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The STEM Pathway and Student Retention: Lessons Applied and Best Practices through Peer Mentoring
by Carita Harrell David G. CapcoThis work introduces methods that aid in freshman retention (in the transition from high school and to remain in the university of origin) and orient them towards a successful career in science. Specific examples of successful approaches are given as well as detailed plans for how to engage these students. Pitfalls as well as success are described. In addition this work provides a detailed description of how to develop the students into a cohort that exhibits comradery. Three types of cohort form, those within the freshman class, those among the upperclassmen and those between the freshmen and upperclassmen. The program works because the social reality is that the peer mentor has a better repertoire with the first semester freshmen than the faculty or staff and assists with student success. Factors such as financial aid, policy, and support systems influence student success. In the sciences, students often struggle with the content and adjusting to the college experience. Research states that a mentorship program supports retention as well as enhances the student experience during college. This program creates a cohort group among the upperclassmen mentors and freshmen and provides leadership development for all involved.
A Step Ahead: Competition Policy for Shared Prosperity and Inclusive Growth
by Begazo Gomez Georgiana Pop Martha Martinez Licetti Sara NymanSustainable economic development has played a major role in the decline of global poverty in the past two decades. There is no doubt that competitive markets are key drivers of economic growth and productivity. They are also valuable channels for consumer welfare. Competition policy is a powerful tool for complementing efforts to alleviate poverty and bring about shared prosperity. An effective competition policy involves measures that enable contestability and firm entry and rivalry, while ensuring the enforcement of antitrust laws and state aid control. Governments from emerging and developing economies are increasingly requesting pragmatic solutions for effective competition policy implementation, as well as recommendations for pro-competitive sectoral policies. A Step Ahead: Competition Policy for Shared Prosperity and Inclusive Growth puts forward a research agenda that advocates the importance of market competition, effective market regulation, and competition policies for achieving inclusive growth and shared prosperity in emerging and developing economies. It is the result of a global partnership and shared commitment between the World Bank Group and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Part I of the book brings together existing empirical evidence on the benefits of competition for household welfare. It covers the elimination of anticompetitive practices and regulations that restrict competition in key markets and highlights the effects of competition on small producers and employment. Part II of the book focuses on the distributional effects of competition policies and how enforcement can be better aligned with shared prosperity goals.
Step-by-Step Cover Letters
by Evelyn U SalvadorAn overall framework to help students, job seekers, and career changers easily build outstanding cover letters that will land interviews and score job offers
Step-by-Step Dividend Investing: A Beginner's Guide to the Best Dividend Stocks and Income Investments (Step by Step Investing Ser. #Volume 2)
by Joseph HogueStop Playing the Stock Market Game with the Only Stock Investment to Consistently Beat the Market <P><P>Over the 15 years through 2014, stocks in the S&P 500 lost money a third of the time with investors losing an average of 16% when the market tumbled. Even on gains in other years, investors earned an annualized return of just 2.3% over the period...that's barely enough to cover inflation. <P><P>But one group of stocks has consistently beaten the stock market game. In fact, this group has provided a source for positive returns every single year - without fail. <P><P>Even when the prices of dividend stocks fall, the regular stream of cash they provide is a constant source for positive returns. After reading this book, you'll know exactly how to take advantage of returns on dividend stocks and how to build a portfolio around income investments. <P><P>This book is the second in a series of four, outlining a step-by-step process for a simple investing strategy. In this book about investing in stocks that regularly put money in your pocket, I start off by showing you the power of dividend investing.
