In this reflective writing exercise, you will analyze your strengths and challenges in the context of incorporating change, using critical thinking and reasoning skills.

Read: Kotter’s Eight Step Change Model

In summary, the eight steps are:

• Create a Sense of Urgency
• Build a Guiding Coalition
• Form a Strategic Vision and Initiatives
• Enlist a Volunteer Army
• Enable Action by Removing Barriers
• Generate Short‐Term Wins
• Sustain Acceleration

Directions:

Using Kotter’s change model and any additional concepts learned through the readings and lecture pages, write a self‐reflection essay that answers the following:

• Reflect on the concept of a scholar‐practitioner and its application to integrate practices to effect change in your organization.

• What do urgency, change, management, and complexity mean to you?

• Describe the role you play as a change agent.

• Select a situation where you were an employee or leader, and explain how change has affected your behavior and motivation to adapt to or improve operational efficiencies.

Requirements:

• Your paper should be 5 double-spaced pages including introduction and conclusion.

• In this self‐reflective assignment, you need to back up your ideas and claims with scholarly sources. Please cite at least two scholarly sources that are not required readings in the course.

• Keep in mind that critical reasoning and thinking skills are not the same as an opinion. While it is acceptable to write in first‐person, be sure to support your ideas with valid, reputable, and scholarly articles.

• Remember, you must support your thinking/opinions and prior knowledge with references.

• In-text citation used throughout the assignment and APA-formatted reference list.

• Please no plagiarism and sources should not be older than 5 years.

• Include headings organize the content in your work.

For the second assignment of the Session Long Project, you are to
create two (2) sample job descriptions for positions you are looking to
fill at Trident Emergency Care Center (TECC). In creating the two
descriptions, remember the TECC organizational demographics from Module 1
SLP:

• The center’s primary patients are Spanish speaking.
• The center is geographically surrounded by elderly communities (i.e. assisted-living communities).
• TECC is in a rural populated area.
• The three-top health related issues within a 30-mile radius of TECC are obesity, diabetes, and cancer.
• Within 15 miles of TECC there is a medical school and nursing school.

The job descriptions should be 1 page each in length and include:

• Heading information – This should include job title, pay range, reporting relationship, and FT/PT.
• Summary objective of the position – List general key
  competencies, responsibilities, and descriptions of key task and their
  purpose, relationship to consumers and colleagues.
• Qualifications – This should include education, experience, training, and technical skills necessary to perform the job.
• Job duties and responsibilities – Identify task that the role entails.

Following the two job descriptions, you are to prepare a 1-page summary covering the following:

1. The importance of the position/role to TECC
2. The value of job descriptions regarding staffing needs at TECC.

SLP Assignment Expectations

1. Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to support sample job descipritons and summary.
2. Limit your response to a maximum of 3 pages.
3. Support your SLP with peer-reviewed articles, with at least 1-2
   references. Use the following source for additional information on how
   to recognize peer-reviewed journals: http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php.
4. You may use the following source to assist in your formatting your assignment: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/.

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The organization to use is National Coalition for the Homeless

Your task this week is to expand your research to cultural challenges, humanitarian considers, and roadblocks faced by the organization.

You will turn in a 2-3 pages paper following APA guidelines. Click here for the web version of the APA sample paper. Click here for a downloadable version of the APA sample paper.

PAPER REQUIREMENTS:

Complete the following steps.

Step 1: Introduction – Provide a quick introduction to the organization you have chosen. Briefly describe the population that the organization seeks to serve. Describe briefly how the organization’s mission connects to what the organization does to help these populations. Briefly describe what the organization does to serve these populations. Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.Citation tutorial

Step 2: Humanitarian Considerations – Describe the challenges the populations served by the organization face in our current society. Based on research and specific evidence, does the organization engages in “charity” work or “solidarity” work?What specifically could the organization do differently to engage more fully in “solidarity” work? Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.

Step 3: Cultural Challenges – What challenges might students have in engaging with the unique and diverse populations served by the organization? Based on your research, how might students overcome these issues?How might the university support students in overcoming these challenges?Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.

Step 4: Roadblocks – What potential liabilities could exist by having students of the XYZ University participate with service learning and the organization?Has the organization had any issues in the past that might reflect poorly on the University?What risks might the student face by participating in service learning with the organization?How are these liabilities and issues related to the diverse cultural populations served by the organization?Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.

Step 5: Conclusion – What cultural conflicts are likely to occur if a student participates in service learning at this organization?How might cultural issues or disagreements between the student, the organization, and the diverse populations the organization serves be resolved?How can the University support these resolutions?What are the potential risks to the university?Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.

Step 6: References – On a separate reference page, list all the references you have cited in your paper to support your claims.

Note: I have a final paper that I need done. Here are the instructions for the final assignment (final project). Ibelieve you (or whoever the writer was) should have the previousassignments that were done to look at as a guide. If not, let me know.The written workthat was selected for the most recent previous assignment (I will attach. Read it and use it as a guide.) is War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. The due date is Friday Nov 23rd at 11:55 p.m. Any questions, just email me. If you need access to my account on the school website, just email me.

Assignment Instructions:

The interdisciplinary research paper represents the culmination of the reading and studying in the course and should demonstrate the student’s ability to pursue the MA in Humanities, as evidenced by graduate level critical and analytical thinking, and the writing ability to express such thinking clearly and effectively. The research paper should be a minimum of 4,500 words in length (14 pages in length), excluding (NOT COUNTING) the Works Cited page(s). Use MLA format ONLY. Use Adler and Van Doren (How to read a book) as your guide, while writing about Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace as well (pdf below).

Once you have a solid grasp of the primary text (War and Peace ), then you are ready to start asking some questions of your book in order to create your topic. A writer usually sets out to do a research project in order to answer one or more questions about the text. These questions will help you formulate a working hypothesis; that is, what you think may be the answer to your research question. Framing a research question is a way of focusing the main direction of your research. It states what you want to find out. Next you will start reading critical scholarly materials (secondary sources) that have been written about your “War and Peace”. It is particularly important to read more recent critical responses so that your own thesis expands on current discussion rather than re-iterates what has already been written. You will be asked to submit a working bibliography of sources you plan to consult or may have already reviewed in preparation for your paper. The bibliography will prove to be a very useful tool in your research (see below as well–attachment). A successful working thesis should identify the topic the paper will explore, state the writer’s opinion or label the writer’s point of view on the topic, and be flexible enough to change in response to information and ideas gleaned from the various sources consulted.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The paper should argue, from the multiplicity of themes covered in the novel War and Peace, that love resides in the central place, having effect on many aspects of society, from people’s attitude to war to their intimate relationships. Nonetheless, despite its universality, love in Leo Tolstoy’s novel has many layers and “faces,” which makes it so interesting to investigate how each of these faces affects the story.” The method: “The paper employs the methodology of literature review to synthesize important critical findings of professionals in the field to support the thesis and demonstrate the many faces of love in the novel. No participants are involved in the study, except of the literary critics whose works are analyzed. By demonstrating how Tolstoy deals with the theme of love (including his unconventional approaches in the times of traditional romanticism), the paper stimulates further discussion on the topic and offers valuable implication for further research in the field.”

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