Shapes

I walk up the ladder
of my hierarchy of needs.
And I move up the pyramid
of the level of management.

I work with the people in my shamrock
of part time, of full time, all the time.
And we form a DISC
of different attributes.

I'm an "I," he's a "C."
She's a "D," and he's an "S."
And in the end, we share a vision,
of the same common future.

We follow the arrows
of the planning process
And soon we'll be living that dream
that we wrote about
in our blog of MGT 3120.

Dear Blog,

I've never blogged before, either for class or for personal use. The closest thing to keeping a blog is a diary, which I used to keep. But that only lasted at most, a week.

But during this course I had to keep one. At first I was not happy or thrilled about having to write blogs or write comments to other people's blogs as an assignment. It felt like another homework that I would dread doing. But after I got into writing about the different assignments, it started to grow on me. I started checking my blog for new comments and become very excited when I see someone has commented and can't wait to click on it to read it right away. I also didn't think I would want to comment on other people's blog. This would require me to actually go visit their blogs to comment. It was until I read their blogs and I said to myself that can totally relate to them. By then, I was more excited about writing my response than I was to finishing the required "3 comments to others."

I found that it was great for finding more about the people in my class. People that may sit all the way across the room from me, and people whom I talk with every class. Through the blog, I learned about their dreams, their experiences, and who they are - things I would never found out in such a large class.

The blogs were very helpful in relating back the class activity to the lesson and connecting them together. This way, I could review the different concepts and also relate them back to what we did in class. It actually makes me feel like what we learn in school is really useful and I actually do it everyday in my life. But there were blogs that we had to write and comment about and they were all very redundant, making me feel like I was trying to complete some tedious task of having to comment to the same entry like the Egg-cellent blog. Those kind of blogs, I did not really enjoy commenting on.

The professor's blog was a good way to incorporate more learning outside the classroom. It gave me things to thing about such as time management and failure. It makes me thing about what I'm doing now and hw it's effecting me right now. Sometimes, not such good feelings come from it, but I will learn from them. I wish there were more posts like these. From the blog, it really makes me think about the future and what I want to do with my life later on. It's all things that are not discussed in school.

Writing this blog and accounting it as a part of my grade really puts me in control on earning those easy points towards my grade and I really appreciate that. This is management class and doing this blog is already one way of learning how to manage our grades.

As to if I'll continue keeping a blog after class ends, I'm still not sure about that. If I do, I might not write about management, but something else in my interest such as fashion and design or food! Maybe it'll stick with me, or maybe, it would just be like another episode of the "Dear Diary" experience. 

Me, Myself, and "I"

Through the DISC analysis, I got a result of being in the "I" category, for "influence." My second highest was "C," for "conscientiousness." From the class result, I saw that only 2 people were in the "IC" category, including me. I think this test was pretty accurate in determining  my leadership/management orientation, especially the action plan to be more effective. My "D" was the lowest, and one of the actions were to be firm with others, which I am not. I tend to be more lenient and let things flow. Also, I need to be more in control with time.I'm a person that procrastinates until the very last minute and feel stressed when time is limited. Sometimes I think I would better under stress, but I would and am trying to be less of a procrastinator and get things done with faster and earlier. From the conscientious aspect, it was also right that I need to make quicker decisions and delegate important tasks. I'm horrible at making decisions. It takes me forever to decide on anything, even something as simple as what to eat for lunch. As for description, I think the test got it right. I do well in communicating what I want to be said and being very optimistic in situations. I love to be able to freely express myself and the freedom to be able to do what I want.

Sometimes I do wish I was more of a "D" person, so I can make quick decisions and be able to have the courage challenge what's on the plate. I want to be more initiative and be that dominant person, but along with that, be able to influence others as well. So, perhaps being a "DI" is ideal.

Although it's interesting to find out what others are and where they stand in these tests. I don't think they should be used as a guideline as to how you view them and how you work with them in a group. People do not only possess one and only one kind of personality, but a mix of them. So I would only use the results for fun, but as to depend  on them ,I would not.