BBA3042 Business Research Project I

Class Session Two

Devotions

AttitudeAttitude

Video

Networking Your Way to Success

Video: Networking Your Way to Success

Does anyone have a network example to share with the class?

How has this helped your current career?

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?

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes

Individual Learning Individual Learning OutcomesOutcomes are post BBA career goal competencies, skills, and abilities.

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes

Competencies:

possessing the necessary qualities for a specific profession

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes

Skills:

technical expertness; proficiency; aptitude

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes

Abilities:

physical, mental, or legal powers to perform; talent for a specific task

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.

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.

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.

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)

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)

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes

List possible ways to achieve each Individual Learning Outcome within the BBA program.

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes

Develop a working knowledge of Internet

Understand current banking regulations (general overview)

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes

Understand re-engineering, strategic planning, and leadership

Develop communication skills, oral and written

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes

Know how to develop and implement training programs

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes

What purposes do the Individual Learning Outcomes serve?

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

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.

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.

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)

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills

Basic competency skills: Reading, writing, and

computationReading for the new workplaceWriting for impactComputation in a technological

workplace

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills

Communication skills: Speaking and listening

effectivelyOral communicationsPrinciples of good listening

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills

Adaptability skills: Solving problems and

thinking creativelyResourcefulnessCreative thinking: New ideas

for old problems

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills

Developmental skills: Managing personal and professional

growthSelf-esteem: Confidence leads to

competenceMotivation and goal setting: Developing

a personal game planCareer development: Planning for today

and tomorrow

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills

Group effectiveness skills: Working with others

Interpersonal skillsTeamworkNegotiation

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Essential Skills

Influencing skills: Making a difference

Understanding organizational culture

Sharing leadership

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.

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.

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

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work

Reintegrating home life and work life: Reversing a 100 year trend

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work

Globalization: Facing the realities of competing in a world economy

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

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

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work

Rising employee expectations: Striking a balance between demands and costs

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work

Rising employee expectations: Striking a balance between demands and costs

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Individual Learning Outcomes: Critical Forces Reshaping Work

A renewed social agenda: Expanding corporate social responsibility

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.

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:Review of HWA 2-3: Post BBA Career Goal Proposal

Break up into pairsEach 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.)

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.

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.

Track One: Post BBA Career Goal:HWA 3-1: Plan for Post BBA Career Goal

Review next Review next week’s week’s

assignment.assignment.

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.

Track Two: Work Related Problem:Review of HWA 2-4: Work Related Problem WorksheetRationale Document

Print the rationale document.Break up into pairsEach person evaluates the other’s

HWA 2-4 assignmentEach person also evaluates the

other’s rationale for the problemSuggestions are made regarding the

rationale

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

DO NOT LEAVEDO NOT LEAVE

Until you have given the facilitating instructor the following items:

HWA 2-3HWA 2-4