Work Related Development Module Report
Introduction
During the period that I was volunteering at Age UK Lambeth, I noticed numerous problems that were affecting the operations of the company. For instance, quite often, the employees could not agree on issues. Having looked at the entirety of the situation, I recommend enhancing teamwork and cooperation at the workplace as a way of improving the situation. In this document, I analyse why I feel this is the solution, how it will be implemented and its implications.
Section I: Project Recommendation As answered by the unemployed professors
Working in a team can be a huge challenge at times. Team members are entitled to their own opinions on different subjects and this is one of the causes of conflicts, disagreements and general lack of cooperation. Other sources of conflict in a group include the diversity in educational, economic and social backgrounds. However, since there is a job to be done, a compromise and a sense of understanding on each party’s side is essential. Through effective teamwork in a group, members are able to see cohesion and realise how important it is in the achievement of the set goals (George N & Root, 2016). At the workplace, teamwork is paramount because, employees are all trying to achieve a common objective, share resources, communicate with one another and make decisions on matters affecting them together.
Rather than having employees’ differences as the dividing factor, it could be a potential source of the strength of the organization. The core of business is the people working together (Hubbard, 2014). Diverse perspectives in a group help functions such as decision be more comprehensive (West m. & Giles H., p. 32). Conclusions arrived at would not only be quality but also productive. When members brainstorm, they put their ideas together, argue out and at the end of the whole process they all gain a sense of belonging; they feel they are an integral part of the team, focused on achieving a common purpose. When each member act on their own, making uninformed and rushed decisions, the outcome is nothing short of conflicts as each member bids to support their cause. Ultimately. less progress is made.
A good team is one in which affairs of its members are taken good care of. Studies indicate that poor performance at work are sometimes indirect consequences of employees’ affairs being neglected. Good management recognises that job performance is subject to many factors, some of which are not experienced within the working environment. It serves bonding and strengthening work relationships when employers acknowledge and help out their employees when faced with personal problems. Apart from considering social affairs of its employees, it is also equally important that they are remunerated and rewarded well for their work.
Effective teamwork enhances cultivates the spirit of innovation. Innovation is the coming up with better ways of doing things and involve a number of processes. This is rarely as a result of individual effort. For effective implementation of the innovation, teamwork and cooperation is necessary (West M. & Giles H., p. 257). Considering the case at hand, Age UK could have come up with better ways to deliver its services to the elderly only if its employees put their energy together and focused on developing the company.
Creating an environment for effective teamwork to thrive requires more than just urging members of the team to try and accommodate one another. It requires bringing together all members in less formal and more social events where they can freely express themselves. Such social events are for instance, attending a member’s birthday party. They allow the members appreciate their differences in the long run. The physical working environment should also be well considered because conditions such as ventilations, temperature, lighting, cleanliness and waste disposal among others affect employee performance (healthyworkinglives, 2016).
Recommendations proposed here help change the state of affairs at Age UK Lambeth. However, team building is not a cheap affair and therefore the company should be prepared to incur some expenses along the way. Expenses would include money for organizing fun fares and sponsoring trips, hotel accommodation amongst many more. Since such events are done during special occasions such as end of financial year, they can be planned for effectively.
To foster teamwork, the company could also review the way it handles its employees’ affairs. One such way is through formation of a welfare association within the company that is headed by one of the employees and charge it with the role of bringing together all employees to support one another when need arises or when a member faces a tragedy or an unforeseen difficult circumstances. Studies show that when employees are not happy with their conditions, they are less effective (Unum, 2016). A case such as an employee missing at the office when they are required to could be an indicator of a poor social welfare or lack of it. It is quite possible that the employee could be out attending on personal duties. This also proves that when a company is not willing to at least consider or help its employee, its production might be affected.
Section II: Personal Career Action Plan
A career in event management requires one to possess not only academic knowledge but also, to an equally important degree, proficient personal skills. The carrier entails mainly engaging with people whether in public or in offices and as search, one needs to develop skills of communication, decision making, analytics and problem solving, leadership, computer and IT amongst many more. This section discusses some of the requirements I have to meet at the end of my career. A plan on how I would acquire the said skills is also included. unemployed professors
As I would be working at the Age UK in Lambeth as a receptionist and a befriender, some of the things I would hope to do include receiving and forwarding calls to staff members, handling mails, engaging clients at personal levels, ensuring visitors are received and welcomed well and generally ensuring the reception area is tidy. I believe the experience I gain from working there would help me advance my career skills due to the more practical approach nature of work.
