Discovering the Student Support Center
Discovering the Student Support Center
Part of your final project for this course is developing academic and professional goals and identifying resources to help you reach your goals. A great resource available to all the University of Arizona Global Campus students is the Student Success Center (SSC). The Student Success Center is a one-stop shop for all of your academic needs! This site houses a number of valuable tools and resources that will support you as you go along your academic journey and will help prepare you as you design your Personal Development Plan in Week 5 and for future professional success.
Prepare: Before attempting this discussion,
Review the Week 5 Final Project.
Start thinking about your academic and professional goals as well as your strengths and areas of opportunity.
Visit the Student Support Center Links to an external site.(SSC) and explore the different tools and resources the SSC has to offer.
Consider the resources in the Supports & Resources, Academic & Career Skills, or School-Life Balance sections of the SSC. Also, consider checking out the The Hub (Links to an external site.).
Identify at least three tools or resources that you find particularly valuable and useful.
Watch this Student Support Center video:
Student Support Center (Links to an external site.)
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
List the three valuable and useful tools or resources you found in the SSC.
Describe each of the three tools or resources.
What is the resource? How do you access it? How could it be used? What is helpful, valuable, or useful about the resource?
Explain how the three tools or resources can help you achieve your professional or academic goals.
Your initial post should be a minimum of 150 words and is due by Day 3 (Thursday). Try to write a short paragraph about each of the three resources you discovered.
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7 (Monday). Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words. In your peer responses:
Discuss the usefulness of tools, strategies, or resources your peer found.
How could these tools or resources benefit you as well?
Suggest another resource within the Student Support Center (SSC) that your peer could find to be beneficial.
BUS105 Business & Academic Success
Week 2 Discussion
DQ1 Understanding NACE Competencies [WLO: 1] [CLOs: 1, 2]
An important element to your future career success is being able to identify the skills (i.e., competencies) that employers are interested in and then working to excel and grow in those areas. This week you will visit the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) website to discover the eight career-readiness competencies that employers have identified as useful for students to know. When visiting the NACE website, review the list of the eight career readiness competencies and see how each competency is defined. Please note that you will not only discuss the competencies this week, but you will also use the NACE career-readiness competencies in your Week 5 Personal Development Plan.
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Read Career Readiness Defined (Links to an external site.) from the NACE website and review the names and definitions of the eight career-readiness competencies.
Download and save the NACE Competencies (Links to an external site.)
Complete the NACE Competencies: Developing Career Readiness (Links to an external site.)interactive:
NACE Competencies: Developing Career Readiness (Links to an external site.)
Reflect:
Reflect on the self-assessment section within the interactive (above) and think about the competencies you are excelling at, currently developing, and the ones you need to develop. Think about how these skills can help you reach your academic and professional goals.
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
Identify the two NACE competencies that you feel are your strongest (i.e., strengths).
Which two of the eight competencies are your strongest? Which are you excelling at?
Provide two real-life examples of how you have used those skills personally, academically, or in the workplace.
Identify the two NACE competencies that are your weakest (i.e., areas of opportunity).
Which ones do you need to work on or develop as skills?
Explain why it would be important to develop those two skills in order to be successful personally, academically, or professionally.
Your initial post should be a minimum of 250 words and is due on Day 3 (Thursday).
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words. In your peer responses:
Comment on their NACE competencies that your peer identified as strengths and areas of opportunity.
What new things did you discover, learn, or find interesting after reviewing your peer’s post?
What could they do to develop those skills or competencies?
DQ2 Opportunities for Professional Development [WLOs: 2] [CLOs: 1, 2]
As a student at the University of Arizona Global Campus within the Forbes School of Business & Technology, it is important to stay current with what is going on in the business world and to develop yourself professionally. One great way of doing this is by accessing articles and information on the award-winning Forbes (Links to an external site.) website. Forbes journalists and contributors reveal breaking news, extensive coverage, top headlines on business, politics, technology, innovation, and more. You will find a vast array of business articles that will prove useful to you in your degree program and in your career. Globally, Forbes reaches over 120 million people (Forbes Magazine, 2020). The website also provides a wide array of business-centered articles that can be useful in course discussions and assignments as well as tips for achieving your professional goals.
Prepare: Before attempting this discussion,
Watch the Welcome to the Forbes School of Business & Technology (Links to an external site.) video.
Visit the Forbes (Links to an external site.) website and do the following:
Search for an article on professional skills or on achieving your professional goals.
Read the article you found, and identify two pieces of advice shared within the article.
Step 1:
Click on the search icon on the Forbes website:
Step 2:
Search the website for “professional skills” or “professional goals” or a specific skill you are interested in developing:
Within the search feature on the Forbes website, type in your search term and click on the arrow to search.
Suggestion: Consider searching for information on one of the NACE competencies you identified as an area of opportunity in your Week 2, Discussion 1.
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
Provide the link to the Forbes article you read.
Briefly reflect on the Forbes article you read. In your reflection, answer the following questions:
Why did you choose this article?
What does the article discuss?
