measure values are your number fields; measure names are the descriptors.

Include a description of, and expectations for, the roles of all relevant partners (at least 10). 

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You are the emergency manager for Plainsville, Colorado. (Draw details from the previously outlined scenario.) You have served as part of the mayor’s commission to consider the vulnerabilities of the rail line that runs through your community. The commission had just started considering the risks associated with poor track maintenance, plus the enormous potential consequences of a train derailment, when your state fusion center notified your office of the plans for terrorists to target rail lines where chemicals are routinely transported and where derailment could result in mass casualties (injury or death) and a sensational event designed to inspire fear. Because of the nature of the line in your city and what important manufacturing processes the chemicals in transit support, both state and national intelligence authorities have advised Plainsville’s leadership to create an annex to the community’s emergency operations plan (EOP) that specifically outlines a response to a train derailment involving a chemical spill.

Requirements

Your community is small, and the number of planners, their experience levels, and their expertise are all limited. Given this crucial task, you have decided to craft the annex yourself.

  • You are responsible for producing all components of the annex, which includes the following:
    • Name the annex.
    • Ensure that it is well organized and consistently formatted.
    • It should be properly referenced where appropriate, and its content should be all-inclusive.
    • Include a description of, and expectations for, the roles of all relevant partners (at least 10).
    • Describe in writing the interagency collaboration process, network, relationships, and/or procedures that all responding partners should participate in during the prevent, respond, mitigate, and consequence management stages.
    • Consult the National Incident Management System (NIMS), and reference it as appropriate when designing your annex. Your final product will likely be 7–10 pages.

Templates

Because no single source for templates is prescribed, template and annex examples are available at the following links for guidance and assistance on creating your annex:

Also, because this assignment involves a fictional city and EOP, you have several options for locating a sample EOP: 1) construct an annex drawing on NIMS guidance alone; 2) contact an emergency management office in a community near where you attend school or live and request their EOP or an annex excerpt to use as a sample; or 3) search online for a sample or an actual annex or EOP to serve as a template.

Please submit your assignment.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Create a presentation explaining your step-by-step approach to solving the problem below. Your presentation should be done in PowerPoint with Voice Over and should be 1 – 2 minutes in length.

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Required Resources

  • Read/review the following resources for this activity:
  • Knewton text (integrated in Knewton Assignments)
  • Lesson in Canvas

Instructions

Create a presentation explaining your step-by-step approach to solving the problem below. Your presentation should be done in PowerPoint with Voice Over and should be 1 – 2 minutes in length.

You are moving and need a rental truck. The rental company you have chosen charges a $70/day fee plus $0.20 for every mile you travel. Write a linear equation that expresses the total cost y, where x represents the number of miles you travel. Graph this equation. Then choose a number of miles, x, you travel that day and find the total cost of renting the truck.

Create a PowerPoint presentation where you address the following:

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With a use of technology, human resources have streamlined many of the processes and access to information for employees through the self-service portals. Prior to much of the advanced technology organizations and employees are experiencing today, they needed to go to the human resources office to complete paperwork or seek information. As you have learned, self-service technology has eliminated many challenges experienced in the past. For your assignment on self-service technology, create a PowerPoint presentation where you address the following:

1. Describe the factors/key elements found in self-service technology.

2. Identify and described the differences among manager self-service, employee-self-service, and human resource portals.

3. What are the positives and negatives – for human resources, the organization, managers, and the employees. Make sure you provide some examples

4. What are some of the considerations that would be important when making decisions about self-service technology to include tools and providers.

A few things to remember:

· You should be able to address the topic effectively using 12-15 slides. If you believe you will need more, please contact me.

· Do not forget to use bullet points or short sentences on your slides and expand on your note pages, or you can add audio. Often, when individuals are unable to attend a presentation, the presentation is forward to the absent individuals, and the note pages (i.e. speaker notes) provide the information they missed which they missed from the actual verbal discussion. The other way to look at the note pages is that this is where the narrative from an essay would go.

· Graphics should be complementary to the narrative and not overwhelming or distracting from the content.

· Remember – keep it visually-friendly!

Creating a Visually-Friendly Presentation

There are a few things you can do to make your design visually-friendly:

1. Choose a legible font. This include Sans Serif, Helvetica, Arial, and Verdana

2. Control brightness and contrast. As many of you have already heard me say – light background and use a dark text.

3. Limit animations and effect. Do not use spinning or wavy slide transitions.

4. Stay away from dark backgrounds and slide designs.

Here are some helpful links for you to develop visually-friendly presentations:

How to make visual presentations accessible to audience members with print impairments

Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities

Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations for Students with Visual Impairments and Blindness