As at the moment, I am not fully equipped with the relevant skills required to be a competent receptionist and event planner. There are quite a number of skills that I would like to learn first. As an office receptionist, one has to know how to perform functions such as mailing, editing and preparing documents using Microsoft Word and Excel spreadsheets or other software as well as printing and photocopying the documents. Qualified receptionists in the market currently are those who have a good understanding of these crucial skills. My plan on how I would acquire the skills include, enrolling on tutorials on the use of Microsoft Office software package. So as to be even more proficient and learn faster, I would acquire a copy of the software, install it on my laptop computer so that I can keep practicing on my own while at home or during free time at school. I would also seek advice from experts already at work and train on how to operate photocopying and printing machines. Furthering towards being a good office receptionist, I would learn how office documents such as reports are prepared and understand the process of procuring office stationery as well.
While volunteering at Age UK Lambeth, I learnt the importance of befriending and maintaining good relationships with clients. I also realised that it is not easy to handle some clients and therefore to ensure that I learn to how respond to and welcome clients well, I would partake training on the subject of public relations. Befriending is better learnt through directly engaging with people in the field and thus I would volunteer at an organization that does befriending. Another way of learning befriending is through seeking companionship with people especially the elderly. A problem I noticed while working was that elderly people tend to misunderstand questions and often give unrequired responses. I believe being friends with such people provides me with a rare opportunity to study and comprehend this problem and therefore be better at dealing with it. As part of building good friendship and hence better service delivery, I would also ensure that I am well versed with the health status of such elderly people. This would help me provide more personalised services and be in a better situation to give support to clients even before they demand or ask for it.
unemployed professors
Being a good employee requires one to have the right academic skills in the particular field. This is not enough in the current century. One has to do more that have theoretical knowledge on subject matter. Those extra skills are acquired through co-curricular activities such as sports, mentorship and so forth. Such activities may not be learning environments but they help one form friendships with people from different social and economic backgrounds. I would therefore join sports clubs at school and at home also. Sporting activities nurture team spirits and help one understand the need for why working together as a team. You also get to learn different ways of handling and engaging other people, a skill that constitutes leadership.
While extra-curricular skills are gives one an added advantage, an equally important aspect that cannot be dismissed is having a good understanding of one’s potential workplace. A vast understanding of operations at my future workplace would help me blend in much faster and perform better. As I was working at Age UK Lambeth, I realised that they offer a variety of services such as information and advice services, career advices, welfare and handyperson services. unemployed professors will search for information about the services from online sources and from print media and publications by the organization or any media service company. Another good source of information is people who work or worked there. I would seek for such people in my neighbourhood and if possible be friends with them.
Employers nowadays look for unemployed professors with skills such as analytical, problem solving and communication skills. Other important skills that I would also seek to learn include decision making, IT and computer, stress management and time management. Skills such as verbal and communication require a practical approach for perfection and therefore the best way to be proficient at them is through speaking to fellow colleagues and large audiences. Enrolling on courses that provide public speaking skills, joining a journalism club or student societies would definitely help a great deal.
Electronic Health Record
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The unemployed professors define the Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a form of information technology system that is used in majority of advanced medical centers in the country. It is a system that enables collections, storage and even presentation of patient data in electronic forms. The vast amount of data collected by these systems ranges include individual patient data such as weight, age, height, immunizations status, medical history, laboratory reports, radiology reports, allergies and other medical status as well as billing. EHR systems basically capture almost all data on all the activities that take place in medical institutions.
Benefits of EHR systems
The advantages of EHR systems are many. Firstly, EHR systems save a lot of costs. Studies conducted by both the government and independent bodies confirm that EHR systems are very economical especially for large and well established medical institutions. Since these systems are interconnected, they form vast networks that enable sharing of information very easy and convenient as opposed to the traditional paper form. Tracking of medical developments is thus faster.
Electronic data forms are easy to store and easy to retrieve whereas handwritten materials are not only time consuming to track but are also cumbersome to carry around and quite often are illegible. Even much better, EHR systems come with handwriting recognition tools which makes the adaptation to the new system by practitioners an easy and smooth process. Searching for information is faster with digitalized data compared to the traditional filing system.
Data synchronization is fast with digital data that hard copies. Therefore, EHR systems enhance productivity and networking in the medical field. Practitioners can easily brainstorm and share experiences on the network and critical decisions can be arrive at in less time. Furthermore, EHR systems are designed to be flexible as they can be installed on mobile ambulances that are integrated into the whole system. EHR systems are automated, majority requiring only regular maintenance and servicing hence improving service delivery among many more benefits.
