When communicating within the context of a meeting, leaders and managers always must be mindful the strengths and drawbacks of meetings. Knowing how to design, develop, and shape your messages is important.

Review the following scenario:

You have been selected to address the quarterly meeting of your company’s board of directors. You will be delivering negative updates that include low profits, pending lawsuits, and high employee turnover. The members of your board of directors are dispersed across the country.

Based on your analysis of the scenario and the meeting design practices covered in this module, address the following:

• What measures will you take to ensure that you achieve the purpose of the meeting?
• List and briefly explain the rationale for using the practices that you will adopt to ensure that the meeting proceeds smoothly and productively.

Write a 2-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc.

By the due date assigned, submit your assignment to the Submissions Area.

This discussion will serve as a drafting area for your upcoming assignment in 5.3. Based on your annotated bibliography. Specifically, present one paragraph of background of the topic area.

Then, write one paragraph that contains your problem statement (start this paragraph with, “The problem to be addressed in this study is”).  

Then, provide one to three overarching research question(s) that, if answered, would accomplish the goals of your research and resolve all/part of the research problem. Finally, write one quantitative hypothesis to test in this proposed study. Remember, a hypothesis is a supposition about a relationship between variables, so focus on one variable having an effect on another.

Include your references formatted per current APA standards.

 Create a PowerPoint presentation on clinical research informatics with speaker notes that critically address each of the following elements. (Remember that your presentation slides should have short, bullet-pointed text with your speaker notes including the bulk of the information provided in the following list.)

• Compare and contrast evidence-based medicine and personalized medicine.
• Describe a minimum of three ethical considerations in personalized medicine.
• Summarize the Genetic Information and Nondiscrimination Act
• Evaluate a minimum of two barriers of personalized medicine.

 must be five to seven slides with speaker notes  

 Must use at least three scholarly sources and be APA style 

 

Discuss R&D, marketing, production, and the impact on company financial performance and competitive positioning. The following bullets suggest issues to address.

For this assignment, you will respond to the address the efficacy of decisions made for your team Competition Round 1, the outcomes, and implications for Competition Round 2.  This post is an in depth assessment of all decisions made. What have you identified as the key business issues that will impact your product as the result of Competition Round 1 outcomes? How do you plan to adjust the decisions for your product? Prepare to discuss your decisions with the other members of your team. Discuss R&D, marketing, production, and the impact on company financial performance and competitive positioning. The following bullets suggest issues to address.

If you are the COO and did not make product decisions, discuss each of the four areas from the strategic organization level perspective.

As the Vice President of your product please address these questions for the decisions you made in R&D:

• To what degree did your decisions regarding specification of the products serve to attract customer demand? What do you plan for round 2, based on the outcome?
• What level of quality and reliability—mean time between failure (MTBF) did you build into your products and why?
• How did you ensure that the perceived age of the product meets customer demand?
• What was the impact of your R&D decisions on materials cost? What other decisions were impacted by the increase or decrease? 

As the Vice President of your product please address these questions for the decisions you made in Marketing:

• Explain your rationale for how you set the price of your products in the marketplace. How did your pricing compare to the competition at the close of the Round? How do you plan to respond in the next round?
• How well did you build customer awareness through promotion, relative to the competition?
• How effectively did you establish a sales force and distribution channels?
• What was your sales forecast strategy for your products and how did you calculate it?

As the Vice President of your product please address these questions for the decisions you made in Production:

• Did you purchase machinery to automate your facilities? Why or why not? 
• Did you buy or sell capacity of product lines? 
• How did you establish your production schedule for each line? 

In conjunction with the COO final Finance decisions, address these questions for the Finance decisions related to your product:

• Did you acquire capital to fund capital expansions?
• How effectively did your company fund operations?
• Did your product decisions contribute to or detract from company performance? Why?
• Given your analysis, what adjustments do you plan for Competition Round 2?

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Assessment of Long Term Care or Residential Facility Writing Assignment (25% of your grade)

Based on the facility chosen in Week 3, write a paper that includes all of the following information.

Use a heading for each of these sections to clearly identify the details in your paper.   You do not need to use an “abstract” as a part of the paper.  

• The name of the Facility
• The location and how many people are at this Facility.
• What services are offered? (do not cut and paste – use your own words otherwise this will show up in Turnitin as plagiarism. 
• List the web site of the facility and two other scholarly sources where you are going to research your topic.

1. Repeat the overview details from week 3’s submission(listed above) where you named a facility and briefly describe the services and type of facility.  
2. In addition you will discuss the history of the type of care provided.  How did long term care develop? How did the facility develop?
3. Provide a description of the facility.  What is the structure like?  What is the building and its surroundings?  Is it urban, suburban, rural?  
4. Identify the specific types of care provided and for what diagnoses (conditions).  So a wing for ventilator dependent patients is for what illness?
5. Write an evaluation/analysis of the pros and cons of the care provided by the facility (use Nursing Home Compare for data).  
6. Provide a financial overview — what options for patient to pay for care (eg. Medicare? Private Insurance? etc.) Does the facility accept insurance or cash only?  What type of insurance?  Why?
7. Identify the names of the specific laws and regulations that oversee this facility; include if they are accredited by the Joint Commission or any other private accreditation agency.  
8. Discuss the recommendations for improvement.  Don’t state there are none.  Every facility can be improved.  

The research assignment must be written in the students’ own words in a grammatically correct manner.  Please reach out to the CAS for help if necessary.  

Please be certain to include information from the nursing home compare website: http://www.medicare.gov/NHCompare (Links to an external site.)

The paper must be submitted using Microsoft Word, double spaced and using a 12 point,  Times New Roman font.  No “abstract” is required.  All pages must be filled.  Do not submit papers that are partially filled to meet the page requirement.  

No less than 5 pages not including the title page and reference page. The title page and reference pages are separate from the body of your paper.  

APA-formatting must be used, including intext citations throughout the paper.