Activity Context This assignment helps you develop the skills to master the following course…
Activity Context This assignment helps you develop the skills to master the following course…
Activity Context
This assignment helps you develop the skills to master the following course competencies: Apply frameworks and theoretical concepts to systematically analyze business issues. Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for members of the business professions. Apply collaborative techniques to the virtual environment.
Activity Instructions
In the Unit 2 discussion, you analyzed a business dilemma posed by a peer and presented him or her with a strategic course of action. You also received a strategy from one of your peers for your own dilemma, assessed the feedback, and made choices about the aspects of that strategy that you would adopt. In Unit 4, you incorporated feedback received from multiple sources when you created the draft of your project, and you provided feedback to one of your peers on his or her draft. Now, take the time to reflect upon the process and the results of your interactions, both those in the courseroom and those from your personal experience.
Reflect on your experience in a paper of at least two pages. Your reflection should include two parts. First, describe your interactions with the peers who provided review comments to you. Then, describe your interactions with the peers to whom you provided feedback. Ensure that your paper has an introduction, body sections where you reflect on your interaction, and a conclusion. Use subheadings to organize your paper.
Consider addressing the following questions in your reflection: Summarize the interactions you had with your peers on both your business problem (Unit 2) and your annotated outline (Units 3 and 4). Did you have any interesting conversations? Was the interaction dynamic, with actual discussion and collaboration? What communication choices did you make when you assessed the strategic course of action (did you reply in detail, step-by-step, or perhaps generally at a higher level)? What communications strategy might have been more effective (for example, live conversation, asynchronous video presentation, audio notes)? What were the challenges and benefits to working with your peer on a business dilemma and considering his or her approaches and perspectives?
Optional Help
The purpose of this assignment is to consider how collaboration can be used in academics and in business. The idea is to think about your own experience with virtual collaboration in this course, although you may also wish to inform your paper with what you read in this unit (particularly the Heyman article), as well as your own past experience with collaboration, virtual or live. Take the time to consider what you learned and how your experiences, positive or not, can help you be a better collaborator in the future.
Review the scoring guide to understand how you will be graded on this assignment.
Submit your paper by midnight on Sunday.
