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• CARD 548 Week 1 Strategy AssignmentsVARK Learning
  Styles
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• VARK Learning Styles
• Please answer the following questions in less
  than two pages (one focused page is fine).
• 1. What is you learning style?
• 2. What Study Strategies accompany that style?
• 3. What are the most important elements about the
  Input, SWOT, and Outputs for that (those)
  strategies?

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• CARD 548 Week 2 DISC Survey
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• INTRODUCTION
• The DISC Survey is designed to measure four basic
  styles of behavior. Those are Directing,
  Influencing, Supportive, and Contemplative. Each
  style has strong points, and possible weaknesses,
  to an individuals effectiveness. The survey
  materials will show both productive aspects of
  each of the four styles, as well as
  counterproductive aspects.
• Take the DISC Survey online using the
  instructions found in the Week One Assignments
  page. Then, complete the following assignment
  that is due in the Dropbox by the end of Week Two
  of the session.
• YOUR ASSIGNMENT

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• CARD 548 Week 2 Strategy Assignment Goal Setting
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• Homework Strategy Assignment Goal Setting. File
  three short pages (or one page with three
  sections) in the Dropbox for this week. The first
  page will include three to five career goals you
  want to achieve. The second page will include key
  goals you wish to achieve while at Keller
  Graduate School of Management. The third page
  will include obstacles you anticipate in both
  your school experience and early problems that
  must be delt with to begin achieving your
  longer-term career goals. See the Lecture for
  recommendations here, and examples of those three
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• CARD 548 Week 3 Strategy Assignment Role Model
  and Labor Statistics
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• Strategy Assignments1.Complete either of the
  following (a or b) a.Choose one
  Man/Woman/Persons Of The Year from Time Magazine
  over the last ten years, and prepare a brief
  report on that person's career path. What
  event(s) triggered their designation, and what,
  if anything, do you find inspiring about their
  career? (Maybe pick an earlier year than 2007,
  which is YOU!) Time (You may wish to check out
  the "Time 100" most influencial people of the
  year.) As an alternative to Time Magazine, go to
  Fast Company or another business magazine and
  check for outstanding business leaders. Fast
  Company Or, you might try Forbes, Business Week,
  or Fortune. Forbes Business Week Fortune Try the
  Academy Of Achievement and see the note on Oprah
  Winfrey and her Use Your Life Awards. Oprah You
  may also select option (b) below.b.Choose a
  person in your personal experience (either that
  you know/knew, or read about) that exhibited
  superior leadership skills and career
  achievements. What is most remarkable

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• CARD 548 Week 3 Stress Processing Report (SPR)
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• INTRODUCTION
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• The Stress Processing Report is designed to
  assist you in uncovering thinking patterns that
  may be limiting your personal success or causing
  you distress. This survey/report is only
  effective if you consider it confidential and
  personal, and an accurate benchmark of how you
  are perceiving life at this particular moment.
  With that approach, you will be able to design
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• CARD 548 Week 4 Portfolio Outline
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• The key to a Career Development Portfolio is to
  develop material and order it in a manner that
  suits you. Whether in your computer or in a three
  ring binder, the order and amount of material is
  really all about you. Make the development of
  that portfolio a labor of love, and understand
  that it will be changing as your school
  experience and your career develop. It is always
  a work in progress.
• Suggested Tabs
•          Current goals

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• CARD 548 Week 4 Strategy Assignment International
  Business Research and Career Options Research
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• Part 1 Strategy Assignments1. Visit websites of
  the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of
  Commerce, the United Nations, the World Bank, or
  the International Chamber Of Commerce. Write one
  or two paragraphs on a key article that you found
  relating to international business, and file that
  in the Dropbox for this week. Be ready to share
  your insights on that and other appropriate
  international articles in our discussions. Be
  sure to include in that article and your thread
  discussion how any emerging business trends may
  affect your career choices. (25
  points)www.state.govwww.commerce.govwww.un.org
  www.worldbank.orgwww.iccwbo.orgPart 2

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• CARD 548 Week 5 Assignment Leadership in the 21st
  Century
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• Leadership in the 21st Century

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• CARD 548 Week 6 Strategy Assignment
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• HomeworkStrategy Assignment1.Check out Internet
  sites that offer current listings and information
  on job opportunities Visit the Monster.com site
  for a start. Monster.com Continue your search
  with other relevant job sites as you wish. For
  example, you could check out 6figurejobs.com for
  a look at higher paying executive positions.
  Executive Positions Select one new job direction
  that may interest you in the future and write a
  short paper (one page) about what you have
  found.Part 2Check out the Keller Career
  Services site, and add a paragraph to the report
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• CARD 548 Week 7 Strategy Assignment
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• Course Project Submit an Outline of your Personal
  Career PortfolioOutline of Career Development
  Portfolio Please post an outline of your Career
  Development Portfolio for my approval in the
  (ungraded) Dropbox by Week 4. You will be given
  feedback to make sure that you're on the right
  track for this assignment.Presentation slides on
  your Career Development Portfolio (CDP) Please
  post your final CDP presentation in the (graded)
  Week 6 or 7 Dropbox as directed by your
  instructor. (100 points)Final Career Development
  Portfolio Submission Your Final Portfolio is due
  in Week 8. Submit your assignment

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• CARD 548 Week 8 Final Career Development
  Portfolio Presentation
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• There will be IConnect sessions in weeks seven
  and eight that will allow students to make a
  short 10-12 minute slide presentation on the
  results of their work this session in building
  their Career Development Portfolio. IConnect is
  found under the Course Home tab in our
  classroom. Those sessions may be attended by
  students, and questions and comments will be
  allowed on the presentations. That presentation
  is worth 100 points.
• Guidelines for your Presentation
• Generate a 10-12 minute Power Point presentation
  on your Career Development Portfolio. Think about
  three main sections
• Introduction
• Discussion
• Conclusion

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• CARD 548 Week 8 Professional Portfolio
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• CARD 548 Week 8 Professional Portfolio

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