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Preparing for Behavioral Event Interviews

8/30/2019

Lisa Mann, from the UNC Asheville Career Center, visited both capstone Strategy classes this week to help the students develop the skill of story telling for their future career searches.

This was an experiential process. The students wrote a story that might be relevant in a behavioral event job interview in the Situation - Action - Result (SAR) format. They then shared their stories with students in the class that they didn't know well to get feedback.

Lisa also had them write a story about a time they failed in the SAR format, and share that story with a friend in the room.

All of this is to help them when they graduate, which most will do in December or next May, and in their future careers.

Link to UNC Asheville Career Center: https://www.unca.edu/success/career-center/

Link to Neil Bearden video about story telling: https://vimeo.com/354629176

Link to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/preparing-behavioral-event-interviews-paul-mcafee-mba-phd-abd

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"Why Managers Need to Know Transgender Terminology" (AOM)

7/2/2019

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Recently, I shared an article here about non-binary gender pronouns. The following new article from Academy of Management (AOM) explains why managers (and of course, teachers) need to know transgender terminology. If this subject interests you, follow the link to the article. There is a detailed glossary of terms that you can save for reference.

Link to AOM article:
https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amle.2015.0355.summary

The following are the first three paragraphs of the article:

Learning terminology related to transgender issues is one of the first steps toward creating a respectful work culture for transgender employees, according to Michael J. Robinson of Case Western Reserve University, coauthor of an Academy of Management Learning & Education article.

“People who don’t understand the language automatically have a really negative predisposition to something,” said Robinson, who coauthored, “Bringing Transgender Issues Into Management Education: A Call to Action,” with Chantal van Esch of California State Polytechnic University in Pomona and Diana Bilimoria of Case Western Reserve University. “That’s part of the reason you’ll hear people say, ‘She thinks she’s a woman,’ when they’re talking about trans women, or, ‘She calls herself a woman, but she’s really a man.’”

U.S. managers who do not know how to interact respectfully with transgender employees, or how to build workplace cultures in which coworkers interact respectfully, face fines from the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or financial penalties or settlements in civil courts. Organizational reputations can also take a hit, according to the article.

Retrieved online from https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amle.2015.0355.summary

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Generation Z

6/30/2019

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McKinsey & Company recently published an article based on research of Generation Z (born 1995-2010). The article related generational beliefs and behaviors to business, but anyone who teaches should consider this new generation of college students.

As teachers, we have to relate to and communicate with all of the students, whether they are Millennials, Generation Z, or even Baby Boomers.

I've had Boomers in several of my courses, sitting beside and learning with Millennials and lately, Gen Zs.

The McKinsey article title is "‘True Gen’: Generation Z and its implications for companies."

This is a link to the article: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/consumer-packaged-goods/our-insights/true-gen-generation-z-and-its-implications-for-companies

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