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Week 89 of 186 (BMAL 755)

January 24, 2022 by robertforto Leave a Comment

Week 89 of approximately 186 are in the books in my doctorate program.

I just finished week 2 of the coaching course. This seems to be a pretty easy, and laid-back course and it is refreshing that it has not a heavy load. This week we had to write a short case study where we analyzed four core competencies and five ethical standards as outlined by the International Coaching Federation. Of course, I used our new business, Peak Experience for the case study.

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Join host Robert Forto as he welcomes professional coach and facilitator, Chris Fuller to the Peak Experience podcast

Oh, if you are on Twitter, I highly encourage you to follow the hashtags, #AcademicChatter and #AcademicTwitter both are great threads with advice, motivation, and a very supportive community and if you wouldn’t mind, give me a follow at @robertforto and send me a tweet letting me know you found my blog helpful!

Also, my wife Michele is getting deep into her Master’s program as well and is more halfway done! Please do me a favor and follow her over on LinkedIn.

Score: */100

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Forto, R., 755 Paper 1

Week 88 of 186 (BMAL 755)

January 17, 2022 by robertforto Leave a Comment

Week 88 of approximately 186 are in the books in my doctorate program.

The first week of BMAL 755 is in the books and so far I like the format of the course. Just discussion boards and a few projects. I think it will be a good term to do well in this course and have a bit of time to get some projects that I have been working on off the ground, most particularly our new team building and executive leadership business called Peak Experience.

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Join hosts Robert Forto, TJ Miller and Michele Forto as they discuss Soft Skills vs. Technical Skills on the Peak Experience podcast

Also, my wife Michele is getting deep into her Master’s program as well and is more halfway done! Please do me a favor and follow her over on LinkedIn.

Score: */100

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Weeks 85 to 87 of 186 (BMAL 755)

January 10, 2022 by robertforto Leave a Comment

Weeks 85 to 87 of approximately 186 are in the books in my doctorate program.

Well, winter term went by quickly. Starting Monday I will dive into BMAL755 Coaching Theory and Practice

I have just three courses left before I am no longer a student and will be considered a doctoral candidate. I am still up in the air somewhat on my project thesis but I have some ideas.

I am excited headed into the new course, my wife Michele is working on a coaching degree but it is my first foray into the subject.

Looking over the syllabus, the course seems manageable. Four discussion posts, three case studies, and a research project.

It always takes me a few days to get back into the research and writing groove.

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Join hosts Robert Forto, TJ Miller and guest, Michele Forto as they discuss ‘Fake Famous’ as it relates to the scholarly literature and authentic leadership on this episode of the Peak Experience podcast.

Also, my wife Michele is getting deep into her Master’s program as well and is more halfway done! Please do me a favor and follow her over on LinkedIn.

Score: */110

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Week 84 of 186 (BMAL 720)

December 20, 2021 by robertforto 2 Comments

Week 84 of approximately 186 are in the books in my doctorate program.

It is week eight of BMAL720 Leveraging Data for Decision Making

This course is in the books! I really liked this course and the instructor. I had Dr. Chris Bellamy and he was fair, prompt, and provided informative feedback throughout the course.

Our assignment this week was to write a 10-15 page paper on how to keep a business competitive using what we learned in leveraging data analytics. I thought I did a pretty good job and you can read the paper herein to judge for yourself.

In this doctorate program, we must maintain mostly A’s but they will let the occasional B slide. Thankfully, I only missed seven points the entire term so I maintain the A GPA.

I know have a couple of weeks break before I start the spring term and two more courses. Up first is BMAL 757 and then one that my peers have warned me about BMAL 770 for its heavy writing assignments.

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Also, my wife Michele is getting deep into her Master’s program as well and is more halfway done! Please do me a favor and follow her over on LinkedIn.

Score: 150/50

Final Grade: A

To read the paper:

Forto, R., 720 Paper 8 final

Week 83 of 186 (BMAL 720)

December 13, 2021 by robertforto Leave a Comment

Week 83 of approximately 186 are in the books in my doctorate program.

It is week seven of BMAL720 Leveraging Data for Decision Making

This week I wrote a decent paper on the impacts of inappropriate data gathering in a small business using my company as a case study and attempt to find a solution if that problem ever occurs.

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Also, I am still editing all of the weekly posts for this blog topic on my journey through the Doctorate of Strategic Leadership here at Liberty University. You will soon find it easier to search for posts in the search bar by course (i.e. BMAL 720, etc.). I hope that helps all of my rabid readers!

I want to give a huge shoutout to all of my peers that have been reading my posts as they navigate through this DSL journey.

You are right, there are not a lot of resources out there.

While this blog is by no means a complete source, my hope is that fellow scholars can see my papers and maybe get a takeaway or two.

Also, my wife Michele is getting deep into her Master’s program as well and is almost halfway done! Please do me a favor and follow her over on LinkedIn.

Score: */50

To read the paper:

Forto, R., 720 Paper 7 final