Step by Step Emerging Markets Investing: A Beginner's Guide to the Best Investments in Emerging Markets (Step by Step Investing #4)
by Joseph HogueStep-by-Step Emerging Markets Investing is the only book to give you a detailed process on how to position your investments for the developing change in world markets. You'll get an in-depth review of the risks and upside potential in emerging markets investing as well as the countries and funds in the theme. The last section of the book is dedicated to a step-by-step process to building your emerging markets portfolio and how to manage your investments in the least amount of time.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Case-Based Collaborative Learning (IAMSE Manuals)
by Henrike C. Besche Richard M. Schwartzstein Randall W. King Melanie P. Hoenig Barbara A. CockrillThis book is about Case-Based Collaborative Learning (CBCL) for medical educators. CBCL combines elements from team-, case- and problem-based based learning using a flipped classroom model. This book presents a detailed “how to” guide on how to create CBCL classroom materials, how to facilitate vivid discussions, and how to support students and faculty in a CBCL curriculum. The first chapter explores the CBCL method in context of established educational principles. The second chapter provides a step-wise guide to creating CBCL teaching materials from scratch or adapting existing resources. Chapter three discusses how to support both - faculty and students - in making the most out of in-class case discussions. The last chapter explores modifications to the CBCL method that have evolved over time in adapting to teaching remotely, as well as promoting self-directed learning skills in students. While originally developed in context of undergraduate medical education, the CBCL method is of interest to anyone in higher education that values flipped classroom methods and discussion-based teaching.
The Step-by-Step Guide to Sustainability Planning: How to Create and Implement Sustainability Plans in Any Business or Organization
by Darcy E Hitchcock Marsha L WillardSustainability is now the greatest business imperative, yet how do you actually develop and implement a sustainability plan if you aren‘t an expert? From the authors of the award-winning handbook The Business Guide to Sustainability comes this highly practical guide to designing and implementing a customized sustainability plan in any business, organization or government department of any type and scale. This step-by-step guide explains how to create a sustainability plan and sustainability report. Each chapter has two vital sections. The first contains background reading, tips and case examples to help you be successful. The second presents a set of methods each with step-by-step instructions and a selection matrix to help choose the best methods. The book also contains sample worksheets and exercise materials that can be copied for organization-wide use.
A Step-by-Step Introduction to Statistics for Business
by Mr Richard N LandersThe essential introduction to statistics for business students , this book will equip you with the knowledge and skills required to succeed in your studies and use statistics in your workplace. In a clear and engaging way, Richard Landers guides the reader through the vital role statistics play in the business decision-making process and carefully explains and demonstrates how they are applied in practice. The book covers everything from collecting data to summarising your findings and presenting them. It also revisits all the basic maths skills required to work with data and statistics effectively, with step-by-step screenshot illustrations in both Excel and IBM SPSS. Chapters open with an example of a common business situation which then runs throughout the chapter, encouraging the reader to identify appropriate solutions to real-world quantitative questions. Each chapter concludes with a second example and discussion for you to test your newly gained statistics knowledge. The book also comes with a comprehensive Companion Website which hosts: - Click-by-click video tutorials for how to use Excel and IBM SPSS - Unlimited datasets and worked solutions for practicing your statistics skills - A full instructor's manual with in-class activities plus PowerPoint presentations for lecturers. Visit the Companion Website at www.sagepub.co.uk/landers Electronic inspection copies are available for instructors.
A Step-By-Step Introduction to Statistics for Business
by Mr Richard N LandersA clear and concise introduction to statistics for business and management students, demonstrating how important statistics are in the business decision-making process and covering everything from conducting a survey and collecting data, to summarizing statistical data, and presenting findings. Each chapter features a real-world business situation and accompanying dataset, the reader is then encouraged to identify the correct statistical concept in the chapter and solve the problem outlined. Offering students a chance to use the newly learned theory in a practical way. New to the second edition: A “Review of Essential Mathematics” prologue, featuring tests and further links to help students refresh their knowledge of the core mathematical concepts used to calculate basic statistics. Updated screenshots on using IBM SPSS and Excel. A “Statistics in the Real World” feature included at the end of each chapter, demonstrating how statistics are applied in real-world business settings and research, accompanied by reflective questions. Updated case studies, examples and diagrams, illustrating key points and helping to reinforce learning. The book is accompanied by free online resources including step-by-step video tutorials on how to use Excel and IBM SPSS, datasets and worked solutions, an Instructors’ Manual, Testbank, and PowerPoint presentation slides for lecturers. Essential reading for business students wanting to know how to use statistics in a business setting.
