Month: November 2015

November 30, 2015 Period 4 Only JA BE #6

Rob

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Session Six: Ethics Are Good For Business

Students learn to anticipate ethical dilemmas and consider consequences in making ethical business decisions.

Session Objectives:

  • Evaluate short- and long-term consequences in making ethical decisions
  • Express that being ethical can be good for business

November 20, 2015 Period 5 Only JA BE #4

Rob

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Session Four: What’s My Advantage?

Students learn the importance of intentionally selecting and applying competitive advantages to an entrepreneurial venture.

Session Objectives:

  • Define competitive advantages and recognize them in other businesses
  • Demonstrate the importance of selecting competitive advantages that give their product and market an edge on the competition

November 19 & December 2, 2015 Period 4 Only Case 3 Maslow’s Needs & Power

Rob

Do now:

Rank the following from the Most Essential to the Least Essential

  • Friends

  • Safety

  • Recognition

  • Food

  • Truth

Objective: Students will recognize Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and it relationship to Emotional Intelligence Social Awareness.  Students will recognize different types of leadership power and will learn techniques for building expert power among leaders.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Respond to the following in your Google Docs Journal

  • Why do you think Maslow chose to place physical and safety needs as the first two
    needs?
  • What level of Maslow’s needs does food meet? Explain.
  • What level of Maslow’s needs does winning an Oscar at the Academy Awards meet? Explain.
  • What level of Maslow’s needs does a relationship with your best friend meet? Explain.

Power

Use what you have learned

Use what you have learned about Emotional Intelligence, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and Bases of Power to evaluate the Blue Buzzard Restaurant Case Study.

Case Study Process:

  1. Read the case out loud all the way through once.
  2. Review the Case Study Questions
  3. Read the case again looking for clues and keys.
  4. Discuss your group’s responses to the questions
  5. Record your answers on a shared document
  6. Change the permission on the shared document so that Anyone with the link can view
  7. Link your responses to your Google Docs Journal.

Analyze the three people in the case study-Carla, Adrianna, and Steve.

  • What do we know about this person and how this person behaves?
  • What are each person’s goals, dreams, and needs?
  • Describe each person’s emotional intelligence.
  • How does each person behave toward other people in the company?
  • Why Blue Buzzard Restaurants would have hired this person?

Create a short skit portraying the situation given to your team.   We will present these the last hour of next class.

November 18 & December 3, 2015 Period 5 Only Management Styles Case 9

Rob

Objective: Students will learn about three different management styles; Theory X, Theory Y, Management by Objective Theory by viewing videos and reading a case study 9.

Leadership Styles

Theory X & Y video

Goal Setting Theory

Case 9 Teams

Use what you have learned

Use what you have learned about Management Styles, Theory X & Y, and Management By Objective by reading the Painters Plus case study.

Case Study Process:

  1. Read the case out loud all the way through once.
  2. Review the Case Study Questions
  3. Read the case again looking for clues and keys.
  4. Discuss your group’s responses to the questions
  5. Record your answers on a shared document
  6. Change the permission on the shared document so that Anyone with the link can view
  7. Link your responses to your Google Docs Journal.

Your team has been hired by Painters Plus as a consultant group. What management style or combination of styles would you recommend Painters Plus adopt?

  1. Discuss your recommendation as a team
  2. Using the 6 Trait Response Outline  prepare an individual written recommendation for Painters Plus using Google Docs.
  3. Link your response in your journal.

 

November 13, 2015 Period 4 Only EI Assessment

Rob

Do Now:  Click here to take an Emotional Intelligence Assessment.  When complete read the results and decide if you agree.

Copy and paste your results into your Google Docs Journal.

Objective:  Students will explore their Emotional Intelligence levels and discuss how they can use this information to make future choices.

Click here to read  How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence.

Use the 6 Trait Writing Summary outline to write a summary of this article.

As you summarize decide which of the suggestions you want to use and write a SMART goal that you will use to increase you emotional intelligence.

SMART Goals:

  • Specific
  • Measurable
  • Attainable
  • Realistic
  • Time bounded

Link your summary and SMART Goal to your Google Docs journal.

