Rudy!

OB:
I had to laugh at today's outcome. I don't think Brother Holt had these comments in mind when he prepared his lesson. He couldn't bring back the true point of Rudy very well.

Today our Rudy papers were due. A few of us have started to look at Rudy differently before we watched the movie and after watching it, our thoughts were confirmed. Most people look at Rudy as a great motivational movie about enduring to the end and pursuing your dreams. Well a few of us (especially those that have read Strengths Finder 2.0) noticed that the lesson was, you can acheive your goals even if you're not good at it, if you stick to it. Plus, some goals are really stupid to want to reach. The example that Brooke brought up was, "If your life's ambitions is to get the highest score at Halo, what good does that do for a person?" Brother Holt tried to tel us a friend of his now works for Nintendo creating games, but it didn't work very well. Oh well. Poor Brother Holt, but at the same time it was fun to watch a professor try to bring us back to the point that had obviously been lost and quite frankly DROPPED! and considered rubbish.

Here are my notes on the rest of class:
"Bednar thinks Covey just took Church principles and made a book out of ‘em."
Motivated by video: (pretty good movie, old but good points)
Recognition
Affiliation
Order & Clarity
Physiological
Monetary Reward
Safety & Security

Influential stages
Decision
Awareness
Feasibility
Commitment – ask what they can do and when
Be specific
Actions
Competence
Approach
Resources available
Results
Praise
Satisfaction
Dissatisfaction –vent
Final evaluation

In each step reevaluate
Reassess the commitments
Reassign commitment in casual way
Provide incentives
FEEDBACK
Keep individual needs in mind

Empower people by giving them the option to come up with the answer themselves

Two minute Management:
Life’s little lessons (funny slides)

Leadership:
Drive
Leadership motivation
Honesty and Integrity
Self Confidence
Cognitive ability
Knowledge of the business

HOMEWORK:
Write to 20 people
What traits do I have to become a great leader? (I posted onto Facebook)


Finance:
Today we started to work on an assignment as a group, but our minds were pretty much fried from OB. Oh well, we have a couple of days to work on it. Most of us are just glad all the other assignments are done, but we still have our Marketing thing to do next week.