A Step-By-Step Introduction to Statistics for Business
by Mr Richard N LandersA clear and concise introduction to statistics for business and management students, demonstrating how important statistics are in the business decision-making process and covering everything from conducting a survey and collecting data, to summarizing statistical data, and presenting findings. Each chapter features a real-world business situation and accompanying dataset, the reader is then encouraged to identify the correct statistical concept in the chapter and solve the problem outlined. Offering students a chance to use the newly learned theory in a practical way. New to the second edition: A “Review of Essential Mathematics” prologue, featuring tests and further links to help students refresh their knowledge of the core mathematical concepts used to calculate basic statistics. Updated screenshots on using IBM SPSS and Excel. A “Statistics in the Real World” feature included at the end of each chapter, demonstrating how statistics are applied in real-world business settings and research, accompanied by reflective questions. Updated case studies, examples and diagrams, illustrating key points and helping to reinforce learning. The book is accompanied by free online resources including step-by-step video tutorials on how to use Excel and IBM SPSS, datasets and worked solutions, an Instructors’ Manual, Testbank, and PowerPoint presentation slides for lecturers. Essential reading for business students wanting to know how to use statistics in a business setting.
Step-by-Step QFD: Customer-Driven Product Design, Second Edition
by John TerninkoWouldn't it be great if you could design a product with the customer in mind - right from the very start? Well, now there's a way: Quality Function Development, or QFD, translates the needs of the consumer directly into the design and development of new products and services. By focusing on customer needs and incorporating them into every phase of the manufacturing process, it eliminates waste and improves customer satisfaction. And that means increased sales, greater profits, and a bigger share of the market.Step-by-Step QFD is a practical, hands-on guide to implementing QFD at any organization. Written by an expert in the field, it shoes how the intensive study of consumer needs can be used to help you dramatically outperform the competition. In fact, the strategies outlined in this book have already met with great success at a number of corporations both within and outside of the United States. This workbook includes a case study of QFD in action, 34 helpful workshops, and an analysis of the synergy between QFD, TRIZ, and Taguchi. So whether you're a QFD trainer, project manager, design engineer, or manufacturer, Step-by-Step QFD will show you how to let one voice drive your entire design process - the customer's!
Step-by-Step Resumes
by Evelyn U SalvadorAn extensive collection of thousands of powerful resume keywords to help readers' resumes stand out in electronic databases.
Step Change: The Leader’s Journey
by Alan WatkinsNo one likes change. Too often it’s viewed as something that must be endured; something to ‘get through’ as fast as possible so that everything can ‘return to normal'. We need to change our view of change and see it for the opportunity it really is. Step Change: The Leader’s Journey helps leaders to become gifted and skilful at moving through the change process gracefully and productively. Based on Joseph Campbell’s 'hero’s journey', Step Change: The Leader’s Journey offers a universal road map of change from step-1 (comfort zone) through to step-12 (post-delivery inspiration). The journey travels through four distinct phases of ‘discover’, ‘decide’, ‘develop’ and ‘deliver’. Step Change provides a proven formula for change, both personal and organisational, which allows us to know where we are on the Change Wheel and what to expect from each step, including what it looks and feels like at each step. By identifying what causes change to fail at each step as well as tools to navigate past the pitfalls and dead ends that leave us stuck at a particular step or retreating to the comfort zone, the change cycle can be understood and mastered. The book provides the ideal structure for senior managers, human resource managers, coaches and business leaders to follow in order to embed change across their teams and organisation.
Step into the Intersection...and Create the Medici Effect--The Future of Innovation
by Frans JohanssonToday, disciplines and cultures are connecting faster, more often, and in more places than ever before creating more opportunities to explore the intersection of fields as a site for the generation of innovative ideas. The advantage goes to those with an open mind and the willingness to reach beyond their field of expertise.