What are two pieces of advice you learned from the article?
What steps must you take to put the advice given into action?
How can you apply the advice to your professional or academic goal?
Your initial post should be a minimum of 200 words and is due on Day 3 (Thursday).
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7 (Monday). Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words. In your peer responses:
Discuss the two pieces of advice your peer shared.
What further pointers or advice could you provide on the topic?
How could you apply this advice to your academic or professional aspirations?
BUS105 Business & Academic Success
Week 3 Discussion
DQ1 Student Success Support Network [WLO: 1] [CLOs: 1, 2]
Creating your own student success support network is vital to your success at the University of Arizona Global Campus. Your support network should include people who can give you the following: technical support, emotional support, assignment support and the University of Arizona Global Campus support.
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Read the Week 3 Lecture.
Read The Importance of a Social Support Network in Achieving Your Goals (Links to an external site.).
Watch Social Well Being – Importance of Social Connections (Links to an external site.).
Review the five support network scenarios within the interactive below by clicking on each person’s name:
Think about how these people could utilize their support network, instructor, or the University of Arizona Global Campus resources for help.
Support Network Scenario Handout (Links to an external site.)
Reflect:
Think about a stressful time in your life and how having (or not having) a support network affected the outcome of that situation. Creating your own student success support network is vital to your success at the University of Arizona Global Campus. Your network should include people who can give you the support for a variety of issues such as technical support, emotional support, assignment support, and the University of Arizona Global Campus support. Remember, life happens, and the best thing to do is to be as ready as possible for it.
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
Identify whose scenario you picked.
Explain two to three things that person could do to overcome their stressful situation.
How could they utilize their support network, instructor, or the University of Arizona Global Campus resources for help?
Discuss why having a support network is important for your academic success.
Discuss why having a plan in place is important for handling stressful situations.
Your initial post should be a minimum of 200 words and is due on Day 3 (Thursday).
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words. In your peer responses:
Offer suggestions or explain what you would have done in that particular scenario.
Include a brief story about how planning for success helped you to also deal with adversity.
DQ2
Skills for Career Success [WLOs: 2, 3] [CLOs: 1, 2]
Soft skills are a combination of personality traits, habits, attitudes, and interpersonal skills that people use to work well with others, perform tasks, and navigate their environment. Employers value soft skills because it is important for employees to meaningfully interact and engage with people, tasks, and processes within their working environment.
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Read Top 11 Skills Employers Look for in Candidates (Links to an external site.)
Explore the University of Arizona Global Campus Career Services (Links to an external site.) website. Consider the following resources:
Self-Assessment, Career Exploration & Planning (Links to an external site.)
Marketing Yourself (Links to an external site.)
Job Search, Networking, & Interview Preparation (Links to an external site.)
Military Self-Directed Search (Links to an external site.)
Reflect:
This discussion is a great opportunity to think about career readiness factors. You will explore how you can apply specific soft skills and find resources in Career Services that will help you attain your goals.
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
Prioritize four soft skills in the order that you think will be most important to your professional success.
Describe how each of the four soft skills can support you in your profession. For example, you can say, “As a business owner, effective communication will be important because my success will depend on …”
Share two resources from Career Services and explain how they can support you in pursuit of your career goals.
Your initial post should be a minimum of 250 words and is due by Day 3 (Thursday).
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Make an effort to select two different classmates than you have responded to before. Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words. In your peer responses:
Consider the soft skills they identified as critical to their professional success.
How are yours similar or different? What advice can you give on how they can further develop the soft skills they identified?
Recommend one other resource from The University of Arizona Global Campus’ Career Services and Alumni Relations page that may help your peers as they pursue their goals.
BUS105 Business & Academic Success
Week 4 Discussion
DQ1 Discovering Task and Relational Behaviors [WLOs: 1, 2] [CLO: 3]
Effective leaders have to be good at attending to tasks and with building relationships. To understand more about task and relationship behaviors, you will complete the Task and Relationship Questionnaire interactive. The purpose of this interactive and this discussion is to help you build awareness of your task-oriented and relationship-oriented leadership behaviors. Once you complete the interactive, compare your scores, and you will begin to see if you are more task focused or more people focused.
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Read the Week 4 Lecture.
Read Chapter 4: Attending to Tasks and Relationships in the textbook.
Consider reviewing Chapter 1 in the textbook.
Complete the Task and Relationship Questionaire interactive:
Task and Relationship Questionnaire (Links to an external site.)
Reflect:
Reflect on what you learned about your own leadership style. Do you consider yourself to be a task-oriented leader, or a relational-oriented leader? Do you do both well? What are the benefits of each style? One of the challenges leaders face when leading is knowing when to integrate in their task and relationship behaviors. Do you consider this a challenge for you in your leadership style?
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
Share your task and relationship scores from the interactive.
Identify which leadership style is more dominant for you: task or relationship.
Discuss what you learned about your own leadership style. In doing so, consider these questions:
Do you feel your scores from the interactive are accurate?
Is one style better than the other?
