Sunday, May 31, 2015
Extra Blog: May
Well the year's finally over. It's been a long four years at IPoly but it's been a good time too. Looking back I'm kind of glad my parents forced me here freshman year. I honestly don't have much else to say except that I hope everyone has a good summer and wish everyone good luck on whatever they decide to pursue in the future.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Blog 23: Final Lesson Reflection
1. From my presentation I think I am most happy with my activity. It helped me get my point across on some of my information and it just overall turned out well. While I was walking around it also seemed like everyone enjoyed doing the activity as well, so that's another good thing.
2a. For my final presentation I think I would give myself a P. I was able to make time and felt that I did a good job of explaining my information. That I know of I also believe I met all the P requirements as well.
2b. For my overall senior project grade I would give myself a P-/AP+. I have had a few parts of the senior project where I just didn't do well and that lowered my overall grade, but I feel my work in these last few months may have brought my grade up.
3. What worked for me in my senior project was my mentorship. With my dad as my mentor he was almost always available to me for information. With all of his experience he was able to successfully help me answer any questions and just provide good feedback on things I showed him from my project.
4. I think I would just have tried to get myself to procrastinate less in all honesty. There were a fair amount of assignments that I got docked points on because of my procrastination. Things such as blogs or research count. Or then there's my second lesson which because I had put it off till the last minute did not turn out so well.
5. The senior project has been useful to my future endeavors in that it has given me another career to think of pursuing. I currently am pursuing a career in the medical field, but this project has helped me see just how viable small business can be if done right. Also, the work I was a blue to do with my mentor was just a good experience. I hadn't really had any work experience before I had to do mentorship and it was just nice to get to work with my dad.
2a. For my final presentation I think I would give myself a P. I was able to make time and felt that I did a good job of explaining my information. That I know of I also believe I met all the P requirements as well.
2b. For my overall senior project grade I would give myself a P-/AP+. I have had a few parts of the senior project where I just didn't do well and that lowered my overall grade, but I feel my work in these last few months may have brought my grade up.
3. What worked for me in my senior project was my mentorship. With my dad as my mentor he was almost always available to me for information. With all of his experience he was able to successfully help me answer any questions and just provide good feedback on things I showed him from my project.
4. I think I would just have tried to get myself to procrastinate less in all honesty. There were a fair amount of assignments that I got docked points on because of my procrastination. Things such as blogs or research count. Or then there's my second lesson which because I had put it off till the last minute did not turn out so well.
5. The senior project has been useful to my future endeavors in that it has given me another career to think of pursuing. I currently am pursuing a career in the medical field, but this project has helped me see just how viable small business can be if done right. Also, the work I was a blue to do with my mentor was just a good experience. I hadn't really had any work experience before I had to do mentorship and it was just nice to get to work with my dad.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Blog 22: Mentorship
Literal
- Check link for Mentorship hours
- Mentors is Humberto Tavira and his place of work is TD Knitting Inc.
Interpretive
The most important thing that I have gotten from this experience is just getting to see first hand what a real business owner or manager does. It has shown me that business really isn't as simple as you might think it really is. Along with that just getting to work with my dad was kind of fun. Since it was business most of the things I did were tedious, but being there to see what my dad did on a daily basis was a good experience.
Applied
By getting to work with my mentor I was able to get a lot of my information to get answers for my essential question. In fact, my first answer came from working with my mentor and seeing how he does things at his business. For my other answers having a readily available mentor who I could ask questions to helped me figure out if they were good. This first hand knowledge from an expert in the field gave me more help than I could have gotten from just an article online.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Blog 21: Exit Interview
1. My EQ is "What is the best strategy a manager can use to make his small business more successful?" My first answer is to have a good management style. My second answer is to create a good business plan. My third answer is to create a good marketing plan. My best answer is my answer two because it is the backbone to a business. It helps you organize your goals and all the important details about your business. With this you can stay on task more easily and make decisions that will better help your business.
2. I first came to this answer when I read a source regarding a business plan. It brought up some of the points I stated above and got me thinking about how it was a good answer to my EQ. When I asked my mentor about it he agrees with the fact that a business plan is extremely beneficial to a business' success. With that in mind and a few other articles I read, I found that a business plan was the best answer of the three I chose.
3. I in general just had difficulty deciding on answers for my EQ. When it comes to business there are multiple different things that can affect how successful a business is. I overcame this by talking to my mentor and getting his opinion on my potential answers. With his help I was able to choose my answers. This along with just doing a little extra research helped me with my answers.
4. My two most important sources to answer my EQ would be my mentor and the book The Ultimate Marketing Plan by Dan Kennedy. My mentor as I previously stated was a great help whenever I needed a question answered. The book itself just provided a great deal of useful information that while primarily helped me with my answer three also helped me with my answer two/best answer.
2. I first came to this answer when I read a source regarding a business plan. It brought up some of the points I stated above and got me thinking about how it was a good answer to my EQ. When I asked my mentor about it he agrees with the fact that a business plan is extremely beneficial to a business' success. With that in mind and a few other articles I read, I found that a business plan was the best answer of the three I chose.
3. I in general just had difficulty deciding on answers for my EQ. When it comes to business there are multiple different things that can affect how successful a business is. I overcame this by talking to my mentor and getting his opinion on my potential answers. With his help I was able to choose my answers. This along with just doing a little extra research helped me with my answers.
4. My two most important sources to answer my EQ would be my mentor and the book The Ultimate Marketing Plan by Dan Kennedy. My mentor as I previously stated was a great help whenever I needed a question answered. The book itself just provided a great deal of useful information that while primarily helped me with my answer three also helped me with my answer two/best answer.
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