Step into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy
by Mark van RijmenamAn incisive glimpse into the future of the internet In Step into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy, future tech strategist, entrepreneur, and thought leader Dr. Mark van Rijmenam delivers a startlingly insightful discussion about how the world as we know it will fundamentally change as the physical and the digital worlds merge into the metaverse, impacting the everyday experiences of people, companies, and societies. The author maps out the extraordinary opportunities and challenges facing business leaders, consumers, regulators, policymakers, and other metaverse stakeholders trying to navigate the future of the Internet. In the metaverse, you can be who you want to be, where you want to be, and companies and consumers are only restricted by their own creativity how they can benefit from the immersive internet. With engaging commentary on issues ranging from avatars, identity and digital fashion to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain and the economics of the metaverse, this book also offers: Discussions on the importance of an open and interoperable metaverse build on the web 3.0 paradigm if we want to reign in the control of Big Tech over our identity, data and lives. Explorations of the enormous—and largely untapped—potential for metaverse entertainment, including gaming, music, media, and sports and how brands can engage with their customers in novel ways and how digital twins will change how we work and innovate. Considerations related to the dangers of an always-on, immersive internet, including data breaches, avatar imposters, mental health issues, corporate and state surveillance, and the need for metaverse law. A fascinating read you won’t be able to put down, Step into the Metaverse belongs in the hands of executives, managers, and other business leaders who play a role in digital transformation or execution. It's also an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the future of technology, the internet, and social interaction.
Step into Your Moxie: Amplify Your Voice, Visibility, and Influence in the World
by Alexia VernonPREPARE TO TRANSFORM YOUR VOICE AND BE HEARD Step into Your Moxie is a soul-stirring call to action to speak up for yourself and the ideas and issues that matter most to you. Dubbed a “Moxie Maven” by President Obama’s White House Office of Public Engagement for her potent approach to women’s empowerment, Alexia Vernon has helped thousands of women (and men) slay diminishing self-talk and cultivate confidence. She has created a timely, refreshingly playful guide for women to communicate with candor, clarity, compassion, and ease every time they open their mouths to speak — in their careers, communities, and homes. Step into Your Moxie is the book women want by their side as they have that daring conversation, give an important presentation, run for office, or simply tell the people closest to them to step back from the boundaries they’ve trespassed.
Step Off!: My Journey from Mimbo to Manhood
by Dan CorteseRecognized from Seinfeld and MTV, Dan Cortese now gives readers a personal and humorous look at the life and career of an American TV actor and host Fans of Veronica's Closet, MTV Sports, What I Like About You, 8 Simple Rules, and Castle will relish this exclusive account of Dan’s life and career. Step Off! is a hilarious look inside the eccentric experiences of a Hollywood favorite. He discusses life from his own honest, outrageous Hollywood perspective. Cortese shares the lessons he's learned—and a few he hasn’t—working on screen for over two decades as an American actor. He also reveals details about his most rewarding job: being a father. Step Off! is a side-splitting, heart-warming journey through Dan’s life and career, showing the hilarious and memorable aspects of acting, fame, and striving to be a super dad. Follow the actor’s path from working in a steel mill in Pittsburgh, to the rock-climbing "Mimbo" on Seinfeld, to his life as a father of three. You’re sure to laugh with this noteworthy celebrity book from Dan Cortese.
Step Up: How to build your influence at work
by Michelle GibbingsIn today's fast-paced world, organisations and the people who work for them are going through rapid change. Most successful leaders are able to make the most of these dynamic environments.They understand themselves, understand others and understand how to manage and motivate behavioural change. It is through these core skills that they are able to prosper through change and gather the influence they need to be successful. These skills are relevant for everyone – regardless of their role or hierarchical position.Michelle Gibbings wrote Step Up specifically for people who are more technically focused, but who are at a stage in their career where they know they need to change if they want to advance. They could be accountants, financial planners, risk management experts, financial controllers, engineers, scientists or even doctors. They are people who associate with their technical craft first, even though they may now be in a leadership role and are required to step up.