When you have completed the assessment, summary and goals you may work on missing assignments. 

Today is the end of the 2nd 6 week grading period.  Assignments must be in your Google Docs Journal by 3:00pm today to be included in this grading period.

Mastering Your Emotions Videos

Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jaaHLoINVp4

Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeYhIRjZXgg&feature=player_embedded

November 6 & 12, 2015 Period 5 Only Case 3 Maslow’s Needs & Power

Rob

Do now:

Rank the following from the Most Essential to the Least Essential

  • Friends

  • Safety

  • Recognition

  • Food

  • Truth

Objective: Students will recognize Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and it relationship to Emotional Intelligence Social Awareness.  Students will recognize different types of leadership power and will learn techniques for building expert power among leaders.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Respond to the following in your Google Docs Journal

  • Why do you think Maslow chose to place physical and safety needs as the first two
    needs?
  • What level of Maslow’s needs does food meet? Explain.
  • What level of Maslow’s needs does winning an Oscar at the Academy Awards meet? Explain.
  • What level of Maslow’s needs does a relationship with your best friend meet? Explain.

Power

Use what you have learned

Use what you have learned about Emotional Intelligence, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and Bases of Power to evaluate the Blue Buzzard Restaurant Case Study.

Case Study Process:

  1. Read the case out loud all the way through once.
  2. Review the Case Study Questions
  3. Read the case again looking for clues and keys.
  4. Discuss your group’s responses to the questions
  5. Record your answers on a shared document
  6. Change the permission on the shared document so that Anyone with the link can view
  7. Link your responses to your Google Docs Journal.

Analyze the three people in the case study-Carla, Adrianna, and Steve.

  • What do we know about this person and how this person behaves?
  • What are each person’s goals, dreams, and needs?
  • Describe each person’s emotional intelligence.
  • How does each person behave toward other people in the company?
  • Why Blue Buzzard Restaurants would have hired this person?

Create a short skit portraying the situation given to your team.   We will present these the last hour of next class.

November 11, 2015 Period 4 Only JA BE #4

Rob

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Session Four: What”s My Advantage?

Students learn the importance of intentionally selecting and applying competitive advantages to an entrepreneurial venture.

Session Objectives:

  • Define competitive advantages and recognize them in other businesses
  • Demonstrate the importance of selecting competitive advantages that give their product and market an edge on the competition

Match each of the following words with one of the descriptions on page 11 of your JA Be Entrepreneurial workbook:

  1. Act on it
  2. Competitive Advantage
  3. Product
  4. Watching you
  5. Behavior
  6. Simple
  7. Competition
  8. Remember
  9. Few
  10. Act on
  11. Do the same
  12. Compromise
  13. Positive
  14. Customer
  15. Behavior
  16. Profits
  17. Penalties
  18. Act
  19. Rewards
  20. Consequences

November 10, 2015 Period 5 Only JA BE #2

Rob

Do Now: Click here to open and make a copy of What’s My Business  Match the type of product with the entrepreneurial product.

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 Session Two: What”s My Business?

Students continue to develop their product or service idea by analyzing various sources of successful entrepreneurial ventures, culminating in their selection of a product or service as the basis of their business plan.

Session Objectives:

  • Recognize the importance of carefully selecting their product or service before starting their business
  • Apply their passions, talents, and skills to a market-needs assessment to determine the basis of their business plan

November 9 Period 4 Only JA BE #3

Rob

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Session Three: Who”s My Customer?

Students examine how market needs and demographics contribute to successful entrepreneurial ventures.

Session Objectives:

  • Recognize the importance of analyzing their market
  • Apply a needs assessment to the market available to a specific product

November 6 & 12, 2015 Period 5 Only Case 3 Maslow’s Needs & Power

Rob

Do now:

Rank the following from the Most Essential to the Least Essential

  • Friends

  • Safety

  • Recognition

  • Food

  • Truth

Objective: Students will recognize Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and it relationship to Emotional Intelligence Social Awareness.  Students will recognize different types of leadership power and will learn techniques for building expert power among leaders.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Respond to the following in your Google Docs Journal

  • Why do you think Maslow chose to place physical and safety needs as the first two
    needs?
  • What level of Maslow’s needs does food meet? Explain.
  • What level of Maslow’s needs does winning an Oscar at the Academy Awards meet? Explain.
  • What level of Maslow’s needs does a relationship with your best friend meet? Explain.