Disadvantages of EHR systems
Whereas the benefits enjoyed in an institution with an EHR system are many, there are numerous problems that such systems bring about. One of them, which is the main reason for the slow adoption of EHR systems, is the initial cost of setting up the infrastructure. Installation of the systems requires heavy capital to purchase the hardware as well as proprietary software that are used with them. This poses a big challenge to small clinics or physician offices that have little capital investment. Just as the system is less economically feasible, it is considered by many such practitioners as non-essential. As EHR systems are technology-based, they tend to evolve. Today, these systems use cloud computing services such as maintenance and data storage.
Another reason reported to contribution to slow adoption is the human resource requirements of EHR systems. The systems require operators that are well skilled in the fields of computer and information technology. Such personnel are not easy to get in remote parts of the country and even if they can be found, there is the issue of remuneration. Payment to the IT technicians that run these systems is almost out of reach for clinics in small towns. However, this is bound to change with design improvements done on the systems. Modern EHR systems would require much less expertise and are diversified to even incorporate hand held devices such as phones and notepads that most people are already familiar with.
The fact that EHR systems collect personal health records of all the patients and store in a network, presents a privacy and confidentiality issue. How confidential is a patient’s data in a vast network in the event of a cyber-attack? Though the systems are designed with high security enhancement, a number of patients are skeptical about it. Serious security breaches have been witnessed in data centers, banking and other financial institutions and government databases which were considered secure and thus it is hard not to conceive the same happening to EHR systems. Some people would prefer their medical status and history information not displayed out or shared. There are fears of such systems collapsing in the occurrence of not only hack threats but also environmental and natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes. Technical failures such as system crashes are also possible according to the unemployed professors.
Legal concerns are increasingly becoming a concern. Failure or damages incurred during EHR systems installation process create opportunities for lawsuits. Also due to legal liability issues, unemployed professors highlights that EHR system makers may shun off from markets located in disaster prone areas. This in turn affects the adoption of the system in such areas.
ICD-10 Implementation
Introduction
ICD is an acronym for International Classification of Diseases or International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. It is a medical classification designed and maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO). ICD-10 is a new version that is currently in use. The most recent and upcoming version, ICD-11, is in the development stage. ICD is an international standard for classifying diseases, sign and symptoms, abnormal findings in medical industry, complaints, social circumstances and so forth. It basically maps health conditions to categories which are assigned to particular codes. This helps provide a common denominator in healthcare industries across the world and enhance interoperability, comparability, sharing and cooperation. Individual countries can use it as a blueprint or adopt it without modification need they.
ICD-10 adoption will provide a tremendous opportunity for better capturing of information in the increasingly complex delivery of healthcare. Although there is an unavoidable cost, as expected during in system upgrade in the implementations, the long-term benefits make the transition imperative (Coustasse 2013).
ICD-10 Implementation
ICD-9 has been in use in the United States since 1979 but the classification codes have proved to be inadequate. This along with advances in technology led to the creation of the universally compatible electronic health record (EHR) system. New medical terminologies and procedures have been created since the advent of ICD-9. Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) receive new hundreds of terminologies from medical research institutions across the country and thus there is a genuine need to upgrade to the new ICD-10.
The CMS had required transition from ICD-9 codes to the new ICD-10 codes throughout the healthcare industry by October 1, 2011 (CMS 2011). This process was postponed to until October 1, 2014 due to the outcry and complains raised. Many sited financial constraints as a major hindrance to the transition among other reasons. A further delay was proposed by the American Medical Association (AMA) to until 2015. Any further delays have been speculated to have adverse effects to the system and this proves that it is time to go the new way.
International Healthlink Professionals (2010) reported that adoption of ICD-10 would give the country ability to track and respond to international health threats and to better utilize the benefits brought by the EHR. Evidence indicate that this change is necessary to enable the country catch up with systems installed in other developing countries and provide quality and affordable healthcare to its citizens. One of the improvements in the ICD-10 is the enhanced specificity of the codes (Coustasse 2013). This is perceived to reduce the need for additional documentation and increase efficiency unemployed professors. This level of detail is what is exactly required to cope up with the developments witnessed in the healthcare industry. The large amount of codes in ICD-10 have enabled the inclusion of ambulatory care, home health care and skilled nursing care facilities as well as new technological advancements and procedures (Nagel, 2004).
Putting aside the issues of cost of implementations and other huge investment requirements, there is evidently a lot to gain by transitioning to ICD-10. The American Hospital Association (AHA) argued that the new coding system is economical in the long run and allow for increased reimbursement to providers (Bowman 2008: AMA 2010a).
