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		<title>Adventures in Job Shadowing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s classes were canceled (yes, after only one full week of classes following winter break) for &#8220;career week.&#8221; The intent was for students to have  a week to search out job prospects and internships, but the consensus of my classmates was that most of the time was spent either catching up on assigned readings, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisworkman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9225881&amp;post=51&amp;subd=chrisworkman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vacation&#8217;s over, back to work</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having been in the workforce since I completed my undergrad work in March of 2003, I&#8217;d forgotten how nice a two-week winter vacation could be. I made the 14-hour drive back to Oregon with my family and spent the holidays with my parents. We had a great time, and it was good to &#8220;home,&#8221; though [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisworkman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9225881&amp;post=47&amp;subd=chrisworkman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PROACT Model, Consequences and Trade-offs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;C&#8221; in PrOACT stands for understanding the Consequences. A consequence table can be used in making my decision, but there are three main concerns to be aware of when giving a value to each alternative for each objective. First, the values need to be an appropriate level of preciseness. Most experts agree that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisworkman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9225881&amp;post=45&amp;subd=chrisworkman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PROACT Model, Objectives &amp; Alternatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;O&#8221; in PrOACT stands for formulating Objectives. To find my objectives Isimply asked myself what it was that I really want to accomplish, what did I need to do, and what were my hopes and my goals. After thinking through these questions I came to the following conclusions: 1) Income -This was a big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisworkman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9225881&amp;post=42&amp;subd=chrisworkman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The PROACT Model</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking over the past semester (hard to believe there are only a few weeks left) I have decided to write a few posts to summarize a few of the key concepts I&#8217;ve learned. The first concept or tool is used to assist in complex decision making. It is taken from the book Smart Choices: A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisworkman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9225881&amp;post=39&amp;subd=chrisworkman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>H1N1 Survivor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official. Other than a nagging cough that I haven&#8217;t been able to shake for a week now, you can add my name to the list of H1N1 survivors. I haven&#8217;t posted for a while because my family and I got the bug from my collage-age sister that moved in with us. Let me just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisworkman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9225881&amp;post=37&amp;subd=chrisworkman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Travel&#8217;s Top 10 Small Towns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Budget Travel just released their list of the best little towns in the nation, and here they are: CAYUCOS, CALIFORNIA (pop. 3,000) LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA (pop. 6,867) BREAUX BRIDGE, LOUISIANA (pop. 8,200) TUBAC, ARIZONA (pop. 1,900) WALLACE, IDAHO (pop. 1,000) SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK (pop. 5,000) MOUNT VERNON, IOWA (pop. 4,671) JACKSONVILLE, OREGON (pop. 2,750) ROCKLAND, MAINE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisworkman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9225881&amp;post=33&amp;subd=chrisworkman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Staying Neutral in a Political Environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I appreciate the most recent post by Wes Hare, City Manager in Albany, OR, and his example of innocently getting too caught up in the politics of a friend while he served as a young city administrator: &#8220;Elected officials rightly expect that a manager’s decisions and actions will be guided by professionalism, ethical principles, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisworkman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9225881&amp;post=25&amp;subd=chrisworkman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ethics Monster Rears His Head</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I encountered my first real ethical dilema within my MPA studies this week. Our first mid-term (first of two, so it should actually be called a third-term, sorry) in Managerial Economics was yesterday. After the test, I was in the student lounge area when I heard a coleague say something to the effect of, &#8220;I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisworkman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9225881&amp;post=23&amp;subd=chrisworkman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using Shrek to Grapple with Tradeoffs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My team gave our first class presentation this week. We are reading Smart Choicesby Hammond, Keeney, and Raiffa individually, and assigned to present the chapter on Grappling with Tradeoffs as a team. We chose to start with a video clip from Shrek where Lord Farquaad is looking into the magic mirror, trying to decide which of three princesses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisworkman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9225881&amp;post=13&amp;subd=chrisworkman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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