What are the benefits of each style?
Your initial post should be a minimum of 200 words and is due on Day 3 (Thursday).
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Try to respond to two different classmates you have not responded to before. Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words. In your peer responses:
Reflect on your specific style (task or relational) and your peers. Comment on any similarities or differences between your style and your peer’s style.
Share examples how you apply or use these behaviors in your personal and professional lives.
For example, if you are a manager or leader in any organization in society (profit or not-for-profit), share an example or two how you apply these two behaviors and how they work for you.
DQ2 Leader Behaviors for Success [WLOs: 2] [CLOs: 3]
In the first discussion forum this week you examined your personal style regarding task-oriented and relationship-oriented behaviors. Now you will focus on the similarities and differences between a leader and a manager.
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Read Chapter 4 in the textbook.
Review the “Leadership vs. Management” section of Chapter 1 in the textbook.
Watch The Perils of Confusing Management and Leadership video:
The Perils of Confusing Management and Leadership (Links to an external site.)
Reflect:
Reflect on the sections, “Task Leadership,” and “Relationship Leadership” in Chapter 4 of the textbook. Simply put, leaders with a task style focus on goal accomplishment in their group, and leaders with a relationship style help followers feel comfortable in the group and in situations. Good leaders should be both task-focused and relationship-focused. With that in mind, think about leader who has influenced, improved, and inspired you positively (in any organization in society) and who has impacted positive outcomes and results. How did that leader balance achieving objectives with building relationships? Was that leader more task-oriented or relationship-oriented, or were they good in both areas?
Also, reflect on The Perils of Confusing Management and Leadership (Links to an external site.)video and what you have learned. Are leadership and management the same? Why or why not? What is the difference between being a leader or a manager?
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
Compare leadership and management.
Are they the same? Why or why not? Explain.
Identify a leader who has inspired you and answer each of these questions:
What did the leader accomplish that impressed or inspired you?
Is the leader more task-oriented or relationship-oriented, or both?
How did the leader use their task and relational behaviors to achieve results and positive outcomes?
Were they more of a manager or a leader, or both?
Your initial post should be a minimum of 200 words and is due on Day 3 (Thursday).
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Try to respond to two different classmates you have not responded to before. Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words. In your peer responses:
Reflect on what your peers said about their chosen leader’s specific style (task or relational). Do you agree with their assessment? Why or why not?
Read your peers reply of the difference between leaders and managers. What can you add to their conversation?
BUS105 Business & Academic Success
Week 5 Discussion
DQ1 Personal Leadership Reflection [WLOs: 1] [CLOs: 1, 2]
This discussion allows you the opportunity to reflect back over the previous four weeks of this course and share with your classmates what you have found to be both your leadership strengths and your areas of opportunities. This discussion will also provide you the opportunity to provide feedback to your classmates on how they might improve upon their leadership opportunities and receive feedback on how you might improve on your leadership opportunities.
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Review the previous four weeks’ discussions to refresh yourself on your leadership strengths and opportunities.
Consider reviewing Chapter 2 in the textbook on leadership traits and attributes.
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post, answer these questions:
What is your strongest or most developed leadership trait?
How do you know this is your strongest leadership trait? Provide examples.
What is something you could do to improve or develop this trait further?
What leadership trait is your biggest challenge or area of opportunity?
What could you do to work on this leadership area of opportunity?
How would developing this area of opportunity help you reach your goals?
Your initial post should be a minimum of 150 words and is due by Day 3 (Thursday).
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words. In your peer responses:
Provide feedback regarding your classmate’s greatest leadership trait and what actions they could pursue to further develop that trait.
Provide feedback regarding your classmate’s greatest leadership area of opportunity and what actions they could pursue to further improve upon that trait.
DQ2
Course Reflection on Target [WLO: 2] [CLO: 1]
This discussion allows you the opportunity to reflect over the course and share with your classmates what successes you have experienced and what challenges you have experienced in your first Forbes School of Business & Technology course at the University of Arizona Global Campus. Any new venture we take on in our personal and professional lives has both successes and challenges. What is important is to reflect on both and think about how they have impacted you attaining your goals. This discussion will also provide you the opportunity to provide feedback to your classmates on their success and challenges and how they can use both in attaining their personal and professional goals.
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Reflect on your leadership strengths and areas of opportunity. Where do you excel? What areas could you develop?
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
Reflect on the course. In your reflection, answer these questions:
What is one thing you have done in this course that made you the most proud?
Why are you proud of this accomplishment?
What was the biggest challenge or obstacle you had to overcome in this course?
What can you do to overcome this obstacle for future course?
What skills have you learned in this course that you can use in future courses?
Your initial post should be a minimum of 150 words and is due by Day 3 (Thursday).
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words. In your peer responses:
Provide feedback regarding your classmates’ greatest successes and how they can further develop those successes to be successful in future courses at the University of Arizona Global Campus.
Provide feedback regarding your classmates’ greatest obstacles and what actions they might take to best address those obstacles in future classes at the University of Arizona Global Campus.
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