This is My REEAL Poem lol

I.R.A.

Imagine
Imagine a world without managers
for it would be hopeless
a place where there were no leaders and only followers
nobody to bring out the best in you
no teachers to teach, no managers to direct, and no inspiration
A bland, ordinary, routine place where nothing is achieved

Reminisce
Reminisce about a classroom that wasn’t a classroom
But in fact a 15 week management prep session
Where learning was key by experiencing, instead of reading
A place where eggs where dropped
Legos were built
Characters put to the test
A place where you learned more about yourself, participated in many groups,
Given the chance to determine your grade
And learned failing is an option
(well except on the tests)

Now that you have imagined the worst and reminisced about the best
The only thing left to do is
Achieve

What about the Blog????????

As a teacher it is hard to get students to communicate as a group outside of a classroom. Overall I think the blog was a great idea, except for the fact that it required time outside of the normal class. I want to call it annoying almost but then i have to stop and think why i would even say that. Honestly it stems from the fact that it required that extra push that I didn't want to do in addition to the requirements of my other classes. If I wasn't battling such a heavy load this semester I doubt I complain. I don't mind work.

Overall I think the blog accomplished basically everything that the professor listed on the assignment sheet. It is a great way to get students to interact, and a great tool for feedback. I think the blog was interesting because it forced me to learn more about my fellow students then I would have even thought to imagine. Like it destroyed that barrier of just classmates to classmates that know a little more about there peers. Its like at points I would read things from and about other students and it would shock me because I would learn something about then, that by looking at then I would have never thought. The blogs also allowed me to find who I have similar interests with.

The blog was also a great way at being able to evaluate what in class activities we did. I think making us write about them after the in class activities provided us with an even more in depth grasp of what you were trying to get across to us. It was also a great way for people to vent when they didn't get the extra credit points!

I mean I honestly didn't get a chance to post anything extra that really related to management. I know that there was an abundance of material available, but i was already having issues with the assignments and lack of time. Honestly I would love to turn my blog into something more but doubt that I will have the time to actually keep up with it in the near future.

Overall, like 10% of me is upset that I had to do it, that's the lazy part of me, but overall this was a great way to get people even more involved into the whole management setting.

My poem

The Manager You Will Never Become

When u have a problem, you wanna solve it,
When ur a manager you want to keep ur job
When ur the worker below the manager u wanna change it
At this point u will do anything to climb the corporate ladder cuz u don’t want to accept it

You try extra hard to make management realize you’re the one they desire
So you do little things like bring them coffee, stay extra late, organize their paper clips, and even take on more responsibility
You check your email first thing in the morning and last thing at night

It burns you inside cuz you know u would be an effective manager, you’d be able to meet goals, you’re a great leader, you have conceptual skills, and of course emotional intelligence

But at the end of the day when your little things go unnoticed, it doesn’t mean anything more than it did the day before, you start to feel a little more unappreciated.
Your esteem needs according to Maslow’s hierarchy are not being met and your losing hope and you don’t get the promotion

You want to do more cuz there’s no way Becky in cubicle three is going to get the next one
So you push your self cause giving up and letting go is never an option,
It’s like a competition to manage the little people, the little people that is you,
All you do is wonder if you will ever “win”
And think all about the manager u will probably never get a chance to become.

Vision for the Future......

It is important to have goals because goals provide a foundation or more of a structure for one to follow. After I graduate from Baruch, I have a many goals that I need to accomplish.
Five of my major goals are to:

Attend an ivy league college to pursue my education at the masters level

Travel the world

NOT SLAVE at a 9 to 5!!!!