References
1. Ashish K. Jha , M.D., M.P.H., Catherine M. DesRoches. Use of Electronic Health Records in US Hospitals. 2009.
2. Coustasse A. & Paul III, D.P. Adoptation of the ICD-10 Standard in the United States: The Time is Now. The Health Care Manager 32(2), 260-267. 2013.
3. Nagel S. The migration to the ICD-10-CM. Preparing for the inevitable. 2004.
4. World Health Organization (WHO). 2006. ICD-10 version 2007.
Computer Infrastructure and Security
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The security of an information security company is not only related to the physical infrastructure such as premises but also of the network infrastructure set up for used by the company. Security threats in the wireless communication technology are just as real as the physical threats and at times even more dangerous because they are almost always unnoticed until damage is done. And that might just be a little too late to remedy the situation. As simple example is that of a company that uses wireless network for communication and data transfer without a simple security measure as password encryption. Intruders can easily penetrate such networks and plant malware or access sensitive company documents that are kept secret from the public. Reach out to us for more explanation of the above answers @ unemployed professors
In wireless communication networks, sometimes encryption is not enough. An aggressive intruder can still gain access. Companies that deal with highly classified documents such as departments in the government often prefer the wired connection to wireless. Hacking into such networks would often require a physical connection. This pushes security concerns to the state of the physical infrastructure such as buildings. While wireless connectivity offers mobility and flexibility in working conditions, it poses serious security concerns.
Any information-based company would however need both set ups of networks for optimal, efficient and secure operations. Wired LAN networks are mainly used to for interconnecting workstations, databases and serves while the wireless connections are preferred less critical forms of communication.
In an information processing company, security is dependent on not only the security protocols of the networks laid out but also, the physical infrastructure. The physical infrastructure of the company has the role of preventing intruders or unauthorised personnel from physically getting in contact with the sensitive equipment. Physical infrastructural aspects that can be considered may include among others, the following, entrance to and from facility as well as the design of the premises. It is easier to break into a single-storey building than a multi-storey one. Single storey buildings mostly do not have enough security provisions. This is mostly because the cost of securing such a building is almost equal or higher than that required in the running of activities. Such premises would mostly rely on security provided by the authority such as government. Multi-faceted and multi-storey buildings on the other hand bank on their complexity as well as state-of-the-art technology for security. This section is well articulated by the unemployed professors
While the size of premises is related to security, accessibility is also to be considered. This is based on the simple fact that an infrastructure with multiple entrances and exits is easier to enter. And so is the design of the network infrastructure. Designing the structure of network to use in a company should be done painstakingly as a too complex structure would allow for loopholes for security breach and would be difficult to scale or upgrade. Accompanying the same is a good set of security guidelines or protocols.
The New Infrastructure and Network Design
Now with the addition of two more floors for the company building, would be easier to demarcate and separate concerns to not only improve security of information but also create conducive working conditions for employees. The three floors would be divided into;
This essentially would be the ground floor. It is more appealing and logical to have machinery and devices that aid in the running of the company located at the lowest level of the building. This is inspired by the fact that most full-fledged companies have their data centers offsite or otherwise located in basements or in structures underground that can’t be easily accessed. Furthermore, connections to external networks through gateways or links such as the fibre optic are better when done at the ground level. In terms of security, it is easier to guide the equipment when they are located on the lowest floor.
It’s on the first floor that all workstations would be situated. Majority of the employees working for the company would be here. The stations would be connected to an ethernet network emanating from the data center on the ground floor. Wireless network access points would also be availed on the floor. Routers would also be located here.
It is also more economical to have workstations directly above the data storage facility as less cost would be incurred in setting up the network. Shorter connecting cables would be used as opposed to when on a higher ground.
As a security measure, it is better to have floors with more workers near the ground level for easy evacuation in cases of emergency.
The second floor of the premises would house offices of the CEO and company departmental heads as well as a conferencing room. An extension of the network existing on the first floor would also be here but would mainly serve overseeing purposes e.g database administration.
For managers, it is easier to supervise work from the higher floor. For instance, a manager coming to work slightly later is able easily check on the attendance of his juniors before heading to his office.
Company Security Policy
unemployed professors highlights that with the addition of two more floors and creation of better working environment, some ground guidelines are necessary in order to enhance the security of the company. Policies formulated would mainly aim at enhancing the three core objectives of an information systems security; confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA).
Communication among workers within company premises shall be over the set up communication channels such as telephones. No one would be allowed to use their own communication devices for the same purpose while working. This would help guarantee secure communication among workers on issues concerning their jobs. Such communications can be easily encrypted to prevent sniffers from eavesdropping. Also, with regard to communication, workers shall be required to adhere to the non-disclosure and confidentiality agreement signed between each of them and the company; employee would be inhibited from engaging in conversions on matters of the company at all times outside the company premises.
