EMSL

Week 2

DQ 1

What are some examples in my organization that can be associated with the four Tiers (Enterprise and Motivation)

Expain more about MCCCD

Maricopa County Community Colleges (Either Tier 1 or Tier 2)

Examples: LEED Buildings and ACUPCC

DQ 2

What companies can be considered, too big to fail?

What is the consequence if a large company goes out of business, compared to smaller companies?

Sustainability benefits, large vs small? What is the impact?

What is the social/moral issue of large companies that fail. Why should they be saved if smaller ones are left to the ways of the open market?

Why should governments and the rest of society support a mismanaged company?

Structure and Function of SCC

Educate

Provide Excellent Customer Service

Be a strong community partner

Promote a culture of innovation

Assignment 2

My System

Family

Established Value Sytem

We are very influenced by how our parents raise us, they are usually the people that we spend most of our time during our childhood with and that teach us the value system of what are good and bad decisions.

Financial Support

This mainly happend in the early years of my live, when I was still deopendant on my families money to get me through school or to provide for food and shelter.

Helps me stay grounded and is a motivator to be successful

i would like to make my familiy proud. it feels good if you can share success stories with your familiy and know that they support you through challenging times.

Friends

Honest feedback

Serve as a filter to vet important decisions and receive honest feedback.

Mental support

A healthy social life is important to me, to keep my system intact and funtioning.

Work

Keeps me motivated

Meaning I see that my actions actually have an impact and can make a difference in peoples lives, weahter it is to move towards desert landscaping to save water or to teach sustainability in my class.

Helps me identify what I would like to do in my future

Althogh I do not have a specific idea where or what I want to be when I grow up. I know that I am on the right path and i enjoy the things that I am doing and the decisions I am making for my future career.

Youth

It is good to look back at your roots and see how it defines who you are and what values you believe in.

Our youth has a lot to do with how we behave as adults. Growing up around forests and nature, toght me a lot about appreciating our environment and instilled a passion for preserving it for future generations in me.

Space

This is meant to mean the physical space that someone lives in. I think it has a lot to do with how we act and behave in our daily live.

I feel some of our decision making really depends on the area that we live in. Our lives are influenced by politics, air quality, water sanitation, transportion, and all kinds of other things that can vary widely given the space that we are currently living in. These things affect how we are making decisions on a daily basis.

DQ 1

I think the community college system as a whole needs an overhaul.

My company needs to change the way they are hiring new employees and motivating already existing ones.

What can we do to improve the competitiveness of SCC?

What is my companies policy regarding hiring peopole.

DQ 2

What does the article say about projects and vision?

Project examples, how did we create a vision at SCC

Why do we need a vision?

Projects help to show a vision in action

DQ3

Ford and Unilever examples

How do we place goal into context?

Research some of the leading companies, reference the article pg.24.

How are goals marketed, why should people care?

Week 2

DQ 1

What project would I like to highlight that addresses the 8 principles.

What 3 principles can I highlight?

Effective communications, Broad participation, Continuity and Capacity.

Which of the principles clash and which allign?

What is the conclusion of what needs to be done to improve on the clashing principles?

DQ 2

Athletic Program at SCC.

What kind of effect can non-existing or inefficient communication have on the people that are involved?

People always need to be considered when making financial decisions that effect them, otherwise it can have a harmful effect on the organization and the leadership.

Establish a clear and transparent communication plan

Week 3

DQ 1

What was the main reason for success at Lockheed Martin?

What did the Green Teams achieve, and why did they achieve it?

How does the success look in relation to what the company does on a daily basis?

What is the impact on employee engagement?

Can numbers really tell the story?

DQ 2

Kimberly Clarks work in bringing sustainability to the community is very hands on.

People are being actively engaged and can take what they learned home and practice it there as well.

The projects that they are implementing could be including other companies and encouraging the business community to do the same thing.

DQ 3

Darden Seafood Restaurants is using a sustainability dashboard to educate their supply chain.

They are going with their information directly to their suppliers intead of using a middleman.

Darden is one of the largest buyers of Seafood in the U.S. and therefore can use their economic influence to implement sustainability practices.

The work with third party entities such aa the New England Aquarium is halping to make their sustainability efforts more credible, and research based.