Sunday, November 16, 2008

Reflect Client Project

I have had a great time working with the Helping Hands of Clemson. This project has helped shjow me a few tings about working professionally with a real client so I know how to work with them when I really get out into the workforce. Especaially learning how to do real memos, emailing the client directly and using a bussiness preofessional email, and lastly preparing a propsal for them. This project has also been a good experience because we are actually doing something to help an organization that is helping unfortunate kids. My team was a great team which we all had great ideas and a couple of different working habits. so I think it helped to learn how to work with each other to get some really important done. Communication was the key to our group and just getting our tasks done on time also so the other teram members could do what they needed to. So, in all I have had a great time doing the project. our last bump in the road is to try and figure out the best way to make a budget the less expensive and still accomplish our idea we wanted to help the Helping Hands get out there.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Dual Coding Theory

Well in the picture you see two sets of words so it makes you pay attention and read it to find out what it is an ad for. The words that popped out to me the most were the words "We Believe" because they were bigger, in the middle, and more clear. Then I saw the "Practice Like Champions" above the door. That made me think of a football or another sports locker room. It made think of the team walking out seeing that they believe they can win as long as they put their heart into the game and practice like champions. The words "We Believe" were outside the locker room and felt like a motto for that team and school. Then you have the words "Practice Like Champions" that you could tell was written on a spur of the moment thing maybe by a coach just for his players to read and motivate them. So, you have to sayings that go hand in hand with practicing and playing big games all the time, and they are there to inspire and motivate in different ways but for the same reason.

Miscommunication

Hey Mrs. Rogers I was just posting this blog because on the to do list last week it didn't have anything about doing a blog. Then I just saw the blog topic when I went to the blog site for this weeks blog.

One of the many times miscommunication happened in the work place was when I worked at a Japanese restaurant as a server. At the end of the night each server would be assigned side work to clean up certain stations and get everything ready for the next day of work. A lot of times servers would try to get the easy side work so they could get done the quickest so they could get off. So, many times people would say they are doing a certain station without letting some servers know and then those servers would also try to start the same side work. Then when we realized we were doing the same side work one person would have to stop and start one of the stations that hadn't been started, so servers would always get mad when this happened because they got behind and the other server ended up getting extra help with their side work which was the easy one to begin with. A solution that finally got brought up was the manager or assistant manager would make the side work list and assign servers to it before we started work . That way it was fair and we would all know who was doing what and we would rotate so servers would not always get stuck doing the same work.