After you have read the introductory chapter in the text, and taken no more than 2 hours to prepare your offline response to each of the memos, messages etc., then you are expected to post your thoughts here (click REPLY button below) on what managers actually do and the kinds of skills you believe are necessary to be an effective manager. BUS-4850 is not a correspondence course. Students are expected to prepare their initial response to the discussion question no later than the middle of next week. This will allow After the initial post you are expected to return every couple of days or so to read the posts of your fellow students and possibly add to the ongoing learning conversation. Reading fellow students' perspectives on the course material enriches everyone's learning experience. You are not expected to respond to everyone individually. Instead imagine you are in a conversation with friends where you offer your thoughts as you feel motivated to do so. This is orientation, but that will basically be the routine. Each 2 week module you will read the assigned chapter and then follow that with ongoing participation in the discussion forum. Failure to participate in a regular ongoing basis in the learning conversations (usually an exercise and a case) will mean you will not get credit for the course. See the syllabus. Another significant course activity is maintaining an introspective journal. You will not start your journal until after orientation. In this introductory stage acquire your text, familiarize yourself with course and complete your offline and online work on SSS Software. See you online