A key concept in this course is MOTIVATION. But not only bosses motivate, many people motivate others. This 700 word paper will focus on a real person you know personally. You will discuss how this real person motivates others. First, briefly set the stage. Introduce your person, possibly but not necessarily a manager or leader. Then discuss, and critique, how he or she gets others to do what he or she wants them to do. Hopefully you can do this in a way that brings the character to life, keeps the reader interested, AND gives new insights as to how REAL people can motivate others, no matter what job title. Use an interesting title so people will want to read your paper. Make it informative, and interesting, and with smart ideas about a REAL person. Learn to draw ideas from everywhere, including real life. In these reports you will have a chance to look at how some real person YOU PERSONALLY KNOW motivates, makes things happen, using examples from your own experience. You will want to read the chapter of your text that deal with motivation before you write, and you may well use your real life example to illustrate or cast doubt on ideas from our text but the key is YOUR analysis. Do NOT go to the web: this is a THOUGHT paper not a RESEARCH paper. Please do NOT prepare an academic theoretical paper. This short paper will NOT have references and will not have a bibliography. Rather, write your essay using A REAL PERSON YOU KNOW as a point of departure. Your example and your own thoughts will be the keys. There is no set format for this report. Any paper that starts with the words “This paper is about” is in danger of being burned. Try to capture the reader’s attention, and set the direction and purpose of your report, in the first couple sentences. Then make your key points, each main idea in its own paragraph. Wrap it all up in an interesting concluding paragraph. MAKE THE PAPER INTERESTING ENOUGH SO THAT YOUR MOTHER WOULD READ IT, THE WHOLE THING. SO, a unique essay. This will be a paper only you could do, because it is about someone YOU know, YOU have watched. There is no instruction book, no set of clear guidelines, neither here nor in life. Be creative, think, analyze, and share your insights! There is a certain element of risk in having such open an ended free wheeling assignment. The paper will be 700 words or less. This is typically 2 pages typed 12 point font normal margins double spaced. Learn to CONDENSE! Your report should be submitted two ways: you wil submit a hard copy on the assigned day, AND you will also submit a soft copy on BlackBoard that same day. Learning objectives for this assignment: to help you realize you can learn from real life, not only from text books to develop appropriate writing skills to enhance reporting skills to prepare for contributing to the group assignment NO REFERENCES NEEDED

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