Build a series of schools (4th - 12th grade) where financial education is mandatory

Become an Anesthesiologist

As noted "vision without action is just a dream"
As of now I am taking action to assist or help attaining my goals a lot easier. My first major goal is to attend an ivy league school. Right now I am busting my behind to become the best candidate I can by maintaining a high GPA and acquiring the desired characteristics.My second, third, and fourth goal all stem from actions I am begging now to make these two possible. In order to travel the world, not work to a 9 to 5 and build my schools, I need to be financially set so that I can accomplish all these things. I am taking action by going to school to become educated which will lead to my career, and them me being able to branch out and make additional money through other means. Right now I am volunteering at children schools to learn about the children, working behind the scenes with principles to get more of an understanding about running a school. I am also learning how to write grants just in case I want to start building my school before I am financially set to do so on my own. My last goal listed on this page is to become an anesthesiologist. I have always been very interested in the medical field. Later on in life after I have done the necessary things, I will go back to school to become an anesthesiologist, where I can work a couple of hours at the hospital. This would be my therapy when I get older after I am already financially set so I have something to do with myself beside just traveling and running my school.

Conflict For Credit

This class showed how hard it is to come to agreement over a simple issue. When everyones interest has to be accomodated, it is hard to come to terms over even the simplest . I think one of the major isses we had were conflict over ethics and interests. But reardless of these conflicts, we were still able to come to an agreement because those that did not agree handled there conflict by accomodating. The way I handled conflict throughout the class was kind of an avoidance and collborating. I say both because at one point I felt it was pointless to say anything because it seemed like we were not getting anywhwere towards the last 10 minutes of class. I figured whats the point of even yelling or voicing my opinion when we arent going to go anywhere. I say collaborating too because the group as a whole had to collaborate as a whol e to come up with the ideas and the ultimate proposal that we gave the professor. Even though i did nt yell out any ideas I was one of the students yelling in the background. I forgot what I was yelling at this point but I know that I was saying things, lol. I think if the the class split into groups then we would have been able to accomplish things much faster becuase we spent almost a whole class period on one issue. It was funny how one person mentioned that but people did not want to do it. I guess all that matters is that we were able to come to a decision..........

Poor EGGS...I feel bad for whoverer had to empty the garbage!!

The class activity on planning was a great way to see how well we are at planning. My group did pretty ok during the planning process even though our egg broke :(. Before looking at the steps I actually would not have even considered a structured plan to implement our goals. It wasnt until comparing it to the outlined planning process that we discussed in class that I actually felt we could have done a lot more to be efficent in our egg process. Well first we discussed ideas about the egg, what wouldnt work, what couldn't work and all of the details. When we got the egg, everything was kind of being rushed to get done because of our time constraints. We also had to revise our structure at times. I think the part where we could have improved was towards the end of the planning process. We had the idea in our heads and somewhat one paper, but didnt have the actual technical layout, like the exact science. Like we knew where we wanted to be at the end, but no set exact way of getting there. We just decided that we would fiigure the minor things out as we got our egg. I believed that my team lightly touched all the steps in the outlined planning process, except making a tactical plan. We assigned people some roles, but at the same time I kind of feel like we were more going with the flow of things. We also did not plan on the scissors scenario, but luckily we ended up with a pair pretty quickly. I think if we have followed the planning process outlined in class we could have done that much better. Overall, I do believe that we did pretty good and we got to our end design, but in a less contructed way.

Management Issues!!!

I think my management problem is very clear. As we all see my blog is late and I probably will not get credit for it, but I am posting one just incase anyone wants to respond. mY BIGGEST ISSUE is time management. As a college student I have always been faced with this issue. Currently I am working during the day and going to school at night. I am taking six class, and all six classes require my undivided attention. I also volunteer when I have the chance. Between school, work and everything else in my life, it is always a hassle for me to manage my time. When I manage it improperly, it results in situations like this, where I am posting late just because. (This is a first and last lol).I find it to be getting increasingly harder for me to do the things that I enjoy to do as the semester progresses. I really do not go out but I miss doing things like reading for lesuire, having me time, and PLAYING MY Wii (I guess it will continue to collect dust until spring break :( . I try to find times to do these things but it never seems to work. During the week I have exactly one day to do everything I need to do, so i just do the thing that are most important and go from there. Well i will see how things will turn out during the course of the semster.