Character and Personal Values Pre Work

I'm really excited to see what David and Colleen decide to talk about in their class on Monday. In the workplace and in life in general, i think character and values can most definitely make you or break you, and most times they're innate characteristics that you don't even notice in yourself, but others do. Your character and personal values come out through your actions, how you treat others, and handle yourself on a day to day basis. It's what you show the world about yourself and how they perceive you as a person because of those traits. This relates to first impressions as well; If the first time you meet someone goes poorly and you don't behave in a manner they expect or would desire, they may choose to blame your character.

Thoughts on our Identity Presentation

This week Jason and I spoke to the class about personal and professional identity.

We began by having the class think about these questions before we met, and set up a word cloud that they were able to text their answers into once we met. I thought this went well, and the cool thing about a word cloud is that the more times an answer is said, the bigger the word gets on the screen, so it was easy to see the popular answers among the class. Some of their answers are as followed:
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It was nice to see that, for the future, people see themselves having families, achieving happiness and success, having jobs and hopefully traveling. Family and Happiness seemed to be the most important.

For the second, it seemed that the class really values kindness and respect in their lives, be it with themselves or with others.

We went on and did a few different activities, watched a ted talk about Judge Helen Whitener, and had some good discussions. We ran a bit short on time which was unfortunate but we are looking forward to tying what we learned in this lesson into our next about the conflicts between physicians and administration.

Emotional Intelligence Pre Work

Above are the results I received from Regan and Caroline's emotional intelligence pre class quiz.

I scored somewhat negatively in some of the categories which I was a little surprised about, but scored exactly average in emotional self-control which is something that I've always thought I manage pretty well in.

Adaptability didn't surprise me that I received a low score because as I've said before, I'm not very spontaneous and appreciate a solid plan, so when things change unexpectedly it sometimes throws me off a little, and I know I have to work on my ability to adapt if I want to exceed in a management role.

I hope this will spark some interesting class discussion because the concept of emotions are sometimes tough for people to accept and talk about.

Motivation Lesson- Response

I thought this weeks presentation by Carly, Sarah and Jess was really great, props to them for being the first group to go and doing so well!

They started with a group activity about what typically motivates us, and what distracts us. It wasn't overly surprising that a lot of our answers were very similar since all of us in the class come from a similar demographic (college students, hmp majors, ages 19-21, etc). Common themes were "motivated by money and family, distracted by netflix and social life".

They then got into their presentation which was well done and i thought it was clear that they put a lot of time into thinking about it. They even had a recording of a phone conversation with Carly's mentor which was cool.

My big take away was that the motivator for lots of people in the workplace was not in fact money, which I totally agree with. I know for myself, there's some days that you'd value a day spent with family or time relaxing more than any sort of bonus they could give you to come in and work. There's a lot to be said with rewarding employees with things that mean something to them because happiness and satisfaction in the workplace leads to productivity and positive morale.

Motivation Pre Work (Jess, Sarah, Carly)

This upcoming week, Jess, Carly and Sarah will be doing their first presentiation on Motivation. They assigned us some work to complete before the class which consisted of a personality quiz, similar to the big 5, which would tell us about how self motivated we are. My results are listed below:

I was very content with my results and I tend to agree with what they said. I feel that college has really helped me mature in the sense of keeping a schedule and sticking to it in order to achieve my goals and complete tasks on time. I'm an extreme to-do list maker which is a little old fashioned sometimes when i carry around my post-it note, but its a technique I've found that keeps me on track, so I'll stick with it. I'm really looking forward to their lesson, maybe they'll even have some motivation tips to inspire us during this snowy month.

Conversation with my mentor- Erin Valenti

This week I had the pleasure of speaking with my mentor for the first time on the phone. It was nice to chat about the goals of our class and what we've decided to focus on for the semester. She told me a lot about herself and her journey to where she is today and it made me realize that although we are doing a lot of great things in our education at UNH, we still have a lot of time to figure out what in ideal career looks like to us and that what we think we see ourselves doing now may change in 5 or 10 years. She has had lots of different experiences in her professional career and I really think that's great.

I explained to Ms. Valenti how Jason and I would be working together for our teaching projects this semester and gave her a rough idea of what we're interested in sharing with the class. She really helped me to solidify some of those ideas and offered some suggestions for activities we could conduct (although I don't want to give too much information away).

The comment from her that really stuck with me from the whole conversation was one regarding her career as a whole; no matter where she was working at a given time, the most valuable lesson she said she learned was to make people feel appreciated for the work that they're doing, and let them know that it matters. I think this is extremely important because even in my summer/part time jobs, things sometimes get under your skin and hearing that you're doing a good job usually makes the load a little lighter. Whether you're in a leadership position or not, it never hurts to let the people around you know that you appreciate what they're doing for you and with you.