Tuesday, April 7, 2009

April 2, 2009 (Week 4)


Reflection on Internship up to this point:

 Things I am learning:

  • Running Meetings
    • I am learning a great deal about how to run meetings effectively: setting productive agendas, focusing on the most important things, while checking up on the overall mission.
  • Sociological/Psychological aspects of meetings and partnerships
    • Recognizing what each party needs from a partnership, and how meetings can facilitate opportunities to cater to those.
    • Using clear thinking that I currently have as an outside observer to see how I can apply new thinking to my own projects back home.
  • Discerning what tasks are important and more importantly , which aren't
  • Recently, working on getting out the "box" perspective I have been approaching work with
    • Separating work and passions/big ideas, where they should be one and the same
  • Importance of not over committing
    • Avoid underperforming
    • Others will pick it up if it needs to be done

 
 

Things Going Well:

  • Meetings are very interesting
    • Like having a leadership model for meetings, an area I would like to improve
    • Problem solving
    • General structure of organizations and industry/disability sector
  • Enjoying the PR involvement
    • Helping plan event, working on news release- some tangible activities
  • Research
    • Enjoying the stuff on developmental evaluation
    • Looking forward to research on peer support

 
 

What I think I/We can do better:

  • Ask more questions
  • Communicate schedule better- what meetings coming up, so can do more research beforehand- that way able to participate more in meetings
  • More personal challenges could be something to look at
    • PR stuff has been good, enjoying that
    • Maybe more work with Jeanette?

       
       

Other Business/Concerns/Ideas:

  • CM website concerns
    • Gaps, like CP Society meeting
      • Marketing- probably going to need more methods for interactive participation generation (Though not too familiar myself with the virtual community as an effective model- beyond facebook)
      • Any Partners we could look into?
  • Also, something I would like to work on is a Visual Representation of Diversityworks, Diversityworks trust, and all the people, orgs, etc involved in current initiatives
    • I think could really benefit understanding organization and with defining a bit more if the organizations identity in the end- make things smoother- (mag example).
    • Also could tie into developmental evaluation in that the MISSION needs to be clear, and visually, the relationships may be a key way to measure effectiveness of new programs.

       
       

Break:

  • Reading
  • Wellington Promotion?
  • Applying learning to start planning my activities back home
    • Coming up with game plans
    • Defining my role and tasks a bit to plan for next year

     
     

 
 

Meeting with Philip, 3 April 2009:

Try running some meetings- throw into deep end (with a life raft)

 
 

Go to Philip for 5 min catch up meetings for daily tasks etc

Planning target and objectives- AGENDA

Mailing list- next communication- give feedback - survey?…objectives…why doing it...working towards…do you think we have it? …what do you think we should add...

Half responding to opportunity- need and demand

Half creating opportunity and demand

Kind of what momentum 09 doing…peer support

Lecture could have business aspect…people come and talk

WISE species model

Be more assertive in what doing….say by the end do this …..interview everyone about what want for company

 
 

Mapping out company- wants- needs-

Making Mission ….Framework to keep thinking about

Not stepping on anyone's toes

Practice having idea as good as others….good idea, what about this

Mission

About thinking, the way we think about things….changing that

Highlighting "stupidity" sometimes in thinking

Thinking can create the problems rather than fix it or finding way to fix it.

Some sub conscious psychological need to have problems

 
 

Allison Tasks for the week

Media Release (Fri 2nd)

Make Agenda For Meeting (For Wed 8th)

-my project and CM discussion

-brainstorming for marketing and CM

Proposal for Organizational Design Project (Wed 8th)

-what could ask each person, and about each project

Research for Peer Support (Thur 9th)

E-mail Red about Tags (Thur 9th)

 
 

Hours:

Week

Dates

Goal

Hours

Net

Total

4

30/3- 5/4

29

33

2.5

127.5

 
 

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Date

Hours

Description

1/4/2009

10

lecture, web research, PR planning meeting

2/4/2009

9

DW team meeting, blogging/brainstorming, research, PR writing

3/4/2009

8

reflection with philip, media release

4/4/2009

6

web research for structure proposal and draft proposal

 
 

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