December 10, 2005
On Feedback
I have always recognized the importance of feedback--it allows for self analysis and then improvement. However, I did not realize there were so many technicalities regardin feedback. Paramount were the classifications of positive and negative feedback. While initially I valued all feedback, regardless, I now recognize when feedback is positive and when it is negative. Thus, before, when I received nergative feedback I would sometimes take it to heart and then react strongly. Now, however, when I see negative feedback, I have learned to take it with a grain of salt. This insures greater productivity in the long run while still being on the road for continuous improvement.
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Don't Assume...It makes an a** of "u" and "me"
I particularly enjoyed the guest speaker who gave the class the test where he told us a story, and later asked us questions--testing our natural assumptions and how easily our minds made connections. While I had heard the story and question before, I enjoyed the emphasis on objectivity. Almost all careers in our field require a level of objectivity and the speaker's example proved his point. While the story never mentioned the gender of protagonist, the class automatically assumed the character was a male. Such assumption ultimately cloud our judgments and I thank the speaker for showing us how easily we can become biased individuals.
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MGMT250 Experience
I think I have rolled my eyes at every assignment given in this class...the learning plan, the MBTI, and the blogs. While some of experiences indeed proved to be disappointing , many of them proved to be rewarding. The blogs have forced me to assess what I have actually learned. The MBTI has allowed me to discover who I really am and the environments in which I could excel in the future. The learning plan however, still seems more as a chore than a learning experience. Nonetheless, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and I have really enjoyed my team in this class.
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HR Experience
I have really enjoyed the HR simulation this semester. I especially loved getting back my results and analyzing the possible reasons for affecting the results with my teammates. While we had experienced series of stagnations, generally the results were steady. For the most part we always found the sudden spikes in results most intriguing. To discover the reasons for such spikes, our teams tried to find the relative changes through trend analysis and other such comparisons. One reason however especially stumped us. Quarter 8 yielded a most unexpected drop in productivity, from 223 to 170. This was completely unanticipated. We tried our best to explain for this in our final report.
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On Peer Evaluations
A few days ago, I turned in my performance evaluations along with the final HR simulation report. Finishing the performance evaluations was not an easy task. I was torn between doing the right thing and being a "good" guy. On the one hand, I felt that giving everyone top scores would be unfair to the team members who contributed much more than others. On the other hand, I wanted to make everyone happy. Luckily, I had already considered this dilemma before completing the team evaluations. Thus, with input my teammates, I created three peer evaluation systems. I asked the team to vote on the one they felt best able to represent the work they had done over the semester. The team chose a more qualitative approach to the team evaluations. However, some aspects, such as team participation were straight off the books. As a result I felt comfortable as the peer evaluation stuck a balance between qualitative and quantitative aspects.
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