Author: Bernard

Prompt
For the first part of this project, you will select a specific issue or event in wellness and critically analyze it through the four general education lenses: history, humanities, social sciences, and natural and applied sciences. Through viewing the issue or event through these lenses, you will gain insight into how the interconnected nature of wellness affects society as well as both your own individual framework of perception and the choices, attitudes, and behaviors of others in the world around you. You will compile your analyses within a portfolio that will include an analysis of each lens, plus introduction and conclusion paragraphs. Altogether, this portfolio should be 6 to 8 pages long, not counting references. Within your portfolio, each analysis should be 3 to 5 paragraphs long.
Be sure to support your analyses with appropriate and relevant evidence from theory and research.

Specifically, you must address the critical elements listed below. Most of the critical elements align with a particular course outcome (shown in brackets).
I Introduction: For this part of the assessment, you will examine the role of the individual in a global society and how issues of wellness influence aspects of culture and the individual. You will explore topics that have been discussed in this course (sociology of wellness, psychological wellness, identity and wellness, wellness and socioeconomic status, etc.) to help guide your analysis.
A. Topic: Using the four lenses, explain how an issue or event within wellness has or has not influenced modern society. [IDS-402-02]
II Lens Analysis: In this part of the assessment, you will analyze your chosen issue or event through each of the following lenses to determine its impact on various institutions, using evidence and research to support each analysis:
A. History [IDS-402-01]
B. Humanities [IDS-402-01]
C. Natural and Applied Sciences [IDS-402-01]
D. Social Sciences [IDS-402-01]

III Conclusion
A. Explain how integrating the four lenses helps understand how problems in wellness impact both professional and personal context. [IDS-402-02]
B. Analyze how social practices have been shaped by issues and events in wellness in modern culture. [IDS-402-02]
C. Using relevant research or diverse perspectives, assess the benefits and challenges of addressing issues in wellness. [IDS-402-06]

Leadership through Conversations
Conversational Filter Analysis Assignment Introduction
Purpose
The reading and content for this week revolved around the importance of perspective and
reactions. One idea continually emerged, the perspective or filter you employ dictates your
ability to effectively lead, listen, and communicate. In this assignment, you will explore the
perspectives and filters of which you enter into conversations. Additionally, you will reflect and
seek to identify alternative filters when in conversation with others.
Process
Utilize the conversational filter analysis template to identify and analyze the perspectives and
filters you have been utilizing in your conversations.
After analyzing the perspectives and filters you utilize, identify opportunities to change your
filter and / or perspective to increase your listening and conversational effectiveness.
Conventions
• Due Date – 11:59 p.m. Sunday of Week 3
• Assignment should be submitted via the Canvas website as a Microsoft Word document

SWOT Analysis

This individual assignment is designed to help you develop a holistic perspective on leading and managing an organization (Learning Objective #1) and comprehend the strategic approach to achieving overall organizational success (Learning Objective #2).

Specifically, you are required to report your findings from researching and analyzing Edgewell’s internal and external environments. Your research and analyses should include the following. Please review them and the related power points carefully before starting your work.

1) Identify the product scope of Edgewell.

2) Select one of the product lines carried by Edgewell and identify the target customer group(s), their needs and Edgewell’s value proposition to the target customers.

3) Identify the vision, core values and strategic goals of Edgewell.

4) Identify five most important strengths of Edgewell. For each strength identified, analyze their competitive impacts using the resource-based framework.

5) Identify at least three weaknesses of Edgewell.

6) To facilitate your identification of Edgewell’s strengths and weaknesses, fill out the financial analysis table below.

7) Identify at least three important opportunities and three main threats from the general external environment facing Edgewell.

8) Based on the MarketLine Advantage database (available in our library), find the general conclusion about each competitive force in the U.S. skincare industry and the opportunity or threat it represents.