Step Up
by Marshall Goldsmith Henry Evans Colm FosterNo matter what your title or place on the organization chart, you have the potential to be a leader--or more precisely, the potential to exercise leadership in the moments that matter most. Leadership is not a job title or position, but rather an action. In certain moments and situations, anyone can rise to the occasion to act as a leader--gaining respect, confidence, and ultimately greater success in the organization. But how can you recognize these moments where leadership is required, and then know what to do?Step Up explains six critical "leadership moments"--everyday instances when you have a choice to shine or let opportunity pass you by. Based on their own research and extensive client work, Evans and Foster identify six regularly occurring moments and help you understand how to act wisely and decisively when those moments arise, showing how to:Get Angry, Not StupidAvoid Terminal PolitenessDecide AlreadyAct When You are the ProblemLeverage PessimismReverse MomentumAnyone can take advantage of opportunities to act as a leader when the time is right--and reap the rewards. Step Up is a guide to exercising leadership when it matters most, boosting your personal impact and effectiveness, and making a real difference.
Step Up!: How to Win More and Lose Less in Business!
by Dennis Kimbro Daniel GrissomSTEP UP! - 6 steps make 80% of the difference in the improvement and achievement of superior results. YOUR COMPETITION HAS STEPPED-UP, SHOULD YOU? In STEP UP! Daniel identifies the critical challenges facing sellers,street-smart strategies and shows you how to work smarter, not harder. As well, the author provides a collection of classic quotes from other leaders in the field of excellence including his mom. Every idea, tip and suggestion in this book is focused on helping individuals and organizations improve their performance and results. All of the content is the result of many years of research, interviews and personal experience. So, the advice is not mere theory; it's the real deal on results! It's the book for achieving business excellence. for achieving business excellence.
Step Up: Women’s Journey to Identity, Success and Power
by Sailaja ManachaStep Up is a transformative journey that provides women with the necessary tools to become powerful leaders. It is an ‘inner journey’ to reveal commonly held beliefs that women have of themselves and others, as well as patterns of behaviour and choices that form the lens through which they see the world. Being aware of this allows them to look at the world differently and make impactful changes in their professional lives.Borrowing from the well-known frameworks of Generative Leadership (GL) and Transactional Analysis (TA), the book provides an inside-out approach advocating potent practices that can create effective leadership.
Stephan Schiffman's 101 Successful Sales Strategies
by Stephan SchiffmanWith sales guru Stephan Schiffman at your side, you can fine tune your sales strategies, and get results immediately! Stephan Schiffman's 101 Most Successful Sales Strategies includes crucial advice on: Building leadership skills; Using E-mail to your advantage; Getting return phone calls; Following the nine principles of cold calling. Chock-full of expert insider advice to put you at the top of the sales game, Stephan Schiffman's 101 Most Successful Sales Strategies shows you how to beat out your competition and become number one in the field-starting now!
Stephan Schiffman's 101 Successful Sales Strategies: Top Techniques to Boost Sales Today
by Stephan SchiffmanBelieve in the power of miracles..."A special little book, an antidote to the stress, fury, and unfeelingness of many people's hurried, everyday lives." --Newsday"Judith Leventhal and Yitta Halberstam amaze and inspire with their incredible-but-true story collections...of wondrous true coincidences." --People"Small Miracles is a book you'll love and cherish for a long time to come. It will make you aware of similar events that are happening to you--those touches of grace that, when we think to look for them, bless us all." --Belle
Stephan Schiffman's 101 SUCCESSFUL SALES STRATEGIES
by Stephan SchiffmanChock-full of expert insider advice to put you at the top of the sales game, Stephan Schiffman's 101 Most Successful Sales Strategies shows you how to beat out your competition and become number one in the field-starting now!
Stephan Schiffman's Sales Essentials
by Stephan SchiffmanHaving trouble closing your deals? Hitting a frustrating plateau with your sales numbers? Feel that upselling is a lost cause? Let sales guru Stephan Schiffman drive your sales pitches up a notch with his tried-and-true techniques - and get results immediately! Stephan Schiffman's Sales Essentials includes time-tested tips on: Mastering the cold call Using email as a selling tool Raising the stakes to "up" your next buy Closing the deal - every time! Plus, you'll also find 50 surefire questions to ask to make deal after deal, year after year. Packed with insider information you need to beat the competition, you can't afford not to read Stephan Schiffman's Sales Essentials!