Category Archives: Unit 2

To: Team Connect 4

From: Christine Hsiao, team member of Team Connect 4

Date: February 22, 2022

Subject: Best Linkedln Practices

LinkedIn has become a massive platform for job hunting, connection, skills learning, and strengthening relationships. This platform is favoured by many companies and professionals. By understanding the benefits of using Linkedln to expand your social connections and learning, The lists of ten best practices below would help you maximize your output from using this platform.

Ten Best Practices include:

• Ensuring the profile is complete with a professional profile photo is important (Deehan)
• Keeping your profile up to date will attract more attention
• Joining relevant groups will provide salient new contacts (Shore)
• Listing relevant skills you have may attract more attention (Deehan)
• Turning your summary into a story that shows your background, strengths, passions, etc. (Deehan)
• Showing yourself by building a Linkedln profile (Schaffer)
• Getting social proof through Linkedln recommendations (Schaffer)
• Connecting with professionals who viewed your profile (Schaffer)
• Taking skills assessments (Deehan)
• Adding relevant media to your profile may help people to know you better. (“13 LinkedIn Profile Best Practices”)

Making an excellent profile on LinkedIn takes time and practice. Trying to walk through the list of ten best practices found from reliable sources. Hope this will help you for building your LinkedIn profile.

All the best,

Work Cited:

Lua, Alfred. “The Quick Guide to LinkedIn Marketing Strategy: 9 Best Practices.” Buffer, 2022, https://buffer.com/library/linkedin-marketing/.

Schaffer, Neal. “21 Linkedln Best Practices for Business Professionals to Follow for Success.” NEALSCHAFFER, 5 Sept 2021, https://nealschaffer.com/linkedin-best-practices/.

Shore, Jennifer, “17 LinkedIn Marketing Best Practices.” SmartBug., 16 Jan 2020, https://www.smartbugmedia.com/blog/17-linkedin-marketing-best-practices.

“13 LinkedIn Profile Best Practices.” Ledgeview Partners, https://ledgeviewpartners.com/blog/linkedin-profile-best-practices/. Accessed 21 February 2022.

To: Dr. Erika Paterson, ENGL 301 Professor

From: Christine Hsiao, ENGL 301 student

Date: February 15^th, 2022

Subject: Proposal for improving inclusiveness at UBC international Navigator club

Introduction

The Navigators is an international, interdenominational Christian ministry. Members have different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and people from similar backgrounds tend to gather in small groups, creating an environment of exclusiveness.

Audience

The intended audience for this report is all the members and leaders of the UBC international Navigator club. Ideally, Amy Weidman, who oversees the international Navigator club, would read this report.

State of the problem

This is an international club that includes a diversity of people. However, it has been observed that small groups are formed, and they usually gather similar backgrounds and people who speak the same languages. Therefore, although the Navigators strive to create a pleasant, welcoming environment, some people in the group and others who just joined may feel left out sometimes due to the distance created by the small groups. As a result, the exclusiveness problem has been raised.

Proposed solution

Based on the needs identified above, this proposal offers a realistic and practical plan responding to the exclusiveness issue. We first add the responsibilities to the leaders, and then we will start generating activities to engage people to only speak English during the club time, detail as follows:

• If there is a member who creates an exclusive environment by constantly using non-English language, they would be informed privately by the coordinator to address the issue
• Promote the importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the club
• Intentionally, mixing teams every month during sessions could possibly allow enhanced perspectives
• Adding responsibilities for leaders and generating engaging activities in English only periods are as follows:
  • reaching out to the group members for feedback so their voices will be heard as the whole group
  • Make it easy for team members to participate in the leading group. For instance, using the vote function instead of simply asking questions in the group chat.
  • Have a monthly general meeting to discuss the feedback from intended members if there is anything that we can do to improve.
  • Facilitate ongoing anonymous feedback

If this proposed idea does not work out, we must reconsider other solutions.

 

Scope

To improve member’s experience in the club, I plan to research five areas of inquiry:

• First, what kinds of games/ activities can bring everyone closer?
• Second, how many people have ever felt excluded before?
• Third, which language do they speak the most during the meeting?
• Fourth, What are the benefits and limitations of the proposed solution?
• Finally, what is the most effective way to inform leaders/members of the problem?

 

Methods

Methods include observation, consultation, and some surveys. The basic information about the club, such as the number of club members and people who regularly join the meeting, will be used observation techniques to help us enter some primary data. The online surveys will focus on understanding members’ experience in the club and their definition of exclusiveness. The survey will also include the feedback sections.

 

My qualification

As a club member, I have joined many big and small events organized by international Navigator. Therefore, I can quickly put myself in members’ shoes and know their needs immediately. Also, I have previous experience helping my manager change the work environment into a more culturally diverse and inclusive culture. Therefore, I can efficiently conduct the research and turn that into a better outcome.

Conclusion

Leaders’ roles need reconsideration to increase the members’ experience; they need reconsideration since they play an essential role in keeping the environment safe and welcome. Furthermore, we hope to improve an exclusive climate by understanding the problem in 5 scopes and the proper research and analysis of people’s feelings.