Use the building blocks PowerPoint to follow the direction in performing that on the given articles Please us APA formatting and DO NOT PLAGIARIZE. The rubric ,example, will be provided in attachments to help guide you. Please cite your references
-take your content and put it in “lego” format. With your points listed out.
-review content to ensure you understand the content of the different articles.
Business & College
Responsibility
· College is more your own responsibility; HS gets more help from teachers
· In college, learning in the student’s job
· In HS time is structured by others
· HS repeatedly told about due dates, professors put it in the syllabus
· No second chances in college
· Success in college courses takes more time and effort than HS
· Students are more independent in college
· Professors get paid even if you don’t pass
Summary: ?It is the students’ – and only the students’ accountability that will lead them to success.
Purpose
· Professors see courses as an opportunity to make your world richer and yourself stronger
· HS is more test prep
· In college you have professors, not teachers
· The ability to communicate and get along with people are important job skills
· Students should build a relationship with professors: Over time, students have stopped building relationships with professors
Summary: ?College is knowledge-oriented and more purposeful to prepare students for the future, while HS is college/test prep
Requirements
· Citations are a must in college
· College requires critical listening
· HS is required, college is voluntary
· HS has more flexibility on requirements. College has more choices, but little flexibility.
Summary: ?The required skills for success are different in college.
Business & College
Responsibility
?
College is more your own responsibility; HS gets more help from teachers
?
In college, learning in the student’s job
?
In HS time is structured by others
?
HS repeatedly told about due dates, professors put it in the syllabus
?
No second chances in college
?
Success in college courses takes more time and effort than HS
?
Students are more independent in college
?
Professors get paid even if you don’t pass
Summ
ary:
It is the students’
–
and only the student
s’
accountability that will lead them to
success.
Purpose
?
Professors see courses as an opportunity to make your world richer and yourself
stronger
?
HS is more test prep
?
In college you have professors, not teachers
?
The ability to communicate and get along with people are important job skills
?
Students should build a relationship with professors: Over time, students have stopped
building relationships with professors
Su
mmary:
College is
knowledge
–
oriented and more purposeful to prepare students for the
future, while HS is college/test prep
Requirements
?
Citations are a must in college
?
College requires critical listening
?
HS is required, college is voluntary
?
HS ha
s more flexibility on requirements. College has more choices, but little flexibility.
Summary:
The required skills for success are different in college
.
Conclusion: College requires the student to take the respons
i
bility for learning. It is
different
in both
expectation
and experience
than
High School.
Business & College
Responsibility
? College is more your own responsibility; HS gets more help from teachers
? In college, learning in the student’s job
? In HS time is structured by others
? HS repeatedly told about due dates, professors put it in the syllabus
? No second chances in college
? Success in college courses takes more time and effort than HS
? Students are more independent in college
? Professors get paid even if you don’t pass
Summary: It is the students’ – and only the students’ accountability that will lead them to
success.
Purpose
? Professors see courses as an opportunity to make your world richer and yourself
stronger
? HS is more test prep
? In college you have professors, not teachers
? The ability to communicate and get along with people are important job skills
? Students should build a relationship with professors: Over time, students have stopped
building relationships with professors
Summary: College is knowledge-oriented and more purposeful to prepare students for the
future, while HS is college/test prep
Requirements
? Citations are a must in college
? College requires critical listening
? HS is required, college is voluntary
? HS has more flexibility on requirements. College has more choices, but little flexibility.
Summary: The required skills for success are different in college.
Conclusion: College requires the student to take the responsibility for learning. It is
different in both expectation and experience than High School.
PUTTING CAPITAL TO WORK
WHY YOU SHOULD FIRE YOURSELF FROM YOUR SMALL BUSINESS
By Ben Goldstein
One of the hardest challenges of owning a business is giving up control. The business is your baby, and often it seems easier to just do everything yourself instead of constantly explaining to employees how you want things done.
The problem is, being a control-freak is exhausting. Trying to have a hand in every aspect of your business is the reason why
19% of business owners work 60+ hours per week
. That doesn’t leave much time for rest, family, or any kind of social life outside of your business’s doors. The stress from being overworked can also have a significant impact on your
physical and emotional well being
.
