Answers
So here it is: my final proposal.
Based on the eighteen hours of research I’ve done, my proposal to curb the negative influence the media holds over women’s health in America lies in a two-pronged effort to implement psychoeducational sessions focusing on media literacy and intervention in school while creating guidelines the media must follow.
Mediation and Extraversion
This week we’ve shifted gears: we’re now working on conflict resolution. To start off with, let me introduce an article titled “Celebrating 40 Years with the TKI Assessment: A Summary of My Favorite Insights” by Ralph H. Kilmann (don’t worry, I’ll relate this back to class eventually).
Anyways, Kilmann argues that there are five different conflict management types as follows:
1) Avoiding: This method happens to be one that is low in assertiveness and cooperation. As the name suggests, this type of conflict management model is characterized by a refusal to satisfy the needs of others in addition to the needs of one’s self. However, this is not to say that all types of avoiding management styles are bad. “Good avoiding” is a type of avoidance in which one purposely leaves a conflict situation in order to collect one’s thoughts or think more about the situation before making a decision or getting more involved. “Bad avoiding” is essentially any other type of avoidance–in a conflict setting where an issues is being presented, bad avoiding is characterized by an unwillingness to cooperate because the individual is afraid of confrontation.
Resources and Present Solutions
Ready for another lengthy blog post? Yeah, that’s right. Get excited. After all, this is my sixth research post–I only have one left before I’m required to advocate my final plan.
For my research blog posts, I’m required to address a slew of categories that pertain to my issue. For example, I’m supposed to look into the history of my issue, analyze it’s underlying issues and so forth. So this week, I decided to focus on two different categories that I haven’t really addressed yet: available resources that will help implement my future proposal, and analysis of previous solutions tried.
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Talk
So just bear with me–I have a feeling this blog post might get a little lengthy. This week the main focus of our class has shifted away from our group project and now rests on facilitation and conflict resolution. Appropriately enough, our reading for this week was titled, “Culture and Negotiation Strategy.” A research report conducted by Wendi Adair, Jeanne Brett, Alain Lempereur, Tetsushi Okumura, Peter Shikhirev, Catherine Tinsley and Anne Lytle, this study sought to explain the results of a previous study conducted by Brett et al. showing that in a series of negotiations between six countries, only the United States and Japan were able to maximize joint gains despite various negotiation styles and cultural norms. This being so, Adair and crew sought to examine how the different cultures of France, Russia, Japan, Hong Kong, Brazil and the United States influen
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Just a Video I Like…
Charisma
So for those of you who haven’t read my two latest leadership blogs, I’ve recently blogged about what it means to be a transformational leader versus a transactional leader and the difference between soft and hard power as it relates to a large group of people. In each of these blog posts, I’ve drawn upon two different articles that can both be found in my previous leadership posts.
To summarize quickly, the first article titled From Transactional to Transformational Leadership: Learning to Share the Vision relates that transactional leadership is the
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Hard vs. Soft
When we think of power in regards to a large nation, we tend to think of military might. We tend to think of weapons, uniforms, soldiers, training…etc. Or at least, I do. However, this is not the only type of power that one can exercise when dealing with international affairs according to author Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Based on his conclusion about post Cold War power structures in an uncertain world order, Nye would label this “hard power” and furthermore claim that the use of force in regards to military might may not be the most effective form of power in today’s day and age. In his essay Soft Power, Nye reinforces the traditional view of power lays in the political stability, military might, possesion of natural resources, population, territory and so forth. But because we are living in a world in which we are more closely linked than ever before, facets such as education, technology and economic growth are becoming more influential in determining the power of a nation. And because of this close linkage between different nations as a result of technology and communication, nations have become more or less interdependent on on
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Transactional vs. Transformational
A while back, we were assigned an article titled “From Transactional to Transformational Leadership: Learning to Share the Vision.” However, I never got the chance to incorporate the document into one of my leadership posts. And because I don’t have any new readings to use, I figured this would be appropriate. As you might have guessed, this article is most definitely about leadership. However, as author Bernard M. Bass claims, there are two distinct types of different leadership styles: transactional and transformational.
Let me explain.
To elaborate, transact
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Psychoeducation
So this week I decided to focus most of my time on the psychoeducational questions I had asked in my last research post. As I was browsing through google, I found a document that seemed to address the questions concerning psychoedcuational training on the media. Luckily for me, it also turned out to be an in-depth summary about an experiment conducted on the effectiveness of this education in schools.
But before I start talking about the experiment, I want to point out that this book also cited cognitive dissonance as means of treating self-image related problems. I actually got really excited when I read this, because cognitive dissonance theory is something that we learned in psychology class so it was cool to see it pop up in my research. Anyways, cognitive dissonance arises when one’s attitudes don’t match up to one’s beliefs. Feeling hypocritical, we then try and change. By this token, cogn
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Positive Energy?
Allow me to explain this week’s past events. I talked a little bit about improvisation and collaboration in a previous blog post, but I never specifically clarified that we would be doing some improvisation ourselves in my Global Leadership class. Unfortunately, we never got to act out a scene together–we only started with the basics. As our improv teacher, Mr. Welsh explained, we had not developed enough rapport to actually do a scene together. I know I’m getting a bit off track with this, but before I start delving into another character post with explanation of this week’s classes, I want to just explore what that means. I guess it’s a little disheartening to hear that our class doesn’t have a strong enough bond yet to actually do an improv scene. I totally trust Mr. Welsh’s judgement here, but I would’ve thought that we would all be close enough by now to do that. And in some ways, I feel that not having a strong enough bond is limiting–I’ve found that it more or less determines what we can’t do and what we can do. For example, we can do basic warm-up improvisation exercises, but we can’t fully reach our full potential and actually improvise a scene. Personally, I would’ve loved to improvise a scene with my classmates. I think there’s so much to be said in how someone acts during “play time” than in a serious conversation. Does that make sense? Improvisation is like a game. And when you’re developing rapport and “playing” with the rest of your class, you begin to see patterns in how one behaves–which I believe, is the easiest way to “figure out” your classmates. But we didn’t get to that point. So does that mean that there are things we can and can’t do in our Global Leadership class because we don’t have a strong enough bond? Can we only do half of our group project? Furthermore, how can you tell when you have built enough rapport to finally move on to the next level? As I mentioned before, I trust Mr. Welsh’s decision. But if it were up to all eighteen of us to decide if we had built a strong enough bond to move up to the next improvisational level, who would decide?
Sorry for the side note. Anyways as I mentioned above, we did some beginner exercises of sorts. We started off small with a game called zip, zap, zop. Maybe you’ve heard of it before. If not, let me explain. The game started with a
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