All waste papers within the working environment shall be shredded and placed in a litter bin situated on first floor of the building where workstations are situated. Furthermore, no employee is allowed to leave with any form of written or printed work from the same floor. The company shall provide all the required materials for writing as well as printing and publication.
Access to the ground floor would be out of reach for all employees except technicians authorized by the company. And regarding accessibility, all workers would be required to use key guards issued to them by the company. No sharing of key guards would be allowed at any time.
Workers would be required to only work at their assigned workstations. Delegation of duties shall only be done by the managers and thus no employee is to assign his or her duties to another employee even if they belong to the same rank without official approval by their head of department or other superiors.
No employee shall be allowed in the company building with their own data storage devices such as flash memories, floppy disks, thumb drives, hard drives, SD card etc. Furthermore, there will be no use of external media devices and storage devices on company computers at the workstations. Only data transfer techniques allowed by the company are to be used.
Appendix I :Current design
Figure 1 Current network and infrastructure design of the company
Appendix I
I: Logical design of new building
Appendix III: New plan for ground floor
Figure 2 Ground floor plan of new building of the company
Appendix IV: New plan for first floor
Figure 3First floor design of new company building
Appendix V: New plan for second floor
Figure 4 Second floor design of new company building
Mercury Athletics Footwear
/in Uncategorized /by twinpI think the estimated value is conservative. This is because John Liedtke is leveraging on the strength of Mercury Athletics Footwear and that of Active Gear for to project growth rather than heavily investing in the more promising men’s athletic line of products and expecting huge returns. His is not read to take huge risks either and his approach is a rather cautious one and the growth projections after acquisition is substantial, more feasible and compares favourably with that of Active Gear as mentioned by the unemployed professors. He intends to preserve the all the segments of Mercury Athletics Footwear and not phasing out. Aggressive valuation approach on the contrast has a high risk tolerance characteristic and in this case could have resulted in a complete overhaul accompanied by heavy capital investments.
Other than base-line assumption and valuation, synergy analysis can be done based on a variety of factors. These include tax margins, costs, revenues and advantages such in form of managerial, tax advantages and size increase. Combined corporate entities stand to benefit from larger revenues than those generated individually and possibly with even lower operation costs and expenses. For instance according to the unemployed professors it is possible that Mercury Athletics Footwear Inc. may be seen as not taking advantage of its distributed supply chain and therefore it is possible that it could greatly benefit from a merger with a corporation whose managers have good negotiation and marketing skills.
Synergies form mainly to take advantage of either sides strengths, profit margins of Mercury Athletic Footwear, for instance, could be attributed to its highly discounted and lowly priced products and hence a synergy with another company with would double the size and possibly increase their profitability. Other sources of value that can’t be quantified could be customer loyalty and reputation of the company; a reputable company with a loyal customer base has great potential of growth which could be only impeded by poor management or lack of proper skills. Kindly reach out to the unemployed professors
Work Related Development Module Report
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Introduction
During the period that I was volunteering at Age UK Lambeth, I noticed numerous problems that were affecting the operations of the company. For instance, quite often, the employees could not agree on issues. Having looked at the entirety of the situation, I recommend enhancing teamwork and cooperation at the workplace as a way of improving the situation. In this document, I analyse why I feel this is the solution, how it will be implemented and its implications.
Section I: Project Recommendation As answered by the unemployed professors
Working in a team can be a huge challenge at times. Team members are entitled to their own opinions on different subjects and this is one of the causes of conflicts, disagreements and general lack of cooperation. Other sources of conflict in a group include the diversity in educational, economic and social backgrounds. However, since there is a job to be done, a compromise and a sense of understanding on each party’s side is essential. Through effective teamwork in a group, members are able to see cohesion and realise how important it is in the achievement of the set goals (George N & Root, 2016). At the workplace, teamwork is paramount because, employees are all trying to achieve a common objective, share resources, communicate with one another and make decisions on matters affecting them together.
Rather than having employees’ differences as the dividing factor, it could be a potential source of the strength of the organization. The core of business is the people working together (Hubbard, 2014). Diverse perspectives in a group help functions such as decision be more comprehensive (West m. & Giles H., p. 32). Conclusions arrived at would not only be quality but also productive. When members brainstorm, they put their ideas together, argue out and at the end of the whole process they all gain a sense of belonging; they feel they are an integral part of the team, focused on achieving a common purpose. When each member act on their own, making uninformed and rushed decisions, the outcome is nothing short of conflicts as each member bids to support their cause. Ultimately. less progress is made.