If your business cards say “owner,” but you’re doing the work of a bookkeeper,
sales manager
, customer support specialist, and busboy, read on…
The pitfalls of doing it all
As an owner, it’s your job to
build an excellent team
and pursue growth initiatives that will drive the success of your business. You have the vision, and it’s the responsibility of your employees to execute it.
The more time you spend on menial labor—or any task that one of your employees could handle instead—the less time you have to address the big picture. Without a strategist at the top focused on important decisions, your business will stagnate.
An over-involved business owner also has a discouraging effect on staff. Employees are
happiest and most engaged
when they’re made to feel like trusted business partners and periodically rewarded with new responsibilities. Business owners who do everything themselves send a clear message to staff: You’re not capable enough to do your job. And who would want to work for a person like that?
The benefits of “firing yourself”
By stepping away from the day-to-day tasks of your business, you’ll be able to develop the talents of your team while positioning yourself to take on new initiatives and fine-tune your operations.
Firing yourself from your business has a number of positive side-effects:
· Increased productivity: Doing everything yourself means your efforts are limited by the number of hours in the day. Delegating tasks to staff allows you to multiply those efforts so you can accomplish a lot more as an organization.
· Reduced stress: When was the last time you had a free weekend to yourself—or took a real vacation? You might take pride in your ability to juggle everything 24/7, but
constant stress is terrible for your health
. Less work means your body and mind can actually take a break once in a while.
· Better insight into your business: When you’re fighting in the trenches every day, you can miss potential opportunities, as well as incoming crises. Taking a bird’s eye view of your operations allows you to focus on revenue trends, changes in your industry, and team relationships.
· A happier, more engaged staff: Once your employees see you leading rather than micromanaging or demanding control, they’ll be energized to do their best. Plus, giving employees more responsibility shows them that there’s room for career growth in your business, and it’s not just a dead-end job.
4 tips for replacing yourself in your small business
Shifting your focus from labor to management won’t happen overnight, but it will be worth the effort. Here are four things you’ll need to do in order to make the transition:
1. Create a system of operations
Need everything done your way? As long as you formalize your system, put it in writing, and make sure all your employees understand what’s expected of them, you can still retain control over your operations—it’s just that you won’t have to be on-site holding their hands anymore.
Being the only person in your business who knows how everything should run is completely unsustainable. Having a playbook for employees to follow means that the business won’t be thrown into chaos if you go on vacation, retire, or get sick.
2. Identify the gaps and start hiring — or outsourcing
Taking a less hands-on role in your business means you might need to bring on additional staff. If you’ve been operating your business with a skeleton crew, take some time to identify the positions you absolutely need to hire for.
For example, if you run a
restaurant
or fitness center, you’ll want to hire a general manager to make sure your daily operations are running smoothly and your employees have a first point of contact when the bathrooms are out of order.
For larger companies, you may want to consider hiring a head of sales or a customer service manager, to make sure your most important customer-facing roles are covered by a dedicated specialist.
On the other hand, there are many business responsibilities that don’t require full-time employees, but still need to be covered in order to ensure that your business stays healthy. Consider outsourcing tasks like bookkeeping and payroll through a
professional employer organization
, or hiring a consultant to help you with
online marketing
.
3. Train and promote from within
Focusing on leadership means empowering your best people to run the ship without you. Always keep an eye out for employees who take initiative on new projects or go above and beyond their job descriptions—those are the people you want to want to train up so they can take some of the responsibilities off your plate.
Promoting your best shift-workers to assistant managers and your best assistant managers to GMs is a lot cheaper than recruiting talent externally, and the workers you develop will be grateful and loyal.
Just make sure that when you promote an employee, you reward them with more than a new job title and a heavier workload. Retaining your best staff members means making an “
extraordinary investment
” in their salary, benefits, and ongoing education.
4. Change your mindset
According to a 2016 study by the Electronic Transactions Association,
business owners value their time at $170 per hour
. So, why would you ever spend your time doing the kind of work that you’d pay someone else $17/hour for?
