Define the characteristics and structure of successful teams within your organization. How are independent teams vital to the success of your organization?

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Review the Harvard Business School reprint, Leading Teams. Consider the criteria for successful teams and the factors needed to ensure teams are structured for success.

Create a plan (800-900 words) describing the steps necessary to create more successful teams at various levels within your organization. Include the following in the plan:

Define the characteristics and structure of successful teams within your organization. How are independent teams vital to the success of your organization?

  1. What are important factors to consider when leading teams within the various levels of the organization?
  2. What factors are important to consider when leading teams at the executive level?
  3. What aspects are essential in identifying appropriate members for teams and ensuring the teams are successfully launched?
  4. What factors are important to ongoing team dynamics? Describe guidelines to evaluate the function and productivity of teams.
  5. Compassion is a significant attribute of many religions and philosophies, including a Christian worldview, as well as being important for both authentic and servant leadership. As a leader, how would you empower your teams through compassion to honor diversity and support equality for all members as they work toward a common goal?

Determine the suitability of an investment strategy that considers external risk factors and a literature review.

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  1. Imagine that you are a financial manager researching investments for your client. Think of a friend or a family member as a client. Define her orhis characteristics and goals such as an employee or employer, relatively young (less than 40 years) or close to retirement, having some savings/property, a risk taker or risk averter, etc. Next, use Nexis Uni at the Strayer University library, located at Nexis Uni, click on “Company Dossier” to research the stock of any U.S. publicly traded company that you may consider as an investment opportunity for your client. Your investment should align with your client’s investment goals. (Note: Please ensure that you are able to find enough information about this company in order to complete this assignment. You will create an appendix, in which you will insert related information.)Your final financial research report will be 6–8 pages long and be completed in two parts as noted below. This assignment requires you to use at least five quality academic resources and cover the following topics:
  • Rationale for choosing the company in which to invest
  • Ratio analysis
  • Stock price analysis
  • Recommendations
  • Refer to the following resources to assist with completing your assignment:
    Stock Selection

    • Forbes: “Six rules to follow when picking stocks”
    • CNN Money: “Stocks: Investing in stocks”
    • The Motley Fool: “13 steps to investing foolishly”
    • Seeking Alpha: “The Graham And Dodd Method For Valuing Stocks”
    • Investopedia: “Guide to Stock-Picking Strategies”
    • Seeking Alpha: “Get Your Smart Beta Here! Dividend Growth Stocks As ‘Strategic Beta’ Investments”
  • Market and Company Information
    • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:“Market structure”
    • Yahoo! Finance
    • Mergent Online (Note: This resource is also available through the Strayer Learning Resource Center.)
    • Seeking Alpha (Note: This is also available through the Android or iTunes App store.)
    • Morningstar (Note: You can create a no-cost Basic Access account.)
    • Research Hub, located in the left menu of your course in Blackboard
  • Part 1 Due Week 7 (1–2 pages)
  1. Provide a rationale for the stock that you selected, indicating the significant economic, financial, and other factors that led you to consider this stock.
  2. Suggest the primary reasons why the selected stock is a suitable investment for your client. Include a description of your client’s profile.
  3. Just list five resources you’ll use to complete this assignment and begin to build your reference list. Remember you must use at least five quality academic resources for the final assignment.
  4. Part 2 Due Week 9 (6–8 pages including #1 and #2 from Part 1)
  5. Include your rationale, primary reasons for stock selection, and client’s profile from Part 1, making any revisions based upon Part 1 feedback if applicable.
  6. Select any five financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Analyze the past 3 years of the selected financial ratios for the company; you may obtain this information from the company’s financial statements. Determine the company’s financial health. (Note:Suggested ratios include, but are not limited to, current ratio, quick ratio, earnings per share, and price earnings ratio.)
  7. Based on your financial review, determine the risk level of the stock from your investor’s point of view. Indicate key strategies that you may use in order to minimize these perceived risks.
  8. Provide your recommendations of this stock as an investment opportunity. Support your rationale with resources, such as peer-reviewed articles, material from the Strayer University Library, and reviews by market analysts.
  9. Conduct a literature review and list at least five quality academic resources.Note: Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.
  10. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
  • Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow the Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
  • Properly cite all sources.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
  • The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are as follows:
  • Determine the suitability of an investment strategy that considers external risk factors and a literature review.
  • Create investment recommendations based on research that includes the rationale and risk mitigation for the chosen strategies.
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Describe the organization you selected and the general services that would be offered to Medicare patients.

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  1. Urban and rural health care organizations throughout the industry are working together to coordinate care for Medicare patients. Accountable Care Organization (ACO) programs were established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to help facilitate this cooperation.Select a type of health care organization that would accept Medicare patients (e.g., family practice, hospital, urgent care, or nursing home).

    Write a 700- to 1,050-word executive summary that discusses the purpose of joining an ACO and the funding available through one. Ensure your summary does the following:

    • Describe the organization you selected and the general services that would be offered to Medicare patients.
    • Describe the types of ACOs recognized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
    • Evaluate industry dynamics that would influence your organization’s decision to participate in an ACO.
    • Identify the steps needed to participate in an ACO.
    • Justify participation in an ACO for your organization.
    • Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Write between 1,000 – 1,250 words (approximately 4 – 6 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style. Use font size 12 and 1” margins. Include cover page and reference page.

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“That’s not my job!” “My boss won’t let me.” “Let me go ask my supervisor.” “That’s outside my authority.” We’ve all heard reasons why we are unable to complete a task. Chances are, they are very real reasons that are impeding our progress toward change. To make our change efforts effective, we must be sure we are supporting and empowering the individuals in our group to actually do what we are asking them to do.

Specific questions or items to address:

Read Step 5 “Empower Action” from Kotter and Cohen’s The Heart of Change. First, review the feedback from your instructor on Part 5. Use any new information you gained from the discussion and feedback from your instructor to revise and improve Part 5 of your project. Next, compile Part 6 of your project, explaining what actions you and your team will take to empower people to take action. How will you remove boss barriers, system barriers, information barriers, and barriers of the mind? How will you ‘retool’ the boss? You may find the area under “Empower Action” helpful in reviewing the key points of what to do and not do when empowering action. Be sure your paper touches on the key elements of each as they pertain to your organization.

Be sure to include at least three scholarly references to support your assertions written in your own words. Do not copy word for word from the course text or any other sources. Your submission this week is Part 6 of the final project.

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

You should have more than one citation in a paragraph 

  • Write between 1,000 – 1,250 words (approximately 4 – 6 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style.
  • Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
  • Include cover page and reference page.
  • At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
  • No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
  • Use an appropriate number of references to support your position, and defend your arguments. The following are examples of primary and secondary sources that may be used, and non-credible and opinion based sources that may not be used.
    1. Primary sources such as, government websites (United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Census Bureau, The World Bank, etc.), peer reviewed and scholarly journals in EBSCOhost and Google Scholar.
    2. Secondary and credible sources such as, CNN Money, The Wall Street Journal, trade journals, and publications in EBSCOhost.
    3. Non-credible and opinion based sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. should not be used.
  • Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.