This qualitative study explores the efficacy of executive coaching as a leadership development tool for federal supervisors amid the post-COVID-19 remote and hybrid workplace paradigm. Analysis of collected data reveals compelling themes, including enhanced self-awareness, emotional intelligence, time management, and communication skills, underscoring coaching's transformative impact on personal and professional growth. The establishment of trusting relationships with coaches and the provision of expertise in interpreting behavioral assessments contribute to fostering healthy organizational cultures marked by transparency and mutual respect. Executive coaching facilitates authentic conversations, enthusiastic support, and challenging reflective dialogue, enabling supervisors to navigate complexities with confidence.
Since the spring of 2020, practically all educational institutions have transferred instruction online. However, questions remain about whether online learning is as effective as face-to-face (F2F) one. This is especially relevant in the case of non-formal adult education, as students have competing demands on their time, established learning habits, and their relationship with a training provider is short-term. This paper compares results of students’ evaluation of teaching (SET) collected from two adult learner cohorts of similar demographic characteristics. While both cohorts had English language courses of the same core content and volume, one studied F2F, the other online. A Likert-type questionnaire form is used for the analysis. Analysis of the results from both groups reveals no statistically significant differences in students’ opinions. Moreover, students are consistent in their overall favorable attitude to both learning formats. A very slight preference towards F2F format is detected in some aspects of the course.
In this article, the author provides a definition of the term financial education management. According to the author, financial education management is a process that takes place in many levels of education supervision. The aim of the study is to find out how much the financial education activities in Latvia that were implemented at school and in the country have contributed to the development of financial literacy achievements by comparing the PISA 2012 and PISA 2018 survey data. Schools that participated in PISA 2018 were also surveyed in order to find out the aspects of financial education implementation in the school. The data shows that an increase has not been achieved in financial literacy within six years. Financial literacy is highly dependent on reading and mathematical literacy. Schools use relatively few financial institutions help to educate students in the finance field. As shown the study finds it is important that schools use the education services offered by banks and NGOs as it improves students' understanding of the financial environment.
In this article we report on a study investigating the perceptions from Turkish High School English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students of using the social media platform Facebook group to undertake a collaborative writing task. Opportunities for these students to advance their writing skills are often limited in classrooms because of curriculum restrictions. This study explored how students in two small groups of three might use their smartphones to collaboratively write a short story outside of the classroom over several weeks. The researchers gathered data from group interviews and online written researcher-participant chats. With minimal support, the students organised themselves enthusiastically for the FB task. Their perceptions of the task were positive, the students feeling comfortable with the FB medium and with each other. Student agency was pivotal in creating an informal social affinity and smart learning space, suggestive of extended writing affordances in other contexts.
In the interdisciplinary co-operation of experts in the fields of technology, hospitality, and pedagogy, a 3D training module was created, which simulates the environment of a hotel reception. Key elements of communication between hotel staff and various types of guests were identified, and variant scenarios of communication situations were prepared. Scenarios are based on the principles of effective simulation. The methodology of training communication skills of hotel employees using virtual reality tools was compiled on the basis of foreign research in the field of using virtual reality in training processes. The tool is a pilot test in teaching tourism workers, specifically for the development of their communication skills in dealing with clients. The paper presents, in detail, a model of virtual reception and methodology of communication skills training, which was verified on students who are preparing to work in tourism, as well as on hotel staff with experience.
Several psychological terms, such as depression, anxiety, and worries, included COVID-19, the unexpected discontinuity of students' lives, and the extreme confusion concerning the recovery to normality was profoundly disappointing experiences. The Core objective of this study is to investigate the psychological readiness and online learning collaboration of secondary level students during Covid-19 in Bangladesh. The study illustrates the current state of education in Bangladesh and the importance of reliance on the emotional desire to learn online. The significant finding shows that the students’ psychological readiness has a strong positive association with the online learning environment to ensure quality education. It is necessary to look into the school level student’s mental readiness to bring down the future uncertainty; digital-hostile spite, the student’s emotional willingness for online learning. The study suggests some policies for the resilience and improvement of students' psychological readiness in developing countries, especially in Bangladesh.
Mass shootings, COVID-19, political partisanship, and natural disasters have made government leadership more challenging and more complex. Unfortunately, the government's current leadership development approaches have been under resourced, ineffective, not comprehensive, and not fully infused with the concept of the public stewardship and public trust. This paper explores an understanding of leadership and its application to government through an exploration of leadership models from emerging research and the literature. The value of this approach is to take a plethora of dispersed complex models and combine them in a context suitable for a smart, needed, and relevant discussion.