Replacing yourself requires a necessary change in mindset: Stop working in your business and start working on your business. Every minute you spend answering phones or hauling around inventory costs your company money. Get other people to do the small stuff so you can spend your time focusing on growth.
The key to this change is
learning how to say “no.”
For business owners, dealing with the constant barrage of minor requests from staff and stakeholders is one of the most dangerous eaters of time and motivation. It also leads to
decision fatigue
that makes you far less effective as the day wears on.
Don’t accept it anymore. Put managers and department heads in place to handle the nuts-and-bolts of your business operations, and give them the trust and authority to make decisions without you. Once you realize you don’t actually need to do it all, your relationship to your business will be much more productive, and far more profitable.
APA Citation
Goldstein, B. (n.d.) Why you should fire yourself from your small business [digital article]. Credibly. Retrieved from https://www.credibly.com/incredibly/using-working-capital/fire-yourself-from-small-business/
PUTTING
CAPITAL
TO
WORK
WHY
YOU
SHOULD
FIRE
YOURSELF
FROM
YOUR
SMALL
BUSINESS
By
Ben
Goldstein
One of the hardest challenges of owning a business is
giving
up
control
. The business is your
baby, and often it seems easier to just do everything yourself ins
tead of constantly explaining to
employees how you want things done.
The problem is,
being
a
control
–
freak
is
exhausting
. Trying to have a hand in every aspect of
your business is the reason why
19%
of
business
owners
work
60+
hours
per
week
. That doesn’t
leave much time for rest, family, or any kind of social life outside of your business’s doors. The
stress from b
eing overworked can also have a
significant
impact
on
your
physical
and
emotional
well
being
.
If your business cards say “owner,” but you’re doing the work of a
bookkeeper,
sales
manager
,
customer
support
specialist,
and
busboy
, read on…
The
pitfalls
of
doing
it
all
As an owner, it’s your job to
build
an
excellent
team
and pursue growth initiatives that will drive
the success of your business. You have the vision, and it’s the responsibility of your employees
to execute it
.
The more time you spend on menial labor
—
or any task that one of your employees could handle
instead
—
the
less
time
you
have
to
address
the
big
picture
. Without a strategist at the top focused
on important decisions, your business will stagnate.
An over
–
in
volved business owner also has a discouraging effect on staff. Employees are
happiest
and
most
engaged
when they’re made to
feel like trusted business partners and periodically
rewarded with new responsibilities. Business owners who do everything themselves send a clear
message to staff:
You’re
not
capable
enough
to
do
your
job
. And who would want to work for a
person like that
?
PUTTING CAPITAL TO WORK
WHY YOU SHOULD FIRE YOURSELF FROM YOUR SMALL
BUSINESS
By Ben Goldstein
One of the hardest challenges of owning a business is giving up control. The business is your
baby, and often it seems easier to just do everything yourself instead of constantly explaining to
employees how you want things done.
The problem is, being a control-freak is exhausting. Trying to have a hand in every aspect of
your business is the reason why 19% of business owners work 60+ hours per week. That doesn’t
leave much time for rest, family, or any kind of social life outside of your business’s doors. The
stress from being overworked can also have a significant impact on your physical and emotional
well being.
If your business cards say “owner,” but you’re doing the work of a bookkeeper, sales manager,
customer support specialist, and busboy, read on…
The pitfalls of doing it all
As an owner, it’s your job to build an excellent team and pursue growth initiatives that will drive
the success of your business. You have the vision, and it’s the responsibility of your employees
to execute it.
The more time you spend on menial labor—or any task that one of your employees could handle
instead—the less time you have to address the big picture. Without a strategist at the top focused
on important decisions, your business will stagnate.
An over-involved business owner also has a discouraging effect on staff. Employees are happiest
and most engaged when they’re made to feel like trusted business partners and periodically
rewarded with new responsibilities. Business owners who do everything themselves send a clear
message to staff: You’re not capable enough to do your job. And who would want to work for a
person like that?
