Nobody—not even heroes, leaders, or megastars—reaches success on their own. We all rely on others to achieve our dreams, whether that’s a friend who believes in us, an instructor who challenges us, or a boss who can open the door to future opportunities. The better you are at building relationships with the people in your life (even with those who have different perspectives than your own), the more likely you are to achieve your goals. You can use your relationship-building skill to work with people from diverse cultures, exchange ideas, reach the best possible solutions, and create a stronger, more cohesive, and more productive workplace.

For this assessment, you will strengthen your relationship-building skill and build a key component of your relationship-building skill: collaboration, which means working together to achieve a common goal. You will identify and apply relationship-building and collaborative strategies based on a scenario. Relationship building is a universal skill and one you will continue to refine as you progress throughout your career.

Preparation
For this assessment, read the following scenario as well as the employee profiles below.

Scenario
A group of employees at Spruce Paper Company recently finished a major project that involved multiple departments, from creative to distribution. The goal of the project was to develop a new line of holiday cards. After reviewing information about the employees involved in this project, use your understanding of two sociological concepts—status and roles—to assess how employees collaborated to achieve the project goals and describe the relationship-building strategies these employees demonstrated.

Profiles
Rita:

Rita has been leading the project from day one. She is a senior member of the marketing team and has been with the company for 15 years.
Rita is responsible for managing multiple departments made up of diverse team members with varied backgrounds and skillsets.
It is ultimately Rita’s responsibility to decide the direction of the project and to make sure it is finished on time and on budget.
Although Rita values the varied opinions, experience, and perspectives of all of her team members, she tends to rely heavily on the expertise and opinion of Nimish; because they have worked together in the past, she trusts him and gives him a lot of responsibilities.
Rita’s constant deference to Nimish makes some of the other team members feel that she favors him.
Rita tries to be mindful of not showing favoritism by consulting the whole team before moving forward with the conclusions she and Nimish come up with.
Nimish:

Nimish works on the project remotely from India. He wears multiple hats, working with the marketing team by providing technical support.
Nimish has worked for Spruce Paper Company for 5 years. He and Rita worked together at the corporate offices when he lived stateside.
Many team members have complained to Rita that they have trouble understanding Nimish on conference calls because of his accent, and they are frustrated that he is based in India and never makes any in-person appearances.
Rita defends Nimish’s contributions and uses the opportunity as a teachable moment to explain the importance of diversity in the workplace to her team.
Nimish tries to address their concerns by reaching out to every member of the team to figure out how to best accommodate their various tech needs and comfort levels with preferred methods of communication.
His effort makes it possible for each team member to communicate with him and with each other regardless of location, which gives everyone an equal chance to weigh in.
Dave:

Dave is a graduate student in marketing at a local university and has been working on this project as an unpaid intern. He hopes the internship will lead to a full-time job offer.
Dave’s role is assisting with market research, preparing proposals and presentations, and providing administrative support for the marketing department.
Dave pitched an idea to Rita and her bosses, which was well received and the company implemented it.
Dave made certain that the whole team received credit for their contributions to his presentation.
Ernesto:

Ernesto is a retired expert in the greeting card industry and has been called in for this project to serve as a consultant. He has worked for a number of companies over the span of his career but never for the Spruce Paper Company.
Ernesto works closely with Rita and assists in providing direction on the project. He has also taken an interest in mentoring Dave by giving him goals and deadlines to meet on the project.
Ernesto has been retired for 6 years and is in need of a refresher on current trends.
Younger team members find it frustrating to work with Ernesto because of this. Rita is open to hearing their grievances but explains that Ernesto offers other skills and knowledge that are invaluable to the project.
Ernesto’s key contributions have been summarizing each department’s obstacles and avoiding tensions in meetings by mitigating differences of opinion.
Instructions
Use the Relationship Building at Work Worksheet [DOCX] Download Relationship Building at Work Worksheet [DOCX]to complete the following steps.

Explain how each team member’s status and role affected how they collaborated with others.
Identify the status and role of each team member first, and then explain how the team member’s status and role affected their collaboration.
Describe the relationship-building strategy each team member used.
Explain how each team member used collaborative strategies.
Explain why collaboration and relationship building are important in professional and personal life.
Write in a well-organized and concise manner that adheres to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.

Additional Requirements
Your worksheet submission should meet the following requirements:

Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
Citations: Include complete citations for any sources used. Review Evidence and APA for more information on how to cite your sources.
Review the assessment scoring guide for details on how your assessment will be graded.

 

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IT 253 Project One Guidelines and Rubric
Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:

Describe the fundamentals of cybersecurity policies and procedures
Explain how the protection of information impacts policies and practices within an organization
Scenario
You recently stepped into the role of information security manager at a medium-sized e-commerce company with roughly 500 to 1,000 employees organization-wide. The company has hired a third-party consultant to evaluate its information security posture. The consultant has concluded the evaluation and noted several high security risks. These action items must be addressed to ensure that the company’s information assets are secure. Your task is to provide recommendations to address multiple identified security risks and explain your decisions to your leadership team.

Directions
Memo Template: To communicate the identified information security risks and your recommendations and explanations, you will generate a memo to your leadership team. Your recommendations do not have to address all information security risks; however, they must address multiple risks. Be mindful that your leadership team is considered a nontechnical audience. You must complete each of the following sections:

Introduction: Describe how addressing the evaluated elements of information security will support the company’s business objectives.
Laws and Regulations: Explain how laws and regulations influence information security policies and procedures within this company.
Technical Controls: Describe the technical controls that you would recommend to address the multiple indicated information security risks from the consultant’s findings.
Administrative Controls: Describe the administrative controls that you would recommend to address the multiple indicated information security risks from the consultant’s findings.
Physical Controls: Describe the physical controls that you would recommend to address the multiple indicated information security risks from the consultant’s findings.
Business Impact: Explain how your recommendations impact current information security policies and practices within this company.
Conclusion: Explain why leadership should act on these control recommendations to improve the company’s information security posture. Your conclusion can also include a brief summary, although it is not required.
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:

Memo Template
This should be a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document (DOCX) with the following sections completed: introduction, laws and regulations, technical controls, administrative controls, physical controls, business impact, and conclusion.

 

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