Leadership growth is a contemporaneous approach to learning. Developing healthcare leadership and decision-making concerning protecting U.S. critical infrastructure from a framework of sound cybersecurity protection approaches in the age of COVID-19 is the latest development for cybersecurity healthcare leaders. Examined is the creation of this framework from the leadership viewpoint to investigate arguments, practices, and how this information explains the assembly and effects of cybersecurity consciousness, skill, experience, behaviors, aims, agreement, and knowledge absorption. This examination concentrates on the development of the framework and focus group results as this framework is reasoned the suitable tool to expose how diverse backgrounds can be realized to blend new knowledge, the age of COVID-19, U.S. critical infrastructure, protection, variation, and diversity into enhanced knowledge, skill, and abilities. This data adds to the body of knowledge regarding cybersecurity leadership knowledge development for academics, practitioners, and learners.
COVID-19 has made supply chain and logistics risk management a significant aspect of healthcare organizations strategic focus area in 2022 and beyond in the United States. It is essential to consider how medical equipment, medicines, and supplies can save lives but only if they can reach those in need quickly and when most needed. Pandemic-induced disruptions in public health and hospital supply chains have created a need for more responsive and adaptive leadership and organizational practices. This study uses a qualitative research approach to explore the healthcare supply chain and logistics management best practices and innovations in the post-COVID-19 onset world.
Focusing on the approach for developing professional skills, this paper is dedicated to the University on-line education as a pedagogical tool for material science and solid state physics as well. Two strategies described within the comparative analysis are based on the students tests performed at the Southern Federal University. A remote access to the research laboratory infrastructure allows our approach for the interactive simulations-based learning process with the provision of individual educational programs to be launched. This problem is presently of urgent interests, and applied in material science we have discussed its importance from different perspectives, i.e. to teach X-ray spectroscopy via the interactive software simulation of modern equipment or to perform a research at remote laboratories in a real time. Within this note we conceptually analyse some quantitative data of the learning process for a number of students that formed at both interactive sense-making and learning by doing.
Concerns about environmental problems due to rapid economic growth have been undoubtedly increased the past few decades. The conservation of the natural environment and the satisfaction of human needs have attracted a lot of attention from individuals to policymakers. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effects of environmental education, knowledge, information and lifestyles on ecological behavior and sustainability goals. More specifically, the emergence of a possible relationship between environmental education and sustainability and the correlation of lifestyle and individual attitude with ecological behavior constitute the research questions of our study. The researchers conducted a quantitative analysis by collecting data from 116 questionnaires. The results indicate a lack of knowledge diffusion on environment from schools whilst even though people's emotional commitment and attitude towards environment are significantly augmented, their ecological behavior is erratic in particular occasions.
The U.S. hospital Ransomware attacks during COVID-19 have highlighted the importance of cybersecurity workers and expertise in healthcare. These attacks are increasing when the US is experiencing a considerable cybersecurity workforce shortage. As everyone becomes increasingly hyper-connected and cybercrime intensifies in both scale and complexity, the need for experts in the field is dire. Innovative organizations realize that they need to tap into new employment talent populations that have historically been overlooked, especially deaf and hard of hearing. This action research study explores a management consulting intervention at an organization with an unfriendly culture for employees with disabilities but in need of workers with cybersecurity expertise.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control, Health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced by socially disadvantaged populations and minority communities. COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on communities of color. Since 2020, communities of color in the US have experienced tremendous uncertainty, fear, and anger concerning trustworthy information about the origins, treatments, and prevention methods regarding COVID-19. This paper explores diversity and inclusion and its connection to health disparities through the kaleidoscope of COVID-19 and through the use of health theories and education solutions developed from the literature.
With the increasing importance of e-services in cyberspace, cybersecurity is essential for safety and trustworthiness. This paper presents a cybersecurity assessment model that can be used to determine the current level of protection of e-services and to support its future development. The model is distinguished by its comprehensiveness, flexibility, and usability. In terms of comprehensiveness, the model integrates various cybersecurity measures recommended by international and national organizations and by academic researchers. In terms of flexibility, it structures these measures into the four-domain framework of technology, organization, people, and environment. The model also structures the assessment into levels based on the dimensions of importance, strategy consideration, and practical implementation. The usability of the model is illustrated by its application to three different Saudi organizations concerned with e-services. This work will be useful to researchers for the future development of cybersecurity assessments, and to professionals for practical applications.