A good team is one in which affairs of its members are taken good care of. Studies indicate that poor performance at work are sometimes indirect consequences of employees’ affairs being neglected. Good management recognises that job performance is subject to many factors, some of which are not experienced within the working environment. It serves bonding and strengthening work relationships when employers acknowledge and help out their employees when faced with personal problems. Apart from considering social affairs of its employees, it is also equally important that they are remunerated and rewarded well for their work.
Effective teamwork enhances cultivates the spirit of innovation. Innovation is the coming up with better ways of doing things and involve a number of processes. This is rarely as a result of individual effort. For effective implementation of the innovation, teamwork and cooperation is necessary (West M. & Giles H., p. 257). Considering the case at hand, Age UK could have come up with better ways to deliver its services to the elderly only if its employees put their energy together and focused on developing the company.
Creating an environment for effective teamwork to thrive requires more than just urging members of the team to try and accommodate one another. It requires bringing together all members in less formal and more social events where they can freely express themselves. Such social events are for instance, attending a member’s birthday party. They allow the members appreciate their differences in the long run. The physical working environment should also be well considered because conditions such as ventilations, temperature, lighting, cleanliness and waste disposal among others affect employee performance (healthyworkinglives, 2016).
Recommendations proposed here help change the state of affairs at Age UK Lambeth. However, team building is not a cheap affair and therefore the company should be prepared to incur some expenses along the way. Expenses would include money for organizing fun fares and sponsoring trips, hotel accommodation amongst many more. Since such events are done during special occasions such as end of financial year, they can be planned for effectively.
To foster teamwork, the company could also review the way it handles its employees’ affairs. One such way is through formation of a welfare association within the company that is headed by one of the employees and charge it with the role of bringing together all employees to support one another when need arises or when a member faces a tragedy or an unforeseen difficult circumstances. Studies show that when employees are not happy with their conditions, they are less effective (Unum, 2016). A case such as an employee missing at the office when they are required to could be an indicator of a poor social welfare or lack of it. It is quite possible that the employee could be out attending on personal duties. This also proves that when a company is not willing to at least consider or help its employee, its production might be affected.
Section II: Personal Career Action Plan
A career in event management requires one to possess not only academic knowledge but also, to an equally important degree, proficient personal skills. The carrier entails mainly engaging with people whether in public or in offices and as search, one needs to develop skills of communication, decision making, analytics and problem solving, leadership, computer and IT amongst many more. This section discusses some of the requirements I have to meet at the end of my career. A plan on how I would acquire the said skills is also included. unemployed professors
As I would be working at the Age UK in Lambeth as a receptionist and a befriender, some of the things I would hope to do include receiving and forwarding calls to staff members, handling mails, engaging clients at personal levels, ensuring visitors are received and welcomed well and generally ensuring the reception area is tidy. I believe the experience I gain from working there would help me advance my career skills due to the more practical approach nature of work.
As at the moment, I am not fully equipped with the relevant skills required to be a competent receptionist and event planner. There are quite a number of skills that I would like to learn first. As an office receptionist, one has to know how to perform functions such as mailing, editing and preparing documents using Microsoft Word and Excel spreadsheets or other software as well as printing and photocopying the documents. Qualified receptionists in the market currently are those who have a good understanding of these crucial skills. My plan on how I would acquire the skills include, enrolling on tutorials on the use of Microsoft Office software package. So as to be even more proficient and learn faster, I would acquire a copy of the software, install it on my laptop computer so that I can keep practicing on my own while at home or during free time at school. I would also seek advice from experts already at work and train on how to operate photocopying and printing machines. Furthering towards being a good office receptionist, I would learn how office documents such as reports are prepared and understand the process of procuring office stationery as well.
While volunteering at Age UK Lambeth, I learnt the importance of befriending and maintaining good relationships with clients. I also realised that it is not easy to handle some clients and therefore to ensure that I learn to how respond to and welcome clients well, I would partake training on the subject of public relations. Befriending is better learnt through directly engaging with people in the field and thus I would volunteer at an organization that does befriending. Another way of learning befriending is through seeking companionship with people especially the elderly. A problem I noticed while working was that elderly people tend to misunderstand questions and often give unrequired responses. I believe being friends with such people provides me with a rare opportunity to study and comprehend this problem and therefore be better at dealing with it. As part of building good friendship and hence better service delivery, I would also ensure that I am well versed with the health status of such elderly people. This would help me provide more personalised services and be in a better situation to give support to clients even before they demand or ask for it.
unemployed professors
Being a good employee requires one to have the right academic skills in the particular field. This is not enough in the current century. One has to do more that have theoretical knowledge on subject matter. Those extra skills are acquired through co-curricular activities such as sports, mentorship and so forth. Such activities may not be learning environments but they help one form friendships with people from different social and economic backgrounds. I would therefore join sports clubs at school and at home also. Sporting activities nurture team spirits and help one understand the need for why working together as a team. You also get to learn different ways of handling and engaging other people, a skill that constitutes leadership.
