Communications Question

Explain any areas of cultural competence that they need to explore more.

Show how cultural competence and diversity skill will help your future professional lives.

Business Excellence
Department of Finance
Business Communications, BUSX 301, 010
Reflections– Professional Development Workshops
Due Date: Friday, xxxxxxxx, 2022, 11:59 pm
Assignment Worth x% of Final Grade
Reflections on Professional Development Workshops Assignment
Purpose: The Professional Development Reflections are writing assignments on the workshop the students
attend during the semester. The workshops will be on student career goals, job requirements, skills and abilities,
emotional intelligence, diversity, interview skills, and career fair preparation. These reflections will be used to help
you develop your Professional Development Report that is due at the end of the semester. This report will have you
researching, interviewing a professional, and reflecting on professional development issues encountered this
semester.
Skills: This assignment is designed to help you develop your listening, reflection, evaluation, and problem-solving
skills while also practicing the drafting/revising/editing of business documents.
Knowledge: This assignment will also help you become familiar with the following important content
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Analyzing audience needs
Making arguments and recommendations
Reflecting on information and using the reflections to improve professional performance
Supporting arguments with documented information using APA formatting
Drafting, writing, and editing a business report to meet reader needed
Organizing documents and chunking information
Using headings and graphics
Formatting documents
Editing and proofreading documents
Task
Reflection 1 – Emotional Intelligence -How did you improve your emotional intelligence throughout the semester?
To answer this question, you must do the following-• Take the Psychology Today online Emotional Intelligence Test, designed to explore your emotional
intelligence. Buy the full .pdf of the report on your emotional intelligence for about $13. The initial test is
free. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/tests/personality/emotional-intelligence-test
• Identify two emotional intelligence issues that need improvement by using the online test.
• Discuss the implications of the emotional intelligence’s issues on your personal and professional life.
• Provide a statement of your Emotional Intelligence SMART Goals.
• Research strategies to improve those Emotional Intelligence skills and describe those strategies.
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Reflection 2 – Career Path -What career are you seeking? (Define career role, duties,
skills, knowledge required, salary range).
To answer this question, you must do the following-• Identify the specific employment title that you plan to seek.
• Research and report the job’s duties and responsibilities.
• Identify the job’s soft skills and explain a soft skill strength and weakness.
• Identify the job’s hard skills and explain a hard skill strength and a weakness.
• Identify the job’s salary prospects.
Reflection 3 – Career Fair Visit — How did you perform
during your career fair visit?
To answer this question, you must do the following-• Evaluate your career fair performance.
• Share your career fair goals. Did you meet those goals?
• Report career fair preparation activities.
• Evaluate your “elevator speech” performance.
• Attach resume you took to the career fair in the appendix.
• Identify the company representatives you spoke to during the career fair.
• Discuss career fair skills you must improve
• Identify and discuss career fair skills you excel in
Reflection 4 – Clifton Strengths Assessment –
What are your strengths and how can you maximize them
in the future?
To answer this question, you must do the following-• Identify their two greatest strengths and show how they demonstrate those strengths.
• Express their agreement or disagreement with the Clifton Strengths Assessment.
• Identity strategies for building on and maximizing those strengths.
• Evaluate what they did to build on those strengths.
• Explain how maximizing these strengths will improve their potential.
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Reflection 5 – Diversity, Inclusion, and Ethics — What is the
importance of diversity, inclusion, and ethics in for your
career success?
To answer this question, you must do the following-• Discuss what they learned from the Diversity Workshop?
• Take a cultural awareness self-assessment and analyze the results:
https://edge.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/9.3_cultural_diversity_awareness_questionnaire.pdf
• Explain any areas of cultural competence that they need to explore more.
• Show how cultural competence and diversity skill will help their professional lives.
Reflection 6 – Career Interview — How have you
improved your professional career interview skills?
To answer this question, you must do the following-• Discuss two main job interview skills you must improve
• Perform, Analyze, and Reflect on a mock employment interview.
• Complete the “Top 10 Questions” or “Entry Level” Questions using “The Big Interview”
(https://towson.biginterview.com/)
• Explain what interview skill you perform well
• Identify interview areas you need to improve
• Discuss strategies you would employ to improve your employment interview skills
Audience: Anyone who would have an interest in your professional future
Instructions and Submission
Guidelines
This evaluative report must be type-written and comply with these requirements-•
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File Format: Electronically using a Microsoft Word compatible file. (No .pdf, .pages)
General Formatting: See Rubric.
Font: Times New Roman, 11-point (text); Arial, 13-point for headings.
Spacing Single
Documentation and Style: APA Publication Manual 7th Ed.
Use File Naming Convention: LastName_FirstName_Reflection 1_Memo
Criteria for Success
You MUST attend all workshop sessions; most will be held during Friday class sessions.
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a. Each reflection will receive a separate grade based mainly on the content and depth of answer.
Writing will be evaluated as well. You should work to write in clear, coherent prose, organized in
paragraphs and using fully developed message-style headings
b. A good reflection should be practically ready for Writing Assignment #3—The Professional
Development Report
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Reflection 5 – Diversity, Inclusion, and Ethics — What is the importance
of diversity, inclusion, and ethics in for your career success?
To answer this question, you must do the following-• Discuss what they learned from the Diversity Workshop?
• Take a cultural awareness self-assessment and analyze the results:
https://edge.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/9.3_cultural_diversity_awareness_questionnai
re.pdf
• Explain any areas of cultural competence that they need to explore more.
• Show how cultural competence and diversity skill will help their professional lives.