BBA3042 Business Research Project I

1. BBA3042 Business Research Project I Class Session Two

2. Devotions Attitude

3. Video Networking Your Way to Success

4. Video: Networking Your Way to Success • Does anyone have a network example to share with the class? • How has this helped your current career?

5. Video: Networking Your Way to Success • How does networking apply to your post BBA career goal report? • How can networking enhance your work related problem project?

6. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Individual Learning Outcomes are post BBA career goal competencies, skills, and abilities.

7. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Competencies: possessing the necessary qualities for a specific profession

8. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Skills: technical expertness; proficiency; aptitude

9. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Abilities: physical, mental, or legal powers to perform; talent for a specific task

10. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes The competencies, abilities, and skills identified by the literature review and expert interviews related to the post BBA career goal will generate the Individual Learning Outcomes.

11. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes The outcomes must be broad enough to be fulfilled by an assignment within the BBA curriculum and yet pertinent to the special requirements of the post BBA career goal.

12. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Management, communication, and analytical competencies are in demand by employers. Focus on these areas when developing Individual Learning Outcomes.

13. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Post BBA career goal: Internet specialist for the banking industry (from sample Post BBA Career Goal Report in Appendix K)

14. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Plan to Achieve Individual Learning Outcomes (listed in Appendix B of the sample Post BBA Career Goal Report)

15. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes List possible ways to achieve each Individual Learning Outcome within the BBA program.

16. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes • Develop a working knowledge of Internet • Understand current banking regulations (general overview)

17. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes • Understand re-engineering, strategic planning, and leadership • Develop communication skills, oral and written

18. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes • Know how to develop and implement training programs

19. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes What purposes do the Individual Learning Outcomes serve?

20. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes • Clarify the broader purpose of the BBA program • Illustrate connection between BBA program and post BBA career goal

21. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) assisted in a study to determine what skills are needed in the current and future work force.

22. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills • The study resulted in the identification of seven essential skills that employers want. • These skills should be considered for your set of Individual Learning Outcomes.

23. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills The Foundation: Learning how to learn • Develop strategies for acquiring skills (never stop learning)

24. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills Basic competency skills: Reading, writing, and computation • Reading for the new workplace • Writing for impact • Computation in a technological workplace

25. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills Communication skills: Speaking and listening effectively • Oral communications • Principles of good listening

26. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills Adaptability skills: Solving problems and thinking creatively • Resourcefulness • Creative thinking: New ideas for old problems

27. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills Developmental skills: Managing personal and professional growth • Self-esteem: Confidence leads to competence • Motivation and goal setting: Developing a personal game plan • Career development: Planning for today and tomorrow

28. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills Group effectiveness skills: Working with others • Interpersonal skills • Teamwork • Negotiation

29. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills Influencing skills: Making a difference • Understanding organizational culture • Sharing leadership

30. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work A study was commissioned by eight major U.S. corporations to identify trends that will affect the future work force. • Demographic, technological, and socioeconomic changes will affect how work is done in the near future. • Jobs will require a greater variety of skills than the average new job market entrant currently possesses.

31. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work The following critical forces are not “skills,” “abilities,” nor “competencies”… However… Reflectively thinking about these critical forces may influence the way you develop some of your Individual Learning Outcomes in order to be better prepared for your post BBA career goal.

32. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work Increasing diversity in the work force: Making heterogeneity and flexible management work

33. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work Reintegrating home life and work life: Reversing a 100 year trend

34. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work Globalization: Facing the realities of competing in a world economy

35. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work Expanding human resources planning: Restructuring roles and practices to improve business-unit planning

36. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work The changing nature of work: Training and reeducating for a knowledge-based work force

37. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work Rising employee expectations: Striking a balance between demands and costs

38. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work Rising employee expectations: Striking a balance between demands and costs

39. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work A renewed social agenda: Expanding corporate social responsibility

40. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes Both the essential skills employers want and the critical forces reshaping work should be considered when developing your Individual Learning Outcomes.

41. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Review of HWA 2-3: Post BBA Career Goal Proposal • Break up into pairs • Each person evaluates the other’s HWA 2-3 assignment (DO NOT MARK ON THE COPY TO BE GIVEN TO FACILITATING INSTRUCTOR AT THE END OF THIS CLASS SESSION.)

42. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Review of HWA 2-3: Post BBA Career Goal Proposal • Discuss how the proposed expert interviews will be conducted. • Create questions for the expert interviews.

43. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Review of HWA 2-3: Post BBA Career Goal Proposal • How will the results of the literature review and proposed expert interviews be incorporated into Individual Learning Outcomes? • Share examples of Individual Learning Outcomes that might be developed. • Suggest how the Individual Learning Outcomes might be fulfilled within the BBA program.

44. Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:HWA 3-1: Plan for Post BBA Career Goal Review next week’s assignment.

45. Track Two: Work Related Problem:Review of HWA 2-4: Work Related Problem WorksheetRationale Document Select one of the problems from your Work Related Problem Worksheet. Create a new Microsoft Word document to answer the following questions (save this document as Rationale): • Would the successful implementation of the solution of this problem make a positive economic impact (give specifics) on the organization? • Is the problem dealing with a “structural” issue(s)--or is it limited to the “personality” of one or two employees within the organization? • Is the problem “worthy” of a multiple month study? If so, why? • What type of literature review would be conducted? What areas (technical and non-technical) would be reviewed? Give specific examples.

46. Track Two: Work Related Problem:Review of HWA 2-4: Work Related Problem WorksheetRationale Document • Print the rationale document. • Break up into pairs • Each person evaluates the other’s HWA 2-4 assignment • Each person also evaluates the other’s rationale for the problem • Suggestions are made regarding the rationale

47. Track Two: Work Related Problem:Review of HWA 2-4: Work Related Problem WorksheetRationale Document • Individually, revise rationale document after evaluation • Print a new copy of the rationale document to submit with the HWA 2-4 assignment • The rationale document will not affect your grade unless it is not included with HWA 2-4 • Do not print a new copy of HWA2-4 Work Related Problem Worksheet

48. DO NOT LEAVE Until you have given the facilitating instructor the following items: • HWA 2-3 • HWA 2-4