Power

Use what you have learned

Use what you have learned about Emotional Intelligence, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and Bases of Power to evaluate the Blue Buzzard Restaurant Case Study.

Case Study Process:

  1. Read the case out loud all the way through once.
  2. Review the Case Study Questions
  3. Read the case again looking for clues and keys.
  4. Discuss your group’s responses to the questions
  5. Record your answers on a shared document
  6. Change the permission on the shared document so that Anyone with the link can view
  7. Link your responses to your Google Docs Journal.

Analyze the three people in the case study-Carla, Adrianna, and Steve.

  • What do we know about this person and how this person behaves?
  • What are each person’s goals, dreams, and needs?
  • Describe each person’s emotional intelligence.
  • How does each person behave toward other people in the company?
  • Why Blue Buzzard Restaurants would have hired this person?

Create a short skit portraying the situation given to your team.   We will present these the last hour of next class.

November 5, 2015 Period 4 Only EI Introduction

Rob

Do Now

In two minutes list as many emotions as you can using this Google Doc.

Objective:  Students will explore Emotional Intelligence and work in teams to identify how different responses fit in to the EI matrix.  Students will work in teams to determine an appropriate response to different scenarios requiring the use of Emotional Intelligence.

What would You Do?

Presentation1Bradley is a brand new employee at a sporting goods store. He doesn’t know that much about the inventory, but he is doing his best to learn. One day, an angry customer comes in, walks up to Bradley, and begins to loudly complain about the quality of the items he has just purchased. The customer is so angry that he is actually rude to Bradley. Before long, Bradley becomes angry himself and is tempted to yell back at the customer.

What would you do?  Record your response in your Google Docs Journal.

Discuss your response with the person sitting across from you.  How was your partner’s response similar or different from yours?  Record the similarities and differences in your Google Docs journal.

EI Graphic

Using the Where Does It Belong Worksheet and working with a partner, students will match each of the EI skills to the correct category.

Marshmallow Test Record in your journal

  1. What did  the researchers ask the participants to do?
  2. What were the researchers testing?
  3. How do you think you would have responded to the Marshmallow Test?

What’s Your Marshmallow

More What Would You Do?

Working in teams of four:

  • Read the following scenarios.
  • Use what you have learned about emotional intelligence to ”
  • Some terms have been given for you to use as a reference.
  • Write your response in your journal.

Homework:  Read EQ and You LAP EI-006 and answer the Total Recall questions on pages 6 and 8 in your Google Docs journal.

November 4, 2015 Period 5 Only EI Assessment

Rob

Do Now:  Click here to take an Emotional Intelligence Assessment.  When complete read the results and decide if you agree.

Copy and paste your results into your Google Docs Journal.

Objective:  Students will explore their Emotional Intelligence levels and discuss how they can use this information to make future choices.

Mastering Your Emotions Videos

Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jaaHLoINVp4

Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeYhIRjZXgg&feature=player_embedded

Click here to read  How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence.

Use the 6 Trait Writing Summary outline to write a summary of this article.

As you summarize decide which of the suggestions you want to use and write a SMART goal that you will use to increase you emotional intelligence.

SMART Goals:

  • Specific
  • Measurable
  • Attainable
  • Realistic
  • Time bounded

Link your summary and SMART Goal to your Google Docs journal.

November 3, 2015 Period 4 Only JA BE #2

Rob

Do Now: Click here to open and make a copy of What’s My Business  Match the type of product with the entrepreneurial product.

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 Session Two: What”s My Business?

Students continue to develop their product or service idea by analyzing various sources of successful entrepreneurial ventures, culminating in their selection of a product or service as the basis of their business plan.

Session Objectives:

  • Recognize the importance of carefully selecting their product or service before starting their business
  • Apply their passions, talents, and skills to a market-needs assessment to determine the basis of their business plan