While extra-curricular skills are gives one an added advantage, an equally important aspect that cannot be dismissed is having a good understanding of one’s potential workplace. A vast understanding of operations at my future workplace would help me blend in much faster and perform better. As I was working at Age UK Lambeth, I realised that they offer a variety of services such as information and advice services, career advices, welfare and handyperson services. unemployed professors will search for information about the services from online sources and from print media and publications by the organization or any media service company. Another good source of information is people who work or worked there. I would seek for such people in my neighbourhood and if possible be friends with them.
Employers nowadays look for unemployed professors with skills such as analytical, problem solving and communication skills. Other important skills that I would also seek to learn include decision making, IT and computer, stress management and time management. Skills such as verbal and communication require a practical approach for perfection and therefore the best way to be proficient at them is through speaking to fellow colleagues and large audiences. Enrolling on courses that provide public speaking skills, joining a journalism club or student societies would definitely help a great deal.
Active Directory Migration – A Case Study
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Introduction
During the process of merging two companies it is important to eliminate duplication of resources and to ensure that normalcy of operations is maintained. Merging may be divided into managerial and infrastructural. At the infrastructural level, it involves merging of databases and resource such as Active Directory migration (AD migration). This is usually the most crucial part of consolidation since the process involves transfer of core company data and as such proper care and procedures must be put in place to guide the process. Microsoft provides some of the tools as well as best practices that would be required in the process. This document discusses the processes followed during the merger of Quality Inc. and Crescent Inc.’s core services. Key considerations taken in establishment of trust relationships between the two companies domains, Quality.ad and Crescent.ad are discussed. The unemployed professors also suggests a method of consolidating the two networks services by providing a plan for integrating the active directory forests of the two corporations in a seamless manner while avoiding duplication.
Creating trust relationships
Trust relationships facilitate the sharing of portions of the whole Active Directory database among forests. Since this processes involve access to critical company data, one of the considerations in establishing trusts is security. Core company documents are generally the most highly secured documents and as such are only shared among the main company’s executives in their domain. General employees are usually note granted permission to access such material. Also important are a company’s engineering data. The data usually entails the main business of the company and includes copyrighted research and innovation, designs and research work. The material is normally accessible to the engineering team and top executives only.
Establishment of trust relationships is also guided by the hierarchy in leadership or roles of the employees. A forest would normally contain a set of people of devices that are purposed to perform the same job. Whether the trust between two forests is one way, two way or otherwise, is a question of the hierarchy. For instance, relationship between the executives and general employees could be one-way as normally, employees take orders from their bosses and at the same time, their bosses can check on the progress of their work. A two-way trust may exist between the engineering team and the sales and marketing team in the sense that engineers would require to know the specifics of the products the company intends to sell out while marketers would require to get updates on the product being developed and perhaps offer appropriate guidance. Another important consideration is name resolution. Usually, everyone who participates in a forest will use the same Domain Name System to resolve names throughout the forest. Other consideration are networks. If all organizations in a forest trust each other, they may have put a private network
in place (Nelson Ruest & Danielle Ruest, 2003).
Since we are acquiring Crescent Inc., the best method of consolidating out services is to migrate objects from their domains into ours. Therefore, this implies that for instance an account migration would entail merging selected accounts from Crescent.ad to our domain Quality.ad. Since the engineering department at for Crescent is essentially an extension of ours, it would be important not to decommission it instead retail their location, Austin. As Crescent has one Certificate Authority, coordination and plan will be made to ensure a smooth transition to a deployed CAs in the Quality.ad domain as well as any application utilizing the certificate from the Crescent Inc.
AD Forest Migration Plan
To consolidate the two network services, the Active Migration Tool (ADTM) is used. This is a freely downloadable tool provided by Microsoft to customers using their software products to help them make easier, quicker and faster migrations. There are numerous ways of using the ADTM tool which include writing executable scripts, command prompts or using the console. Before the ADMT is run, there are a couple of set ups that need to be carried out. These are establishment of a suitable Internet Protocol (IP) addressing scheme to enable successful site-to-site communication. Active Directory and the underlying Domain Name Systems (DNS) usually require use of a unique IP addressing scheme at the juncture of two sites for successful communication between them. Microsoft further provides best practices for using the ADMT. It is required that for safety purposes, one must often make backups of the domain controllers on both sides of the merger as the process goes on. Another important measure is to ensure that all the encrypted files are decrypted by using the Encryption File System (EFS). This is because if the files are not decrypted, there will be data loss since they will not be accessed after migration. Lastly, it is important to make sure that system times are properly synchronised in each domain from which objects are to be migrated.