Building Blocks
An explanation of our critical thinking process using Legos
1
When you were a kid I bet you played with Legos. I used to have a box full of bricks and my favorite thing to do was pour out the bricks and see what jumped out at me. A door? I’d build a house. A tire? I’d build a car. I’d mix up the bricks and see if anything caught my eye, but I’d let the bricks tell me what to build. I wasn’t very good at it.
2
Some people would sort the bricks by color, regardless of size. They tended to finish a project because they were organized from the beginning.
3
Some people would sort by size, regardless of color. There are probably a million different ways to sort the bricks and everyone has a preferences. None are wrong, but some methods might be a better fit based on what you want to accomplish, your experience, and your perspective.
4
Let’s pretend for a moment these 9 bricks stood out to you. After sorting bricks by size and color, they asked to be used.
5
You could build a simple wall with all bricks in vertical alignment.
6
You could make a wider and shorter stack using the same 9 bricks. Same bricks, different structure.
7
Perhaps you want something more interesting. Using the same bricks, we can build a different structure. May be a pen for the horses.
Regardless, the same 9 bricks can build a variety of structures. Same bricks, different outcomes. You decide the outcome based on your “vision” of the 9 bricks.
8
Back up and consider a
different perspective…
Imagine the Lego bricks (or building blocks) are actually the facts, key points, main concepts in each paragraph, etc. you would find in an article you read. Basically, anything you would highlight while reading the material. If you took those notes and wrote them on paper, they might appear to be a jumbled mess, much like the Lego bricks here. If we want to do something with these building blocks, we need to organize them.
10
Let’s organize the building blocks by theme or category. If we use the materials in our Expectations and Objectives Module, our categories might be 1) expectations of the teacher and 2) responsibilities of the student. That’s one way to organize the information.
11
Someone else might be more specific. Maybe they have 1) expectations of the HS teacher, 2) expectations of the college professor, 3) responsibilities of the HS teacher, 4) responsibilities of the college student.
Doesn’t matter how you sort the building blocks. However, you need to be able to describe the blocks in the category.
“All of these bricks are 2 x 2 and dark red. These are all 1 x 3 and tan.”
Using our content…”These building blocks all show that the responsibility for learning falls to the college student, not the professor.”
12
If we take the building blocks we identified, you can build something.
That is, use the single sentence summary of the category as your paragraph theme and the individual building blocks as supportive facts in the paragraph.
13
What you end up building may use the same building blocks as your neighbor, but the outcome may be entirely different. Why? Maybe your goal was different. Maybe you have different experiences, leading you to have different perspectives. Regardless, our job is look at the building blocks and figure out what needs to be built.
14
Critical Thinking with Legos
Our 4 Step Process:
Find the Legos.
Identify the building blocks. This includes facts, paragraph topics, main ideas, and/or anything you’d highlight in the text.
Sort the Legos into Groups.
Group the building blocks by theme/topic.
Describe the Lego Groups.
Summarize the content of each group in one sentence.
Build your Structure.
Organize the one-sentence summaries to identify what you are concluding from the material.
Why do we post building blocks for each module?
Identifying the building blocks means you are reading the materials before class. You have to do the research on a topic. This shows you did.
Organizing building blocks (sorting) is essential to critical thinking. You’re analyzing the information and trying to make sense of it.
Summarizing the category in a single sentence is also part of critical thinking. You are analyzing the information in preparation for evaluation of the information.
In class, you’ll evaluate the information.
Each step builds on the previous.
Revised Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy
| Cognitive Level | Cognitive Process |
| Create | Designing something new; Generating, Planning, Producing |
| Evaluate | Making judgments; Checking and Critiquing |
| Analyze | Taking information apart and exploring relationship; Differentiating, Organizing, Attributing |
| Apply | Using procedural information in a new but similar situation; Executing, Implementing |
| Understand | Making sense of information; Interpreting, Exemplifying, Classifying, Summarizing, Inferring, Comparing, and Explaining |
| Remember | Finding information; Recognizing, Recalling |
Building Blocks
Sorting/Summarizing
Discussions
Sorting/Summarizing
