Please review the Ted Talks YouTube video.

The extra credit assignment is based on a YouTube video entitled “Why You Will Fail to Have a Great Career” by Larry Smith, an economics professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada. The video is funny but gives very honest tips to motivate people to follow their goals and dreams.  In two full paragraphs, please answer the following questions:

1. Identify one thing you have learned from the video as it relates to you and your goals.

2. What recommendations would you share with an expatriate as an International HR Manager that would help them become motivated about an expatriate assignment based on what you have learned from the video?

https://youtu.be/iKHTawgyKWQ

Use the resources provided to help you respond to the following:

Gallo, C. (2014). The unbreakable laws of storytelling. Khosla Ventures. [Transcript]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUsib8wsKdM

Gallo, C. (2014). TED Talks are Wildly Addictive for Three Powerful Scientific Reasons. Forbes. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2014/02/25/ted-talks-are-wildly-addictive-for-three-powerful-scientific-reasons/#7375e6776b6a

Outline the key elements of a business story.
What are important points to keep in mind when telling a business story?
How might you use stories in your work (now or in the future)?
Optionally, you may want to discuss:
How things are going with writing your story for the Week 9 assignment.
How the elements of your story align with the elements outlined by Gallo.
Any issues you are having with the assignment that your peers might be able to help with.

Watch the video in the link below
How To Deal With Stress as a Leader – Miles Adcox (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVfXtvIVLzI  )

Discussion: Organizational Stress: Positive or Negative?
Consider the following two scenarios:

Scenario 1
The atmosphere at a small technology firm in California is always confusing and chaotic. Employees are under constant pressure to meet deadlines, and expectations frequently and suddenly change. Despite the lack of clarity, supervisors frequently reprimand employees for failure to perform. Supervisors often give these reprimands publicly. Employees constantly compete for supervisor attention.

Scenario 2

Workers at a business consulting firm in Massachusetts do the same job they have done in the same way they have done it for the past 10 years. Employees receive almost no supervision or feedback. Leadership does little to promote change or foster creativity. Employees rarely communicate with those outside of their departments. Employees work quietly in an orderly manner but receive little stimulation.

It is likely easy to identify which of the scenarios is less stressful, but is either environment desirable or indicative of a healthy organization?

Normally, the term organizational stress is a negative concept. The majority of stress researchers have focused on personal distress rather than on examining the positive aspect of stress called eustress (Chou et al., 2014). Scholars and practitioners need to give more attention to the question of if and when organizational stress can be beneficial.

To prepare for this Discussion, consider your experiences with stress in organizations and how you as a leader would address organizational stress.

By Day 3
Post your evaluation of the impact of organizational stress on the health of an organization. In your evaluation, do the following:

Explain whether you think organizational stress can be positive, negative, or both.
Then, given your proposed nature of stress, explain how you, as a leader, would work to promote or minimize stress within your organization.
Identify two or more specific tools and strategies you would employ to assess and manage organizational stress.
Be sure to support your work with a minimum of two specific citations from this weeks Learning Resources and one or more additional scholarly sources.

Refer to the Week 5 Discussion Rubric for specific grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use this rubric to assess your work.

Read a selection of your colleagues postings.

By Day 5
Respond to two or more of your colleagues postings in one or more of the following ways:

Offer an example from personal experience that validates your colleagues evaluation of organizational stress. Explain how your example validates his or her experiences.
Critique one or more of your colleagues suggested strategies and/or tools for assessing employee stress, and offer an alternative perspective.
Please note that, for each response, you must include a minimum of one appropriately cited scholarly reference.

Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what insights you gained as a result of reading the comments your colleagues made.

You will have to take your Globe Smart Cultural assessment at  https://www.aperianglobal.com/register/ and follow the instructions to take the assessment)
Compare your profile against your home country and at least about 4 other countries. Two of these countries should be in your immediate home country proximity and two other countries should be in a completely opposite side of the world. For instance, say you pick India, Vietnam, Australia, China, or Japan in the one set, you pick Britain, United States, Canada, Brazil, or Peru in another set.
Seek advice from the GlobeSmart again how your style matches against the various countries.
Develop a Personal Leadership Profile that will best suit all these competencies should you work in any of these countries, have team members in your project or in your department, or need to interface with people from these countries as clients, suppliers, vendors, etc.

1. APA Style Coversheet
2. Introduction (high-level findings from taking this Globe Smart Self-reflection)
3, 4, 5, 6, 7. For every five traits (Independent vs Independent, Egalitarian vs Status, Risk vs Certainty, Direct vs Indirect, Task vs Relationship), address the following. 
    a. Summarize your understanding of this trait
    b. How was your profile different from the countries you selected?
    c. What do you think was the reason behind the differences?
    d. From the list of recommendations given by the Globe Smart tool, what do you relate and can implement?
8. Conclusion
9. Appendix (Pictures of GlobeSmart profile analysis and recommendations given by GlobeSmart)
10. References