During the restructuring of Quality Inc., it could be necessary that some users of group accounts will be migrated. As such, some measures would need to be put in place to ensure that the process is successful. Regular backups of the domain controllers should be made between the target and source domains during the whole process. It is further recommended that migration be done in batches of sizes say 100 to make the process easy to manage.
The procedure of restructuring Active Directory domains involves planning, preparing of the source and target domains, migrating accounts and finally migrating resources. The Active Directory Migration Tool helps migrate accounts and resources while preserving user and object permissions. This means that by using the ADMT, users on both domains will continue accessing the required resources thus a smooth integration is achieved. The initial planning stage entails determination of the process of account migration, assigning the objects to be migrated locations and roles, designing a test plan, creating rollback plans for usage in case of failure of migration, managing users, groups and creation of a communication plan for the source and the target.
According to the unemployed professors ,the merging process, it is required that user retain, their access rights to specific resources. With the ADMT, we can use the security identifier (SID) history to maintain resource permissions as we migrate the accounts. With the SID enabled in both the target and source domains, we can safely migrate user accounts while using SID history for resource access. We remove SID filtering on the forest trusts already created between the domains to enable users access resources in the source domain using the SID history.
Global groups will be used to arrange users while domain local groups will serve to protect resources. Global groups will then be placed into domain local groups so as to grant the user members of the global group access to the resources. Of course global groups will contain members of its own domain such that when users are migrated between domains, the global groups to which they belong are also migrated. The migrated user can then log into the target domain and both the new SID and the old SID are added to the access token of the user. Resources that have source and target domains resolve their access control lists (ACLs) to SIDs and check if there is a match between their ACLs and the access token when giving or denying access to users. The SID history is important during several accesses including roaming, certificate authority, software installation and remote.
The next step after determining account migration process is the assignment of locations and roles to objects. Since the organizational units of structure of Quality Inc. and Crescent Inc. are the same, an object assignment table which lists the roles and locations of all the objects that we will be migrating will be created. One table, indicating the source and target destinations, for the accounts objects for example users, groups and service accounts will be created. Another table will also be created for resource objects which include workstations, profiles and domain controllers (DCs). This table will also indicate the source and target destinations.
A test plan will be developed in order to test each of the objects after they have been migrated to the new domain. The testing is important because it allows us to test for continuity of operations after the migration is done. We will be able to verify that our users will be able to log on to the new system and access resources based on their group membership and be granted access as per their credentials. The testing of user migration is followed by testing of groups and even larger sizes of objects.
As with any other major system upgrade or change, there is need for a rollback plan or a failover facilitation process. This is important because it the occurrence of the unexpected event, we can easily revert back to the old configurations without disrupting already ongoing operations. Although it is possible to isolate and resolve any problems that occur during each phase of migration, it is crucial that possible risks are analyzed and their effect on users determined so that we can know the amount time the system won’t be functional hence necessitating rollback. Rollbacks would be done is the case where users cannot log on to their accounts, or cannot access resource after migration and also if the whole process halts or becomes unsuccessful among other reasons.
After creating a rollback plan, we would then determine how users and groups would be managed as we merge the different forests. “By creating administrative procedures to be used for migration objects, it is possible to preserve the objects both in source domain and the target domain. Consequently, you can revert to the environment prior to migration if the restructure process is not successful.” (Jim Becker & Margery Spears, 2014). Administering accounts is important so as to resolve conflicts that arise because we expect that there could be similar accounts on both the target and source domains. This resolution helps eliminate duplication of roles in the new system.
The final step as stated by unemployed professors, the creation of a communication plan to inform all the affected users prior to migration about the upcoming migration, in order to make sure that they understand their responsibilities, the impact of the migration process and contacts for help or support if they might require. The migration process can then be started by migrating batches of around 100 users at an instance.
References
Jim Becker, Margery Spears (2014). ADMT Guide: Migrating and Restructuring Active Directory Domains. Microsoft Corporation.
Nelson Ruest & Danielle Ruest (2003). Windows Server 2003: Best Practices for Enterprise Deployment. McGraw-Hill/Osborne 3, 79-138.
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