December 13, 2005
Learning Plan
I think that the Learning Plan, although long and time consuming, was a good assignment. It is very good for students because it forces us to think about what our goals are and how we plan on achieving them. I'm certainly glad that I had the opportunity to work on this paper because otherwise I probably wouldn't think too much about my future goals and things like that.
Tom Mendola
I found the Tom Mendola case very interesting. I liked it because it was a short reading that still had plenty of content. I found myself being able to relate to Tom a little bit. I certainly find myself at times not being as productive as possible at school because I don't always feel like I'm interested. I was surprised, however that even with his family depending on him the way they were, that he didn't learn from his repudiations and focus on keeping his job to help support his family.
Team Evaluations
I think that our team came up with a very good scale for evaluations and good categories to judge our performances by in class the other day. It does seem strange though that we have to come up with our own when there are other evaluation forms that we have to fill out also. I guess it just allows the professors to get a better picture of how we worked together.
Career Center Guest
I enjoyed when the guy from the Career Center came as I usually do, but I couldn't help being somewhat frustrated with the part when we chose what skill set category we fit into. I felt like there were two that I would have fit into either of very well and they weren't even right next to eachother. They were almost direct opposites. Naturally then, there were also two other categories that I felt like I had some skill sets in. It just made me feel like I didn't have any idea what I wanted to do.
Extra Session
I found the last extra session somewhat irritating. I was very happy about the pizza, but I thought the alphabet excercise was ridiculous. I think that if I would have been presenting the alphabet, I would have started under the assumption that nobody knew it. I found it irritating that the people teaching it were asking people what the next letter was, when we were supposed to be pretending that we didn't know it.
November 06, 2005
HR Simulation
The HR simulation is started to become somewhat annoying of a project. Our team has lost one of our members due to not being enrolled in the course and we are having difficulties getting all of our members to meetings due to time constraints. I think that team projects are good sometimes, but most of the time I find that they are innefficient for the completion of work when students schedules are extremely busy.
Orientation training discussion
I found the Orientation training discussion to be inneffective. The class voting system made it inneffective. Even with the ranking system in place all the teams had to do was rank the people that they thought were not going to win higher so that the teams that presented good ideas would lose. Also teams started proposing rediculous ideas that most companies wouldn't have the budget for actually doing.